Political Bloviation

If Obama is the anti-Christ, then shouldn’t the far right religious zealot wingnut crowd support him to bring on Armageddon? The best possible response to this kind of idiocy is merciless mocking. “I fart in your general direction.”

This Week in God - The Carpetbagger Report
the McCain campaign released a web video eight days ago, characterizing Barack Obama as having some kind messianic complex, comparing him to Moses, and with a mocking narrator saying, “He can do no wrong.”

This week, a number of progressive Christians starting reporting on the possible subtext underlying the ad: the McCain campaign may be playing on evangelical fears of, believe it or not, the Antichrist. The argument made the rounds a few days ago, and was elevated to a national issue by Time’s Amy Sullivan yesterday, who noted that the ad’s suggestion of Obama as the Antichrist might actually made the Willie Horton ads “seem benign” by comparison.

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