Who Wants To Lose Their Virginity at the Ballot Box?
The president's campaign enlists Girls creator Lena Dunham to equate the thrill of voting for Obama with "your first time." See also: Steven Crowder's parody at the Tatler.
October 26, 2012 - 7:00 am
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Both the Lady Parts and Periods items were pulled within hours of posting, and Julia had launched quite a backlash meme, so one might think that the Obama campaign would be cautious about patronizing women again.
Alas, no. The Obama campaign has plenty more patronizing to do, this time in a plucky commercial. Thursday afternoon the Obama campaign released this spot, “Your First Time.”
In case you are not familiar with the young woman telling voting virgins to have their first time be with Barack Obama, that is Lena Dunham, creator and star of HBO’s Girls. It is Sex in the City for millennials — all the sex and the single girl drama but without the cushy jobs to support the Manolo Blahnik fetishes.
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Apparently it’s a ripoff of a Putin ad. The original isn’t so smarmy, though.
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/10/25/is_obama_taking_ad_ideas_from_vladimir_putin
(Hey, Hugo Chavez! You got any ads Barack can riff on, too? I mean since you support him for Prez, and all.)
And the Russians are prettier.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!
That Russkie tells you why the men stay in that hellhole.
THAT, my friends, is a beautiful woman.
The pig on the Obama-Ad?
How desperate could one be? A chunky, overly opinionated, tiresome, sasquatch? And vulgar, tatooed, stupid, and plain, to boot.
In short, a low rent whore.
What they used to call a “Portsmouth Brute” in Mis Majesty’s Navy.
As opposed to a prostitute, like Heidi Fliess (back in the day, not the skank she is, now). Or the Mayflower Madame.
A little puke whore.
Worried about her poon, above all else. Like it’s sacred, instead of open for business 24/7.
Like they ain’t a dime a hundred. At closing time. In any saloon of ill repute.
I’m sure she’s a lesbian, anyway.
I wonder what all this has to do with her getting a 3.5 million contract on a book proposal?
When did New York publishing become the money laundering agent of choice for the DNC and its payoff division?
Has anyone ever read Bill Clinton’s book? Can you prove it? To be fair, do you think W is even smart enough to write a book?
Neat trick, huh?
Obama doesn’t need Chavez. Putin had a whole series of ads like that. Perhaps a “Let’s Do It Together” ripoff is in the works?
http://edgeofthesandbox.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/ofa-channels-united-russia/
Based on Sandbox’s post, they already have the pink t-shirts for sex in the voting booth. ‘Course these days voting booths are standing desks with curtains only to one’s waist, so hanky panky could get a couple arrested—but then they could claim voter intimidation! Score!
Joking aside, I am ever so tired of being accused of a war on women by people who think a woman’s biggest concern is getting laid without consequence.
I don’t even wanna think about how the “brain trust” at Obama for America could smut that up even more. But I’ll bet they’ll manage to pull that off a couple days before 6 November.
After this election is over, I never want to hear about uteri again, with the exception of my or my daughter’s gynecologist’s office.
Desperation: Turning the election narrative into The Vagina Monologues.
Wow, what a shocker — we don’t see these ads over in Europe, so maybe my reaction is based on lack of exposure to this sort of thing. But this ad is unbelievable. Really??? Now they’ve sunken to the level of trying to poisition him actively as a sort of sex symbol? Talk about self-absorbed…
You’re right. Daily Mail, most likely to go for this story, has an article but not even in the Femail sidebar. They’ve got Neve Campbell with a sparkly ring (her third), Rose McGowan with a blowout, and the woman who broke the Guinness World Record for donated breast milk on the homepage, but no Your First Time. No wonder my intelligence sources across the Pond report a public completely unprepared for a Romney win. I’ve got to finish up my Paglia review, then do some expectation management. If Romney wins, the story in Europe will be all about us extremist, crazy Americans, not because we are extremist or crazy but because Romney will be such a surprise to them. Crazy will be the easy explanation. Did you see the Telegraph guy waxing on about how Nate Silver is singlehandedly debunking the Romney surge in polls? The article, the comments, it is all glowing nonsense. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100186641/nate-silver-the-geeky-statistician-who-is-singlehandedly-dismantling-the-myth-of-mitt-mentum/
I know. My parents (Portugal) are absolutely sure Obama is a lock in. ARGH.
