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Louis Farrakhan called Obama the Messiah today. And he was serious.

Some Futurists hold that sometime prior to the expected return of Jesus, there will be a period of "great tribulation"[40] during which the Antichrist (Barack Hussein Obama), indwelt and controlled by Satan, will attempt to win supporters with false peace, supernatural signs. He will silence all that defy him by refusing to "receive his mark" on their right hands or forehead. This "mark" will be required to legally partake in the end-time economic system.[41] Some Futurists believe that the Antichrist will be assassinated half way through the Tribulation, being revived and indwelt by Satan. The Antichrist will continue on for three and a half years following this "deadly wound".[42]

Jailed Obama Fundraiser Spills the Beans: Tony Rezko helped launch Barack Obama's political career. But the secrets he might be telling federal prosecutors could send the careers of politicians crashing and burning.

It'll be interesting if this story gets any traction in the liberal press.

Ok...

Here's my question to you.

If this were so and you actually believed it, as a Christian, wouldn't this be cause for celebration? That would mean that the rapture is almost upon us and the long wait for Christ's second coming is finally over.

But no, this is what I find so distasteful about every time ANYONE, right or left tries to use the anti-christ tactic is that they try to use it to SCARE people and to try to derail this so called anti-Christ. Which to me sounds like if they have no faith that they themselves are "saved". If Barack Obama is the anti-Christ, then that IMO would be MORE incentive for Christians to vote FOR him rather than to try to actively stop God's plan.

Or in other words, you right wingers sure are getting desperate..

But no, this is what I find so distasteful about every time ANYONE, right or left tries to use the anti-christ tactic is that they try to use it to SCARE people and to try to derail this so called anti-Christ. Which to me sounds like if they have no faith that they themselves are "saved". If Barack Obama is the anti-Christ, then that IMO would be MORE incentive for Christians to vote FOR him rather than to try to actively stop God's plan.

Congress got drunk on lobbyist moonshine, ran the economy into a tree, and taxpayers got stuck with the bills. The skid marks point directly to a presidential candidate.

Was it John McCain or Barack Obama?

Both. McCain and Obama were involved in separate crashes 20 years apart, with the same result - we sweep up the broken glass.

In 1987, McCain and four other senators in the Keating Five were asked by Charlie Keating, a well-known son of Cincinnati, to intervene with bank regulators who were going after his Lincoln Savings & Loan.

Keating was convicted of 73 counts of fraud and served nearly five years in prison before all but two counts were overturned. He became the face of the S&L mess of the late 1980s. And his close friend was McCain. The McCains visited Keating's vacation home in the Bahamas, and Cindy McCain invested in a shopping center with Keating.

"The Keating scandal is eerily similar to today's credit crisis," with "cozy relationships between the financial industry and Congress," says a new 13-minute video from Obama, "Keating Economics: John McCain and the Making of a Financial Scandal."

Yes, eerily similar. But this time the tracks lead to Obama's cozy relationships. Let's compare:

The Keating Five senators took big donations from Keating, then intervened to block regulations on his bank. They were Democrats Dennis DeConcini of Arizona, John Glenn of Ohio, Donald Riegle of Michigan, Alan Cranston of California; and Republican McCain.

In the 2008 crisis, senators took big donations from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, then blocked reforms that could have prevented trillions in bad debt at the government-backed mortgage buyers.

My nominations for the Fannie Mae Five: Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, No. 1 for taking donations from Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, and who also got special low-interest loans from Fannie Mae's biggest customer; Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., who served on the House Banking Committee overseeing Fannie Mae while his partner was a Fannie Mae executive creating high-risk loans that caused the crash; Franklin Raines, Fannie Mae CEO who made $90 million in five years before he was caught cooking the books; Jim Johnson, Fannie Mae CEO, paid $20 million in one year; and Obama, second in Fannie/Freddie cash after only four years in the Senate.

Raines and Johnson are VIP Democrats and supporters of Obama. Raines said he advised Obama on housing, then denied it. Johnson was so close to Obama, he was chosen to pick a vice president, then dumped because of his scandals.

The S&L crash was caused when lobbyists persuaded Congress to make it easier for S&Ls to take on risky loans.

The latest crash was caused when Congress forced banks to make bad loans to boost homeownership for the poor. When Republicans tried to head off the crisis, Raines insisted that Fannie Mae's shady loans were "riskless." Frank denied there was a problem. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus attacked the regulators for "lynching" Raines.

In 1991, McCain was exonerated by the Senate Ethics Committee, but rebuked for bad judgment. Special prosecutor Bob Bennett said, "I investigated John McCain for a year and a half ... and if there is one thing I am absolutely confident of, it is John McCain is an honest man."

I followed the Keating Five in Arizona and met four of them. Two years ago I interviewed Keating, and asked him about McCain.

"This is a guy I was as close to as anyone," he said, still angry at McCain. When McCain refused to tell the regulators to back off, "I called him a wimp in his office - that was true," Keating said. It killed their friendship and ended McCain's involvement.

Obama says McCain played a "central role" in the Keating Five. And Obama may have a central role in the latest crash. But the press is not asking about his links to Raines, Johnson and the Fannie Mae mess, or his work as a community organizer for ACORN, the radical left-wing group that pressured banks to make bad loans. Obama is still close to ACORN and gave them $800,000 from campaign funds. ACORN is accused of voter fraud in a dozen states, including Ohio.

"ACORN is at the base of the whole mess," wrote National Review's Stanley Kurtz, who has been digging into the story. "And Barack Obama cut his teeth as an organizer and politician backing up ACORN's economic madness every step of the way."

Call it guilt by association or corruption. There's not evidence that McCain or Obama intervened directly. But their cozy relationships are eerily similar.

It's the same story: Congress got drunk and wrecked the economy - and the skid marks point to a presidential candidate.

But there's a difference: The media cops who did thousands of stories about McCain and the Keating Five are taking a detour to avoid Obama.

they've accused McCain of unfairness for being honest.

No, ma'am. He's a decent, family man, a citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues, and that's what this campaign is all about.

I see a lot of references by McCain supporters that Acorn pressured banks to give out bad loans. The banks still had a choice though & I don't see where Acorn had any hand in those bad loans being mixed in with good ones & getting the triple A rating. Shouldn't you really be blaming the banks?

Any wrong do-ing should be investigated of course but at least some of this looks purely politically motivated accusations from the behind in the polls GOP.

the fundamental issues like being friends with terrorists.

did you know that Acorn officials used to go to the bank president's homes and neighborhoods and do things to embarass them if they didn't do what Acorn asked?

do you know who trained these officials?

that is correct my blind friend Hussein Obama.

I have to tell you, he is a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States.

too bad that, according to some people in here, what mccain says can't be trusted.

McCain says Obama is decent. Was he being dishonest?

you should change your user title to whomod's parrot.