Is McCain Calling Obama the Antichrist?

By Eric Pfeiffer | August 8, 2008 12:12 PM | | Comments (0)

The McCain and Obama campaigns have traded allegations of "playing the race card," but we may be seeing an entirely new dimension of political attacks. One of McCain's recent ads, "The One," seeks to highlight what conservatives see as arrogant comments from Obama. When the ad first came out, some critics questioned the effectiveness of using a side-by-side comparison of Obama and Moses to attack Obama. But now that the ad has become quite popular, with more than a million You Tube views, new allegations are falling from the sky.

First, the video:





Steve Waldman highlights on a memo from the Democratic Eleison Group, alleging that the McCain ad compares Obama to the Antichrist:

This is the use of religion at its very worst in politics because it is an attempt to subtly and perhaps even subconsciously play on some of the deepest fears of millions of evangelical Americans.

Amy Sullivan, who covers religious issues, writes in Time that there are parallels between the ad and the Left Behind series:

It's not hard to see how some Obama-haters might be tempted to make the comparison. In the Left Behind books, Carpathia is a junior senator who speaks several languages, is beloved by people around the world and fawned over by a press corps that cannot see his evil nature, and rises to absurd prominence after delivering just one major speech.

Over at National Review, Mark Hemingway writes:

That's right, after the racist charges didn't stick and then their ridiculous Nazi accusations  were ignored, there was only one other place they could go. Obama's defenders are now accusing McCain of using his campaign ads to call Obama theanti-Christ. Marvel for a second at the absurdity of that.

Tags: Barack Obama, Blogger Theories, John McCain

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