Mayor 'just curious' if Obama is antichrist
By STUART WATSON / NewsChannel 36
SWatson@WCNC.com
Posted: Sunday, Sep. 28, 2008
FORT MILL, S.C. -- Fort Mill Mayor Danny Funderburk says he was “just curious” when he forwarded a chain e-mail suggesting Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama is the biblical antichrist. “I was just curious if there was any validity to it,” Funderburk said in a telephone interview. “I was trying to get documentation if there was any scripture to back it up.”

Funderburk apparently sent the e-mail from his business account at Gastonia Sheet Metal where he works as a business agent.

The e-mail, which has circulated in the last six months since Obama secured the Democratic nomination, claims the biblical book of Revelation says the antichrist will be in his 40s and of Muslim ancestry.

There is no such scripture. And Obama is not a Muslim. But that hasn’t stopped the e-mail.

The urban legend Web site Snopes.com first exploded the myth in March. Funderburk forwarded the e-mail this month.

When asked if he believed Obama was the antichrist, Funderburk replied, “I’ve got absolutely no way of knowing that.”

Funderburk said it “probably does give that impression” that he believed the e-mail was true “but that was not my intent.”

The mayor said it was a mistake not to include a subject line when he forwarded the chain e-mail.

“I am curious about current events and their connection to the Bible,” he said.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/104/story/220041.html

He has no way of knowing if Obama is the anti-christ or not?

Give me a break.

Slander...pure and simple.

yeah don't you just love these stinking slander bombs going around.

What's really sad is that they do affect some peoples votes.

It's not only sad, it's scary.

they absolutely do work

there are a LOT of uninformed people who believe what they hear

it's kinda like the old "Do you beat your wife" question. And the next morning the headline says "Candidate denies beating wife"

What an outrageous claim...

He is a man... Nothing more... Nothing less.

The depths to which some people are willing to go astounds me.

hahahaha how many people swear that Bush is the antichrist?

and I don't hear anyone saying THAT is outrageous

I did...

Any claim either to be christ or to be the anti christ is rather silly.

It is amazing what nonsense gets generated on the internet.

I've honestly never heard that one.

I posted it on my way to bed, I thought it was ironic that I got that story after the McCain is the antichrist post from a few days ago.


I also thought it was funny, the mayors response to being called out about it was so meek. LOL.

I heard from a neighbor who's son works for a construction company that worked for McCain that he keeps an alter in his basement that is dedicated to the Cookie Monster!

haha

People love gossip, they want to think they have inside information and they are afraid of the unknown.

Political hacks know that and play to it with this sort of crap. It's disgusting and disheartening.

Really, I heard that McCain had moonlighted as a stunt man for Gollum from the Lord of the Rings trilogy.