Name your ism: Marxism, Communism, Socialism, Capitalism, Obamaism, etc

Bump!

“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as
sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and
public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.”

Quote by: John Adams
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
Source: Defence of the Constitutions of the Government of the United States

81 posted on 07/26/2008 5:30:12 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)

It is about winning the war we are in

The American ideal is so antithetical to so much of the world that we have to weigh the benefits of going it alone vs. taking drastic measures to converting others to our way of thinking.

The power we possess is unfathomable to many societies that wish us ill. So be it. What should scare them is when we decide to become like them. All the King's horses, and all the King's men-- well, we have them and it wouldn't take long for us to enslave the world's populations in such a way as they, themselves, seem to be asking.

This war gets won when individuals triumph over the state- be it government, religion, whatever.

82 posted on 07/26/2008 5:45:40 PM PDT by budwiesest (Tribes are cool, but individualism is the rule.)

To: AmericanInTokyo

You can see all that from Tokyo? Huh. I predict McCain will win. We’ll see who’s right.

83 posted on 07/26/2008 5:53:29 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)

To: Jim Robinson

84 posted on 07/26/2008 6:01:08 PM PDT by gunnyg

To: Jim Robinson

Make that....No ism But Americanism!

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1017947/posts

85 posted on 07/26/2008 6:03:16 PM PDT by gunnyg

To: AmericanInTokyo

Come here and say that.

86 posted on 07/26/2008 6:06:49 PM PDT by Lady Jag ( I dreamed I surfed all day in my monthly donor wonder bra - https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)

To: rabscuttle385

Because people seem to be getting the U.S. confused mit dem Vaterland.

87 posted on 07/26/2008 6:10:36 PM PDT by Lady Jag ( I dreamed I surfed all day in my monthly donor wonder bra - https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)

Here in America we can play the game of politics, mud sling and deride the candidates not of our choice, and then exercise that great American right to vote for whomever we please, even though he might not be the best man for the office. We will not lose our freedom by so doing.

BUMP to more Americanism!

88 posted on 07/26/2008 6:12:59 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." Ronald Reagan)

Thanks for the additional comments. I know where you are coming from. Take care.

89 posted on 07/26/2008 6:14:54 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I'm a non Soros non lefitst supporting maverick Gang of 1, who won't be voting for McCain.)

To: budwiesest; calcowgirl

This war gets won when individuals triumph over the state- be it government, religion, whatever.

BUMP!

90 posted on 07/26/2008 6:15:29 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." Ronald Reagan)

91 posted on 07/26/2008 6:16:20 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I'm a non Soros non lefitst supporting maverick Gang of 1, who won't be voting for McCain.)

To: Norman Bates; AmericanInTokyo

I predict McCain will win.

I don't know who will win. Anything can happen between now and November 4. Openly pondering who will win is pure speculation for now.

92 posted on 07/26/2008 6:18:00 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." Ronald Reagan)

"Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen - a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world."

Only a citizen of the world?

Can you believe that he would discriminate against other worlds in the Universe like this?

Doesn't he think they need CHANGE too, or is it that he just doesn't care?

Is he secretly a closet anti Extra-Terrestrial?

93 posted on 07/26/2008 6:28:08 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.)

Like the Clintons, Obama is ravaged by psychoses.

94 posted on 07/26/2008 6:43:29 PM PDT by Lady Jag ( I dreamed I surfed all day in my monthly donor wonder bra - https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)

To: rabscuttle385

Anything can happen but we have the advantage. We hold our convention last, we have better VP picks to choose from, our candidate is more experienced, their candidate is less experience than anyone since Wilkie, and we have a LOT of ammo on Obama (past uberliberal voting record, Wright-Ayers-Rezko-Farrakhan part II).

95 posted on 07/26/2008 7:18:34 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)

To: Norman Bates

...we have a LOT of ammo on Obama...

Still, McCain should tread softly. He has a tendency to hand the liberals ammo that they then turn around and use on him.

96 posted on 07/26/2008 7:23:37 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." Ronald Reagan)

I know. I should have resisted.

Long ways to go till perfect.

97 posted on 07/26/2008 7:38:56 PM PDT by Quix (key QUOTES POLS 1900 ON #76 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2031425/posts?page=77#77)

To: Jim Robinson

Obama's Posters: Message in the Image
By Peggy Shapiro
April 15, 2008
The American Thinker

There is something unsettling and very familiar in the Obama poster campaign which has plastered his image over the country. The posters depict the same graphic closeup of the candidate with one block word either "Hope," "Change" or "Progress" at the bottom. I knew that I had seen this before, and then it came to me that this image appropriates the graphic style of totalitarian Soviet propaganda. It recalls the idealzed portraits and personality cult of Obama the "Beloved Leader" such as Stalin and Lenin. The leader, face illuminated by a "holy" light, looks off to the horizon and sees the truth that is not available to his mere mortal followers, who must look up to his image.

The one-word message offers a simple (simple-minded) promise of a utopian existence. These stenciled words bring to mind They Live, a 1988 film, in which secret alien gods take over Los Angeles and control the inhabitants by subliminal billboard messages which display the word "Obey." Coincidentally or not, the website for the artist, Shepard Fairey, who designed Obama's posters is called Obey and boasts on its homepage, "Manufacturing quality dissent since 1989," and the artist bills himself as an agent of "worldwide propaganda delivery."

Perhaps the common ground between Obama and Fairy is not only technique, but message. Fairy's other work romanticizes revolutionary/terrorist figures. Obama's association with figures such William Ayers, who boasted of a dozen bombings between 1970 and 1974, has been reported often. Obama was among only 22 Senators who opposed an amendment designating Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps a foreign terrorist organization. (Unlike the other 21,however, Obama missed the vote.) Fairy's art also reflects a common theme of the Obama campaign: America is a nation that oppresses. It is the America in which Obama's wife Michelle can take no pride and that Obama's spiritual advisor damns. It is the vision of America and its place in the world by one who is unfamiliar with history and who has the luxury of American freedom to express his distain for the country.

What is then unsettling about the Obama poster campaign is that it may be perfectly suited for a man whose candidacy is based on a personality cult, who promises overly simplistic remedies for complex issues, and who seems to have more respect for America's critics than for the nation he hopes to lead.

98 posted on 07/26/2008 8:03:51 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL

I’d sure like to see the boss hold forth on these threads he starts . . . ongoingly. I think he could stir up a lot of improved understanding and perspective.

99 posted on 07/26/2008 8:46:16 PM PDT by Quix (key QUOTES POLS 1900 ON #76 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2031425/posts?page=77#77)

You and me both heh heh heh... ;-)

100 posted on 07/26/2008 9:55:27 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I'm a non Soros non lefitst supporting maverick Gang of 1, who won't be voting for McCain.)

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