“For Some Evangelicals, President Obama Is Troubling”
September 26, 2011 in Excerpts, Politics, Urban Studies, Videos | Permalink
From a smart New York Times Op-Ed piece by Matthew Avery Sutton, about the bizarre and scary intersection of the end of days and the beginning of the political season:
“For some evangelicals, President Obama is troubling. The specious theories about his place of birth, his internationalist tendencies, his measured support for Israel and his Nobel Peace Prize fit their long-held expectations about the Antichrist. So does his commitment to expanding the reach of government in areas like health care.
In 2008, the campaign of Senator John McCain, the Republican nominee, presciently tapped into evangelicals’ apocalyptic fears by producing an ad, ‘The One,’ that sarcastically heralded Mr. Obama as a messiah. Mr. McCain was onto something. Not since Roosevelt have we had a president of charisma and global popularity, who so perfectly fits the evangelicals’ Antichrist mold.”
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“The One,” 2008:
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