Obama’s the Antichrist!

So I received an anti-Barack Obama chain e-mail today. Here’s the full e-mail, fol­lowed by my response. It was fun.

The chain e-mail:

I don’t think Obama is the antichrist, BUT, I don’t care if his skin color is white, black, brown, green, yel­low, orange, pur­ple or pink, color means noth­ing to me. Racial her­itage means noth­ing to me. Whether you are a female canidate or a male canidate, means noth­ing to me. I don’t look at peo­ple that way, and nei­ther should you!  What mat­ters is their char­ac­ter, their heart or what they believe in, and what their issues are. A plant can look pretty and have a beau­ti­ful flower on it, but if it stinks, it’s a weed. 
 
WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!!   DO YOU REALLY WANT A PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY WHO REFUSES TO PLEDGE HIS ALLEGIANCE TO IT?   SOMEONE WHO REFUSES TO SING OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM AND SALUTE OUR FLAG?   ARE YOU REALLY THAT DUMB?  That should have been the first clue. And I’m not just Obama bash­ing, this applies to Hillary, John McCain or any­one else who runs for the pres­i­dency.
 
I truly can­not under­stand how any of our polit­i­cal par­ties or gov­ern­ments (local, state and fed­eral) would even allow a non-loyal Amer­i­can to run for any office at any gov­ern­ment level at all, period!
 
If we want to live in a blessed and pros­per­ous nation, then we bet­ter do it Gods way! All bless­ings come from Him. And besides that, our coun­try was founded and ded­i­cated to God from the begin­ning of this great nation. But it has turned away from God, and look where we’re at now. Yes, it does mat­ter. And if it doesn’t change it’ll get worse. And no politi­cian, gov­ern­ment, or any­thing else will be able to stop it. Only God. Because it’s His way.
 
Laura

[start of prior chain e-mail]
 
Ken Black­well — Colum­nist for the New York Sun

It’s an amaz­ing time to be alive in Amer­ica . We’re in a year of firsts in this pres­i­den­tial elec­tion: the first viable woman can­di­date; the first viable African-American can­di­date; and, a can­di­date who is the first  front-running free­dom fighter over 70. The next pres­i­dent of Amer­ica will be a first.

We won’t truly be in an elec­tion of firsts, how­ever, until we judge every can­di­date by where they stand. We won’t arrive where we should be until we no longer talk about skin color or gen­der. Now that Barack Obama steps to the front of the Demo­c­ra­tic field, we need to stop talk­ing about his race, and start talk­ing about his poli­cies and his politics.

The real­ity is this: Though the Democ­rats will not have a nom­i­nee until August, unless Hillary Clin­ton drops out, Mr. Obama is now the fron­trun­ner, and its time Amer­ica takes a closer and deeper look at him. Some pun­dits are call­ing him the next John F. Kennedy. He’s not. He’s the next George McGov­ern. And it’s time peo­ple learned the facts.

Because the truth is that Mr. Obama is the sin­gle most lib­eral sen­a­tor in the entire U.S. Sen­ate. He is more lib­eral than Ted Kennedy, Bernie Sanders, or Mrs. Clin­ton. Never in my life have I seen a pres­i­den­tial fron­trun­ner whose rhetoric is so far removed from his record. Wal­ter Mon­dale promised to raise our taxes, and he lost. George McGov­ern promised mil­i­tary weak­ness, and he lost. Michael Dukakis promised a lib­eral domes­tic agenda, and he lost.

Yet Mr. Obama is promis­ing all those things, and he’s not behind in the polls. Why? Because the press has dealt with him as if he were in a beauty pageant. Mr. Obama talks about get­ting past party, get­ting past red and blue, to lead the United States of Amer­ica. But let’s look at the more defined strokes of who he is under­neath this super­fi­cial “beauty.”

Start with national secu­rity, since the president’s most impor­tant duties are as commander-in-chief. Over the sum­mer, Mr. Obama talked about invad­ing Pak­istan, a nation armed with nuclear weapons; meet­ing with­out pre­con­di­tions with Mah­moud Ahmadine­jad, who vows to destroy Israel and cre­ate another Holo­caust; and Kim Jong II, who is mur­der­ing and starv­ing his peo­ple, but empha­sized that the nuclear option was off the table against ter­ror­ists — some­thing no pres­i­dent has ever taken off the table since we cre­ated nuclear weapons in the 1940s. Even Democ­rats who have worked in national secu­rity con­demned all of those remarks. Mr. Obama is a foreign-policy novice who would put our national secu­rity at risk.

