Attention, ladies: Obama wants to be your ‘first’ (with video)
An intellectually honest feminist would be horrified by this sexualization of women’s suffrage, the reduction of young women to Harlequin Romance voters finding the right man** to give themselves to. Are there any such feminists left?
It’s funny: Democrats tell women to “vote like your lady parts depend on it” — or at least they used to. You had the Code Pink protesters who, at the GOP convention in Tampa, actually got dressed up like vaginas. Now this. I try not to play the “what if Republicans did it” card too often, but seriously: Can you imagine the outrage on the left if the Romney campaign put out an ad like this?
At what point do women decide to turn away from such patronizing, superficial pandering?
Oh, right. Many of them already have.
**Note that this ad pretty much implies women should only vote for male candidates. Or that only a lesbian would vote for a female candidate. Or something. Honestly, this is such an amazing example of sophomoric pandering I’d like to believe they simply didn’t think through it that far. But hey, Democrats can get away with it because, WAR ON WOMEN! Also, Obama evolved on gay marriage. Or something.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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Wilbur
October 26th, 2012
4:12 pm
Classless ad from Obama. Sad that the president of the United States thinks that is necessary or appropriate.
If I were a woman I would not be impressed.
Not particularly surprising though.
Rafe Hollister, suffering through Oblamer's ineptocracy
October 26th, 2012
4:12 pm
The Democrat’s claim they are the party for woman yet they treat them like helpless idiots.
Yep, they have been listening to too much Snoop Dog!
independent thinker
October 26th, 2012
4:28 pm
Congratulations Kyle- you came close but did not call her a slut. That’s just like Romney’s response to Rush’s “slut” remarks “I would not have used those words.”
Rafe Hollister, suffering through Oblamer's ineptocracy
October 26th, 2012
4:32 pm
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sfl-mitt-romney-presidential-endorsment-sun-sentinel-20121025,0,1757975.story
Four years into Barack Obama’s presidency, economic growth is sputtering. Family incomes are down. Poverty is up. Business owners are reluctant to assume risk in the face of unending uncertainty. Many are holding on by their fingernails, desperate for signs of an economic recovery that will help them provide for themselves, their employees, their customers and their communities.
When President Obama came into office in 2009, the economy was in freefall and though untested, he inspired us with his promise of hope and change. Now, four years later, we have little reason to believe he can turn things around.
So while we endorsed Obama in 2008, we recommend voters choose Republican Mitt Romney on Nov. 6.
I think they could have just said “Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on you!”
Rafe Hollister, suffering through Oblamer's ineptocracy
October 26th, 2012
4:34 pm
“shame on me” it should say. Joe Biden, proof reader, has been fired.
Kyle Wingfield
October 26th, 2012
4:40 pm
independent thinker @ 4:28: Congratulations yourself: You have voiced the exact reason this ad was probably aired — to bait someone into reprising Rush’s comment about Sandra Fluke. And you also have read something I didn’t write if you’re taking my comments about the ad to be directed in any way at Lena Dunham personally.
Democrats Patronize Women and Blacks
October 26th, 2012
4:41 pm
I think a bunch of people has their First Time 4 years ago and the whole country ended up with from Obamarrhea.
fair and balanced
October 26th, 2012
4:44 pm
Paul Ryan sponsored bills in 2012:
H.R.3805 : Ultrasound Informed Consent Act
. H.R.3803 : District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
H.R.2299 : Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act
H.R.3 : No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act
Since being in Congress -38 anti – abortion bills most cos-sponsored with Todd Aiken.
Sure seems preoccupied with women’s reproductive organs.
Democrats Patronize Women and Blacks
October 26th, 2012
4:44 pm
I wonder if this lady had one of those Mammograms from Planned Parenthood that don’t exist but the President keeps saying do exist.
Democrats Patronize Women and Blacks
October 26th, 2012
4:46 pm
Being 26, she was eligible to vote but I guess John Kerry, Big Bird, binders, horses and bayonets weren’t enough to get her going.
