Perhaps he can be called the presumptuous Democratic presidential nominee.

Barack Obama met with House Democrats in a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill Tuesday evening where he reportedly described his recent trip to Europe at length and concluded, "This is the moment, as (House Speaker) Nancy (Pelosi) noted, that the world is waiting for."

Referencing the crowd of 200,000 who attended his speech in Berlin, the presumptive Democratic nominee , according to The Washington Post, told the standing-room only audience of Democratic House representatives, "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions."

But backers at the event say the Illinois senator's point was that the enthusiasm is not about him at all, but about America, of which he is merely representative of its potential.

"Lots of people are reading the quote about Obama being a symbol and getting it wrong. His entire point of that riff was that the campaign IS NOT about him. The Post left out the important first half of the sentence, which was something along the lines of: 'It has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign, that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all. It’s about America. I have just become a symbol ...,'" a House Democratic aide who was present during the meeting wrote in an e-mail to FOX News on Wednesday.

Obama did not discuss the contents of the meeting with reporters waiting outside the closed-door meeting. He said only that he would be campaigning alongside members to win the presidency and help expand Democratic majorities in the House and Senate. No public recording was made of the meeting.

His confidence, however, is no doubt bolstered by his supporters.

"There wasn't a question he didn't knock out of the park," Rep. John Larson of Connecticut told FOX News. "His speech was soaring. But also down to Earth."

"He indicated that when he stood before nearly 200,000 people in Germany…it wasn't about him. It was about Germany and Europe. And he said that he was a symbol of that hope," House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn of South Carolina said after emerging from the discussion.

The Illinois senator's remarks to the Democratic caucus come on the heels of a fundraiser Monday night near Washington, in which he expressed confidence in his chances of victory in November, saying "the odds of us winning (the election) are very good."

In fact, Obama in recent weeks has frequently seemed to believe his own hype. Being interviewed on CBS at the beginning of his trip to Europe earlier this month, he said that troops and leaders around the world didn't seem to have any doubts about his foreign policy. Asked if he ever has any doubts, he smiled and replied, "Never."

In an interview with FOX News last week at the end of his overseas trip, Obama said, “There was a lot of confirmation of my strategies."

And when asked whether he would admit the surge in Iraq had been successful, he said no.

"You probably will not get the particular words you're fishing for. That's why you're doing interviews as opposed to just feeding me lines," Obama told FOX News' Bill Hemmer.

At a Unity Convention for journalists of color on Sunday, Obama questioned why his trip overseas was challenged when Republican rival John McCain took nearly the same route. McCain did not address a crowd of 200,000 in Berlin.

"I was puzzled by this notion that somehow what we were doing was in any way different from what Senator McCain or a lot of presidential candidates have done in the past. Now, I admit we did it really well," Obama said to laughter.

On Wednesday, Sen. Claire McCaskill, a top Obama adviser who introduced him at a town hall meeting in Springfield, Mo., told supporters that the candidate has both humility and an unambiguous love of country.

"They say that he is arrogant that he is unpatriotic, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and let me tell you I know this man. He is humble, he is devoutly Christian, he loves his family more than anything else in the world,

he cares about families, he reveres our men and women in uniform and he is as red, white and blue as you can possibly get," she said.

Obama admitted last week that a lot of the sensationalism around his candidacy could end up with voters feeling a potential let down.

“You’re always more popular before you’re actually in charge,” Obama said in an appearance last Friday with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. "Once you’re responsible, then you’re going to make some people unhappy.”

Polls also suggest Obama isn't just going to cakewalk into the White House.

The Gallup Daily tracking poll out Tuesday shows Obama with a 6-point lead over Republican rival John McCain, down from the 9 percentage point lead he held a few days earlier, hinting that Obama's post-European tour "bounce" may be coming to an end.

The poll of registered voters was conducted July 24-26 and shows Obama leading 47 to 41 percent, with a sampling error of 2 percentage points. Other polls have shown the race to be within the margin of error.

FOX News' Chad Pergram and Jonathan Passantino contributed to this report.