Who Said That?

"I think I am becoming a god"

You know the drill.  Leave your guess in the comments section below.  Please, no google searches or cheating.  Answer to follow in one week.

Update on Saturday, June 6, 2009 at 05:50PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This is a quote from Titus Flavius Vespasianus (better known as Vespasian) as he lay dying in 79 A.D.  Given the growth of the imperial cult, Vespasian was half-joking.

Comments

[Paul C. Quillman]

The most merciful, most benevolent, lord Barack Hussein Obama?

["lee n. field"]

And a fictional allusion, the mad emperor Cartagia in Babylon 5, in the short interval between being poisoned and his hearts stopping, gasps "I was to have been a god, you see."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartagia

[Chris Shermam]

Kim Jong-il or
Fidel Castro or
Benny Hinn?

[Ken Rapoza]

Rod Rosenbladt

[Marv]

President Obama.
Except for the "becoming" part.

(quoting Evan Thomas)

[matt]

Caligula.

[Alicia Silva]

I'm pretty sure these are the last words of a Roman emperor; I'm guessing Nero.

[Matthew Svoboda]

Soren Kierkegaard?