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Obama As Plague?

By The Daily Dish
May 12 2008, 1:19 AM ET

As his nomination and potential presidency loom larger, the opposition in some quarters gets weirder. Novak:

According to this activist, at the heart of the let-Obama-win movement is longtime Virginia conservative leader Michael Farris -- the nation's leading home-school advocate, who is now chancellor of Patrick Henry College (in Purcellville, Va.) for home-schooled students. Best known politically as the losing Republican candidate for lieutenant governor of Virginia in 1993, Farris is regarded as one of the hardest-edged Christian politicians. He is reported in evangelical circles to promote the biblical justification for an Obama plague-like presidency.

The Black Death?



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