Posted on 05/04/2012 6:46:35 PM PDT by Innovative
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Friday that the Obama campaign's new website - which uses a fictionalized woman named Julia to illustrate how the president's policies help female voters - is "creepy" and "demeaning."
"It suggests that this woman can't go anywhere in life without Barack Obama's government-centered society. It's kind of demeaning to her," Ryan said during a constituent meeting in Wisconsin, the National Review reports. "She must have him and his big government to depend on to go anywhere in life. It doesn't say much about his faith in Julia."
Dubbed "The Life of Julia," the website follows a hypothetical character from age 3 to 67 and provides examples of when she might benefit from policies backed by the president - while suggesting that presumptive Republican candidate Mitt Romney would support policies that might have the opposite effect.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I am sure I am way behind the curve, but this is so ripe for mocking.
Like the 3 year old slide:
Under Obama Julia was born with $50,000 in debt and must start paying a fine if she doesn’t buy health insurance just for the privilege of breathing......
At 67: Under Obama Julia was diagnosed with cancer. Obama’s plans to make our health care like Europe’s means lower survival rates, but Julia is happy to help “bend the curve” and not waste precious resources trying to live. Since she aborted her children for free in her 20’s there is no one to visit her in the the Obama funded old person warehouse....
Love This!!
Unbelievably demeaning. We’ve lost our understanding of freedom and responsibility.
How sad that this horrible stuff even has the potential to generate votes.
Excellent points!
Under the 0bama/Emmanuel complete lives system, ‘Julia’ will be dead the day after her 40th birthday.
From Sparknotes:
“Julia
Julia is Winston’s lover and the only other person who Winston can be sure hates the Party and wishes to rebel against it as he does. Whereas Winston is restless, fatalistic, and concerned about large-scale social issues, Julia is sensual, pragmatic, and generally content to live in the moment and make the best of her life. Winston longs to join the Brotherhood and read Emmanuel Goldstein’s abstract manifesto; Julia is more concerned with enjoying sex and making practical plans to avoid getting caught by the Party. Winston essentially sees their affair as temporary; his fatalistic attitude makes him unable to imagine his relationship with Julia lasting very long. Julia, on the other hand, is well adapted to her chosen forms of small-scale rebellion. She claims to have had affairs with various Party members, and has no intention of terminating her pleasure seeking, or of being caught (her involvement with Winston is what leads to her capture). Julia is a striking contrast to Winston: apart from their mutual sexual desire and hatred of the Party, most of their traits are dissimilar, if not contradictory.”
Hussein's old girlfriend?
As a woman, I’m offended by the notion that a woman’s place is living out her life “UNDER” anyone.
Under Obama? Under Romney?
No.
Here’s the real Julia”
Thanks for the info.
Naming her “Julia” sounds like it could have been an “inside joke” within the PR firm—probably slipped by their editors.
The “joke” would be that the PR firm itself prostitutes itself to any client it can get—even a political campaign that consists of little more than a tangle of lies.
I've always suspected that Obama wanted to be President-for-Life like his heroes Hugo Chavez and Robert Mugabe, but this is the first time he has let the mask slip. Of course the chances of him living to 110 or so (as the slide show assumes) are not likely.
Or, maybe the daughter of Karl Marx? Her middle name was "Julia".
Jenny Julia Eleanor "Tussy" Marx was an influential Communist organizer in the 19th Century (until she commited suicide at age 43).
Why not agrees to out “put down” to clear the space for the young folks.
the website follows a hypothetical character from age 3 to 67
Missing those pesky endpoints. Will "Julia" survive a failed abortion? "Julia and the 0-Care Death Panel".
Maybe Julia is named for Julia, the promiscuous daughter of the emperor Augustus.
Or Winston Smith's mistress in 1984.
Let me be first to say:
“Emmanuel Goldstein’s fault”.
But she doesn't have to marry a man and have kids to be "fulfilled" ..... she can lead a life of government-supported fun, and have fun clothes (from Ross's Dress for Less), and travel, and friends (girls of course), and kittens, and no yard to mow, and free minutes on her Obamaphone having kicky, fun conversations with her friends (girls, of course), and help with the rent, and Obama gasoline for her fun little Obama car .... all on the government nickel, helped out of course by whatever she can make answering phones for the next 50 years. (It'll be 50, dear -- sorry, that's the new retirement math. Sorry, again.)
"Julia" in the movie of the same name. Jane Fonda, Vanessa "Communist" Redgrave. Lillian Communist Hellman's memoir of her girlfriend who died working for the Reds as a spy. How brave, noble, selfless, pretty, lesbihot, ..... and all.
Don't forget the original postcolonial dictator, Communist-supported Osagyefo (bossman) Kwame Nkrumah. I'm happy to report that he died in a people's revolution, his KGB and East German Stasi thugs alongside him -- good riddance.
Then there were Idi Amin Dada, racial hero for humiliating white people in public "spectacles", fond of killing his "enemies" ..... and Jomo Kenyatta of Mau-Mau fame.
And don't forget Raila Odinga, Bammy's got a really special soft spot for Raila, My Brother. He may even have helped Raila with homely chores, like washing the blood of innocent people off his shoes.
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