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McCain Campaign Targets Obamessianism

Christianity Today August 5, 2008

Mara Vanderslice says a recent McCain ad is a dog whistle suggestion that Obama may be the Antichrist. For what it’s worth, Hal Lindsey says the Antichrist “won’t be Barack Obama, but Obama’s world tour provided a foretaste of the reception he can expect to receive.”

But that doesn’t stop University of Pennsylvania anthropologist John L. Jackson Jr. from claiming that the ad is more than just an effort to paint Obama as the Antichrist – it’s an effort to paint him as Left Behind‘s Nicolae Carpathia.

Apocalyptic interpretations aside, Georgetown’s Jacques Berlinerblau says the McCain ad is “is nothing less than an attempt to nuke Obama’s religious appeal and credibility into oblivion.”

David Waters says it’s just old hat.

Judge for yourself. What do you think the message is?

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