On Obama, Republican senator refers to Old Testament verse wishing an enemy dead

It was just for laughs, tho.

It's Faith and Freedom time again? Go figure.

Sen. David Perdue, a freshman senator from Georgia, opened his remarks at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference by encouraging attendees to pray for President Obama. But, he added in a joking tone, they need to pray for him in a very specific way: “We should pray for him like Psalms 109:8 says: May his days be short,” the senator said, smiling wryly.

Quoting the Old Testament to a room full of dedicated conservative "Christians" is always good for a cheap giggle and some applause. Let's take a look at that particularly piquant psalm:

8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

It's a long exhortation to kill an enemy and ruin his whole damn family, because reasons.

Speaking with Politico after his remarks, however, Perdue says he didn't mean any harm by it.

As far as the lines that followed the verse he quoted, Perdue said it is "really unfortunate."

"But the way we set it up was to make sure that it wasn’t the case," he added. "There was no intention to be derogatory at all. it was a little humor.”

Yeah, a sitting Republican senator would never stoop to being derogatory about the president. It was just for laughs.