Next, con­sider eco­nomic pol­icy. For all its faults, our health care sys­tem is the strongest in the world. And free trade agree­ments, cre­ated by Bill Clin­ton as well as Pres­i­dent Bush, have made more goods more afford­able so that even peo­ple of mod­est means can live a life that no one imag­ined a gen­er­a­tion ago. Yet Mr. Obama promises to raise taxes on “the rich.” How to fix Social Secu­rity? Raise taxes. How to fix Medicare? Raise taxes. Pre­scrip­tion drugs? Raise taxes. Free col­lege? Raise taxes. Social­ize med­i­cine? Raise taxes. His solu­tion to every­thing is to have gov­ern­ment take it over. Big Brother on steroids, funded by your paycheck.

Finally, look at the social issues. Mr. Obama had the audac­ity to open a sta­dium rally by say­ing, “All praise and glory to God!” but says that Chris­t­ian lead­ers speak­ing for life and mar­riage have “hijacked” — hijacked — Chris­tian­ity. He is pro-partial birth abor­tion, and promises to appoint Supreme Court jus­tices who will rule any restric­tion on it uncon­sti­tu­tional. He espouses the abor­tion views of Mar­garet Sanger, one of the early advo­cates of racial cleans­ing. His spir­i­tual lead­ers endorse homo­sex­ual mar­riage, and he is mov­ing in that direc­tion. In Illi­nois , he refused to vote against a statewide ban — ban — on all hand­guns in the state. These are rad­i­cal left, Hol­ly­wood , and San Fran­cisco val­ues, not Mid­dle Amer­ica values.

The real Mr. Obama is an easy tar­get for the gen­eral elec­tion. Mrs. Clin­ton is a far tougher oppo­nent. But Mr. Obama could win if peo­ple don’t start look­ing behind his veneer and flow­ery speeches. His vision of “bring­ing Amer­ica together” means say­ing that those who dis­agree with his agenda for Amer­ica are hijack­ers or war­mon­gers. Unit­ing the coun­try means adopt­ing his lib­eral agenda and aban­don­ing any con­flict­ing beliefs.

But right now every­one is talk­ing about how elo­quent of a speaker he is and — yes — they’re talk­ing about his race. Those should never be the fac­tors on which we base our choice for pres­i­dent. Mr. Obama’s rad­i­cal agenda sets him far out­side the Amer­i­can main­stream, to the left of Mrs. Clinton.

It’s time to talk about the real Barack Obama. In an elec­tion of firsts, let’s first make sure we elect the per­son who is qual­i­fied to be our pres­i­dent in a nuclear age dur­ing a global civ­i­liza­tional war.

[start of prior chain e-mail]

Accord­ing to The Book of Rev­e­la­tions the anti-christ is:

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 this anti-christ,.….…..OBAMA??

I STRONGLY URGE each one of you to repost with this email as many times as you can! Each oppor­tu­nity that you have to send it to a friend or media outlet…do it! If you think I am crazy,. I’m sorry but I refuse to take a chance on the “unknown” candidate.

And now, my response (which I sent to every­one who had also received the chain e-mail along with me):

Dear Laura,

Who­ever you are, I hope you are hav­ing a good day. Per­son­ally, I’m hav­ing a great one now because your chain e-mail gave me quite a laugh. I needed that.

> WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!!   DO YOU REALLY WANT A PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY WHO REFUSES >  TO PLEDGE HIS ALLEGIANCE TO IT?

Cite me one exam­ple where Obama has refused to cite the Pledge of Alle­giance. Just one.

Oh, you’re prob­a­bly think­ing of that ONE photo where Obama didn’t have his hand over his heart ONE TIME while stat­ing the Pledge of Alle­giance. Oh, gee. What a trav­esty. Maybe he was tired from cam­paign­ing and a lit­tle absent-minded that day. Maybe his aides give him the wrong infor­ma­tion about what was going to occur dur­ing his speech that day. Who knows. Besides, it’s not like he never puts his hand over his heart — it hap­pened ONE TIME, and the right-wing spin machine is blow­ing it out of pro­por­tion to deflect atten­tion from the real issues of the day.

> SOMEONE WHO REFUSES TO SING OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM

Again, cite one exam­ple where he refused to sing the national anthem. Just one.

> AND SALUTE OUR FLAG?

Obama never served in the mil­i­tary. Per­haps you weren’t aware of this, but civil­ians do not salute the flag. Only cur­rent and retired mil­i­tary per­son­nel salute the flag. But, please, don’t let the facts stand in the way of a good rumor.

> I truly can­not under­stand how any of our polit­i­cal par­ties or gov­ern­ments (local, state and   > fed­eral) would even allow a non-loyal Amer­i­can to run for any office at any gov­ern­ment level > at all, period!

Hey, Laura, Joseph McCarthy called — he wants his rhetoric back.

And now onto the New York Sun op-ed col­umn you sent. This will be fun.

Dear Mr. Blackwell,

> George McGov­ern promised mil­i­tary weak­ness, and he lost.

Way to over­sim­plify, there. Nixon won because he pur­sued the so-called South­ern Strat­egy through which the GOP would take away the south­ern states (and their elec­toral votes) from the Demo­c­ra­tic Party.

