Obama as Antichrist liberal freakout

If Obama becomes president, and has to undergo the usual criticism that presidents do, they're all going to spontaneously combust trying to police the heretics.

I should think that Obama could take lessons from Bush, who when he became president began to demonize every type of criticism, and succeeded in immunizing his administration from the very consent of the governed he swore to uphold, an oath he took twice.

Yes, every set of criticism has a subset of unwarranted and even silly members. That is not the point, and should never be the point. Dissent is the lifeblood of any republic. Our anemia is quite easy to see.

I'm lovin' it. Honestly, the utter freakout of media liberals about those half-baked McCain ads is hilarious to watch. These are the same people who have built Obama up as a secular messiah who's going to come save us from the wicked legacy of Chimpy McBushitler, and when McCain starts to poke fun at the pop sanctimony surrounding Obama's image, these folks can't handle the teasing.

Obama had a quote earlier about McCain debating McCain. This is Rod debating Rod. It certainly reaches the same level of solipsism.

If this article (and the Bob Herbert meltdown) are any indication, then news reporting and editorials over the next couple of months should have a high level of awesomeness.

"...the people who think Obama might be the Antichrist and the people who think the McCain campaign is cannily designing its campaign ads to exploit fears that Obama might be the Antichrist deserve each other."

Yep, absolutely true. Both groups need a reality check, big-time.

BTW, I thought the clip from 'The Ten Commandments' was the funniest bit in an otherwise lame commercial.

Rod, I don't know if you are aware of this or not - but Pastor John Hagee, whose political endorsement McCain renounced following the breakout of my viral video showcasing John Hagee's claim that "God sent Hitler", has stated (in a March 2003 sermon ) that the Antichrist will be gay, German and "partly Jewish - as was Adolf Hitler, as was Karl Marx" [note - it's very unlikely Hitler was 'partly Jewish' and Marx was raised a Lutheran].

Regardless of any "liberal freak out" over the McCain campaign ad in question, anti-semitic narratives are in the process of being mainstreamed in American culture. John McCain's devoted (2-3 year long) and very public project of building a working relationship with Christian leaders such as Jerry Falwell and Pastor John Hagee, in the lead up to the 2008 election, is a good starting point for that claim.

Bruce, the post is about Obama as "AntiChrist." Not McCain as Anti-Semite. I guess when you see the leters A-N-T-I you get a little edgy, but you can stand down. McCain doesn't like Vietnamese people but he likes Jews. I understand that one of his best friends is Jewish, in fact.

I found the ad to be funny because it took Obama's words and used them against them. If Obama and his faithful didn't want this kind of mockery, they shouldn't have provided the ammunition. I certainly don't believe any U.S. President will ever be the Anti-Christ, whatever their party affiliation. Reading the Time article, I do hope McCain wasn't deliberately trying to spin up a tacky Left Behind parallel.

However, I would love one of those "O: The Anti-Christ" t-shirts mentioned in the article, not because I believe that's the case, but because it would irritate people that have an unrealistic view of Obama. In the end, he's just a politician, albeit one with more oratory skill than President Bush.

Um. . .Rod. . .many Evangelicals and others familiar with end time prophecy and the Left Behind series saw the same thing that the Dems pointed out here. This is not saying that most Evangelicals believe that Obama is the Anti-Christ. This is not to say that McCain and his ad gurus think that Obama is the Anti-Christ. What it does say is that there is a clear and purposeful connection between the imagry and themes of that ad and Anti-Christ prophecy and the Left Behind series. Heck, the author of the Left Behind series himself said he thought the imagry in the ad was very similar to the cover art of his books. If you don't see it, you either don't have a good understanding of the Bible or your just don't want to see it. I'm as conservative as they come but to deny the connections just makes us look ignorant or cynical.

"If you don't see it, you either don't have a good understanding of the Bible or your just don't want to see it."

There is, of course, a third option, which is the fact that if you're not familiar with the whole "end time Bible prophecy" gig, you wouldn't see it. In that sense if the reference is intentional, it's intentioned towards a rather small and limited group of Evangelicals and not towards conservative Christians at large.

DavidTC
The people out of touch with reality are those people who think it's Obama's fault that the right are sarcastically calling him the Messiah. Obama has never called himself that, he'd, quite rightly, be crucified (ha) for it.

They would be correct, it's not Obama's fault. But it is the fault of his supporters, not his enemies.

Obama and co. asked for this. His beatific platitudes BEG for mockery. He's just another politician who talks out of both sides of his mouth.

You have to read 'The Man Who Would Be King: Why Every Christian in America needs to seriously consider who Barack Obama could actually be."

It was prepared by Christian Apologist Wes Hazlett and it will blow the doors off your mind.

I got half way through it and I was stunned at what the meaning of the monkey god really is and was quite surpised that Obama carries an idol of this hindu god in his pocket.

Correction to comment above:

Obama’s Grandmother was released a few weeks before the election and we would like to know why. Since many patients are kept alive for several weeks to years in the hospital. Pls post. If you know.