McCain's "The One" Attack Video: Does it Have a Deeper Message?

The Matthew 25 movement--a group of progressive evangelicals that runs a PAC and has endorsed Obama--is charging that the ad is actually full of coded messages meant to convince evangelical voters that Obama is actually, literally, the anti-Christ. Full Story »

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by James Staley - Oct. 1, 2008

This article raises the question: Is McCain playing with fire in depicting Obama as the antichrist in the ad, The One? Much better articles on this theme are in the Web world (e.g., Amy Sullivan's piece for Time magazine). Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, authors of the fundamentalist apocalyptic novels in the popular and bad series, Left Behind, say Obama is no antichrist because the antichrist will not be American. (They make their fictional antichrist Romanian.) McCain makes a mockery of Judaism and Christianity in his irreverent, if not blasphemous, ad and may end up angering the very ones he's trying to appeal to, (the ones he used to call "agents of intolerance"), the religious fundamentalists, who take their religion seriously and don't find it funny when others scoff and make light of it for political purposes.

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