Turns Out Socrates is Unavailable

If you’re not near a TV, let me give you the news. John McCain hasn’t picked a running mate yet, or at least he won’t say who it is. He was supposed to tell us today at 11 a.m. The problem? Barack Obama made his announcement by text message. John McCain chose Pony Express.

The waitresses and bartenders appreciate your tips, folks.

I couldn’t resist.

I’m completely creeped out by Obama’s weird Acropolis stadium set. Have you seen this thing? They put phony Greek columns up at Invesco Stadium, and I guess Obama is going to come out with a bronze sword and slay Polynices.

Does anybody remember Wag the Dog? I don’t. But I recall this much: it was about a President in trouble, who tried to save himself by hiring movie people to fake up the news. Do you get the feeling the Obamas may own the DVD?

I guess it makes sense that Obama is promoted like a movie star, and that he’s surrounded by actors and musicians all the time, while McCain is lucky if he can get Pat Boone to send him a non-alcoholic beer on Facebook. We are gradually learning that there is a conservative entertainment counterculture with more than a few prominent members. Problem is, if they go to Minneapolis, they’ll all end up unemployed. Because Hollywood and the music business want to be diverse, and as we all know, “diverse” means “free of conservatives and Christians, regardless of color.”

As I have noted before, if you take a group of white male liberals and add a black female conservative, the group actually becomes less diverse. It’s like conservatives and Christians are the antimatter of diversity. Or something.

Condi Rice is a white man. Get used to it. Colin Powell used to be white, but since he turned on the Republicans, he has browned up nicely.

As a Christian, I continue to be bummed out by two things. The right’s abandonment of Christian (or Judeo-Christian) values, and the anti-Christian undertones of the Obama phenomenon. This guy runs around with an idol in his pocket, and the idol just happens to be a demigod which has been characterized credibly as the Hindu Antichrist.

For a long time, I’ve believed there are people who succeed beyond reasonable expectations, simply because dark spiritual forces help them. Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Oprah may be examples. Also Hitler and Castro. By the way, if you think I’m picking on Oprah, find out what she’s up to. She has hitched her wagon to a pop-culture faux Messiah named Tolle. And she says there are all sorts of paths to salvation, not just the one which Christians accept. That’s anti-Christian. Take the hyphen out, and what do you get? Furthermore, “anti-Christian” contains the letter “T,” which rhymes with “P,” which stands for “pool.”

I never saw an obscure reference I could resist.

We usually use the term “antichrist” to describe a unique person we think will rule in the future. But I believe there are lots and lots of people who are “anointed” by evil to prosper in this world and influence people negatively. Is that crazy? I know I’m not the only one who believes this. And I worry that Obama may be one of these people. He’s a nobody, with no qualifications for the job he wants. And he had very powerful competition for the job, in the form of Hillary Clinton. But he squashed her effortlessly. On top of that, the press is so giddy over him, you can’t help but wonder if something spiritual is clouding their judgment. Chris Matthews said Obama made a tingle run down his leg! Is that something a person says, when he’s in his right mind? THREE network anchors went on a press tour with Obama. How can a thing like that happen, without generating a wave of firings? It’s inconceivable. But we all saw it.

He also spent twenty years at an anti-Semitic church. I don’t differentiate between anti-Christian and anti-Semitic. To me, it all seems to come from the same place, whether you’re talking about Pharaoh killing the Hebrew firstborn or Muslim fathers murdering their sons for accepting Christ. Increasingly, events bear out my impression. The same people who hate Jews, now hate Christians and America. Like I always say, these days, we are all Jews.

Even Christian churches are anti-Christian now. Many of them tell us to divest from Israel. Many say God is just a pleasant idea that will help us behave. Crazy. We have moles in pulpits.

The Greek Obama motif is bothersome, because in the past, the struggle between Jehovah-worshippers and the rest of the world has often been characterized as a struggle against Hellenism, or against Rome. To a person like me, who sees everything as a symbol, the Greek set is like a punch in the face.

Of course, we have to be fair. When the actual Parthenon was built, John McCain cut the ribbon.

Sorry. I see why Jay Leno does this. It’s so easy.

I don’t think people who are promoted by evil know what’s going on. I don’t think Oprah wakes up every morning and thanks Satan for a chance to send more people to hell. And I would be amazed if Obama had bad intentions, beyond the usual desires for wealth, adulation, and power. I doubt that religion means much to him. When he was young, he knew he wanted to be a politician. So he did two things politicians have to do. He got married, and he joined a church. Much as many conservative politicians have done. But his meteoric and unmerited rise to prominence is freakish, and I don’t think things like that happen without supernatural action.

I am afraid Obama will hurt Israel, by weakening support. I am afraid he will strengthen judicial attacks on Christianity by appointing far-left freaks to the federal bench. And I fully expect him to push us in the direction of socialism, which is a system that has always been anti-Christian. He’ll probably do what he thinks is best, most of the time, but he’ll be completely wrong.

Sometimes I get the impression that this is a pivotal election. It’s as if God is giving us a choice between a fairly normal politician with relatively old-fashioned values, or a guy who represents humanism, immorality, and pride. More obviously than Bill Clinton did. It has the smell of a test.

I think John McCain will be President this time next year. I don’t think we’ve gone crazy enough to elect a man who has never held an executive position, and who pals around with anti-Semites and unrepentant terrorists. My guess is that once the ads start running full-force and people learn what Obama is all about, McCain will be in position to win by four or five percentage points.

But it disturbs me that Obama could get this close to the Oval Office.

I pray for the McCain campaign. If this is a spiritual battle, we have to fight it on a spiritual level. That’s how I see it. I would suggest you do the same. The Bible says God chooses the king. So cast your vote.

Some New Species of Barackteria

It’s not Sondra, but it’s on her blog.

This is exactly what I thought of when I saw the Greek columns.