They want him dead

Right-wing Christian hate has grown to such heights for President Barack Obama that a "Prayer for Obama Psalm 109:8" campaign has recently emerged, which includes the slogan on bumper stickers and t-shirts. Psalm 109:8 is a passage from the Old Testament that reads "Let his days be few; and let another take his office." Now, perhaps that might imply that they don't want to see him re-elected. However, the next verse, Psalm 109:9 reads "Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow." I can really see only one implied meaning there, that in its full context, it specifically addresses an unjust ruler and what the fate of that leader should be. There has been the relentless campaign to delegitimize Barack Obama as an American citizen, that he is a foreigner, an outsider with a radical agenda. Now, take this into consideration along with all of the far right-wing rhetoric of calling President Obama a socialist, communist, nazi, that he's just like Adolf Hitler, Stalin or Mao Tse-Tung and wants to destroy America. And of course protestors showing up at political events armed, including one in which Obama made an appearance. Newsmax columnist John L. Perry wrote about a military coup to replace Obama. And since Obama has taken office, death threats against the president have increased by four hundred percent. which is overwhelming the Secret Service.

Frank Schaeffer, a former member of the Christian right, appeared recently on the Rachel Maddow Show and warned against fundamentalist Christians wanting to harm President Obama: