A Day of Prayer

I just now returned home from the desert(not figurative) and found out that GW had decreed that today was a national day of prayer. In the wake of Katrina, he comes up with Halliburton and prayer. The Halliburton move, while it may be the case that this company is best suited for the job, is politically imbecillic. The day of prayer is absolute anathama. Does this president pander to the stupid? The religious? The one and the same? This day is also the birthday of B.B. King, who is now eighty years old. If I was president, today would be a national day of prayer that B.B. King doesn't die.