- The name 'Obama' blends nicely with 'mania' particularly because of the overlap with 'ma' at the end of the former and beginning of the latter. It is also an appropriate new word given the seemingly unprecedented excitement over a political candidate that had not been seen in years. The term is generally but not exclusively used by those critical of Obama's positions and worried about what a politician with that much favor can do.
Obamania
noun; blending
The intense excitement over Barack Obama winning the 2008 Presidential election.
Etymology : A blending of 'Obama,' referring to the President for the 2008-2012 term, and 'mania,' meaning the standard definition: An excessively intense enthusiasm, interest, or desire; a craze (from the American Heritage Dictionary).
Source : 'witness how Obamania has co-opted the counterculture; those who used to wear anti-U.S. Che Guevara shirts now sport the likeness of the next head of the U.S. empire' (http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory172.html 11/20/08).
Last modified: 3 December 2008