Let’s Talk About Obamunism


By Marilyn Mackenzie
As I was going through my emails the other day, I ran across one that used the term “Obamunism”. Now, anyone who knows me here at Gather knows that I was among those who worried about Obama becoming President because of all the ideas he had – like playing Robinhood and stealing from the “rich” to give to the “poor.” But in all of the discussions in which I took part – here and on other forums – I never heard anyone used the term “Obamunism.”
The writer of the email I received and a few others where I’ve researched about “Obamunism” seem to think that the term was actually first used by one of Obama’s czars. If that’s true, it’s not very smart on the part of the czar, at least in my opinio

Here’s part of what the email that I received said:

Despite recent setbacks, the free-market revolution unleashed by Ronald Reagan continues to make strides in country after country. Unfortunately, those countries don't include the United States. Here, the trend is towards what has been dubbed "Obamunism," which, if coined by one of his czars, was surely meant as a compliment.
This same economic philosophy used to be known as Carternomics, described by Reagan as: "If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it."
But back to the good news...
Surprisingly, the latest country to show signs of new economic freedom is, of all places, Cuba -- where, according to the Washington Post, "The Cuban government, in its most dramatic reform since [Raul] Castro took over for his ailing older brother Fidel three years ago, is offering private farmers... the use of fallow state lands to grow crops -- for a profit." In fact, it's working so well, they're even thinking about renaming "The Bay of Pigs" to "The Bay of Capitalist Pigs"...
But I digress... Even more surprisingly, the Post didn't include some derogatory qualifier before the word "profits" in the sentence quoted above, perhaps having recently noticed the desirability of "profits" on account of the absence of such a concept from the Post's balance sheet. It's so bad over there, the Washington Post's Facebook account was recently de-friended by the IRS Fan Page.
Maybe U.S. pharmaceutical companies should think about relocating to Cuba. Just being awarded Fidel Castro's personal prescription benefit account would be worth a small fortune. Of course, the Cubans don't call what they're doing "capitalism," just as Obama doesn't call what he's doing "socialism" -- and just as Ralph Nadar doesn't call his hair "Bird's Nestism," Joe Biden's doctor doesn't call his condition "Diarrhea of the Mouth-ism," Nancy Pelosi's plastic surgeon doesn't call her "his annuity," and Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't call it, well, I couldn't really understand what he said...
Instead, Raul Castro is calling it "the new Socialist model." (If they were smart, they would focus on the newest Eastern European models -- but enough about Charlie Sheen.) Which is almost as Orwellian as Barack Obama calling his proposed government takeover of one-sixth of the American economy as an attempt to "foster competition."
And it's not just communist countries like Cuba, China, and Vietnam, noticing the benefits of the free market. Even godless, European social welfare states are throwing off the shackles of socialism. Despite incessant claims that the "rest of the world hates us," Germany just elected a center-right coalition that promised to slash taxes, entitlements, and regulatory burdens on businesses.
Every country in the world is becoming more like America, except America, which is becoming more like Finland.
The email was from Ann Coulter and its purpose was to introduce a newsletter from Mark Skousen, Ph.D. called Forecasts & Strategies. The newsletter is about finances and investments and how to protect your money from the Obamunists.

I’m not in a position to invest money in an investment newsletter at this time, nor to invest money in much of anything. But the idea that someone was calling what’s happening to our economy and our government “Obamunism” peaked my interest. In a Google search about “Obamunism” many of the results were for sites selling t-shirts

The comments on those web sites are interesting:
I guess his Obamunism got him the nod because "hoping really hard" should not be enough to meet the criteria for changing the world. Following the rise of Marxism, socialism, communism, and Barack Obama.
One of the t-shirts being sold said: Obamunism: Work hard. Other people need your money.

