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Hutto, TX — A calf born with a birthmark resembling Governor Sarah Palin is drawing thousands of people to a small farm in Hutto, Texas.

Jesse Palmer prefers the simple, quiet life. He wakes at dawn each morning and puts in an honest day’s work managing his dairy and cattle farm in the small central Texas town of Hutto.

But that peaceful, bucolic existence was shattered over the weekend, when word got around that one of Jesse’s cows had given birth to a calf with an unusual birthmark. The birthmark on the calf’s right flank eerily resembles Sarah Palin — yes, that Sarah Palin. The Governor of Alaska and running mate of Senator John McCain.

Image: Birthmark resembling Alaska Governor Sarah Palin

One of Jesse’s employees noticed the Palin-shaped birthmark last week, when doing a routine head count of cattle. He pointed it out to Jesse, who immediately called the pastor of his local church. Pastor Will Hershey, who has known Palmer for 20 years, rushed out to Palmer’s farm with a folder full of Sarah Palin pictures for comparison.

“It was uncanny,” said Pastor Hershey. “I kept looking between the Sarah Palin pictures I’d brought with me and the markings on this calf … and I just couldn’t believe it. I looked at Jesse and said, ‘I’ve known you for 20 years, so you best not be pulling my leg.’ He swore up and down he had nothing to do with it. We even tried to rub it off with some industrial solvent. It’s not paint … it’s the real deal.”

Palmer urged his pastor to keep the Palin birthmark quiet, and Hershey agreed.

“We did our best to keep it under wraps,” said Palmer. “We both knew that Sarah Palin is real religious, and that a lot of folks might take this as some kind of sign … come out here to the farm in flocks. I just couldn’t have that. I got a farm to run and family to feed.”

But the plan to keep the Palin birthmark a secret was short lived. The word got out somehow, and within hours people from Hutto and neighboring cities were idling down the long dusty road to Palmer’s farm.

Image: People gather to pray outside Palmer’s farm

Members of Palmer’s church even set up a tent for worship, claiming the birthmark was a sign from the almighty. They held hands, clutched pictures of Sarah Palin to their hearts, and sang songs of praise and worship.

And then there’s Jesse Palmer. A simple man. A hardworking farmer just trying to go about his business and tend to his animals. Suddenly the center of a religious and political firestorm. But being a farmer, Palmer is used to dealing with the forces of nature — things beyond his control. Like most farmers, he is something of a stoic.

So he deals with the Sarah Palin birthmark, the crowds, and the interruption of his daily life with a shrug and a sigh.

“It is what it is,” he says. “I just hope it all goes away after November 4th.”