Watch and Wonder: Can This Campaign Go Any Lower? (UPDATED)

Disgusting. Full. Stop.

I think you should specify what “this campaign” refers to: the Obama campaign. It would be unfair to tar the Romney campaign with the brush of moral equivalence. If someone says, “they all do it,” let them present the evidence.

Methinks this ad will hurt Obama:
http://wannabeanglican.blogspot.com/2012/10/so-obama-wants-us-think-voting-for-him.html

Not to mention it reeks of desperation and of a cult of personality.  Putin ran an ad with a similar theme, not-so-by-the-way.

Would the candidate want his daughters to watch that one?

The Obama campaign is desperate for the impressionable youth vote.  Is it any wonder that the young and naive 18-30 lean Obama.  Over 30 leans Romney.  That’s because they have entered the workforce and know better.

This idiotic ad, along with Obama’s visits to Letterman, Leno, MTV, and being quoted in Rolling Stone as calling Romney a “bull****er” seem to be part of that same strategy: Appeal to as many gullible youth as possible and hope that their vote in whatever state they live in puts him over the top.

Unfortunately for the President, the YOUNG PEOPLE are high on opinions and low on getting to the ballot box. 

On top of that, there are plenty who are turned off by the crummy economy.  They might not trouble themselves to vote against him, but the won’t go vote for him, either.

How about comparing him with 7-Up?  It’s the un-cola so then he would be the un-president.

I don’t know why anyone is surprised? 

The Obama campaign doesn’t care a whit about truth.  Remember the video where the gentlemen basically accused Romney of causing his wife of dying from cancer, when in fact Romney had zero to do with it?

The Dems don’t want to give the government back to the evil Reps, and will STOP AT NOTHING.

Keep your eyes open - I don’t think they have hit bottom yet…

Absolutely incredibly awful.  [Sarcasm on:  Wonder if this will be criticized for being too hetero-centric for assuming a woman’s first time should be with a guy.]

P.S.  Can’t believe she’d allow her name to be used!!!  Talk about lack of shame or decency.

Karen B:
She’s not just some random 20-something. She’s an actress with a cult following among her age group.  Given the content of her HBO series, Girls, she has no ability to blush or feel ashamed.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2501633/

Ah, thanks MTDave for the background.  Not having access to US TV, I’d obviously never heard of her.  Actually it relieves me just a bit that this is a TV celebrity making such a vulgar ad and not an “ordinary” young voter.  Hollywood has been debased and debauched for a long time… but any way you analyze it, David F. is right, this surely must be the worst ad in political history.

Yep, and they vote.  That’s why our founders set up a republic, not a democracy. Wish we had it now. BTW, nice tat.

Is the Obama campaign actually paying real money (not the fake stuff they pad their budgets with) to put this on television? I can only hope so!

Here’s how all this plays out in the media.  The Dems sexualize everything, we ask why they feel the need to sexualize everything, then they say we’re obsessed with sex and the press just nods and agrees.

So they are calling potential democratic women voters loose and easily enamored by suave looking men? Seems to fit the demographic they are targeting to carry them to victory.

Women’s rights issues motivated social work major Ashley Flemming of Inverness: “Equal pay, birth control, college aid, girl power – it’s my uterus, dammit.”

President Barack Obama told an audience of campaign supporters at George Mason University last Friday that free contraceptives for college students was the reason “why we passed” his healthcare reform law.

Citing the ‘preventive services’ mandate that requires healthcare plans to provide sterilization, contraception and abortion-inducing drugs to women free of charge, Obama said, “I don’t think a college student in Fairfax or Charlottesville should have to choose between text books or the preventive care that she needs. That’s why we passed this law. And I am proud of it. It was the right thing to do. And we are going to keep it.

Obama stressed the role of contraception in balancing the ObamaCare budget, saying, “It’s good for our health care system in general because we know the overall cost of care is lower when women have access to contraceptive services.”

I don’t think this is on TV, All-Is-True. I think this is a Web only ad. If anyone hears differently, please us know.

Because of this video, mobs of Christians across the world will riot and…

no, never mind.

I’m not sure I’d call this the worst ad in history. That distinction, in my view, still goes to Lyndon Johnson’s “Daisy Ad” in 1964.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63h_v6uf0Ao

However, Lena Dunham’s ad does the Obama campaign no favors. If he’s defeated for re-election, future campaigns may look on this ad as an example of how not to run a campaign.