The Urban Dictionary has lots of definitions for Obamunism:

1) The high-tax, big government, economic growth-killing, centrally planned economic regime favored by Barack Hussein Obama; essentially the same as Communism and Socialism. Barack Obama, inflicting Obamunism on the US, will raise taxes on capital gains, dividends, social security, medicare and ordinary income, which will destroy incentives to work, save and invest. This will result in less economic growth, less job growth, and as a consequence, less overall tax revenue.
2) A theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole. Obamunism is exactly like socialism except it is newer, shinier and less icky sounding.
3) The new political religion created by our new president Obama.
4) American communism. Due to recent government bailouts, the country is moving quickly towards Obamunism.
5) Communists and Socialists and Marxists of America unite! We finally have a real president who holds our values dear. We support Obama because he wants to nationalize health care, take money from hard-working Americans to give to the poor, and make one class of people. Hooray for communism! Hooray for Obama! Hooray for Obamunism!
6) O-bom-yuh-niz-uh m - Noun – A political ideology whose namesake is Barack Hussein Obama, the 44th President of the United States. It is a potent blend of Socialism and Fascism which is enforced by a network of community organizers, labor unions, trial lawyers, environmentalists, and dominant media corporations. This network derives its power by pandering to a permanent underclass of recipients of countless varieties of government transfer payments. The current agenda of the national Democrat party is rooted in Obamunism.
Of interest: The Urban Dictionary also offers these terms:
Obamobsessed: The ridiculous obsession with President Obama by the American public and the news media.
Obamunist: One who believes in relinquishing freedom to a supreme all-knowing government. And, a person or persons believing in and following Obamunism as new form of governmen
This site about Obamunism has a few videos of Glenn Beck talking about Obama’s czars. (Liberal Democrats who have not heard these should listen to them.) Obamunism
There are lots of other videos posted there and a bit of information about Obama’s mother. It quotes Obama as having said that his mother was “the dominant figure in my formative years. The values she taught me continue to be my touchstone when it comes to how I go about the world of politics.“ The page shows that she was an atheist and influenced by Marxist and communist ideas taught in her classrooms.
That site also provides this link to Pravda’s “American Capitalism Gone With A Whimper”.
Here’s some of that that article said:
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.
True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.
Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.
First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights.
Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish.



To read more, click the link above.



The Uncyclopedia talks of Obama and Obamunism as well. It’s a spoof encyclopedia site. Or is it? How much of this is real?



Obamunism is the worship of the one true God, Barack Obama. Followers of this religion believe in Change, Hope, and Change; they also like having fun and doing stuff. Change and Hope are always capitalized to show reverence, because they are the holy words of Obama.


Fighting Obamunism with Capitalism!

At the Patriotic Dissent page there are articles and stuff to buy. One bumper sticker says: Obamacare, the trillion dollar band-aid.



Then there is this: Down With Obamunism



Part of that article:



From the early 1950s, after federal spending settled down following World War II, until last year under President Obama's neo-socialist revolution, federal spending was stable during those 50 plus years at around 20% of GDP.


Today, after one year, the federal government is 40% larger at about 28% of GDP, a national tragedy in terms of lost economic freedom.


But federal projections show that by 2040 federal spending will soar to close to 40% of GDP, due primarily to the exploding entitlement programs Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.


Dumping Obama's national health care program on top will just make the situation much worse. Add in state and local government spending, and total government spending will be well over 50% of GDP.


Counting the Obama spending increases and the negative effects on the economy from all this Overwhelming Government, total government spending will grow to over 60% of GDP.


If anything even close to this happens, America will be over.





Here’s a story about a young couple who have done quite well selling Obamunism t-shirts and other fare.



The story says that at first they sold one per day during the election campaign in 2008, then as things heated up they sold more than 50 per day.



As of July, 2009 they had sold over $50,000 in Obamunism t-shirts. Good for them! I guess they didn’t need a government hand-out to make a success of something. :-)

The Obamunism Bikini



Enforcing Obamunism

This site talks about the OFA – Organizing for America.


Obama describes OFA as a "grass-roots movement" but OFA is a "project" of the Democratic National Committee.


