When you claim to be a Christian in general or a Catholic in particular. You are required to pray for you enemies and friends.
As Americans we also have an obligation to recognize the difference between our political foes, and our actual enemies (such as Radical Islam).
If you are a Christian in general or a Catholic in particular we are obliged to pray for our president and our congress. Right or wrong, good or bad Barak Obama is my president, John Olver is my congressman and Ted Kennedy and John Kerry are my senators. If I am not praying for them then I’m not carrying the ball.
An excellent spot for a catholic to include government figures in a prayer is during the Sorrowful Mysteries third decade (Crown of Thorns) the traditional request is for “contempt for the world”. A honest politician should have contempt for the “world” and the influences of it and vote for what is right.
If we are going to claim Christianity’s mantle we have to follow through.