“The One” ad by Sen. McCain’s campaign.
Does this ad play the God card? Specifically, is this ad an attempt to portray Sen. Obama as some sort of false Christ? An attempt to stir up those to whom Christianity is important by getting them to question if Obama is setting himself up as some sort of savior?
If not, what exactly is this ad attempting? :dubious:
See also this fascinating Time Magazine article.
I think that publicly, they’ll try to say it’s intended to satirize Obama’s “celebrity,” but given the ubiquity of the “antichrist” meme on the internet, I have no doubt it’s intended to convey exactly that kind of coded message, or at least, to encourage those who already believe it.
I also think that McCain’s seething jealousy of Obama’s popularity is eating him alive.
Wow, I think this is a perfect example of using coded phrases and messages that go over the heads of the general population but directly tap into the specific fears/interests/beliefs of a more narrow demographic. And I agree that as sarcasm, it’s half-baked at best. I’m inclined to believe that even McCain probably wouldn’t see or agree with this interpretation, but I also don’t think it’s an accident. :sigh: 
And if that weren’t bad enough, Focus on the Family is up to shit that could be written off as mischievious if it wasn’t so frickin’ hateful and stupid. :doublesigh:
I wouldn’t have believed it was real if I didn’t see McCain’s endorsement at the end. He gets more pathetic with each passing day! It’s sad.
Where will the Republicans stop with: first Obama was a Muslim; then a black Christian separatist; now he’s the antiChrist. What’s next the accusation that Obama is Monophysite, Nestorian? They will probably save atheist for the last month of the campaign.
Didn’t they used to think the antichrist would be a Jew?
In any case, if Obama is the antichrist, they should want to vote for him, shouldn’t they? How can Jesus come back if the antichrist doesn’t get elected?
Isn’t that the same tactic HRC got bashed for? At least hers could be seen as semi impromptu, since it was during a stump, and it wasn’t heavily produced and edited. Didn’t work for her, either.
It’s a little bit the same as what Hillary did (and the McCain ad includes Obama making a joking reference to Hillary’s mockery which the ad tries to pass off as genuine Obama sentiment), but Hillary was really trying to satirize Obama’s own rhetorical style and not instill fear about his popularity.
I think the best way to combat this asinine antichrist thing is to get it out in the open and force Mccain and his surrogates to admit how stupid it is.
Won’t make any difference if they do. It can be assumed that the ad isn’t pointed at people who are likely to vote for Obama; it’s pointed at people who “should” be voting for McCain and aren’t because they don’t like his less than conservative stances on some subjects. So, even if McCain came out and said to everyone, “we don’t mean to paint Obama as the Anti-Christ, and I personally disavow that attempt,” the whispering and out-of-sight efforts to do just that would continue unabated, and unaffected by McCain’s statements because those “in the know” would understand that he has to say that to appease the heathens. :rolleyes:
Criminy, how much did they pay for that? It looked so cheap.
It’s not an official McCain campaign ad, guys. It was put together by a McCain supporter, but not McCain’s campaign.
I mean, Jesus, just WATCH it. It’s quite obviously not an official ad; it doesn’t end the way all McCain ads do. It’s not the right length. It’s amateurish. You didn’t notice this?
Similar to the Paris/Britney Ad, I’ve got to say that this video seems way more pro-Obama than anti-. They’re playing him up as being powerful, intimidating, and popular. That’s just not a path to negative advertising no matter how you play it, I’m sorry.
If Obama understands advertising any, he’s probably laughing his ass off at all the free commercials he’s getting.
It’s you versus Tme Magazine. Who should I believe of the options…hmmm…
I would be laughing too, for the cameras - but I wouldn’t be finding it funny. Not even an atheist likes being called the antichrist much, since it indicates a threat of action by gullible extremist christains against you - in this case by turning up to vote against him. He will feel this in the final vote.
The end of the ad says “Paid for by John McCain 2008.”
If McCain is forced to publicly disavow the idea, though, it might convince those people that he’s not willing to battle the Beast and they’ll stay home.
You did notice the “Paid for by McCain 2008” at the end, didn’t you?
Or it could be a clever ruse to deflect attention from clues thatMcCain himself is the antichrist:
The Time article says the ad is the work of a McCain advisor, not an official McCain campaign production.
It says nothing of the sort. It says, “The ad was the creation of Fred Davis, one of McCain’s top media gurus as well as a close friend of former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed and the nephew of conservative Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe.” That’s not a statement that the McCain campaign didn’t produce it.