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Yep. I passed a printing shop in NY when he first got elected and they had pictures of Obama done up in the vein of the Sacred Heart of Jesus portraits you would find in religious shops.
I have to laugh at Obama's lack of irony and self-awareness over this. Surely he has to know his followers treat him as the second coming of Christ.
I think that's what he was talking about. I don't think there's been another political candidate referred to as a "messiah" like he was (although I think Ron Paul actually had more of a personality cult), but then he couldn't live up to those expectations and Clinton didn't have that sort of grand narrative, charisma or "not-Bush" appeal.