A lot of people were comparing him to Malcolm-X after that, from both sides of the aisle.

Here is a closer precedent which I've already posted earlier "We are criminals in that war...We've committed more war crimes than any nation in the world...But God has a way of putting nations in their place"..."If you don't stop your reckless course, I'll rise up and break the backbone of your power."

Not Malcolm X, not Jeremiah Wright - Martin Luther King. (Speaking as God in that last sentence.)