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A New Sound for Punch Brothers: "I Blew It Off'

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Dark_Falcon11/22/2014 5:01:15 pm PST

re: #29 BeachDem

Then you’re probably equally hostile/hoping for the FBI to look into a whole lot of right-wingers, from pastors to right wing politicians who’ve been praying for Obama’s death. Or is it more about “someone named Bassem Masri.”

‘Non-Political’ Prayer Breakfast Welcomes Pastor Who Prays for Obama’s Death
rightwingwatch.org

Wiley Drake Prays For Obama’s Death
rightwingwatch.org

Kansas GOP speaker’s prayer for President Obama’s death
dailykos.com

Diana Butler Bass at Beliefnet explains that Psalm 109 is one of the “imprecatory” prayers, “a lament in the form of petition to destroy one’s enemies.” While perhaps intended to be a joke, she notes that the psalm actually “entreats God to destroy the president”:

thinkprogress.org

Christian Conservatives Praying for God to Kill Obama
gawker.com

I despise every one of those assholes. Calling upon God to kill someone who is not a major evildoer is a very great wrong. And Barack Obama doesn’t qualify as an evildoer.