{"id":4775,"date":"2012-10-26T11:27:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T15:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=4775"},"modified":"2012-10-26T19:08:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T23:08:21","slug":"obama-campaign-officially-jumps-the-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/26\/obama-campaign-officially-jumps-the-shark\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Campaign Officially Jumps the Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, just wow.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s safe to say President Barack Obama&#8217;s re-election campaign has officially jumped the shark.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what else to say about their newly released ad featuring actress Lena Dunham comparing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2223316\/Outrage-Girls-star-Lena-Dunhams-election-video-paid-presidents-campaign.html\" target=\"_blank\">voting to losing her virginity<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Obama&#8217;s campaign is out with an eyebrow-raising new ad targeting young voters in which\u00a0 Lena Dunham, the creator of the HBO hit series &#8216;Girls,&#8217; compares her first voting experience to losing her virginity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Your first time shouldn\u2019t be with just anybody,&#8217; Dunham, 26, says in the ad. &#8216;You want to do it with a great guy.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Dunham goes on to explain that &#8216;your first time&#8217; should be with &#8216;someone who really cares about and understands women; A guy who cares whether you get health insurance and specifically whether you get birth control.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The consequences are huge,&#8217; she continues.<\/p>\n<p>Dunham wraps up the Obama ad by describing her coming-of-age experience at the voting booth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was this line in the sand,&#8217; she says. &#8216;Before, I was a girl. Now, I was a woman. I went to the polling station, I pulled back the curtain, I voted for Barack Obama.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"595\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o6G3nwhPuR4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I suppose we shouldn&#8217;t be surprised by this ad, Pres. Obama and his fellow Democrats have all but lost the argument on the economy and have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1012\/82912.html?hp=t1\" target=\"_blank\">gone all in on abortion rights<\/a> in effort to try to distract women from their lack of answers on the economy, jobs and national security.<\/p>\n<p>The ad itself is the single most profoundly illogical and sophomoric appeal I&#8217;ve ever seen in American politics.\u00a0 It speaks volumes about the contempt President Obama, and Democrats in general, hold for women. They seem to believe that women aren&#8217;t intelligent or informed enough to see through such tacky rhetoric and will blindly follow them like sheep.<\/p>\n<p>Newsflash: They&#8217;re not&#8230; They&#8217;re every bit as concerned about the economy, jobs and national security as men are.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s sad moment in our history when a sitting president resorts to this sort of tawdry desperation&#8230; it cheapens the office and emboldens all the disrespectful, sleazy misogynists who seek to objectify and degrade women on daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>Shame on you Mr. President, shame on you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Is the Obama campaign taking commercial ideas from Vladimir Putin?\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2012\/10\/25\/is_obama_taking_ad_ideas_from_vladimir_putin\">Is the Obama campaign taking commercial ideas from Vladimir Putin?<\/a> &#8211; Foreign Policy<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.investors.com\/ibd-editorials\/102612-631111-obama-sex-ad-reveals-a-low-opinion-of-young-female-voters.htm?ven=rss&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:%20EditorialRss%20%28Editorial%20RSS%29\" target=\"_blank\">Obama&#8217;s Crass Campaign Ad Shows Contempt For Young Women Voters<\/a> &#8211; Investors.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, just wow. I think it&#8217;s safe to say President Barack Obama&#8217;s re-election campaign has officially jumped the shark. I don&#8217;t know what else to say about their newly released ad featuring actress Lena Dunham comparing voting to losing her virginity: President Obama&#8217;s campaign is out with an eyebrow-raising new ad targeting young voters in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[748,57,1302],"class_list":{"0":"post-4775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-culture","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-2012-elections","9":"tag-barack-obama","10":"tag-lena-dunham","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-1f1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":629,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/05\/note-to-the-ap-you-can-stop-digging-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":4775,"position":0},"title":"Note to the AP: You Can Stop Digging Now","author":"Jeff","date":"October 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Just when you think the Associated Press can't sink any lower they do. 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