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No it does not prevent the use of analogies. However, the analogies must be accurate in the comparisons they attempt to draw. Likewise, legitament comparisons would be most welcome. However, when you jump into an ongoing discussion about an issue surrounding President elect Obama's social agenda with a comment like, "Well Bush killed hundreds of thousands in his unjust war" all you have attempted to do is derail the discussion. Likewise, in this thread asking if President Bush moved the country more toward a Socialist agenda or not has not bearing on the President-elect Obama's political positions, philosophies, or ideas. Obama either is or is not a Socialist regardless of the actions of President Bush. Finally, the answer for your concern here is for you to start your own threads on the subjects you'd like to discuss. But you don't seem to want to do that.

 

Great post. I agree fully with your assessment. Likewise, since President-elect Obama is clearly a Socialist (in his stated political positions, political philosophies, and political ideas) I see no reason why it would be unacceptable to refer to him as a Socialist.

 

So why do you two have such knee-jerk reactions when we refer to President elect Obama as a Socialist if you openly agree with his stated support of a Socialist aganda?

 

That is not the extent of Socialism that has been discussed in this thread and/or the "President Elect Obama Marxist?" thread which spurred this one. You two simply tried to limit the discussion to those two points here within the last page or so. There is no question that the Moderate/Liberal RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) and the Liberal/Socialist Democrats have sold this nation down the river of failed western European Socialism. It is an economic cancer that eats away at the heart of a nation by causing its people to become dependent on the government for their very existence. It is the antitheist of everything our forefathers sacrificed, fought, bled, and died for in order to bring this nation into existence. I will never give in to the Socialist agenda and will fight against it where ever I see it taking root. But, please feel free to go stand in line for a government hand out if that is what you prefer.

 

Hello Jim,

With all due respect I must point out that the poster's signature that you reference here is not directed at you in any way, shape, or form. It specifically is speaking about President-elect Obama. No one has called you any name or attached any label to you (other than yourself by calling yourself a Socialist). So you really need to drop this line of argument. Likewise, if you have a personal problem with that poster's signature you need to address it directly with that poster in private as Matt. 18:15 instructs and stop waving your laundry out here for all to see.

 

No. I have told you repeatedly that I am not a moderator of this specific forum; however, I am a moderator on the Baptist Board as a whole. What does this have to do with my post you quoted above or the topic of this thread?

 

There is not a dime's worth of difference in the stated political positions, political philosophies, amd political ideas between Mrs Clinton and President-elect Obama. Likewise, V.P.-elect Biden's name appears along side Obama's on everyone of his proposed plans, at his official website which happens to be in near lockstep with the Communist Party USA's "Bill of Rights Socialism." So there are the two highest ranking members of the Obama Administration who are also Socialists.