There really IS a lot of weird stuff with this guy. You’re right. As a believer, I’m not as certain yet as some other Christians yet that he’s the Beast or if he is a forerunner of the Beast. (He certainly does seem to be the devil’s counterfeit of John the Baptist in preparing the way for someone even worse than himself.) But I truly believe that will be revealed to us, and that he WILL play some role.
I also know, as our Pastor said a couple of weeks back, that Barack Obama will one day have to confess that JESUS CHRIST IS LORD, as all created beings will be confessing those words.