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An Antichrist Obama in McCain Ad?

An Antichrist Obama in McCain Ad?

An Antichrist Obama in McCain Ad?

The Republican nominee’s advisers brush off the charges, arguing that the spot was meant to be a “creative” and “humorous” way of poking fun at Obama’s popularity by painting him as a self-appointed messiah. But even this innocuous interpretation of the ad—which includes images of Charlton Heston as Moses and culled clips that make Obama sound truly egomaniacal—taps into a conversation that has been gaining urgency on Christian radio, political blogs, and in widely-circulated email messages that accuse Obama of being the Antichrist.

You can watch the ad—which besides being somewhat disturbing is also juvenile, pretty crappily produced, and neither “creative” nor “humorous”—here.

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  • Aug 8, 2008, 9:48am

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  1. Matt's avatar

    Matt

    August 8, 2008 10:36am

    ...wow, just wow.

  2. Mike

    August 8, 2008 11:10am

    Yeah, that’s not a good spot.

    You do have to wonder, though, about the messiah complex Obama seems to have of himself.

  3. almostcool

    August 8, 2008 12:41pm

    Give me a couple quotes that support Obama having a Messiah complex. Really, I’d love to see them.

  4. Aaron

    August 8, 2008 1:41pm

    You do have to wonder, though, about the messiah complex Obama seems to have of himself.

    *sigh*

    Obama makes the point time and time and time again, that this excitement around him really isn’t about him at all, it’s about his supporters, it’s about people being ready for change, after 8 years of misery.  It’s about us.

    But the GOP and FoxNews tie these ball n’ chain smears around Obama’s neck, “egotistical,“ “celebrity,“ “Muslim,“ “rhetoric,“ “unpatriotic,“ “Messianic,“ until something sticks—sticks like the slime that it is.  The video above is a perfect example of this.

    I beg and plead with all of you to look beyond the GOP talking points and do some real investigation before buying into crap like this.

    (All I can do is sigh again at this point.)

    *sigh*

  5. Mike

    August 8, 2008 1:53pm

    From the Anointed One’s own lips:

    “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.“

    “I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.“

    “A light will shine down, from somewhere, it will light upon you.  You will experience an epiphany, and you will say to yourself, ‘I have to vote for Barack.‘“

    “...generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth.“

    “People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.“

    “This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.“

    Thankfully, at just this time in history, when we need to cause the seas to recede, bring peace to the planet, stop famines, heal the sick, and save the world, God has sent us a senator with three years of experience on his resume to save us all.

  6. Aaron

    August 8, 2008 2:04pm

    1. “WE” are the ones we’ve been waiting for, “we” being Americans.  There’s a significant difference between “we” and “me.“

    2. That quote has been debunked, (it was a second-hand account to begin with), he never said it.  What he actually said that day was again deferential to we the American public.

    3.  Good lord, he was joking. *sigh*

    4. Again, you have to know the difference between “we” and “me.“  He’s trying to motivate Americans, and to a greater extent his supporters, and excite them to act, and change things.

    5. You’ve got to be kidding me.

    6. Again, “we” not “me.“

    It’s like we in America, on opposing sides of the cultural and political fence, speak two different languages.  It’s friggin’ depressing.  TgIF.

  7. Cody

    August 8, 2008 4:20pm

    C’mon, Jason…that is a hilarious ad, especially in the usually uber-uptight Presidential race category. 

    Obama DOES have a Messiah-complex and the ad plays off of that beautifully.  Here we have someone with no real political experience making statements about how the oceans themselves will respond to his nomination and taking his campaign for President of the US to rallies in other countries (as if their opinion matters) and his opponent shouldn’t bother to point this out?

    Now is he the anti-Christ?  Hardly, but that doesn’t mean that he should be exempt from scrutiny over how he portrays himself and how he allows his followers to portray him.

  8. Daniel Giesbrecht

    August 20, 2008 9:13am

    I want someone to swoop down and make everything okay.  Fix all my problems, take away all my anxiety.  Save me barry.  Save me.

  9. Jared

    August 28, 2008 2:19pm

    As a believer in Yeshua, the one and only Messiah, I have to question one thing. Lets set aside for a moment the debate about whether or not Senator Obama has really bought into the mega-hype surrounding his campaign, whether or not he believes he is truly transcendent. If he really believes that Jesus is the Messiah, based on the fact that he considers himself to be a ‘Christian,‘ would he not be offended by people calling him the messiah all of the time. He should be rebuking those who are looking to him for salvation, putting their hope in him.

    And I thought the add was pretty funny.

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