Bush has begun to discover some of the perils of aligning with the religious right:

Bush's Remark About God Assailed (washingtonpost.com): Evangelical Christian leaders expressed dismay yesterday over President Bush's statement that Christians and Muslims worship the same god, saying it had caused discomfort within his conservative religious base... The Rev. Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, also issued a statement contradicting Bush. "The Christian God encourages freedom, love, forgiveness, prosperity and health. The Muslim god appears to value the opposite. The personalities of each god are evident in the cultures, civilizations and dispositions of the peoples that serve them. Muhammad's central message was submission; Jesus' central message was love. They seem to be very different personalities," Haggard said.... Sayyid M. Syeed, secretary general of the Islamic Society of North America, responded to Bush's statement with a single word: Alhamdullah, Thanks be to God. "We read again and again in the Koran that our god is the god of Abraham, the god of Noah, the god of Jesus," he said. "It would not come to the mind of a Muslim that there is a different god that Abraham or Jesus or Moses was praying to."

The Rev. Ted Haggard should get some sort of award for a statement like that. It's just so unfathomably brilliant that I want to crap my pants.