Marybeth: Obama ad suggests, “Lose your virginity to Barack”
Two of my four children are voting for the first time in this election. They approach this civic duty seriously – they know voting is a privilege and a right that comes with the responsibility to be well informed about the campaigns, educated about the issues, and decisive about the direction they’d like our country to go.
Knowing the serious conversations I’ve had with Betsy and Jimmy about politics makes me even more disgusted by the new Obama internet ad starring actress Lena Dunham directed at young adults that uses sexual humor to reach new voters. That’s right – they’ve sexed up new voting for young women by comparing it to losing your virginity. (If you thought there was anything liberals won’t sexualize, it’s time to wrap up your naivety in a box and put it on the shelf.)
This is how liberals define female empowerment – brandishing your sexuality to prove you’re uber cool and not a prude. Because hip young women just love to talk about who they’re “doing it” with, right, Mr. President?
It’s insulting to all young adults that the Obama campaign believes they are so easily and transparently manipulated. And it’s the height of condescension to produce a campaign advertisement – in THIS economy – aimed at college-aged women that nowhere mentions the job market, the government’s addiction to deficit spending, or the estimated $51,636 of debt our government has incurred on behalf of each American citizen.
Of course, Dunham isn’t too concerned about the economy. She just signed a book deal with Random House for $3.5 million, in which she’ll dispense more pithy and profound advice to her contemporaries.
Dunham claims she supports women’s rights, which apparently amount to contraception and a hot guy:
“Your first time shouldn’t be with just anybody,” she says, before listing various qualities that ladies should look for in their ideal candidate. Among them: “someone who really cares about and understands women,” “a guy who cares whether you get health insurance and specifically whether you get birth control — the consequences are huge,” and someone who believes that same sex couples should be able to have “beautiful, complicated weddings like the kinds we see on Bravo and TLC all the time.”
“Think about how you want to spend those four years,” she challenges. “In college-age time, that’s 150 years.”
Birth control, the Lilly Ledbetter act (a boon to trial lawyers and NO ONE else), and “doing it” for the first time with Barack. Gross.
Watching with growing repulsion the tactics being employed by the Obama team…this ad is only lowering an already-low bar for civility and respect for women, and the voters of this wonderful country.
this Vedio [sic] is a disgrace to any sane young lady that has an ounce of brains…
My question is does she really remember her FIRST “time”… [Edited to keep it G rated...
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Susan, am sending this directly from the site. Pls share with everyone.
I am sorry for this young woman. She has bought into the liberal lies and too much TV until she has very low self respect! She has given her body as a sex toy! She advertises her low self esteem by the tatto on her arm! “I am loose, come get me!” is her whole message. I don’t think that is what men want to settle down with. I suggest tatto removal!
I find this ad to be the most repulsive, offencive, ad that I’ve ever seen! Tell me why this ad doesn’t tell you who is REALLY waging a war on women? Women have been denigrated, by this party to the lowest level ever! ENOUGH! I don’t want my Daughters, Granddaughters, Nieces,or female friends, to ever think that this ugly, repulsive, demeaning ad, would ever have anything to do with them! They’re ”first time” should be with OBAMA!? There is no mistaking the sexual innuendo here, even a very young girl understands this piece of trash! Again I say, ENOUGH!
If Obama allows this kind of garbage to be used to promote his campaign, then he has given the the word hypocrite a total new meaning. Isn’t he the guy who is constantly talking about “education”, morality, family and other catch phrases in order to appeal to the very parent of the kid in the advertisement?
Lost it to Barack in a voting booth ? Good thing she got to him before he ” evolved ” …
When I heard her name, my first question was, “is she any kin to Obama’s mom?” Just saying.
Excuse me while I go throw up. It sickens me to see the utter lunacy that has taken over my country. Hitler used the youth because they are ignorant and uninformed and impressionable but think they know it all!! obama is doing the same; only he is using blacks and Hispanics as well. The question, then, is: are there more of the ignorant, stupid, misguided, misled sheeple or more of the rest of us who actually care about our great nation and have taken the time to educate ourselves on the real serious issues that are currently plaguing us? I pray we save the day for which “they” will thank us later.
I find the ad repulsive, and in extremely poor taste. If Obummer stoops this low, he is absolutely worse than I thought. The very idea that a dad wih 2 young daughters would approve this ad. What is he teaching his daughters and the rest of the young girls out there. We do not need Barach Obama as our next President. I hope and pray he loses. One would never in a million years find such an ad coming from Mitt Romney, his morals are far above such as this.
Are the people who would approve this type of ad for a potential president really the people we want running this country? I’m sure many in the younger set found it amusing. Sad commentary on the state of our nation. Yuck is right.
This is a perfect example of Obama demonstrating the sleeze ball tatics of an oversexed male teen. Promise anything, tell her what she wants to here and after he gets what he wants he forgets her. Just like all the other promises he’s made. His values make me want to puke.
You ARE a prude. Sexual humor has been a part of political campaigns for over 2000 years. In 60 BC Caesar’s political opponents tried to keep him from being elected consul by bringing up his reported affair with King Nocomedes, calling Caesar the “Queen of Bithynia”
In American presidential campaigns, the venerability of sexual or suggestive humor goes back at least as far as 1800, when the Federalists tried to get John Adams re-elected by bringing up Thomas Jefferson’s affair with Sally Hemmings.
Incidently, both of the above effors failed. Apparently both the American votors and the Romans ones actually appreciated the sexually suggestive humor and voted for Caesar and Jefferson in droves.
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