Leftards: McCain Ad Suggests Obama is Anti-Christ

Posted on August 8, 2008

Should we laugh this one off? The tin foil hats are shining bright on this one! Is there really anyone who thinks Obama is the anti-Christ?

It’s not easy to make the infamous Willie Horton ad from the 1988 presidential campaign seem benign. But suggesting that Barack Obama is the Antichrist might just do it.

That’s just what some outraged Christian supporters of the Democratic nominee are claiming John McCain’s campaign did in an ad called “The One” that was recently released online. 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.

The ad was the creation of Fred Davis, one of McCain’s top media gurus, as well as a close friend of former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed and the nephew of conservative Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe. It first caught the attention of Democrats familiar with the Left Behind series, a fictionalized account of the end time that debuted in the 1990s and has sold nearly 70 million books worldwide. “The language in there is so similar to the language in the Left Behind books,” says Tony Campolo, a leading progressive evangelical speaker and author.

These people have obviously not been tuned into the whole “Obamessiah” repetitive jokes. I think most people who actually have brains know that this ad was poking fun at how the media has portrayed Obama, and had no actual underlying religious message at all. Of course, there are those who only pretend to have brains.

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4 Responses to “Leftards: McCain Ad Suggests Obama is Anti-Christ”

TJ on August 8th, 2008 12:20 pm

You just assume most people have brains and can think. You’re mistaken, huge masses of people are follows and do not think for them selves and can be easily led. So just the visual and vocal insinuation to the theme of being the antichrist, may be enough to effect/scare those type of voters. Use your head and stop thinking in only your circle.
Jay on August 8th, 2008 12:56 pm

Just because people don’t think, doesn’t make the accusation that intentional suggestions were put in this ad true.
jihadforwhat on August 8th, 2008 1:38 pm

It seems to me that the Democrats are as sensitive about criticism(s) as the Islamic activists. Both groups (hopefully they are still separate groups) believe that only they have true Freedom of Speech. All others are restricted to Freedom to Listen, if they choose to ‘participate’ in the die a log.

What are they afraid of, that we can not ask them question or ask questions about them?.
Mary on August 8th, 2008 2:51 pm

Just laugh it off. The more their frenzied hysteria is seen by the public, the more people move AWAY from their candidate.

Did you see Bob Herbert and Keith Olbermann work themselves into blathering idiots on MSNBC imagining huge phallic symbols (racist code, they say) in the Obama/Berlin ad?

Not to worry. Most Americans are laughing at them for their goofiness.

Why would any rational American want to be “united” with those goofballs?