Christians Begin "Pray For Obama" Campaign

The slogan "Pray for Obama Psalm 109:8" has suddenly appeared on bumper stickers, T-shirts and, of course, online message boards. It's a hot Web search term. But what appears to be a statement of support turns out to be just the opposite.

Verse 8 of Psalm 109 says: "Let his days be few, and let another take his place of leadership," according to the New International Version of the Bible.

Diana Butler Bass of the religion blog Progressive Revival described it as "a sort of right-wing Christian equivalent of the old '01.20.09' stickers looking forward to the end of the Bush era."

While an American Civil Liberties Union official expressed concern about any hostility toward the president, she didn't criticize the slogan in an interview with The Christian Science Monitor because Verse 8 is only about removing him from office.

The verses that follow are a different matter.

"May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow."

"May his children be wandering beggars ... "

"May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor."

"May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation."

Of course, those are not the verses sited, so bringing them up is really an attempt to spin the debate in another direction. But for Democrats to complain about Republicans being too disrespectful toward the President (after they spent eight years comparing Bush to Hitler), just goes to show that the old adage is right: What goes around comes around.