Barack Obama couldn't be overhyped now could he now?

Amazingly, this was published in a newspaper a few days ago. Note the oozing irony:

The Obama Messiah Watch:
Introducing a periodic feature considering evidence that Obama is the son of God.

By Timothy Noah
Posted Monday, Jan. 29, 2007, at 6:23 PM ET

Is Barack Obama — junior U.S. senator from Illinois, best-selling author, Harvard Law Review editor, Men’s Vogue cover model, and “exploratory” presidential candidate — the second coming of our Savior and our Redeemer, Prince of Peace and King of Kings, Jesus Christ? His press coverage suggests we can’t dismiss this possibility out of hand. I therefore inaugurate the Obama Messiah Watch, which will periodically highlight gratuitously adoring biographical details that appear in newspaper, television, and magazine profiles of this otherworldly presence in our midst.

Today’s item, from a Los Angeles Times profile by Larry Gordon about Obama’s two years at Occidental College (before he transferred to Columbia):

In [political science professor Roger] Boesche’s European politics class, [classmate Ken] Sulzer said he was impressed at how few notes [italics mine] Obama took. “Where I had five pages, Barry had probably a paragraph of the pithiest, tightest prose you’d ever see. . . . It was very short, very sweet. Obviously somebody almost Clintonesque in being able to sum a whole lot of concepts and place them into a succinct written style.”

Readers are invited to submit similar details — Obama walking on water, Obama sating the hunger of 5,000 with five loaves and two fishes — from other Obama profiles. And also, of course, to repent, just in case the hour approacheth nigh.

P.S.
This is kind of like the time a few years ago when everyone thought that Beckam was the Metrosexual Messiah. Sigh.