Barack Obama spoke at a church on Sunday and said, "I just want all of you to pray that I can be an instrument of God." And he also stated, "We're going to keep on praising together. I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth."

Now, I have no problem with Obama expressing his religious faith and vision. Just stop for a moment, though, and consider: what would be the reaction of Obama supporters to those words, if President Bush had said them, say at his inauguration? The Obama folks would be screaming, "Bush wants to turn the U.S. into a theocracy!" and warning about crazy and dangerious Christians. There would be pledges to leave the country for Canada or France.

Think I am overreacting? Nope, because those on the left made precisely those kinds of comments when Bush won election and took office, even though he never said anything like wanting to be an instrument of God or wanting to create a Kingdom right here on Earth. I remember reading dozens of panicky entries on Democratic Underground, one of the nutty hard left blog sites.

However, look at the comments at the bottom of the CNN story I linked to, and you'll see lots of lefties praising Obama's comments. Do they have any idea how hypocritical they are?