The American Taliban Strikes Again

Forget those lame rumors about Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama being a secret Muslim. That's so spring 2008.

The latest rumors gaining momentum among the far-right political fringe is that Obama is the Anti-Christ, and Sarah Palin is a warrior anointed by God to stop him. No, really.

A large part of Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s campaign so far has consisted of using smears to spread false allegations against his Democratic rival — both officially sanctioned ones by his staff (like Obama supports sex education for kindergartners) and unofficial ones using the Internet, the same type of slime used so effectively against McCain himself during the 2000 Republican primary race in the South.

The latest chain e-mails once again use a flaky twist on Judeo-Christian mythology to increase people’s paranoia and instill evangelical Christians with the bizarre notion that they’re doing God’s work by voting for the McCain/Palin ticket.

The first chain e-mail begins by offering a skewed version of Obama’s background, then asking, “Ummm ... where is the pride in his white heritage? After all — it was his white grandparents that raised him!”

Ugly, but nothing new.

Then the e-mail gets bizarre. “This will make you re-think. A trivia question in Sunday School: How long is the beast allowed to have authority in Revelations? Guess the Answer. Revelations, Chapter 13, tells us it is 42 months, and you know what that is. Almost a four-year term to a presidency. All I can say is, Lord have mercy on us!”

It continues, “According to the Book of Revelations the Anti-Christ will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent, who will deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal ... the prophecy says that people will flock to him and he will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power, will destroy everything. Is it OBAMA??”

Never fear, though. Another chain e-mail making the rounds states that Palin is a righteous heroine who will save the day.

The e-mail, originally written by Jim Bramlett, a former vice president with the Christian Broadcasting Network, states that Obama’s exceptionally persuasive oratory skills may be supernatural in nature. Further, Bramlett cites Obama’s nomination acceptance speech on a “Greek temple-like stage,” adding that the multi-faith benediction that followed was “an abomination.”

Apparently believing that Palin is a veritable Lara Croft in glasses and a hair bun, Bramlett continues, “God was not pleased ... Enter Gov. Sarah Palin. With incredible timing, the very next day, Sarah Palin also appeared out of nowhere…

"We quickly learned that Sarah is a born-again, spirit-filled Christian, attends church, and has been a ministry worker. Sarah is that standard God has raised up to stop the flood. She has the anointing. You can tell by how the dogs are already viciously attacking her. But they will not be successful. She knows the One she serves and will not be intimidated.”

Republicans can say all they want about supposed “liberals” being out of touch with the mainstream but, if McCain’s victory depends on energizing right-wing kooks who believe in this tripe, the mainstream ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.

— Kevin Osborne

Comments

[Ruth Calabria]

Sarah Palin To Be Dropped From McCain Ticket
T
he guns on the conviction of the sinner, Senator Barack Obama, are about to be silenced. Sarah Palin has done her job of connecting with the everyday people who will make the difference in the election. She has managed to make the Republicans, the party of, by and for the ruling class, the hope of the people in the margin, the smarter evangelicals who might have voted for Obama, the moms who struggle so hard to raise their kids in this mom unfriendly environment, the moose hunters and those Hillary women who can't distinguish their bras from their pocketbooks.

Palin has also managed to distract us all from the consequences of the hundred billion dollar bank bailout necessitated by the blind greed of Republican mortgage scammers, a grand heist on all who work for a living whose paychecks will be cut in half by the stupendous inflation this will bring about. Stocks, mostly owned by the rich, go up; and the real income of the workers and middle class goes down. This effective transfer of wealth from worker to ruling class is a continuation of the broader capitalist Republican manipulations that have caused worker incomes to drop by 2% in the last decade while those in the top tier went up by 200%.

McCain's conservative handlers have planned from the beginning to have Sarah leave the scene, once her job was finished, along with the baggage of her Trooper-gate conniving and her obvious lack of qualifications for the presidency. We suspect her coming exit to have been intelligently designed from the start in its reeking of our situation down here in Texas where my fundamentalist mother still tries to control me, a 67 year old woman, from the grave by having left me an inheritance totally controlled by my castrated conservative brother, a lawyer who made it clear immediately after my mother's death that there's no way I would ever see a penny of the money left me unless I left my evolutionist professor husband of 35 years who rescued me from this moron, child abusing, family I had the misfortune to be born into. And if I know these scheming conservative game players correctly, Palin's exit will be blamed on something Michelle Obama said about Christmas or some equally absurd and vicious zinger....matrix-evolutions

Mrs. Ruth and Dr. Peter V. Calabria
Lubbock, TX

[Dwayne S.]

You left wingers are complete embarrasments to the human race. The left is what is wrong with America, you people should quit drinking the Kool-Aid!!!!! Guns, Freedom, Private Healthcare and Pro-Life.

[Neal]

So let me understand this correctly. Barack Obama would be the devil incarnate, whatever that means. Sarah Palin is a heroine performing the work of God.

Can we safely conclude then that God is voting Republican? What precinct?

[CincyCapell]

Dwayne has a 6th grade education.

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