I had forgotten this one

by David Safier

Last night when I was driving home, I saw a truck with a bumper sticker that read, "Pray for Obama. Psalm 109.8" I knew that sounded familiar. I came home and realized I had posted on it back in November, 2009.

Psalm 109, Verse 8 is David talking to God about an enemy:

Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

We could give that line the benefit of the doubt and say "his days" means his days in office, if we read the line in isolation. But then you read the next two lines.

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

If you read the entire psalm, you'll see King David was in an angry, vindictive mood. This isn't "Lord is my shepherd" stuff. This is about God slaying David's enemies.

Want more? In the New Testament, Peter said the evil person David was speaking about in the psalm was Judas, possibly the most villified man in the annals of Christianity.

Quoting scripture to wish Obama dead and likening him to Judas? Add that to the list of violence-laden, demonizing language which has become so commonplace from the Right.