This may be a first for a presidential campaign: A debate about whether one of the candidates is the Antichrist. The latest round began with the McCain campaign Web ad released earlier this month called “The One.” The spot includes clips of Obama seeming to imply he is God’s choice, shots of Charlton Heston, stairs in the clouds (to heaven?) and images that some say are meant to mimic those in the wildly popular “Left Behind” book series about the end of the world that feature the Antichrist.
Some Obama supporters pounced on the ad, which was released in early August, saying it deliberately was meant to stoke a debate that’s been going on among some Christians for months: Whether Obama is the Antichrist.
The debate over the debate has gotten so intense that Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, the authors of the “Left Behind” series, issued a statement clarifying that Obama is likely not the Antichrist in the Book of Revelation. “I’ve gotten a lot of questions the last few weeks asking if Obama is the Antichrist,” Jenkins told Christian Newswire. “I tell everyone that I don’t think the Antichrist will come out of politics, especially American politics.”
John McCain on the other hand………….naw, we wouldn’t want to offend the Antichrist would we?
Of course Obama is not the antichrist. Dick Cheney can’t be in two places at once.
I thought Pillory was the antichrist. Now I’m confuzed.
Mack,
All the BS Express aside: What part of “He’s already leading” didn’t you get?
i’m waiting for mccain to have a post traumatic stress attack somewhere in the campagne, would be enlightening if it happened in a “debate”.
Well, since it’s in Revelations, we know the antichrist will be able to do a few things:
1. Be really nifty and likable.
2. Will have an assassination attempt that hits him in a vital area — making others believe he’s dead. After 3 days, news will come back saying he miraculously lived. Everyone will be happy.
3. Will unite the world as one — and get everyone to ID themselves happily.
Since we’d need someone to try to kill the antichrist before he can unite the world — wouldn’t it actually be better if everyone held off trying to kill him so he can’t unite the world?
That, and you’d need to actually see the guy come back to life before he’d count.
John,
The language from this add comes directly from the Obama campaign (and Oprah’s reference) All us conservitives are doing is using their own words against them. When has John McCain claimed to make the oceans rise?
Meanwhile, in the upcoming Presidential Debate…
Jim Lehrer: “As previously agreed by both parties, you’ll have two minutes to answer this question, and later another 30 seconds to rebut your opponent’s answer. And our first question is, do you think your opponent is the Anti-Christ, and why?”
(It’s just a good thing that presidential elections never get silly, isn’t it?)
#26 — er; when did Obama claim to make the oceans rise…? I must have missed that. Isn’t global warming making the oceans rise…?
Let’s look at mainstream conservatism, shall we? Over on Conservapedia, the entry on Obama says that if he’s elected he will be officially the first Affirmative Action President. This is what conservatives believe. According to their logic, any black man that would ever become president — at any time, anywhere — is necessarily an Affirmative Action president.
Mainstream conservatives are racist? Perish the thought!