You’d certainly think so. At least based on some of the media coverage he gets.

Don’t get us wrong, he’s a cool guy, and an accomplished one at that. He’s a best-selling author, a former editor of the Harvard Law Review and cover boy of every periodical in America. Oh, and the junior U.S. senator from Illinois, and presidential candidate.

But His press coverage of late suggests it may not stop there. You heard it here, folks. Barack Obama may actually be the second coming. The Messiah. The King of Kings.

That said, Slate.com has instituted the Obama Messiah Watch, periodically highlighting gratuitously adoring biographical details about the candidate in newspaper, TV, and magazine coverage.

Yesterday, a Los Angeles Times profile by Larry Gordon about “Barry” Obama’s two years at Occidental College (he transferred to Columbia), included the following anecdote:

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.”

Of course he did. Readers are hereby invited to submit similar details about Obama walking on water, turning water into wine and so on and so forth.