While the President is addressing the economy and employment growth today, the religious zealot voters conservative voters are having child's play regarding President Obama's "cancellation" of the National Day of Prayer ceremony. Of course, as always, they are lost in that confusing corn maze of big words and punctuation.

Not that it should matter at all, but, his administration did not cancel the actual National Day of Prayer, or the freaking pancake breakfast that accompanies it (which takes place at the beginning of the year); he cancelled the ceremony.

The ceremony did not become "tradition" until a certain other cowboy was in Office... Ronald Reagan. It is a ceremony that usually includes a "pastor" or "reverend" (hence the evangelical/baptist crowd it targets) and the President would speak in a fashion resembling a State of the Union address. President Obama did attend the 'prayer breakfast' at the beginning of the year.

But his choice of attending the breakfast and even leading the room in prayer afterward, or personally contributing to the very Christian-oriented ceremony commemorating the Virginia miners last month, is just not pleasing to the neo-cons... They may say "it's not enough", but it will never be enough for them. This particular breed of voters will continue to fight this administration even after it is finished. Many of them would sacrifice their first-born to bring the Founding Fathers back from their graves. But I don't think they'd be pleased with the rulings of them.

Conservatives, to quote Bill Maher, seem to place the Founding Fathers on the same level as Jesus' apostles, think of them all as the Rat Pack. But again, the intellectual capacity of these people becomes obvious when their painted picture of the Founding Fathers does not match up with... the actual ideals of the Founding Fathers.

Everyone Those who read know the timeless quotes made by the F.F. dudes. Benjamin Franklin said, "A lighthouse is more useful than a church"; Thomas Jefferson said, "Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shown on man", James Madison wrote, "The fruits of Christianity are pride, indolence, ignorance and arrogance in the clergy".

The Founding Fathers were free masons (oh, and slave owners as well). The scary part is, if you confronted many conservatives with these facts, the crazy half would say Obama made these quotes appear, and the other crazy half would weave some type of dead end explanation into their hypothesis.

The whole conservative cultural war in this country is being passed off as a political war. It's not a political war; if it were politically-based it would require thought and rationalism, their war is based on prejudice, status-quo and their own interpretations of a 2,000+ year-old text. This is why religious leaders become politicians. Conservatives have no solid ground. Solid ground implies hard facts, and knowledge of those facts, their form of argumentation is constant falling, grabbing branches that aren't even there.

You can laugh at the antics or shrug it off, but what makes it real and not-so-funny is how much influence it has on our nation. Politics apply to everyone.

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