It's getting so bad that at least once a week, we get new news of virulent Barack Obama opposition. If it's not Republicans saying that the president is dragging the country in to some socialist maelstrom (taking advantage of the fact that most Americans can't even define the word socialism), it's some nutty pundit pronouncing his hope of prez 44's failure -- even though that would mean taking the country down with him.

Now, the fruitcakes are trying to enlist another partner: God.

Yep, that's right. There is a bumper sticker and slogan going around asking people to pray for Obama, and then referring to Psalm 109:8. That's code, though, for the actual verse that says:

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

And the verse immediately following says:

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

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember a time when there was a Christian movement that encouraged people to actually pray for the president's death.

Listen, I'm not going to make any blanket statements about organized religion here. I can imagine that there at least as many church-going folks supporting Obama as there are detractors in their ranks. At the same time, though, garbage like this just doesn't come out of secular corners. You might see atheists and agnostics who are disenchanted with Obama, but you'd be hard pressed to find any that are wishing death upon him.

Maybe it's time for the religious communities to publicly condemn talk like this. The author of the bumper sticker has free speech rights, but so would that author's critics within the religious right, if they had any balls.

Now, threatening the president is actually a federal offense, which carries serious penalties. The problem here is that some dickhead is using the Bible to subvert those laws. We don't know how many people are driving around with this bumper sticker on their cars, but I'm willing to bet that they not only make themselves look stupid, but every believer as well.

People don't go to church so they can be associated with some nitwit who sends out veiled threats to the president. They go because they want to enrich their spirits. But now we've got a Bible verse that is liable to compete with stadium favorite John 3:16, because someone chooses to be ugly. Well, my grandmother always kept this gem in her chest of wisdom:

God don't like ugly.

To be honest, let's not even sugarcoat it. We all know what this is: Racists simply hate that the president of the United States is a black man. He is black. His father was black, his wife is black, his children are black. He identifies himself as black -- not biracial -- just like so many other African Americans with a non-black parent.

Former President Bill Clinton did not experience this kind of vitriol in his eight years as president. The reason we know that this is racism is because the main people who deny being racist are racists. The main people denying that race has anything to do with their opposition to Obama are in denial about their bigotry.

So when you say that you are only defending the honor of this country, but had nothing to say about the backward direction we were being pulled under Bush and Reagan, while at the same time enlisting God to the point of wishing ill on Obama and his family, something about that doesn't hold holy water.