As Politico reported, OFA will take the 10 million person database built up by the Obama campaign "to mobilize support for the president's legislative agenda."


A visit to the OFA website reveals that supporters are not simply asked to sign up, they are asked to take a pledge. A pledge to support — not the flag, not the constitution, not the country, not even the Democratic party, but Obama and his "bold plan." …


Those who take the pledge are asked to "talk with people about the President's plan" and to "ask them to sign their names to the pledge" in support of Obama's policies.


America has no precedents for OFA, but other countries do.


Did Mitch Stewart, youthful director of OFA, who asks Obama's acolytes to organize "neighborhood by neighborhood" study anything at school about Mao's "Red Guards?


How about Fidel Castro's "widespread system of neighborhood informers"?


Or Hugo Chavez's use of "neighborhood committees"?


Change has come to America, all right. We are in the early stages of a socialist dictatorship.



There is even a YouTube video called Obamunism.



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Obamunism Infects the Washington Times


Obamunism Kills What is Left of the Economy

We can’t spend our way to wealth, and when you’re broke, the worst thing you can do is borrow more money. This is not opinion – this is basic, common sense.

Which Ism Best Describes Obamunism?

Which Ism Best Describes Obamunism?



It is Socialistic because it aims to distribute costs across all demographics by any other means than the free market or any basis for security of private property. If the whole country gets sick enough everyone is supposed to get poor enough to take care of everyone else – always with the notable exception of the elite – who always have their own plans – their own escape hatch. And the government is going to make it all cost less – just this once. The cost factors can also be expanded indefinitely as "advances" in medicine become more and more costly. This is convenient for the government solvers of bigger and bigger problems. A larger government budget tends to have more wiggle room for pork barrel.


It is Fascistic, in that it aims to involve government and business in various combinations in order to control or regulate outcomes – always directing more wealth and power to the centralized authority. The authoritarian consolidation of business and government is the essence of Fascism. It is not allowed by our Constitutions.


It is Communistic, to the degree that it is consistent with the Communist Manifesto. Review the Communist Manifesto if you need to. Then read Ron Paul’s Manifesto. One of these things is not like the other.


Communism has always evolved into some sort of Animal Farm where an Elite makes one set of secret rules for itself and another for the Proles. It is marketed as leveling but results in class envy and class warfare. Human beings naturally tend toward some sort of free market solutions within the context of any economic environment. In prison, anything that is contraband becomes "money." A communist country is a larger version of a prison. You can’t come and go as you please. If you can’t leave your healthcare plan – perhaps it has communistic characteristics?


Are we living in a free country – or is it getting more and more like Animal Farm? Obviously some Americans are more Equal than others. Outcome-based economics of any description can never be made lawful. All of the unlawful isms involve this characteristic to one extent or another. In other words the ends always justify the means. At the core of all their means is the problem of theft by or through government, or mutual plunder as Bastiat would call it.


Once this corrupt government owns healthcare it will be run so poorly that they will be forced to prohibit competition. Monopolies are bad. Government monopolies are worse. Free market competition always embarrasses government-controlled business efforts.


Perhaps those who support the plan should be asked to justify it by recourse to the Constitution, private property rights, individual sovereignty and Liberty. The concept of Equal Protection Under the Law must be abandoned under such a plan. It is also Criminal in nature because it involves taking property from one citizen, by force if necessary, and giving to another who has not earned it. Bastiat maintained that an act cannot be decriminalized merely by changing the perpetrator’s name to "government."



The Rich Abstain from Obamunism



It is unjust to single out a part of your population as either the cause of your problems, or whom you must hit hard to make your life better. We are all people, and all of us are Fallen, and all of us bear our aliquot portion of blame for what has gone wrong and, of course, have our personal responsibility to see that things improve.


To say that “The Rich” benefited under Bush and must now pay under Obama merely means that you are going to unjustly blame some people for things you had a hand in screwing up.


