Paul Ryan: Obama's 'Julia' website 'creepy' and 'demeaning'

THE HILL ^ | 5/4/2012 | JUSTIN SINK

[bramps]

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.”

[bramps]

I want to relate a very important example of free choice, capitalistic ideas, and the opportunities that exsist in this country. This is a true experience that I lived through and am very proud of. I am a CPA. Have practiced for 55 years. Was sitting in my office one day a few years ago when a young lady called, asked for me and was put through. She had a very strong accent that sounded familiar to me. It was because my immigrant parents sounded the same for years. She was of the same ethnicity and it was the reason she called me. I was the first one in the yellow pages with the same ethnic background. She was looking for a job in accounting. After a few minutes I asked her to come in. To make a long story short, she was a graduate of a University in her native country but didn't know anything about how we carried on in the US. She never saw a tax return nor even knew what I was referring to. I hired her because of her honesty in presenting her knowledge, her willingness to learn, her extreme desire to succeed in this profession. She told me she would be a CPA some day, to which, I'm ashamed to say I laughed at her. It didn't deter her. She asked me one day if I thought she could prepare her friends tax returns after being employed for a year. I replied, "If you don't like them". She had two children, a husband who also had a language problem and she was living with friends. Due to her convictions, intense desire, and hard work, today she is a CPA, has her own business and has a volume that exceed mine and when we met for lunch the other day, she drove off in a new Mercedes. At lunch we laughed at the times early in her employ, but I am astonished at her accomplishment. Her first child just entered the first year of college, no loans, she and her husband own a nice home and she is a very sound addition to this countries economy. That is my anti-Julia story and it benefits this country a lot more than Obama's example of government largess for votes. Amen.

[Liberty Valance]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2880270/posts
Iowahawk: Julia’s Circle of Life

[Joe 6-pack]

Orwell's "1984" was the first thing I thought of when I heard the name of this fictitious composite lady. I know I can't be the only one, but I have to wonder how many people did not make the connection...

[andyk]

This is a good start, but the Republicans need to start getting mean.

[alloysteel]

A similar kind of propaganda was widely used in the Stalinist era in the Soviet Union, when the paragon of the “New Soviet Man” was presented as the ideal for all of Mother Russia’s sons.

Didn’t prevent malingering and drunkennes on the job, though. After all, they won’t shoot EVERYBODY, would they?

Would they?

As it turned out, whole entire villages got just that treatment, and the stories were allowed to be passed by word of mouth as an example to other villages.

[sickoflibs]

[Gay State Conservative]

This is my new tagline....

[Liberty Valance]

LOL!

[Army Air Corps]

As it turned out, whole entire villages got just that treatment, and the stories were allowed to be passed by word of mouth as an example to other villages.

Kinda like picking companies at random and "crucifying" them.

[stormhill]

Heard Rush talk about "Julia" debunking the claims year by year. Of course, the fictional character is not meant literally to live all those years as if no other legislation or conditions will apply in future years.

Actually, Julia is a composite of many people in different stages of life currently enjoying the benefits of...wait, a composite of...now, where have we heard that before?

The pathological bastard strikes again!

[no dems]

This is a good start, but the Republicans need to start getting mean.
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For real. But, they need to grow a pair first.

[rlmorel]

There has been at least one thread I have seen in which the focus was the significance of the liberals choosing the name “Julia” for their subject.

Several of us imagined them yukking it up as they considered it...

[Army Air Corps]

You just described a citizen.
“Julia” is a subject.

[rlmorel]

...the character from Orwell’s 1984.

[wetgundog]

Obamaumau called it “compressing”, like compressing a turd into “dense bull$hit”

[rlmorel]

Many of us believe she is neither a citizen nor a subject, but a slave.

[Army Air Corps]

Quite right.

[Army Air Corps]

She must have him and his big government to depend on to go anywhere in life.

Slavery. That, or the relationship between a pimp and a member of his "stable."

[rlmorel]

Great story.

It is the entrepreneurial aspect of why America rose to such economic heights.

I went to the Super Bowl in Indianapolis last February, and saw such a thing in action.

We didn’t want to drive the entire time we were there, so we began looking at transportation options, all of which were expensive.

The guy running the KOA we stayed at offered us a card. He said the guy in a black SUV dropped off a bunch of cards, which offered to take us somewhere for forty bucks when the same official options (taxis, limos, etc) were sixty or more.

Well, he was from Texas. He and a friend had rented five new SUV’s, drove them up from Texas and were driving for a top beer manufacturer, but they had a lot of downtime, so they were filling it with their own work. (They just had to drop everything else when the beer company called)

They were making damn good money from what I could see. We kept his team on speed dial, and they never let us down.

They were so enthusiastic about the success, they were going to get fifteen vehicles for the next Super Bowl.

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