I figure I can alleviate those blues by reminding myself that, yes, I did have a great vacation and that it only feels like it was years rather than months ago …

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Tim Noah started his Obama Messiah Watch column on Slate in January 2007.  The most recent entry, a year later, begins thus:

In the Feb. 13 Financial Times, Edward Luce suggests that the candidate’s Sancha Panza of a wife, Michelle Obama, keeps her man from developing a Messiah complex, and scolds this column for not recognizing that. Actually, I never suggested Obama had a Messiah complex (though others have). I merely suggested that a few excitable souls in the media bear the [apparent] conviction that Obama is the Redeemer. To this growing list we must now add the Reuters photographer who snapped this Annunciation-style picture of … Michelle Obama!

Here’s the photo:

Michelle Obama, wife of US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), watches him as he makes his remarks at his “Super Tuesday” primary election night rally in Chicago, Illinois, February 5, 2008.

REUTERS/Jason Reed