LITTLE BOY’S PRAYER TO OBAMA
SPARKS CONTROVERSY: ‘YOU ARE
GOOD, BARACK OBAMA. YOU ARE
GREAT’

Some critics are reacting harshly after
a video was posted on YouTube
showing a young boy saying a prayer
to President Barack Obama. There
isn’t much context given for the clip,
but a description accompanying the
short video that was posted by a user
named Regina Young reads, “The
prayer that he wanted to say for our
President is priceless.”
Perhaps much of the controversy
surrounds the fact that the young boy
speaks directly to Obama and not to
God. The latter is, obviously, the
general recipient of most peoples’
invocations and prayers, so to see a
young boy bowing his head, closing
his eyes and folding his hands and
offering accolades to the president is
certainly a bit uncommon.
“Barack Obama thank you for doing
everything and all the kind stuff,” he
opens the prayer. “Thank you for all
the stuff that you helped us with.”
The child, who says that his name is
Stephen, also thanks Obama for his
“courage and responsibility” and he
tells the president that God has given
him a “special power.”

“You are good, Barack Obama. You
are great,” he added. “And when you
get older you will be able to do great
things.”
While some have expressed disgust
and outrage over the prayer, there are
a few scenarios worth pondering.
While a prayer directly to a person
who isn’t a deity is seen as
theologically unsound by many
Christian denominations and people
of divergent faiths, it very well may
be that the young boy was simply
looking for a way to show his
gratitude to Obama. Perhaps the
video was filmed and posted in jest.
Or maybe the boy just doesn’t fully
understand prayer at such a young
age and his heart was in the right
place, but his words came out wrong.
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Either way, some are less-than-
pleased with its contents, with
conservative commentator Todd
Starnes writing , “What kind of a
parent would allow their child to
blaspheme God?”

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