[Sundog]

One of the synonyms for Obamaism is Egotism:

Defined by Wikipedia,
Egotism is the motivation to maintain and enhance favorable views of self. Egotism means placing oneself at the center of one’s world with direct concern for no other.

It is closely related to narcissism, or “loving one’s self,” and the possible tendency to speak or write of oneself boastfully and at great length. Egotism may coexist with delusions of one’s own importance, at the denial of others. This conceit is a character trait describing a person who acts to gain values in an amount excessively greater than that which he/she gives to others. Egotism is often accomplished by exploiting the altruism, irrationality and ignorance of others, as well as utilizing coercive force and/or fraud.

Egotism differs from both altruism, or acting to gain fewer values than are being given, and egoism, a determination to gain and give an equal amount or degree of values. Various forms of “empirical egoism” can be consistent with egotism, as long as the value of one’s own self-benefit is entirely individual.

[budwiesest]

The stage in Marxist-Leninist theory intermediate between capitalism and communism, in which collective ownership of the economy under the dictatorship of the proletariat has not yet been successfully achieved.

On some maps, you notice a point labeled: "You Are Here". From this description, this is where I feel we are presently.

Thanks for posting this Jim, the distinctions and degrees matter most.

[Mentos]

Ev’rybody’s talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism

[cruise_missile]

[indcons]

BTTT

Useful thread....I’ll ping our newest ChiCom trolls to this thread. They keep claiming that there’s more media freedom, liberty, and capitalism in China than in the West and N. America.

[4integrity]

Bravo, Jim! All who love America, our system of government and freedom must work very hard so that a socialist is not elected President of our great country!

Hope you are feeling much better!

[rabscuttle385]

RINOism = Obamaism Lite...with less guilt!

[Lady Jag]

So many reasons, so hard to choose.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Of course, you are 100% correct in these analyses.

As you know, my dislike for the policies and eventual cabinet lineup of a President McCain still does not get Obama off the hook for me, because Obama would be every bit as bad, only bringing disaster to us perhaps on a faster pace.

We have such poor choices this year.

I am thinking outside of the box. For me this year, both O(b)sama and McAmnesty are both squarely IN the box.

[VRW Conspirator]

OK students. One more time.

Scale of government control:

<---most--------------least-->

Communist---Facsist---Liberal---Democrat---Moderate---Republican---Conservative---Libertarian---Anarchist

[vharlow]

Jim, personal property and ownership of property are no-no’s in communism, and clearly, in danger in socialism. You didn’t mention these, even though our SC is already convinced it’s ok to take property against the will of it’s owners.... I’m certain Marx/Engels and the communists have plans for your property, so you don’t get to keep it unless they, the annointed, decide you are a good little communist.

[gunnyg]

No ism But Americanism

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051855/posts

[gunnyg]

Make that....No ism But Americanism!

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

[JACKRUSSELL]

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.

[MissouriConservative]

I personally hold the belief of minarchism.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[ramonesfan]

With all due respect, Jim, that whole analysis is so simple minded that you really ought to have your own show on the Fox News Channel. This is Joe Sixpack’s understanding of these -isms in a nutshell. You said it perfectly.