His frequent mentions of Jesus Christ in official speeches demonstrate the President's dangerous religious extremism, and clear inability to grasp the proper separation between church and state.

Of course, the President to which I am referring is...

William Jefferson Clinton:

I researched the Presidential Documents—the official collection of every public presidential statement. An examination of the mentions of Jesus Christ by George W. Bush and Bill Clinton showed that through 2003, Bush cited Jesus, or Jesus Christ, or Christ in 14 separate statements, compared to 41 by Clinton during his eight years in office. On average, Clinton mentioned Christ in 5.1 statements per year, which exceeded Bush’s 4.7.

First, this appears to pour a bit of water on critics' contention that Bush is a "dangerous religious extremist" -- unless they were even more apoplectic about Clinton. Of course, they have an easy comeback: They could argue that Clinton wasn't really being sincere. I could generously grant them that, I suppose.

The other notion to which this gives lie is that it's Bush's purported "religiosity" which fuels critics. No, as Olsaky correctly observes, it appears merely to be a double standard that permits liberals to wax eloquently about God, while conservatives must emit nary a peep on the matter.