Hysterical. Even funnier, the mainstream media *is* aswoon over the guy. Of course the serious thing is that we’re electing not a Clinton Moderate, but a McGovern radical, one who listened to the most poisonous venom being spewed from Rev. Wright any never minded, until it was politically handy.
Of course, I’ll vote for McCain, because I can’t vote for Obama. He stands on all sides of an issue at once, and tries to have things both ways, saying in essence ‘I’m not black so’s you’d notice, but if you don’t vote for me, you’re racist. And I transcend all categories of race and political divide, but, if you vote for me, 400 centuries of racial ickiness shall go away.’
Please.

Well, I won’t worry about Obama being the AntiChrist unless he signs a 7-year peace agreement with Israel.
Really, the Obama supporters need to develop a sense of humor. That ad is wonderful in the way it tweaks the Obama campaign for this cult of personality they are building and hoping will carry them into the White House. I think the ones who would watch this ad and assume that it means that Obama is the AntiChrist are just as deluded as those who watch the add and assume that it is a covert attempt to portray Obama as the AntiChrist. Both are a few candles short of a chandelier…

This ad was NOT funny! The fact that McCain thought it was humor, makes me even more upset. It was an evil thing to do and had no place on the campaign trail.
Every time I think I might change my mind and vote for McCain, he does something so wrong that I’m glad I haven’t voted yet. Obama is taking a week off to relax, I bet McCain will make fun of that as well.
My God! Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our vote!

A minor correction.
The Left Behind books didn’t debut in the 90′s.
They debuted in the 70′s, filled with prophecies of Americans poisoned by polluted air and locked in cannibalistic infighting by 1975. When that didn’t happen, the authors lived on their millions for a decade or so and then wrote more books for another generation of readers.
And so it is with the anti-Christ label. In my lifetime, the anti-Christ has been supposed to be Hitler, FDR, Stalin, Kruschev, Brezhnev, Ronald Wilson Reagan old 666 himself, Clinton, Bush, and Saddam Hussein, among others. Obama actually should be flattered that some people believe he has the same stature as FDR even before he’s nominated.

..it is sad, disturbing and downright ignorant to buy into such primitive ways of promoting oneself…worse, that there are people out there who are paying attention to it : in a way it was intended. Where is the difference between Islamic fundamentalism and Christian stupidity?…..who are we really? educated, progressive, modern citizens or just plain human sewage?

It is difficult for me to believe that this ad is an innocent, humorous work. It is meant to scare evangelicals and anyone else who is thinking about voting for Obama. It is gutter politics practiced by people who claim to be doing God’s work. How sad! How disappointing!

“the Obama supporters need to develop a sense of humor”
Until you are the target of an evil, lurid smear, the object of a series of attacks based on lies (aka the bearing of false witness, aka a “sin”), I don’t think you have the right to suggest that this is the subject of something humourous.
To echo Zeke above, “It is meant to scare evangelicals and anyone else who is thinking about voting for Obama. It is gutter politics practiced by people who claim to be doing God’s work. How sad! How disappointing!”
And this is supposed to be the “progressive” blog? Oh right, Beliefnet’s intrerpretation of “progressive” doesn’t match with reality either.

Zeke, you said, “It is gutter politics practiced by people who claim to be doing God’s work.”
Can I ask who in the McCain campaign is claiming to be doing God’s work? I think they are trying to get McCain elected, and are making fun of their opponent. Based on the hysteria observed here and elsewhere about the ad, it must effective.
Ex-P, you said, “Until you are the target of an evil, lurid smear, the object of a series of attacks based on lies (aka the bearing of false witness, aka a “sin”), I don’t think you have the right to suggest that this is the subject of something humourous (sic).” First, the ad appears to be based on statements made by Obama. They may be taken out of context in some cases, but both campaigns are doing that. (Case in point – Obama’s misrepresentation of McCain’s “100 years” comment.) So I’m not sure it rises to the level of an “evil, lurid smear”, but if so, both campaigns are guilty. But I can still suggest the subject is humorous, and that the campaign is doing itself no favors by overreacting.

If being called The AntiChrist is not a smear, I don’t know what is.
I don’t agree Obama ‘misrepresented’ the “100 years in Iraq” comment. That ‘interpretation’ is well imbedded in the media. It is certainly how most people I know understood it.
“the ad appears to be based on statements made by Obama. They may be taken out of context in some cases”
They are partial statements, cut and edited to make them sound like Obama said them, and you are motly correct – they are taken out of context, and in almost every case, not just “some”. I’ve seen many reporters, journalists and pundits give the full quotes and show the full clips and they are not what McCain (his ad agency, really) is making them out to be.
P.S. I’m from Canada – we spell “humour” (etc.) with the “u” – no “(sic)” needed.

