My guess (the sources notwithstanding) was that it was because the last person with that name in the news a lot was Ehud Barak.
Apologies for the bump but here’s a statement from the Obama campaign about the Che thing:
Thanks for that update, Dio. Good to know.
Thanks for the update, Dio.
Meanwhile, over at the “History” Channel they’re running promos for a “documentary” on the Antichrist. How will we know the Antichrist when he comes? The “History” Channel shows us a clip of a thin young politician with close-cropped black hair campaigning. He’s working the crowd while someone waves a little American flag in the background. Cut to a talking head, professorial, sitting behind a desk in his study: “…the Antichrist will be very charismatic, and very persuasive…”
OK, I see what you’re doing there…
You’re shitting me.
Please say you’re shitting me.
Please?
Shit.
Don’t worry…the only people who are going to watch that show and make any sort of connection to Obama are Huckabee and Paul supporters.
I was thinking the same thing - most people that I know that are around my age (pushing 40) just know that he in the guise of Antonio Banderas waltzed with Madonna in “Evita.”
Y’know, I thought I was being paranoid, but sure enough, on talk radio this a.m. there was chatter about Obama-as-Antichrist.
:rolleyes: Hoo boy…
I think the movie totally left out his identity as Che Guevera. IIRC, they totally omitted the identifying info in the Requiem/Oh What a Circus lyrics (“or just a man/who grew and saw/from 17 to 24/his country bled, crucified/She’s not the only one who died!”)
Not that it makes it any less stupid, but that “documentary” was first aired on the History Channel back in 2005, so it wasn’t likely made with Obama in mind. Whether the resemblence has anything to do with why they’re replaying it now, I have no idea.
Yeah, I realize it’s an old “documentary,” but what struck me was the way they assembled the new promo-- to emphasize that the Antichrist would be an eloquent and persuasive politician.
The History Channel has a history of timing its programming to support a conservative agenda. (Over the past few years we’ve been treated to a lot of documentaries about why Saddam was evil and had to be stopped, and how Iran is pursuing the bomb and must be stopped, etc.) I’m quite confident that the Antichrist “documentary” got pulled out of mothballs and repackaged as an indirect attack on Obama.
And, as I mentioned in my last post, it seems to be working-- judging by the “Obama is the Antichrist” chatter I was hearing on conservative talk radio this morning. There was talk of tonight’s “blood moon” (a lunar eclipse) in the wake of Obama’s primary run as a sure sign. :rolleyes:
Obama being multi-racial was also supposed to play into the Antichrist thing, though I didn’t get how that was supposed to work.
OK, you gotta be making this up! Please tell me you’re making this up!
I wish I were. It was on the Glenn Beck show. The hosts were joking around about it and not taking it seriously, but at the same time, they were planting the seeds. And there’s a certain segment of their audience that will take it seriously, and will run with it.
“Lost Control” of his troops, a likely story 
<– smiley indicated the incident wasn’t as black and white as one would believe, but also indicates there is more possible moral equivalence than one might be comfortable with.
Google “Obama antichrist” and you’ll find miles of that stuff.
The Antichrist stuff is, I think, going to be the right wing’s way of trying to turn out religious conservatives this fall. The religious right is very unenthusiastic about John McCain, so the only way you’re going to get them to turn out in force is to convince the more gullible among them that Obama must be stopped!
Ah, the power of SYMBOLS!
Well, if you google “Clinton antichrist”, you get twice as many results. Whoo! Really dodged a bullet there!