At least according to one of John McCain’s attack ads, he is.
As Fred Clark of slacktivist notes:
There’s not a second wasted here — every image, gesture, note, word and allusion points in a single direction, everything in the film says a single thing: Barack Obama is the Antichrist. Yes, it’s propaganda, but like the films of Eisenstein or Riefenstahl, it’s also art — unsubtly didactic, yet beautiful in its unity of purpose.
The McCain campaign denies this, of course. Despite being what Orcinus describes as “blasting the dog-whistle at air-raid volume at the religious right“, it’s all allegedly just a joke. As Fred Clark continues.
Tragically for Davis, however, it turns out that accusing your political rival of being the Antichrist is considered a bit over the line. Apparently according to conventional American political mores, the claim that your opponent is the ultimate personification of evil, the 10-horned beast of the Apocalypse, is regarded as sleazy gutter politics of the worst sort.
As Street Prophets points out, that doesn’t wash. It’s a pretty blatant attempt to associate with Barack Obama with Nicolae Carpathia, the Antichrist figure from the appalling “Left Behind” books.
It’s clear the McCain campaign recognises that the rapture cultists (I refuse to use the word “Christian” to describe their heretical belief system), although dangerously bat-crazy, are a powerful voting block.
Anyway, I’ve always thought Sun Myung Moon would make a good candidate for the Antichrist. One world religion and all that? But somehow the rapture cultists always ignore him. Presumably it’s because he’s a conservative, and they’ve all be conditioned into assuming that the horned beast of the apocalypse would be a liberal.
The discernment-free Lahaye promoted Moon’s messianic mission and took Moon’s cash.
The American Freedom Coalition was created by Moon to gather the Christian right for political power as part of Moon’s “messiah” chores to “restore” Christianity.
In 1988 Moon produced 30 million voter guides for Bush 41 that were handed out in churches all across America.
Moon has been guiding the “Christian” right in his role as “messiah” for years.
Barrack Obama has the SPIRIT of Antichrist but he is not him. Antichrist will come out of the old Roman Empire which had two capitals, on in Rome and one in Constantinople. He will come out of the later capital. Look up Vaticanus Codex and you will see that John wrote Allah and not 666. Number means multitude and the mark of the beast is clothing such as a sash or headband which is being worn already. In the Koran the book says, the Beast will come up from the earth and mark all Muslims so that they are the only ones to buy or sell. We all need to get on the same page because time is short.
M, you are completely wrong. The Revelation of St.John is not a book of occult predictions of events two thousand years in John’s future. It’s all about what was actually going on at the time in which it was written. But it’s all written in metaphors and allegory which LeHaye and co. completely fail to understand.
666 most likely represents someone who was living at the time, most probably the Roman Emperor Nero.
Barack Obama is a good president. he is perhaps the most tech savvy president in the US.