Fred Clark lays out a compelling argument that the most recent John McCain “just for fun” Web ad is intended to suggest to premillenial dispensationalists (adherents to a radical interpretation of Christian end times theology) that Barack Obama is the antichrist.
Dog whistle politics
August 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments
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1 Dennis Savage // Aug 14, 2008 at 11:43 am
Perhaps a good response would be to compare the candidates in a different, more Old Testament key: Able vs McCAIN.
2 Stan Taylor // Aug 14, 2008 at 1:45 pm
As usual, I think Fred is right on in regard to these things. And thanks for the careful wording of what PMDs are.
3 http://smerpology.org/sprocket/ // Aug 15, 2008 at 1:08 pm
@Dennis: That’s clever, but Cain ends up winning that contest, if by “winning” you mean “last one standing”.
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