A NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER is unconstitutional. Wisconsis U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb ruled the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional Thursday, saying the day amounts to a call for religious action.

Presidents going back to Washington have called for national days of prayer – calling on citizens to pray for the nation in whatever way they prefer and to whatever God they worship. There’s no penalty for those who don’t participate – just an exhortation to people of faith to put in a good word for the U.S. of A.

President Bush ... totally dug the idea and always brought together a boatload of preachers, rabbis, imams and whatever holy rollers he could find for a big ceremony and some pastries. Obama, whose attitudes about religion are quite prickly, scrubbed the ceremony and issued a statement that essentially endorsed the idea [of] prayer and that it is probably a good thing to do, unless they don’t pray, which is good too.

If President Obama has a core belief, it is that he has no core beliefs.