Several uber-liberal, card-carrying Obama supporters (females) in my family are deeply offended by this - even the rabid feminists are disgusted with this flagrant sexualization of…voting, for crying-out-loud!!!!

Is it really Obama’s campaign office that put this out, or some lobbying group?  Does it carry the “I’m Barack Obama and I approved this ad” tag?  I don’t remember hearing that, and I certainly don’t want to watch this again to look for any attribution or such “approval” from the President.

David, this is SO bad, that I wouldn’t be surprised if it becomes an issue in the campaign’s final days (though Hurricane Sandy may soon eclipse normal campaigns and this may get quickly ignored…). Can you keep us updated if you hear / read more about reaction to this and whether it gets addressed by either Romney or Obama directly?  Thanks.

BTW, off-topic - but Hurricane Sandy could seriously impact the election.  Current projections have it taking dead aim at D.C. for one thing.  But also there is real likelihood of extended power outages of up to a week in some parts of the East Coast.  Details here:

http://pjmedia.com/weathernerd/2012/10/25/hurricane-sandy-could-seriously-disrupt-the-election/

“Access to preventative care”?  Every time I pay after filling up my car at $3.50 a gallon I see condoms in the aisle across the way.

Even though I don’t like it morally, if someone wants to have sex like a bunny rabbit, why should I be forced to pay for his or her lack of self-control?

In a postmodern world, where truth is not the outcome of rational discourse but sympathetic identification with a point of view, this kind of ad sells.  Yes, really.

This ad leaves most of us who are over age 25 feeling sick, but a frightening number of college age women will go for it, and an even more frightening number of teenage girls will wish they were old enough to vote for Barack Obama so they could be women too.

The thing that scares me even more than the prospect of four more years of Barack Obama is the prospect of coming generations who so slavishly follow cultural trends and who are so easily manipulated by media that they could give us a society only dreamed of by Orwell in a heartbeat.

In the election of 1800 the following was leveled by Thomas Jefferson at John Adams “a blind, bald, crippled, toothless man who is a hideous hermaphroditic character with neither the force and fitness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.”

While we’re not there yet, we seem to be fast approaching.

Seanny,

Thanks for reminding us of how the Federalists and Republicans duked it out.

This was, after all, the golden age of the Founders and yet the election pampleteers had no scruples about how they portrayed their opponents. If someone was willing to say that only a quarter century after the Revolution to one who had been an active participant, why are we surprised at today’s rhetorical tone?

A brief suggested Romney response (courtesy of James Taranto of the WSJ):

“Don’t lose your job because of an unwanted Presidency.”

We each should forward this video to every woman we know.

#3 Agreed.  This ad seems to be modeled after a Russian campaign ad for Vladmir Putin.  Ironically, the Putin ad comes off as classy compared to the Obama ad.

Buzzfeed article with both ads:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/lena-dunham-obama-ad-echoes-vladimir-putins-creep

But it gets worse.  The advertising agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners has just released a pro-Obama commercial eerily reminscent of Lyndon Johnson’s controversial Daisy ad featuring children singing about a variety of horrors including an America - supposedly under President Romney - where “sick people just die” and “oil fills the sea”

A little sample of the lyrics:
Imagine an America
Where strip mines are fun and free
Where gays can be fixed
And sick people just die
And oil fills the sea…

We’re the children of the future
American through and through
But something happened to our country
And we’re kinda blaming you…

You did your best
You failed the test

Mom and Dad
We’re blaming you!

Newsbusters link including ad video and full lyrics:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/10/27/pro-obama-ad-features-children-singing-about-america-where-sick-peopl#ixzz2AZ3mksa8

I cannot believe those are the actual lyrics.

Oh wait, yes I can - http://newsbusters.org/blogs/paul-wilson/2012/01/11/update-kid-pan-alley-admits-occupy-song-lyrics-were-theirs we’ve seen this movie before.

My favorite was a song of Kid Pan Alley’s featured on Glenn Beck’s program when it was still on Fox News.  The lyric was something like,

“Well Patrick Henry said give me liberty or give me death,
that’s nice, but give me the arts!”

You get that?  That’s how Lefties roll.  The arts trump everything.  If you make “great” movies, you can drug and sodomize 13 year old girls (Roman Polanski).

Have they frozen it?  It’s not starting when I click on it to see.

In answer to your question, YES, it can (and did just) go lower

http://www.nationalreview.com/media/video/332035

We played this for our 18 year old, who could not believe it was put out by anyone associated with the Democrats (seemed to him it HAD to be parody.) 

It’s from MoveOn.

Sigh….