I don’t think Obama meant anything crude with the phrase. And I didn’t think the McCain campaign meant to portray Obama as the anti-Christ, either. Neither of these campaigns are quite as together as critics would like to believe.
UPDATE: I should note that one major difference between the two equally dumb charges is that the Obama campaign didn’t put out an outraged insta-ad over the anti-Christ thing.
UPDATE: Obama is addressing “fake controversy” right now, and doing so with much grace and class, noting that it’s this kind of back-and-forth (or at least “forth”) that makes Americans hate politics. “You know who ends up losing at the end of the day? It’s not the Democratic candidate or the Republican candidate, it’s you, the American people…I love this country too much to let them take over another election with lies, and phony outrage, and Swift Boat politics. These are serious times and they call for a serious debate.”
