Deinoia

Lefties will never be done playing the race card.  But they've evidently decided to let the powder burns on their faces from the most recent self-directed explosion of their assumptive nominee heal for a spell, and go back to the "religion card" instead - sort of:

Perhaps the most puzzling scene in the ad is an altered segment from The Ten Commandments that appears near the end. A Moses-playing Charlton Heston parts the animated waters of the Red Sea, out of which rises the quasi-presidential seal the Obama campaign used for a brief time earlier this summer before being mocked into retiring it. The seal, which features an eagle with wings spread, is not recognizable like the campaign’s red-white-and-blue “O” logo. That confused Democratic consultant Eric Sapp until he went to his Bible and remembered that in the apocalyptic Book of Daniel, the Antichrist is described as rising from the sea as a creature with wings like an eagle.

Just for reference, here's the McCain ad Team Hussein is combing through like Tom Hanks does the Scriptures in the Da Vinci Code - and also finding a load of ludicrosities borne of his own twisted imagination:

Anybody not desperate to find hideous subliminals between the lines and not given to playing records backwards at 78 speed sees the theme of "The One" quite without difficulty: it ridicules the roaring idolatry of Obamanation and, via humor, points out the grave dangers of entrusting the power of the presidency to somebody who sees himself in that "heavenly" light.

Democrats, by yawning contrast, interpret "The One" as John Sith McCain trying to "signal" (wink wink, nudge nudge) the evangelical voters he spurned eight years ago and cannot win without this time 'round that Barack Hussein Obama might - just might! - be [ominous musical crescendo] the Anti-Christ.  You know, as predicted in divine future history.  Which, even if it were true - and anybody who knows anything about the predicted signs that will identify this man when he arises already knows disqualifies BO from that lineup - wouldn't be necessary to turn them against the Chicago Cherubim (since they presumeably already have) and wouldn't appear to do much to directly mend fences with them.

Just imagine - all this convoluted conspiracism from people who fingered George W. Bush as the "Beast" a long time ago.  One wonders, as Dr. Fraser Craine once asked Cliff Claven, what color the sky truly is in the liberal world.

Or in the quantum reality that produces polls like this one:

For the most part, the various faith communities of the U.S. currently support Senator Obama for the presidency. Among the nineteen faith segments that The Barna Group tracks, evangelicals were the only segment to throw its support to Senator McCain. Among the larger faith niches to support Senator Obama are non-evangelical born again Christians (43%-31%); notional Christians (44%-28%); people aligned with faiths other than Christianity (56%-24%); atheists and agnostics (55%-17%); Catholics (39%-29%); and Protestants (43%-34%). In fact, if the current preferences stand pat, this would mark the first time in more than two decades that the born again vote has swung toward the Democratic candidate.

Not to be presumptuous about my ability to look into the hearts of the purported "brethren" of the "Christian" portion of these "various faith communities," but there isn't any such thing as a "non-evangelical (i.e. fundamentalist) born-again" Christian.  To be "born again" is to become an "evangelical" by definition.  Which ought to give you an idea of the degree of confidence I have in the Bama Group's grasp of hermaneutics.  They would have been more accurate to lump the "non-evangelical Christians" into one category and rename it "non-agnostic/atheist apostates," which would spare the reader the grossly negligent conclusion drawn at the end of the aforequote.

On the other hand, it would supply a practical reason why Maverick would want to spook "non-evangelical born-agains" into believing Lucifer is Satan Incarnate.

Next on the Donk paranoia smear parade: Georgian President Mikhil Saakashvili provoked a shooting war with Russia that devastated his country not to regain control over the two "breakaway" Georgian provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia but as an in-kind foreign campaign contribution to John McCain!

Hey, it'd be a lot more meaningful and sacrificial than '>Barry globetrotting with the Third Batman.