Obama: Antichrist, Messiah, or Both?

There has been precious little writ of late about the campaign talk of Barack Obama and his messianic complex and/or of Barack as the incarnation of the Antichrist: Both were innuendos widely circulated in the months leading up to his election and both had more than some bases in fact.

His expansive, soaring rhetoric, the studied demeanor he and his handlers cultivated, his redemptive promises, his portentous warnings, but chiefly the complicity of the mainstream media, were all factors in creating the positive aura that still surrounds him.

Whatever Obamian negatives do crop up that can’t readily be spun into positives are simply ignored. Or, if they are so egregious they are beyond avoidance, the press will grudgingly cover them, then bury them.

Cases in point since his inauguration would be his failed European tour, his ridiculing of the Special Olympians on national TV, and his giddy amusement last Saturday night by 9/11 jokes and death wishes made by alleged comedienne, Wanda Sykes.

Just as with Obama’s statement that he had visited all 57 states during the campaign, rest assured you won’t be hearing much about those stories from the mainstreamers since they tend to damage their version of a flawless president.

Newsweek infamously bestowing a halo on Obama a year ago, a cover shot demanded by the editor’s wife, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023436/posts, was but one of many overt and subliminal media efforts made to suggest the candidate’s messianic personna:



And Obama is not on record as ever objecting to that media worship.

The same factors that created that aura also serve to provoke an extreme antipathy in those who opposed his candidacy and not only from Christians who took offense at comparing any politician with the Christian Savior.

Such hyperbolic descriptions as messiah and Antichrist are not mutually exclusive either. Anyone assuming or accepting suggestions that the mantle of a new messiah can readily be interpreted to be the Antichrist as well. What better platform than the former to launch the insidious evil of the latter?

Nor are such descriptions unprecedented in recent American politics.

George W. Bush was certainly never considered godlike by his venomous detractors but he was often demonized and characterized as the Antichrist, and worse, by America’s leftist extremists, as evidenced by this tee shirt which must have been very popular at N.O.W., NARAL, and NAMBLA conventions:

Shocked reactions of revulsion by the Obama camp today as to mean-spirited commentary on Obama reflect ludicrous, hypocritical examples of selective memories after eight years of their heaping toxic criticism on Bush, and on Dick Cheney. . .

(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com/)