The President's Role Is Not to Defend Religion - Christian or Otherwise

Well, at least I don't think it was set up to be.

MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell slammed President Barack Obama for mentioning the Crusades at the National Prayer Breakfast on Sunday's edition of "Meet The Press."

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"You don't use the word 'crusade,' number one, in any context right now," the host of "Andrew Mitchell Reports" said. "It's too fraught."

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Obama has drawn outrage, mostly from conservatives, for referencing Christianity's history of religious violence while discussing the Islamic State terror group at the prayer breakfast.

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Stephen Henderson of the Detroit Free Press praised Obama's allusion to American Christians defending the institution of slavery.

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"But he's the President," she said. "You can't really go back to 1095."

"If you're giving a major speech about theology, perhaps. But this is the prayer breakfast," Mitchell added.

  TPM

Back up, guys.  There shouldn't even be such a thing as a National Prayer Breakfast.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.