Relief!

Well I, for one, am relieved that Newsweek editor Evan Thomas has publicly written that he does not think President Obama is God.

Apparently, Mr. Thomas didn't want his comments on the June 5 edition of Hardball with Chris Matthews to be misunderstood. He doesn't think the president literally is God. He says he was just comparing President Obama's style of transcending the parochialism of patriotic appeals that were President Reagan's signature. The president has a sort of above-it-all style, apparently, and Mr. Thomas meant the "god" part of his quote to refer to that.

Now Mr. Thomas can get back to editing the magazine that published hard-hitting, non-Obama-worshipping pieces like this one, wondering whether or not there would be an "Obama baby boom" in August of 2009 as people celebrated with a host of special Mommy-and-Daddy hugs when he won in November of 2008.