while i disagree with your assertion that “there are many on the left who view obama as their messiah,” i don’t like it when the left mixes religion and politics any more than when the right-wing does it.
“Shouldn’t religious leaders be more careful using the same language they use to petition their deity to petition a political leader?”
yes.
but if they want to discuss the politics of healthcare and how it relates to their faith, i think that’s appropriate, and i’m sure you would agree, considering the stated purpose of your blog.
why else would they ask obama to “deliver us”? maybe they’re asking obama because it’s within his power to do so. these are pleas for earthly interventions, not for the supernatural (hence, this isn’t any sort of proof that they believe obama is a messianic savior). but i suppose that’s too realistic of an explanation for you to grab hold of.

Amen, Anonymous Reincarnate

This is clearly done in immitation of the offering of prayers done in many Christian liturgical services and litanies. Looney tunes extraordinare!!

I assume you are going to follow the lead of Mark Shea and Rod Dreher, who have admitted the were duped and that the people were praying to God, not Obama.
You owe everyone an apology.

Dreher has posted a correction, and so should you, Michelle. Furthermore, your reasoning is totally unsound. In the film “Jesus Camp” a group of Pentecostals prayed to a cutout of President Bush, and using that as “yet further proof that there are many on the right who view Bush as their messiah” would be a poor argument, just as yours about the religious left is.

Michele, even Breitbart TV has questioned this video and their first call on it.
We’ll see if you have the integrity to do likewise, or if being Reformed truly means never having to question your own judgment.

From Mark Shea’s blog (quoted by Dreher earlier): “UPDATE: Listening to this video with my eyes shut, I’m hearing some in the crowd saying “Hear us, Obama”, but I’m also thinkin’ the helpful interpretive text guides inserted by the videomakers are supplying verbiage that ain’t there on the soundtrack. So I chalk this one up to a slight advantage for the organizers of the rally in the video who are, thank God, not such fools as to actually bid their followers to pray to Obama (though some of the followers sound to me like they are doing so). The makers of the video are, I think, letting their hostility to Obama tell them what their itching ears want to hear.”
Itching ears…gee, that never happens at all around here.

oh, come on, rjohnson, dan, and michael. really? queue up the chirping crickets!

Well, this is one dog that apparently does not return to its own vomit.

Michele just can’t believe that the bulk of Obama supporters are not kool-aid drinking cultists, or that any conservative would engage in similar “idol worship.” But Lord, how many of them will wax near orgasmic when speaking of Saint Sarah of the Snowy North.

Crunchy Con closed down his comment thread and updated his post with the words that were said from someone who was at the rally. They did not include a prayer to Obama.