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... our long national nightmare is over.

But maybe not. Because we still have people like this in our country:

That would be the terminally ridiculous Joseph Farah of the equally ridiculous WingNutDaily.

Farah wastes a lot of breath on "showing" why the Bible doesn't inveigh believers to pray for our leaders but strangely neglects to give biblical support for the notion that God has ordered governments anchored on self-governance and constitutional republicanism. He even notes that "render unto Caesar" does not apply because "in America we don't have a Caesar," skipping over the fact that Jesus apparently didn't think a Caesar was such a bad thing.

But the real lunacy is Farah's painting of Obama as "evil." It can't just be that there is a difference in opinion about how government should be run; it has to be a struggle of good versus evil, God against Satan and his minions. And he's not, unfortunately, alone in this. I was no fan of George Bush but I never thought he was evil. Stupid, yes, but not evil. His stupidity resulted in policies that led to evil results but the man, for all his faults, and they were rampant, wanted to do what he thought best for the country. Too many on the left would do as Farah wants to do, though perhaps without the biblical trappings.

It's time that we as a nation learn that our political opponents are not the personification of evil. They are, almost to a person, decent people whose opinions simply differ from our own and who, if we both expend a little effort, we can compromise with on some issues and agree to disagree with on others.

It's time for a change.

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