every president has been elected by them, except for warren g. harding. no one knows how warren harding was able to buck that trend, but we know he paid dearly for it most notably for being saddled with the name warren g. harding. i'm ain't politician, so when i see a day like this, i think of dean roast from the '70s. forgive me if i pretend that i'm up here with ruth buzzi, jimmy stewart, red buttons, foster brooks and rich little. i'm being honest, that's who i wish were up here. and to those of you who are actually up here, i apologize from the bottom of don rickles' heart. i'm sorry. the national prayer breakfast, maybe we should get serious and say something about prayer. nah. okay. seriously, though, what is prayer? the real question is, what is prayer? prayer is real faith in god. it is not phoney religiousity. it is not take this archaic verbiage and we believe we are a chronicy deity. we need something archaic in our wooden something language. that, my friends, is not prayer. that is a lot of pious srkpiou. pious baloney is not god, it is scriptu