Death prayer for Obama?

Much talk has been made about Kansas speaker Mike O'Neal supposedly calling for people to pray for Obama's death. In a recent letter he sent out he quoted Psalm 109:8 which says "May his days be few, and may another take his office." Now the media has pounced all over this as the speaker praying for Obama's death. I'm pretty willing to bet that speaker O'Neal simply meant it as a prayer that Obama lose the election.

Now the media, and probably some of my liberal friends will point out that the following verse calls for his wife to be a widow and his children fatherless. And if you go on in the Psalm it gets pretty gruesome. David was apparently pretty upset with the person he wrote this about. I feel however, that speaker O'Neal probably didn't bother to research his quote this deeply. My guess is he saw the one verse quoted somewhere and decided it was a cute, nice little prayer jibe he could send out to a president he was not fond of. I am relatively sure he does not want the president dead, and if he did he certainly wouldn't put it in print. But of course the media grabbed hold of it, and won't let go.

Now I admit, it was probably a stupid thing for an elected official to put in his newsletter. But I think the media failed to notice that similar wishes were expressed by liberals toward the previous president. Liberals hate conservatives, conservatives hate liberals. Right or wrong, that's the way it is.

Should politicians be more careful with what they say? Yes. Should media be less liberal biased in the panic storms they stir up? Yes. Should people check their scriptures before quoting out of context? You bet.

And the state of American politics brings to mind the words of John 11:35 "Jesus wept"