Coming down out of the sky and declaring yourself the Messiah is the stuff of fantasy literature, at best, and--in a darker light--the content of a psychiatric case study.

When George W. Bush does it, he gets wild applause from the military and is heaped with praise by most of the news media. The Bible text--Isaiah's prophecy of Jesus's words--apparently wasn't in the original speech, but was added, we can presume, by whoever is Vice President of Religious Right Conspiracy Content. In any case, the message is clear: the president has come to conquer the world on behalf of Amurika.

It is a teensy coincidence, perhaps, that this is the same goal held by PNAC, the same goal held by Christian right extremists, and the same goal held by those who paid millions of dollars to get Bush elected. PNAC's objective is to promote democracy by force. The Christian Right extremists' objective is to convert the world to Christianity. And those companies that paid the millions of dollars just need to get their investment back and have a comfortable profit.

If someone wrote it as fiction, it would be written off as melodramatic, sensational garbage.