A friend has cautioned that in my previous post on the speech of Saruman, some might have interpreted that as comparing Obama to the anti-Christ or the Dark Lord in entirety. I would limit that, however, to the abuse of the gift of speech towards evil ends. Obama says many things which I deem imprudent, but not evil. However, he does say some things that are truly evil, particularly in regard to abortion as an inherent right. Obama has been gifted with an extraordinary ability to speak well and intelligently (as I do not believe that McCain has). Therefore, he abuses this gift when he uses it unvirtuously, both to promote evil ends and to attempt to convince others that this evil end is the right course of action.

-J.