Detour: who do Jehovah's Witnesses say that He is?

I happened to mention my latest pursuit to a friend who happens to be a Jehovah's Witness, and he brought me "The Greatest Man who Ever Lived," a paraphrase of the gospels published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (presumably for evangelical purposes). Pretty interesting read, obviously, but a few lines from the introduction particularly caught my attention (italics in original):

Jesus never claimed to be God, but he acknowledged that he was the promised Messiah, or Christ. He also said he was "God's Son" not God. (John 4:25, 25; 10:36) Yet, the Bible does not say Jesus was a man like any other man. He was a very special person because he was created by God before all other things. (Colossians 1:15) For countless billions of years, before even the physical universe was created, Jesus lives as a spirit person in heaven and enjoyed intimate fellowship with his Father, Jehovah God, the Grand Creator. --Proverbs 8:22, 27-31. Then, about two thousand years ago, God transferred his Son's life to the womb of a woman, and Jesus came to be a human son of God, born in the normal manner through a woman. (Galaians 4:4)

Further research (ok, wikipedia) suggests that Jehovah's Witnesses think of Jesus as God's "only-begotten son" because he was God's first creation. Later, the text again emphasizes that Jesus was like God,  imitating him so perfectly on earth that to see Jesus is to see God, but that Jesus was lower than God, not God himself (they referenced some fairly familiar verse but I can't find the reference at the moment).

So, Jesus is both divine and human and at the same time not quite God.

Oh, in case you're curious, you can read the Jehovah's Witnesses translation of the Bible online: The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures. Again, Wikipedia has a bit to say on this translation, but I haven't read it, so I don't have anything to say on that at the moment!