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Kansas House Speaker Mike O'Neal recently sent an email to his Republican compadres encouraging them to pray Psalm 109:8 for President Obama.
Here is just a bit of the cheery little ditty knows as Psalm 109:
8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
9 Let his children be fatherless,and his wife a widow.
10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg:
let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath;and let the strangers spoil his labor.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him:neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
Great stuff, right? So good that O'Neal wrote an email saying:
"At last -- I can honestly voice a Biblical prayer for our president! Look it up -- it is word for word! Let us all bow our heads and pray. Brothers and Sisters, can I get an AMEN? AMEN!!!!!!"
Very Christian. He's also not a bigot, I'm sure, even though he refers to Mrs. Obama as Mrs. 'YoMama.'
What I want to know is what prompts this kind of foaming at the mouth hatred? Hatred so profound that an elected individual would feel it appropriate to pray for the death of the President. It's ugly, it's childlike, and it shames not only the office held by Mr. O'neal, but our political process and ideals.
I have seen dislike and hate aimed at former presidents, indeed, it happens. But it usually takes a while. Obama was a target of rabid hatred from the moment he won the election. All I can figure is that there are a lot of people out there that are really freaked out that there is a black man in the white house. What else could it be? The hate, the rage, the venom... it was all there waiting for him when he was sworn in.
The GOP have fairly turned themselves inside out to maintain the status quo and protect their interests, even at the expense of their consituency, in a rage to defy Obama at any cost. Why?
Why the ridiculous obsession with birth certificates and religions? (I mean seriously, you can't have it both ways. He can't be a socialist, a communist, AND a Nazi... He can't be a Muslim AND a radical black Christian)
It makes my head hurt, really. It's demoralizing and depressing, and it has convinced me that Republicans don't care at all about me, or any of the people of this country, and all they are concerned with is being rich and staying rich, and keeping anything progressive from happening. Keeping anything good from happening.
I try to see things from both sides, to be reasonable and logical... but I just don't see anything reasonable and logical in the way that war is being waged on the President, or in the minds of the people who are doing it.
