Tom Toles in today's WaPo also sees the connection. So does Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman, writing in the New York Times.
UPDATE: So does Pulitzer Prize winner Eugene Robinson, also in today's WaPo. As a perfect example of the "blast-furnace rhetoric" Robinson (and Krugman) decry, there's crackpot Charles Kraphammer's op/ed next to Robinson's, trying to make us believe Obama "sees himself as merely messianic..." (sorry no link)-- and that's not even the most smarmy nonsense the Krap is peddling.