Democrats Patronize Women and Blacks
October 26th, 2012
4:47 pm
It’s more concern for the child being murdered than it is for the fake right of choice. Go Ryan!!!
fair and balanced
October 26th, 2012
4:56 pm
From Paul Ryan’s voting record:
Jan. 27, 2009 S 181 Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 Bill Passed – House
(250 – 177) Vote: Nay
DownInAlbany
October 26th, 2012
4:59 pm
Check this one:
Desperate: Obama Campaign Features Romney In Dunce Cap
This week, the Obama campaign Tumblr site, which features photos and graphics from the campaign, posted a piece of “art” from one Oliver Munday. It’s a picture of Mitt Romney photoshopped into a dunce cap, sitting on a stool in the corner.
The caption: “Sums it up.”
The Obama campaign is now down to the argument that Mitt Romney is stupid. Talk about desperation.
Skip
October 26th, 2012
5:03 pm
Give Kyle a break, he doesn’t have much to work with.
DownInAlbany
October 26th, 2012
5:03 pm
Biden: GOP Voted For ‘$500 TRILLION’ Tax Cut
Vice Pres. Joe Biden claims at a campaign event in Wisconsin that Republicans voted for a “$500 Trillion Tax Cut” (October 26, 2012).
But, Romney is the dunce? OooooKkkkk
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right
October 26th, 2012
5:06 pm
Fairand balanced, the Ledbetter act didn’t do anything near the impact you lefties preach it did.
Minor change to existing law.
Democrats Patronize Women and Blacks
October 26th, 2012
5:08 pm
Maybe Team Obama can change their slogan from FORWARD to TITANIC
independent thinker
October 26th, 2012
5:10 pm
Kyle said: “Note that this ad pretty much implies women should only vote for male candidates.”"
What is the implication??, that the woman really wants to get it on with a man and has a crush on Obama? Horrors if that is the case, she must be a loose woman or a sl-t.
By the way, last time I checked there were no women running for the presidency.
Democrats Patronize Women and Blacks
October 26th, 2012
5:12 pm
There is no independent to your thinking, you are full tilt crazy Liberal
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
October 26th, 2012
5:14 pm
Give obozo ur vote and then resume ur position of servitude to the State, right where he wants you.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right
October 26th, 2012
5:14 pm
Not loose, not so independent nor thinker.
Just a sad pathetic lemming in a nation filled with fellow leftists who think like her.
Kyle Wingfield
October 26th, 2012
5:17 pm
Um, independent thinker? I’m not the one who made the ad comparing voting to sex.
Burroughston Broch
October 26th, 2012
5:21 pm
@ Finn McCool (The System isn’t Broken; It’s Fixed)
What a cop out on your part. His daughters aren’t of voting age?
The video was (maybe still is) on the net where anyone could look at it. It’s rubbish and repugnant.
Would you show it to your daughters?
I wouldn’t show it to mine, and I bet that 99% of voters agree with me.
Face it – the President really embarassed himself with this one.
independent thinker
October 26th, 2012
5:27 pm
Funny how the Repubs. have a hearing on contraceptives and insurance and did not want a single woman to testify. When Sandra Fluk testified about the need to have birth control covered she gets called a slut for daring as a woman to even talk about birth control. Obama makes an ad about women and has a woman talk about the reasons she is voting for Obama and she gets criticized for talking about the thrill of voting and she gets dumped on by a bunch of right wing guys for stating her feelings. I cannot help seeing a pattern here.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right
October 26th, 2012
5:28 pm
Funny thing is that even Democrat strategists have said this phoney war against women thing hasn’t worked.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right
October 26th, 2012
5:31 pm
Congress usually tries to have people with working brains testify in front of them.
Sandra Fluke didn’t meet that qualification.
