While it’s probably a bit of a stretch, I always thought the “Obama as antichrist” argument had some truth to it, albeit not in the way that most people were addressing it through etymological torture, etc. Consider how much of a sense of “salvation” and “delivery” a lot of people placed on Obama, even though he really had done nothing before his election to demonstrate any capacity to satisfy these expectations. Also, consider this from the Catechism: “The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.” (CCC, 675) and “The Antichrist’s deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatological judgment.” (CCC, 676) Obviously, Obama did nothing to play down those expectations and instead encouraged them through his pseudo-cult of personality.
In other words, Obama acted in an antichrist-ian way by trying to glorify himself as an earthly delivery of salvation, something which was hardly discouraged by many of his followers.
