'Left Behind' authors: Obama is not the antichrist

Fred Clark at slacktivist, your source for all things Left Behind, reports on McCain's clumsy attempt to woo Rapture-ready evangelicals:

The point of the ad — the entire and only point of the ad — is to suggest that Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate for president, may be the Antichrist warned against in the pages of Left Behind. Take that message away and you're left with nonsense. Without the Barack Obama = Nicolae Carpathia subtext, the ad would consist only of something like "he's a famous leader ... but is he ready to lead?" Hunh?

Sadly for McCain, the Left Behind authors aren't playing along:

"I've gotten a lot of questions the last few weeks asking if Obama is the Antichrist," says novelist Jenkins. "I tell everyone that I don't think the Antichrist will come out of politics, especially American politics."

All McCain's left with is a broken dog whistle.