Really? Where in Portugal?
My Dad just moved there about a month ago — to the Algarve — said it’s stunningly beautiful, but practically a “third-world country” — especially when compared to Spain just an hour’s drive away.
– FF
You know, you can spread some reality around. Roger Kimball did a piece on expectations in London. On the homepage is a post about how the left is already spinning a Romney win. I’m going to tie those and some other posts together this weekend (at my place because the post will be expat centered, which isn’t PJLifestyle’s area) but you can distribute bits now. You don’t have to agree, just tell them its a reality check. You might as well get the practice in debating whether or not we’re crazy.
http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2012/10/24/spinning-possible-romney-victory/
http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2012/10/01/the-narrative-in-london/
There is one way in which voting is like sex:
Sex with an unworthy partner can, and often does, result in lifelong shame and regret.
Voting for an unworthy candidate can, and often does, result in lifelong shame and regret.
I find these young hipster women so irritating – educated beyond their intelligence with the manners and style sense of a carny’s common-law wife. She can afford those ever-so-hip tattoos (I’m guessing that HBO pays much better than Target or The Gap), yet expects everyone else to pay for her birth control and abortions while IPAB denies Granny her hip replecement because it’s not “cost-effective” due to her advanced age.
And I always thought such ritual consecration was supposed to occur in the back seat of a Chevy.
Just to extend the analogy:
No virgins are reporting to the polls this time. (They already got scr*wed by the Obama Movement in ’08.)
Yes, girls. Your first time should DEFINITELY be with a 51-year-old pathological liar who is married to someone else, and who is only interested in what he thinks he can get from you in the next eleven days. He thinks he can get it from lots of other girls, too, so don’t keep him waiting.
So this is the best the libs can come up with? Voting for the first time and voting for obama is like finding the “coolest dude” to be the first guy she sleeps with? How does she feel about getting a STD for her first time’s efforts?
Absolutely clueless.
Dude looks like a lady
Oh.
I plum forgot, mid-diatribe.
“Dunham”, eh?
Hmmmmmmmmm.
Not a common name? No?
Is she the President’s cousin or something?
Come on…the ad is cute….but it panders to young, dumbded down college girls who think the main issue in this election is free birth control pills.
http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/new-voters-lose-your-virginity-to-barack-obama-t9896.html
Just go to the first response on that page. It’s worth a chuckle.
Ladies, if this works on you, you are too stupid to vote and too stupid to marry.
And too stupid to use free birth control correctly.
But won’t the ad also remind second-time voters how Obama lied to get them into the voting booth in 2008? They had high expectations from him when they popped their voting cherry and he’s turned out like ever other scumbag they’ve dated. Hell hath no fury and all that.
I am surprised that she didnt compare it to masturbation since voting for Obama is like screwing yourself….in a bad way.
I don’t know why everyone is picking on this ad – i think it will prove quite effective at getting the right people to the polls, and I admire the savvy of the Romney campaign in putting it out there.
This ad is very true to life. Vote for Obama and you get screwed.
The Obama administration has been having jail sex with the entire nation for the past four years.
Moronic Sophmoric viewpoints brought to us by the petulant children of the Hollywood elite,,, uncool pandering by the desperate Obama party
More evidence of why 20-somethings should not be allowed unsupervised access to campaign tools like videocasting.
This might look cute and hip to the kind of people who get their political news from Colbert and Steward and Maher, the demo for whom it is likely targeted, but it just repulsive to the rest of us.
Love your thread. So glad I found it.
It’s nice to have the dumb vote.
I think I’ll write a novel where this calot is Dejah Thoris, I don’t interfere in her amusing death by torture at the great games, I rise to lead a band of Tharks against the effete red men of Mars, laughing as I slay and enslave them and their sad civilization, especially their better halves.
There’s Helen of Troy and then Helen of Murgatroyd. Lena Dunham: the face that caused a thousand ships to rot at their anchors. Whatever she’s for, I’m against it.
It’s a pitch perfect appeal to young American women of today.
Sandra Fluke’s little sister? Nearly broke my pinky diving for the remote to prevent my kid from hearing this twit’s malevolent coaching. Ridiculous arm graffiti aside, her policy on sharing her body with only the “special guys” (of course, she just informed them exactly how they can appear to be special to her), tells me she is likely to find herself in a special infectious disease unit or a special abortion clinic. No doubt, she has many special buddies.