Dusty
October 26th, 2012
5:43 pm
Oh well, desperation seems to have set in with Obama. Nothing too low or too light to snap the public to attention. After almost four years of bad governance, anything goes
After all, Obama IS our “first”. He is the first president to ever raise the debt to an unprecedented sum of sixteen trillion. AND…he wants four more years to increase that amazing figure. When do we get the SIXTEEN TRILLION TRIUMPH video?
independent thinker
October 26th, 2012
5:51 pm
From Wikipedia:
“”"”Fluke is a native of Saxton, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Pennsylvania’s Tussey Mountain Junior/Senior High School in 1999. She graduated from Cornell University’s Program in Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies in 2003. She co-founded the New York Statewide Coalition for Fair Access to Family Court, which successfully advocated for legislation granting access to civil orders of protection for unmarried victims of domestic violence, including LGBTQ victims and teens. She was also a member of the Manhattan Borough President’s Taskforce on Domestic Violence and numerous other New York City and New York State coalitions that successfully advocated for policy improvements impacting victims of domestic violence. She worked in New York City for Sanctuary for Families, which aids victims of domestic violence and human trafficking.
At Georgetown University Law Center, she was the 2011 recipient of the Women Lawyers of Los Angeles’ Fran Kandel Public Interest Grant,[15] which supported her production of a video on how to take out a restraining order. She also “represented numerous victims of domestic violence and human trafficking” and worked to help “child victims of domestic human trafficking in Kenya”.She served as president of Georgetown Law Students for Reproductive Justice,and graduated cum laude in 2012.”"”"”"”"”"”"”"
Of course to guys like Tiberius she doesn’t have a working brain and just likes to have sex all day.That is what “cum laude” means in her bio right?
Electoral College
October 26th, 2012
5:57 pm
281 to 257
You will cry and make excuses, but it will not change the fact….
OBAMA 2012
Just keeping it real
Rafe Hollister, suffering through Oblamer's ineptocracy
October 26th, 2012
6:10 pm
Obama may have put out this stupid ad, in order to attract attention away from Benghazi. We are certainly talking about it rather than Benghazi Gate.
MarkV
October 26th, 2012
6:15 pm
Dusty @5:43 pm
“After all, Obama IS our “first”. He is the first president to ever raise the debt to an unprecedented sum of sixteen trillion. “
What a profound revelation. Obama is “first.” No matter that all the recent presidents were also “first” in this respect:
GWB to 10 trillion
Clinton to 6 trillion
HWB to 4 trillion
Reagan to 2 ½ trillion
Carter to 1 trillion
.
.
.
Candid Cameron
October 26th, 2012
6:20 pm
A compassionate offer to the desperate right if Romney doesn’t win on November 6th:
1-800-273-8255
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right
October 26th, 2012
6:22 pm
Not so independent non thinker, anyone can repeat back what some professors want to hear and get great grades without having a lick of intelligence.
Sandra Fluke is degree rich and dumb as a sack of hammers.
cc
October 26th, 2012
6:26 pm
The entire Obama campaign appears to me to be targeting our less intelligent and gullible voters. It is obvious from comments posted here and on other blogs that his target audience has, in fact, been reached. I don’t believe this will accomplish what he needs, though, and President Romney looks to be on track for the win.
What is necessary to produce a communist muslim going away party? (The White House domestic staff is trying to get up to speed before Obama’s January departure!)
MarkV
October 26th, 2012
7:26 pm
“Sandra Fluke is degree rich and dumb as a sack of hammers.”
What an obscene coward is this “Tiberius,” insulting a young woman, who cannot defend herself here.
independent thinker
October 26th, 2012
8:01 pm
I guess Tiberius who prefer Ms. Fluke is barefoot and pregnant toiling away in the kitchen or doing the laundry as an obedient wife.
fair and balanced
October 26th, 2012
8:04 pm
So what law school did Tiberius graduate from cum laude??????
JKL2
October 26th, 2012
8:18 pm
independant- What is the implication??, that the woman really wants to get it on with a man and has a crush on Obama? Horrors if that is the case, she must be a loose woman or a sl-t.
