Friday, August 08, 2008

McCain's Right Wingnuts Cast Obama as AntiChrist

For anyone who's been around the Internet, you've seen plenty of this talk: Obama is the antiChrist. Really. I'm not fooling. Search youtube or Google. 

I don't think McCain believes it but I think the producers of his ads do. 

We vote McCain, the right wingnuts stay powerful.
Time: 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 and political blogs and in widely circulated e-mail 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.

Here's McCain's pack. They's be harmless if they weren't powerful. But they've been emboldened by the Bush administration. Inofe doesn't believe in global warming. Worse, he thinks it's a conspiracy. Here's Ralph Reed's thinking. 
And for your reading pleasure, here is a guy who calls Obama the "affirmative action candidate." Yep.