"Sting says President Barack Obama is the best person to handle the world's 'mess'"
"Sting isn't a religious man, but he says President Barack Obama might be a divine answer to the world's problems.In many ways, he's sent from God," he joked in an interview, "because the world's a mess."
But Sting is serious in his belief that Obama is the best leader to navigate the world's problems. In an interview on Wednesday, the former Police frontman said that he spent some time with Obama and "found him to be very genuine, very present, clearly super-smart, and exactly what we need in the world."
"I can't think of any be better qualified because of his background, his education, particularly in regard to Islam," he said.
Ridiculous conspiracy theory: There is a conspiracy afoot to make Obama look like the Antichrist, by outlandishly imputing divinity to him. Taking these grotesque displays of slavish devotion (converting Sunday School songs into paeans to Obama, to be performed in public schools?) into consideration, Christian believers will be more inclined to at least consider the idea that Obama is the Antichrist of the Revelation of John.
Subsequently, poll results will show that a surprising number of American Christians are willing to allow the possibility. (This is actually a sign that the poll respondents are able to apply basic logic. One could only answer such a poll in the negative if one was certain that the negative was true. That is, an absence of relevant evidence results in a default positive answer. One who takes the New Testament seriously would be hard-pressed to conclusively eliminate any powerful person, whatever their political tastes.) Left-wing blogs, followed closely by MSNBC hosts and the New York Times editorial page, will mis-report this possibility as settled belief, thereby collectively marginalizing the country's entire religious population.
An absurd conspiracy theory, yes. But the latter paragraph describes a rhetorical trick of poll interpretation--I predict that one to come true in the next 3 years. The smart money is somewhere in the first 10 months of 2012.
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