We need to do things – we need to defend ourselves, maintain and improve our common property, succor the poor and helpless…lots of things need to be done.


But to go on a boondoggle of new spending which is entirely designed to pay off political supporters of Obama and his Democrats and demand an allegedly wicked “The Rich” foot the bill is unjust – and, as you can see from our collapsing stock market, counter-productive.


You think you know what the deficit will be for fiscal year 2009? You haven’t a clue, because as the stock market loses value, incomes around the economy drops and thus down goes taxable income…you liberals are massively increasing spending and cutting income off right at the knees at the very moment you need to maximize it.


“Stupid” doesn’t even begin to describe this course of action you’ve chosen. You need to pony up, liberals – stop thinking of yourselves as superior beings who bear no share of what went wrong. You were there, too – you can ignore it all you want, but your Frank and Dodd and Biden and Obama were all there, right at the top of the heap, helping to make the decisions which screwed the economic pooch in the United States.


We have to change – and real change, not the fake change your man Obama is engineering. We need to retrench – cut spending down to the most life and death vital things and cut taxes and regulations on business development which hinder the creation of new wealth.


We’ve lost probably trillions in national wealth over the past year, and the only way we’re going to get out of it is to make it back, again. But this time, with wisdom – not with a phony baloney credit system built on air, but on our making, mining and growing things.


Or, you can put your faith in Obama and hope against hope that, some how, spending money we don’t have will make us rich.


Your choice – and if you choose as I think you will, we conservatives will reap the electoral benefit in 2010 and 2012.



Another video: What do Socialism, Eugenics, and Darwinism have in common? Barack Hussein Obama!



"One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project." - Ronald Reagan






There are so many more examples of web sites about Obamunism. I’m not sure how I missed them before. I won’t again.



When conservatives claim that Obama’s programs are socialist programs, liberals respond with a narrow definition of socialism and say that’s not what Obama is doing or planning. Or they’ll point out that there are already socialist programs in the United States – like our fire and police departments – as if, somehow, two wrongs make a right.



If a conservative tries to show that Obama’s programs are fascist or communist, liberals respond, again, with a narrow definition of those isms and say that Obama’s programs are not that.



The article above that points out how there are parts of Obamacare that are each of these – socialist, fascist and communist – makes an excellent point. And, if Obama’s policies and programs do have parts of each of these, then the term “Obamunism” is one that we should be using.



What Obamuism is, exactly, is difficult to describe and define. What it is not is what our founding fathers envisioned and planned for us. It is certainly not capitalist, and it ignores the Constitution and the Republic that is the United States. One can only imagine that is why Obama studied Constitutional law, so he could find ways to circumvent the Constituion.

Whatever it is , its still better than Bushism!!!1

After all, he is the Chosen one! hahha

Repent!

Quite wrong - by the time Obama is booted out in three years, people will be taking about the good old Bush years when the USA had a president who could stand up to terrorists and the Chinese and others....now you have an empty suit and the people will turn on him when they realize he bankrupted the USA for the next 50 years!

GWB = worst - president - EVER. period. btw, i voted BO. so there. idiots.

You actually admit to voting for Obamanation? Now who is the idiot?
But Obama did follow through with the Stimulus Package set up by Bush, he is keeping the troops in Iraq for as long as Bush would have, he is sending more troops to Afgan - as Bush would have, and like Bush he loves to run a deficit! And Obama has kept that prison open, even though ha has had a year to close it.

Obama: has come back from China wihout even ONE of the concessions he pleaded for - unlike Bush who was tough and respected around the world and would have gotten what he asked for on behalf of the USA.

You voted for Obama? He let terrorists out of the Cuba prison and they helped that underwear bomber almost bring a plane down on Christmas day!

Apparently some don't agree with you.

But I would just LOVE to hear your reasons why Bush was the worst president ever.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100022714/10-reasons-why-george-w-bush-was-a-smarter-world-leader-than-barack-obama/

Excellent article - valid points. But over the heads of a few of the posters here....too many big words