There’s been some doubt about Prez. Barry’s religious beliefs. For a long time, he attended some racist church on the South Side of Chicago, but seemingly that had less to do with God and more to do with convincing the voters that Mr. “My mamma’s a leftist white graduate student who got knocked up by a leftist graduate student from Kenya, who dumped mom for his real wife, and then she dumped me on her white banker mother to raise while she went off to study the natives in Indonesia” is too a bona fide negro with full understanding of the travails of growing up poor and black on the South Side of Chicago.

Seems he got away with that one, and since then hasn’t had much need for either God or the Right Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

But not to worry. Even though he still hasn’t figured out a church in DC that’s religious enough to count as a church but radical enough not to, he is, we’re assured by the Washington Post, a deeply spiritual man, “spirituality” of course being the refuge of a scoundrel who’s unwilling to fess up to his disbelief:

Every morning, sometimes as early as 5:30 a.m., a short religious passage comes across President Obama’s BlackBerry, sent by one of his aides.

At other moments, Obama prays privately, his advisers said. And when he takes his family to Camp David on the weekends, a Navy chaplain ministers to them, with the daughters attending a form of Sunday school there.

More than a year into his presidency, Obama has not chosen a church in Washington, and has attended services just four times. No single figure has assumed the role of spiritual adviser — publicly, at least — or filled the vacancy created when Obama disavowed his former Chicago pastor, Jeremiah Wright.

When Obama appears at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Thursday morning — a regular presidential ritual — it will mark the rare occasion when he puts religion in the foreground. In that appearance, he will discuss “the need for civility in the public square, and how Americans can work together in a spirit of goodwill,” a senior administration official said.

Yet close advisers to the president said the role of faith, while subtle, has been noticeable in and around the Obama White House. One senior official described the president as “a prayerful guy.” Another said that Obama has consulted religious leaders less often for his own personal guidance than for help walking through major public decisions — such as during the Afghanistan review process, when he sought advice on the ethical implications of war.

A third senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, said Obama’s private religious beliefs have helped sustain his temperament during trying times in office. “Part of that even temperament comes from his faith which is an important component,” Jarrett said. Asked why the public did not hear much about his faith during his first year in office, she nodded and said, “He’s had a lot on his plate.”

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The messages come from “a range of sources,” an official said — sometimes a passage of Scripture or, on an upbeat day, a psalm. At other times the daily message will come from a book that Dubois thinks the president would enjoy. More than once the devotional has been culled from the work of Reinhold Niebuhr, the Protestant theologian who wrote extensively on the “just war” theory, which Obama has cited in his thinking about Afghanistan and in his Nobel prize acceptance speech. Other devotionals come from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, which Obama was given as a gift at last year’s prayer breakfast.

This year, Obama will “stress the importance of an openness to compromise and differing perspectives,” a senior official said, and will discuss the need “to disagree without being disagreeable and to step out of our comfort zones to bridge divides.” First lady Michelle Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Jarrett are also scheduled to attend.

Oh, so let’s get this “spirituality” straight. He prays to God, who in turns tells him he’s a great guy and shouldn’t worry about all that criticism. And now that he’s reached a dead-end with his leftist agenda after spending a year telling anyone who disagrees with him to get out of the way, it’s time for “civility” because that’s what God tells me.

Loyal readers of the Lair will know that Keyser doesn’t spare the time of day to a non-existent God, but he’s willing to respect people who have legitimately held religious views and abide by them. This, on the other hand, is a load of self-serving bullshit.

Then again, no one says who exactly he’s praying to. Maybe it’s Lenin. That at least would be plausible.