Gerald Ford- I am pretty sure nobody thought he might be the AntiChrist.
Who else?
1-43
1 thru 42.
The right wing thought Clinton (42) was.
Wow, just googling the names of democrats* and antichrist, it looks like FDR, JFK, LBJ, and Carter are all the antichrist (strangely, Carter is called the antichrist recently, I dunno about when he was president).
I don’t really see much mention of Truman or Wilson being the antichrist, but I didn’t search very deeply.
*Just going from experience, the right seems more likely to use the antichrist label.
But the first president of the “past century” was No. 26, Theodore Roosevelt (R-One of the good ones.)
People think CARTER is the Antichrist? I’m not sure whether that’s hilarious or pathetic.
Pathlarious?
Hilarthetic?
I very distinctly remember some corn-pone bible-thumper asking Carter in a press conference of some sort something along the lines of “When will you stop leading this country away from Jesus?”
You don’t remember the period right after Ford pardoned Nixon?
I can’t say that no presidents were considered the antichrist by someone, but prior to the 80s, the people who thought so were considered pathetic nutjobs with a weak grasp of reality.
After the 80s, they were considered the base of the Republican Party.
I would have voted for Adlai Stevenson (had I been old enough to vote), but I hardly imagine anyone thought Eisenhower was the anti-christ. He made mistakes (who doesn’t) and was the ultimate cause of the US getting tied up in Vietnam, probably his worst error. He was afraid to tangle with McCarthy, but so were lots of people. But I never heard of him called evil.
I remember when Reagan came to power, people were convinced that old Ronny was going to nuke the planet but good. Then when it was revealed that the number of letters of his full name -Ronald Wilson Reagan- came out to 666 (!) we were sure that it we was just a matter of time.
Damn- I wrote a post about Jimmy Carter…
In the 1970s, a hoaxster named John Todd aka Lance Collins/Collyns was touring fundie churches, claiming to be a defector from “The Illuminati Grand Druid Council of Thirteen”, and that Carter indeed was chosen to be the Anti-Christ.
The reason I set this thread up is that people seemed totally shocked about the Obama=AntiChrist accusations, as if no President has ever been so accused.
The first one was probably Thomas Jefferson. If no one directly called him the AC, saying that he would conscipt “our sons as the dragoons of Marat and our daughters as the concubines of the Illuminati” is right next to it.
The nutcase who said that- Timothy Dwight, at the time President of Yale.
Eisenhower’s worst error was the overthrow of the Iranian government which led to the Shah which led to the embassy hostage situation which led to the current situation in Iran and a lot of the problems in Iraq. Other than that he did a bang up job. Still don’t see why anyone would think of him as the anti-christ, but I think you have to be more than a bit of a fruit loop to believe in that stuff anyway.
Eisenhower was asked in an interview in 1961 if he had made any great mistakes as president. He replied “Yes two, and they are both sitting on the Supreme Court.” (Warren and I believe, Brennan are who he was referring to)
People are more shocked that it’s so widespread, I think.
I don’t think it’s all that widespread. It’s just that the Internet makes everything so available.
Name one well-known Christian who has said that Obama may be the AntiChrist.
The worst I’ve seen are two people suggesting that there are similarities- Hal Lindsey and Victoria Jackson, not exactly prominent respected personalities any more.
Instead, there’s a flurry of no-name bloggers & anonymous e-mailers who mangle Bible passages & facts about Obama so badly, I’m not sure a lot of them didn’t start as jokes.
Most of the ones I’ve seen have taken the tack of saying they don’t neccessarily believe Obama is THE antichrist but they are sure that he is AN antichrist. Apparantly there are a bunch.