Obama's "Messiah Complex" (Or is it Bush's?)

Over at Beliefnet, Steven Waldman critiques efforts by the conservative media (and the McCain campaign) to create evidence of Obama granting himself Savior-like significance.  They do so, according to Waldman, by taking statements wildly out of context.  For example:

The line used in the McCain ad, a campaign memo, and on just about every conservative blog in America is Obama's quote: "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions."

Witnesses who attended the closed-door talk at which Obama suposedly said this have claimed that Obama's actual words were:

"It has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign -- that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all. It's about America. I have just become a symbol. I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions."

Waldman also compares the current rhetoric with the 2004 Bush campaign's efforts to signal that God had orchestrated Bush's election in 2000.