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Obama's not the antichrist... but if he were, it could help his re-election chances
By Delia PlessSeptember 28th, 2011, 3:00 pmComments (14)
Here's something you may not have considered while weighing President Barack Obama's re-election chances: what if he's the Antichrist?
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell addressed the possibility that Obama is the Antichrist on The Last Word. In a segment titled "Antichrist Politics," O'Donnell riffed with New York Times columnist Matthew Sutton on a possibility that, until a few days ago, most well adjusted Americans had never considered. Namely, is Obama the Antichrist?
Short answer: could be, if you're an evangelist. As Sutton noted, "specious theories" about Obama's place of birth, combined with his "internationalist tendencies, his measured support for Israel and his Nobel Peace Prize" all fit with the evangelical "long-held expectations about the Antichrist." Apparently, Obama's plan to expand government health care is also another indication of the impending Rapture. Please don't ask me to explain how.
Now for the zinger: this whole Antichrist kerfluffle could actually help the Obama campaign. As O'Donnell points out, evangelicals want to see the Antichrist appear, because it means the coming of Christ is that much closer. However, last night O'Donnell confirmed that there only seems to be one guy who actually believes it's true. Maybe that should be the focus of Obama's re-election campaign: a Rapture we can believe in.
Commentarium (14 Comments)
I am hella confused.
I better start reading the Left Behind series now.
I'm really not interested in the job.
What? Obama HATES Israel.
No, not really.
Yes, yes really.
Um? How?
"Hate" is probably too strong but I agree that Obama sees Israel as just another country in the Middle East. For starters, the suggestion that negotiations with the Palestinians begin with 1967 borders is simply ridiculous from the Israeli point of view. There's more but that's sufficient for now.
I remember when Nerve was sexy and fun to read. Clearly, someone at Nerve thinks there's not enough harebrained political commentary on the Internet.
I can only guess that they are not seeing the forest of their community weakening for the trees of a short term gain in hits because of the rabid back and forth on the politics articles. I can see how it was a good *idea* at one time, but in practice, this much emphasis on politics makes me (and I'm guessing others) spend less time here.
But hey, maybe they specifically want to change the direction of the site, and we just need to figure out if we're taking a hike or not.
Requiring a login, captcha, and waiting period to post comments (in addition to IP-filtering for kiddies) would do wonders for this place.
So would resuming the "alternative" pin-ups the original Nerve posted liberally.
Nerve is coming up with a sign-in policy "when time and resources allow". I'm pretty convinced that the spammy trolling in here is primarily one person who goes by some regular aliases and also hijacks other people's aliases. A sign-in policy couldn't happen soon enough.
How about he just comes out and says he's a Muslim?
Because he isn't one.