In explaining his reasons to support abortion, didn’t Obama say “If one of my daughters makes a mistake, and gets pregnant…” he’d want abortion available to her. I naively thought he meant the mistake of choosing to have sex. This ad proves he meant the mistake of poor pregnancy prevention. One more to throw on the pile of disdain I have for him.
Comrades!
Voting for Obama (pbuh) is The best thing will ever happen to you!
Remember that first dose of cocaine?
Addictive (some might say) unless you try heroine; but then again don’t be picky, it is all about endorphin and brain activity stuff.
Want to reach the height of the Human Nirvana?
Then you must vote for Barack Obama.
(Sadly you can only vote for Him every 4 years but we’re trying to “fix” that).
Disclaimer:
This is a Sandra Fluke-approved message. Guaranteed orgasm in the phone booth when voting for Obama.(*)
(*) Some will not find losing their vote virginity as enjoyable as Sandra Fluke did, but their vote will not be refunded.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSxDE1QCHA4&feature=player_embedded
Lena Dunham is Elena Kagen”s love child!!!!!!
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/05/09/c1main.elena.kagan.gi.jpg
The smarmy little whelp needs discipline to the MAXI!!
She needs to put down that ballot and fix me a sammich…. OK, I kid, I kid.
But I would like to know why there is a banner ad for a cougar dating site just above the comment section.
OK, I am soo glad I’m not the first to be using the term in this thread, but isn’t there some sort of liberal schadenfeude about the Obama campaign suggesting that a young woman voting for the first time is anything like losing their virginity?
i.e.
> First vote ever for POTUS for Obama = being screwed?
By jove, I’m taking a bottle of hand sanitizer to the polls when I go. And now that I think of it, some rubber gloves.
Who would ever think a computer would be more sexy than the real thing? Beware of used computers and keyboards, and especially “joy sticks”.
Everyone associated with the “O” gets downsized.
Russel Crowe is now dead to me following his ridiculous tweet.
Read “Et Tu Brute” and feel his pain at:
http://john-moloney.blogspot.com/
This chick does not need to worry about birth control.
I guess I might be giving away my age, but my initiation to the Presidential Polling Place, which happened to be my First Sergeant’s desk, was awesome! First I used a mail-in ballot, second I voted for my BOSS, and it gets better. President Eisenhower appreciated my personal vote so much that HE PROMOTED ME to First Lieutenant. Ah yes, those were the days!
Wasn’t this first time thing originally a coffee commercial ? —- Anyway they should finish the Dunham commercial. The next time is with the president in the oval office and he goes on to other woman and getting richer by the minute and the type of girl who thinks like this goes on to a ruined life. I think this happened before but I don’t remember the exact commercial that showed up in.
Using a ‘tramp-stamped’ Dunham, and dancing vaginas to disperse your message, as insulting as it may be to most Americans, is over-shadowed by unacceptable acts of desperation when using innocent children to advance your propaganda. Fortunately, our Conservative message is also having a greater impact on these kids as they mature and begin to ‘think for themselves.’ http://freebornobiterdictum.blogspot.com/2012/10/why-is-this-crap-not-labeled-child-abuse.html
IS THIS KIND OF STUFF WHAT OUR COUNTRY HAS MORPHED INTO ? SO SAD !!
“So to sum up: the fully employed and highly paid woman who claims to be the voice of her unemployed yet thoroughly screwed (in all senses of the term) generation is recommending four more years of Barack Obama. It worked for Dunham.”
Sounds awful. I recall every single Goth in my youth hated — absolutely hated — Winona Ryder. If they were hipsters today they’d hate Dunham.
Thanks for the linkie love.
From the Wikipedia entry on Dunham:
“Dunham was born in New York City.[2] Her father, Carroll Dunham, is a painter of “overtly sexualised pop art”, and her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a photographer and designer who creates “disquieting domestic tableaux” with dolls.”
That explains a lot.
You know the next Mitt Romney ad should say; “Do you really want the Federal Government in charge of your health care?” Because at least with insurance companies you can sue them or even contact your local state corporation commission but you can’t fight the government. We have no legal recourse with them.