It’s pretty powerful when you put it all together in one place, as Brett Joshpe does:

John McCain, picking up on this theme of Obama’s campaign, released an ad last month that detailed some of the most self-important moments in campaign history. It quoted Obama saying, “I have become a symbol of America returning to its best traditions.” It showed videos of him telling supporters, “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for” and “A light will shine down from somewhere, it will light upon you, and people will experience an epiphany, and you will say to yourself, ‘I have to vote for Barack.’” With rhetoric that sounded divinely inspired (and delusional), Obama also proclaimed, “This is the moment when the rise of our oceans began to slow and the planet began to heal.”

Egad. Epiphany? Really?

One of the reasons why Obama really gets under the skin of a certain kind of conservative is that he illustrates an inevitability: When you make a god of the government, you make a godling of the guy in charge of it. (Derb dumps a little much-needed cold water on those puffed-up aspirations here.)