One of the ten commandments, the very basis of morality is to not to bear false witness against anyone.
It’s clear to me that accusing people of being the antichrist is a violation of that commandment. I remember when right wing christian groups were spreading disinformation that Jimmy Carter was the anti-christ, himself an evangelical.
Let me be clear about what bearing false witness is so that there is no wiggle room for Christians who’d behave as the Pharasees did. It’s not okay to bear false witness against someone if you disgree with their position on a certain matter (such as abortion). It’s not okay to bear false witness against someone because they have a different religion or interpret the same religion you beleive in differently. It’s not okay to bear false witness because you don’t like someone. It’s not okay to bear false witness because you’re swept up in the hysteria started by others and didn’t bother checking any facts for yourself and tell all of your freinds you think somebody is the anti-christ. It’s not okay to bear false witness because you painstakingly pulled together a few superficial resemblances to scripture and decided that somebody has to be the antichrist.
You know, I doubt very strongly the people who are insisting Obama must be the anti-christ will be praying to God for forgiveness should he lose the election and enter into political obscurity. Will they even acknowledge that they even sinned or stood as false accusers or will they instead indulge in the same sin over again proudly when the next person comes along that they feel is too liberal.
A real christian might just simply deal with his position on abortion if that matters to them, something which is verifiable and factual… and not engage in hyperbole beyond that. A person’s moral position cannot even give you an excuse to bear false witness. If you had a co-worker who did something dirty to get the promotion you wanted, would you be justified in setting them up to look like they stole from that employer and report it? If you wouldn’t do that, if you know that would make you clearly wrong, why would it be okay to set someone up with a different position on abortion with accusations that they are the anti-christ?
Jesus said “there will be many who will come to me saying ‘Lord, Lord’ saying all they did in his name and I’d say ‘get away from me, I never knew you”. I am convinced that here we see brazen, conscious, rationalized violation of a basic commandment not to stand as persecuters of others by large segments of the christian community… very well organized sin and yet they fixate on the sins of others they can’t relate to (such as homosexuals) while ignoring their own. …Talk about getting the speck out of anothers eye when you have a beam sticking out of one of yours…
If it’s one thing that a chrisian who is against Obama’s campaign should consider is that God doesn’t honor nor respects it when his supposed followers have so little faith in him that they break the commandments when they decide it’s convenient for their agenda. The beatitudes are pretty clear in principle that God has a reward, whether you are a christian or not, for being persecuted and slandered.
It would seem to me that any candidate who talks about doing anything for the working poor, disenfranchised, or for peace, or speaks eloquently enough towards pushing that agenda… is going to be accused of being the anti-christ. What’s left if you eliminate voting for any candidate that would do these humane things for people, to make sure it’s not the anti-christ would you vote for a money worshipping person who upholds the status quo of poverty, social injustices, etc? Isn’t it a greater blasphemy for a Christian to rationalize voting for people who talk about the “marketplace” solving all the problems when Jesus said money is the root of all evil?
How cynical, what a lack of real faith and what a hypocritical posture of faith… you may as well go out and burn suspected witches and violate the commandment against murder as well… for without even recognizing how sinful being a false accuser is I doubt it would make some of your unrepentant souls more in danger of hellfire than it is now.
Look within, think about it, if you are a pastor and you agree with this post and don’t want to see people in your congregations fall into the trap of this sin… print this out and share it with your congregation or talk to them about it. The devil tempts in many ways, and sexual sins we talk about all of the time are just the tip of the iceberg, we’ve ignored other sins which we in the Christian community has indulged in far too regularly for too long now without so much as an apology over it. It even stands up to the golden rule, for if someone didn’t like your position on something, and took peices of your life and made it fit the picture of the anti-christ would you think it was fair? Would it be more fair if you had a position on something that was actually wrong, that you’d deserve to be painted as something you actually wasn’t?
If you wouldn’t want it being done to you, don’t do it to anyone, for if you do you are in sin… period, no wiggle room. It’s an ungracious and unloving and faithless act no matter how you try to excuse it as being okay.
I’m saying this as someone who doesn’t even think he’ll vote for Obama based on my personal differences with some of his platform… that those differences don’t matter and that it would be un-Christian for me to stand by silently and watch him or anyone be unfairly victimized by slanderers who should be ashamed of themselves. It is my hope that some of them at least will be ashamed, repent, and encourage others to do the same so that their souls may be saved. For even if one is born again, if they are unrepentant for sins they are proud of and justify as good they may find that they’ve fallen from that grace.

For the answer to “Is Obaba the anti-christ and Rick Warren his evangelical witness”. Lets let the scriptures answer that one for us instead of us trying to prophesize.” What to look for to solidify this claim wull be for a monopolized world currency to come into effect via a European Union, for the Arab countries south of Iran to unionize, and for China, India, Russia to move towards a final conflict. Untill then keep storing your firewood and legumes. Will all be revealed on December 22nd 2012 or will Jesus return on June 22nd 42 months prior now that the anti-christ has been exposed… Things that make you go hmmm

i think he could be. im no racist or anything just a teenager seein wats in front of him. all the signs are comin out he is tryin to make a seven year treaty between iran and iraq. and in the bible it says the times will be very hard and lots of sin but a man will come forth and bring peace to the middle east thats happinin now so get ready for it