Reply #16: Well, I'm an Irish Catholic

[Donailin]

and I'll take it. * is not only on the altar with mammon, he's
comfortable with the idea that folks think he IS God.. 

To wit:

 "The leader of the free world is clearly comfortable
with this calculus and artfully encourages it. In the series
of televised, carefully choreographed "Ask President
Bush" events with supporters around the country, sessions
filled with prayers and blessings, one questioner recently
summed up the feelings of so many Christian conservatives, the
core of the Bush army. "I've voted Republican from the
very first time I could vote," said Gary Walby, a retired
jeweler from Destin, Fla., as he stood before the president in
a crowded college gym. "And I also want to say this is
the very first time that I have felt that God was in the White
House." Bush simply said "thank you" as a wave
of raucous applause rose from the assembled. "

-taken from "Without A Doubt" (NYTimes) by Ron
Suskind