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‘Christian’ Sen David Perdue prays for Obama’s death at right wing religious conference. Minority leader Reid – GOP should stop wondering “Why Trump,” they should just look in the mirror

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h3 id&equals;"ra-headline"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;330404&semi;">Sen David Perdue &lpar;R-GA&rpar; at Faith &amp&semi; Freedom Coalition conference &&num;8211&semi; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I think we should pray for Barack Obama&period;”<&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;<span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;330404&semi;"> &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We should pray like Psalm 109&colon;8 says&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;Let his days be few&comma;’” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;And let another have his office” <&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;330404&semi;">Office of minority leader&comma; Harry Reid &lpar;D-NV&rpar; &&num;8211&semi; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If Republicans are still wondering why Donald Trump is their nominee&comma; look no further than today’s Faith and Freedom conference&comma;”<&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;999999&semi;">&&num;8216&semi;Wow&excl; <&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;<span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;999999&semi;"> I was wondering just what type of christian rains curses on a family for generations&comma; for political expediency&quest; <&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;<span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;999999&semi;">If Purdue is TRUELY familiar with psalm 109&comma; what type of twisted thought process made an adult&comma; a senator no less&comma; consider this acceptable public conduct&quest;&&num;8217&semi; &&num;8211&semi; Not only crass and tasteless&comma; it is definitely unchristianly&period;<&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3><em>For those unfamiliar with this psalm&comma; a fuller excerpt is available here&colon;<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;1&period; Hold not thy peace&comma; O God of my praise&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;2&period;For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me&colon; they have spoken against me with a lying tongue&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;3&period;They compassed me about also with words of hatred&semi; and fought against me without a cause&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;4&period;For my love they are my adversaries&colon; but I give myself unto prayer&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;5&semi;And they have rewarded me evil for good&comma; and hatred for my love&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;6&period;Set thou a wicked man over him&colon; and let Satan stand at his right hand&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;7&period;When he shall be judged&comma; let him be condemned&colon; and let his prayer become sin&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;8&period;Let his days be few&semi; and let another take his office&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;9&period;Let his children be fatherless&comma; and his wife a widow&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;10&period;Let his children be continually vagabonds&comma; and beg&colon; let them seek their bread also out of their esolate places&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;11&period;Let the extortioner catch all that he hath&semi; and let the strangers spoil his labour&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;12&period;Let there be none to extend mercy unto him&colon; neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;13&period;Let his posterity be cut off&semi; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;14&period;Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD&semi; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;15&period;Let them be before the LORD continually&comma; that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth&period;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-32045" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;barack-obama1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"barack obama1" width&equals;"1180" height&equals;"842" &sol;>President Barak Obama&colon; Sitting senator prays for his demise  at GOP &&num;8216&semi;Christian&&num;8217&semi; event<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>In addressing a FAITH community&comma; Georgia Sen David Perdue called upon God to annihilate the Obama lineage&comma; while the crowd of conservatives broke into guffaws&comma; Friday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The republican senator suggested they pray for President Obama using a biblical passage that says &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Let his days be few&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;The audience lapped up Sen Perdue’s prayer &comma;even though the rest of Psalm 109&colon;8&comma; which he did not read&comma; upon God to erase the memory of the adversary and his family&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Perdue was speaking at the Faith &amp&semi; Freedom Coalition when he told the room&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I think we should pray for Barack Obama&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;But&comma; Perdue said&comma; there was a very specific prayer he had in mind for the president&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We should pray like Psalm 109&colon;8 says&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;Let his days be few&comma;’” Perdue said&comma; to audience chuckles&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;And let another have his office&comma;” he continued&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Perdue stopped before reaching the most disturbing line&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Instead&comma; he moved into prepared remarks&comma; saying &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;In all seriousness&comma; I believe that America is at a moment of crisis&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;He stuck to his planned speech for the rest of his talk&period;state house speaker Mike O’Nealstate house speaker Mike O’Neal<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-32057" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;harry-reid1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"harry reid1&period;jpg" width&equals;"725" height&equals;"484" &sol;>Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid&colon; GOP should stop wondering &&num;8216&semi;Why Trump&&num;8217&semi;&comma; they should simply look in the mirror<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Kristen Orthman&comma; a spokeswoman for Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid&comma; said Perdue’s comments &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;left the impression he was praying for the death of President Obama&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If Republicans are still wondering why Donald Trump is their nominee&comma; look no further than today’s Faith and Freedom conference&comma;” he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-32050" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;mitch-mcconnell11&period;jpg" alt&equals;"mitch mcconnell1" width&equals;"673" height&equals;"365" &sol;>Majority leader Mitch McConnell &&num;8211&semi; was at the conference&comma; did not comment on Perdue&&num;8217&semi;s prayer<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Orthman also observed that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell&comma; R-Ky&period;&comma; followed Perdue on stage &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;and did not condemn him&period;” Trump spoke later in the day at the annual gathering of religious conservatives&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Perdue’s staff immediately dismissed the idea that the Georgia GOP’er was hoping for harm to come to Obama&period;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Sen&period; Perdue said we are called to pray for our country&comma; for our leaders&comma; and for our president&comma;” said spokeswoman Caroline Vanvick&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He is no way wishes harm towards our president and everyone in the room understood that&comma;” she added&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Vanvick said there was another group in more dire need of divine intervention — the media&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We should add &lbrack;reporters&rsqb; to our prayer list because they are pushing a narrative to create controversy and that is exactly what the American people are tired of&comma;” she added&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;It’s not the first time the psalm &&num;8211&semi; which has been referred to by some zealots as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Obama Prayer” — has caused a controversy&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In 2012&comma; a Kansas Republican leader came under fire for sending an email that used the bible verse to suggest the Democratic president’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;days be few&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-32043" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;ks-speaker-oneal1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"KS speaker O'neal1&period;jpg" width&equals;"605" height&equals;"328" &sol;><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong>Kansas state house speaker Mike O’Neal&comma; started the &&num;8216&semi;Obama Prayer&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>The lawmaker&comma; state house speaker Mike O’Neal&comma; refused to step down amid calls for his resignation&period; But he did apologize for using the scripture&comma; which many critics interpreted as a call for President Obama’s death&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Some 30&comma;000 initially signed a petition demanding O’Neal step down&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;On Friday&comma; White House spokesman Josh Earnest had a more sanguine response to Sen&period; Perdue’s comments&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;As Sen&period; Perdue considers whether an apology is appropriate&comma; there are a variety of other scriptures he might consult&comma;” the spokesman said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Perdue insisted to Politico that it was merely &&num;8220&semi;a little humor&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ra-module h"><&sol;div>&NewLine;

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