Obama Made A Play on Words: Deal With It

I believe that Obama is leading the US down the wrong path, and I hope every day that he does something that will show his base that he is leading us down the wrong path (apparently bowing deferentially to foreign leaders, disrespecting England, and helping Libya depose its ruler without a formally declared war, with rebels whose agenda we really don't know were not enough), but there are some desperate leaps made that really should not be made.

The latest thing that has people slagging on Obama was this (copied from the Hannity forums]:

Obama: God wants us to put people back to work

Obama's theological appeal came while protesting that House Republicans have ignored his $447 billion American Jobs Act, even while approving legislation re-affirming "In God We Trust" as the national motto.

"That's not putting people back to work," Obama said during a jobs speech at a bridge in Washington, D.C. "I trust in God, but God wants to see us help ourselves by putting people back to work."

The title was created by the poster, and is apparently mocking Obama for believing that God wants to see people in the US put back to work.

I found this odd since most of the folks at Hannity are devout Christians. If someone one of them knows gets cancer, is involved in a car accident, etc. they will go to Hannity.com and request prayers, and apparently expect that the prayers of total strangers will do more to help the individual involved then the prayers of the family and friends that know that person.

Frankly, Obama is right. "Trusting in God" accomplishes absolutely nothing. It is only when people get off their duffs and do things that problems are solved.

Obama has been criticized for picking NCAA teams to win the championship, this is not a good use of his time at a time when so many Americans are out of work. One could equally say that Congress needs to do something a bit more important - not to say urgent - than bothering about whether "In God we Trust" should still be our motto.