I think she’s confused obama with Clinton.
JKL2
October 26th, 2012
8:29 pm
independant- When Sandra Fluk testified about the need to have birth control covered she gets called a slut for daring as a woman to even talk about birth cont
She’s a 31 YEAR OLD college student who can afford $40k/yr tuition but needs you to pay for her $12/mo birth control.
Evidently she isn’t smart enough to walk down to health services to pick up a free condom or have the guy provide his own. Cum laude must mean “not as smart as your average teenager”.
PS: I believe fluke, like the girl in the video, doesn’t even need birth control since she’s a lesbian.
JKL2
October 26th, 2012
8:34 pm
markv- What an obscene coward is this “Tiberius,” insulting a young woman, who cannot defend herself here
But very accurate in his statement.
If you are unable to comment on anyone unable to come here and defend yourself, this would be a very dull place.
Are you one of those “fairness doctrine” people trying to eliminate talk radio. You might want to get with jamvet. He luvs him some censorship too.
mike
October 26th, 2012
8:45 pm
It must be really tough when you realize that your party is an anachronism and that you’re forever stuck in mid-twentieth century ideologies. That you have alienated every single voting bloc except old white people. That your chances of ever winning the presidency are so remote as to be laughable. OWN IT! You made it! Enjoy it! It’s yours!
cc
October 26th, 2012
9:27 pm
Rafe:
Have you seen or read this lengthy column?
“The letter claims that Obama had a political motivation in rejecting Stevens’ security requests, since the president was eager to show improving conditions in Libya after the U.S.-led international operation that toppled Libya dictator Moamar Gadhafi.
The scandal now has erupted far beyond why our Libyan embassy was left so vulnerable to a jihadi attack on 9/11/12.
Our President chose to let these four men fight for seven hours and die alone in that Benghazi compound. How and why did Obama decide not to help them?”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/they_fought_for_their_lives.html
MarkV
October 26th, 2012
11:18 pm
JKL2 @ 8:34 pm
“But very accurate in his statement.”
And how do you know that? Do you know Ms Fluke personally? What is it about people like you, that instead of just criticizing what people say, you make judgments about the intelligence of them, of people you do not know?
Joel Edge
October 27th, 2012
5:47 am
From Twitter: If voting is like sex, you’re doing one of them wrong.
cc
October 27th, 2012
8:12 am
“If voting is like sex, you’re doing one of them wrong.”
Great line, and very true!
cc
October 27th, 2012
8:13 am
Fluke is a flake!
Rafe Hollister, suffering through Oblamer's ineptocracy
October 27th, 2012
9:54 am
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/they_fought_for_their_lives.html
cc: thanks for the article, lots of info, lots of speculation, but they are not very forthcoming with the timelines, etc, so people speculate.
I can’t buy the Panetta story of they never commit troops to a situation until they are aware of what is happening on the ground. If that were true, we would have lost a great deal of pilots, shot down in Vietnam and Gulf War I. We do send in rescue teams to pull out fighter pilots shot down and we sent in teams to try and free those in Somalia in Blackhawk Down. They were watching the action in real time, so it is hard to say they did not know, the conditions on the ground. I agree with the Article, an F-18 fly over straffing the crowd would have been better than the nothing they provided.
As I said the other day, we need a John Dean to step forward and go on the record with what really happened in the WH situation room. The Libs would shout him down and call him a liar, his life would be ruined, but that is the only way we can get information anytime soon. It will all eventually come out, but it will take a long time, otherwise.
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
October 28th, 2012
9:00 am
This, along with “Health reform…still a BFD” and the recent “BS’er” comment show how classless Obozo and his receptacles are.
Existing in a new low world
October 30th, 2012
8:18 am
The world of desperation in politics is grasping the Obama campaign by the throat!
Liz
November 2nd, 2012
12:43 pm
Yes, I loved the commercial. It was brilliantly done.