> Michael Dukakis promised a lib­eral domes­tic agenda, and he lost.

Dukakis lost because he looked like a buf­foon when he rode a tank. And no New Eng­lan­der has suc­cess­fully ran for pres­i­dent since JFK because more and more peo­ple have been mov­ing south and west — where the votes are.

> Yet Mr. Obama is promis­ing all those things, and he’s not behind in the polls. Why?

Um, because his oppo­nent is a crazy old man who wants to con­tinue the failed poli­cies of Pres­i­dent Bush?

> Over the sum­mer, Mr. Obama talked about invad­ing Pakistan

Wrong, wrong, wrong! Get your facts straight. Obama said the United States should send CIA and Spe­cial Forces oper­a­tives into the parts of Pak­istan that are con­trolled by the Tal­iban and other Islamic radicals.

Really, do you NOT think that the first thing the United States did after 9/11 was to send mil­i­tary oper­a­tives into every Arab and Mus­lim coun­try on the planet? We have had peo­ple in Pak­istan for years.

> meet­ing with­out pre­con­di­tions with Mah­moud Ahmadine­jad, who vows to destroy Israel and > cre­ate another Holocaust

Yes, because talk­ing to peo­ple to con­vince them to change is always a bad thing. Inter­na­tional diplo­macy is a mix of car­rots and sticks. You can’t rely on just one of the two. Besides, the United States and Iran have had under-the-radar meet­ings already. It’s just not official.

And I’ll save the other peo­ple here some time: check out my blog for my com­ments on Ahmadine­jad. In short, he’s all talk and no walk. And you might not know that Ahmadine­jad has no con­trol over for­eign pol­icy in Iran; the supreme leader, the Aya­tol­lah, does. Ahmadine­jad is just whip­ping up hys­te­ria from the anti-Israel crowds before he runs for re-election soon.

And let me tell you some­thing: I live in Israel right now. If Iran fires a cou­ple of nuclear bombs here, I’ll be vapor­ized in about five min­utes. I have to live with the con­se­quences of Amer­i­can and Israeli pol­icy on Iran — I’m not some chick­en­hawk Repub­li­can who lies to the Amer­i­can peo­ple, starts a war, and then leaves the West Wing to go play golf.

And I sup­port Obama.

> For all its faults, our health care sys­tem is the strongest in the world.

Ha! Tell that to the 47 mil­lion Amer­i­cans with­out insur­ance. Israel, where I live, is one of those Com­mu­nist coun­tries with an evil uni­ver­sal health care sys­tem. I can walk into any clinic, show them my I.D. card, and get quick treat­ment and a pre­scrip­tion with­out any fuss. No tests required by an insurer. No out­ra­geous co-pays. Yes, I really hate it.

And taxes aren’t that much higher than in America.

> And free trade agree­ments, cre­ated by Bill Clin­ton as well as Pres­i­dent Bush, have made more > goods more afford­able so that even peo­ple of mod­est means can live a life that no one        > imag­ined a gen­er­a­tion ago. Yet Mr. Obama promises to raise taxes on “the rich.”

That’s a non sequitor. I don’t even under­stand your point. Free trade leads to… tax policy?

> How to fix Social Secu­rity? Raise taxes. How to fix Medicare? Raise taxes.

OK, genius. How would you fix Social Secu­rity and Medicare? Keep in mind that the present value of the future debt owed by the gov­ern­ment equals roughly $43 tril­lon. You read that right: TRILLION. Some­thing must be done, oth­er­wise the United States will be bank­rupt. That means rais­ing rev­enue or cut­ting expenses. Pick one.

Oh, and I just saw another bit at the end of this chain e-mail:

> Accord­ing to The Book of Rev­e­la­tions the anti-christ is:
> 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 this anti-christ,.….…..OBAMA??
>
> I STRONGLY URGE each one of you to repost with this email as many times as you can! Each > oppor­tu­nity that you have to send it to a friend or media outlet…do it! If you think I am        > crazy,. I’m sorry but I refuse to take a chance on the “unknown” candidate.

First of all, have you even read the Book of Rev­e­la­tions? There’s noth­ing in it about the age or reli­gion of the so-called “Antichrist.”

Sec­ondly, one can­not have Mus­lim descent. Islam, like Chris­tianty, is a reli­gion, not an eth­nic­ity. (There are non-Arab Mus­lims and non-Muslim Arabs.) If your mother is a Chris­t­ian, does that make you a Chris­t­ian at birth auto­mat­i­cally? Of course not.

Thirdly, if you actu­ally believe in the Book of Rev­e­la­tions and that Obama is the Anti-Christ, then shouldn’t you be vot­ing FOR him? After all, Jesus can’t come back until the Anti-Christ does his thing.

Have a nice evening, and thank you again for the laugh!

Samuel J. Scott
Ris­hon Lezion, Israel
http://samueljscott.com