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Team Obama's creepy, Marxist propaganda cartoon, "Life Of Julia," intended to show how awesome for women that the cradle-to-grave Nanny State Is ... has turned out to have backfired -- big time.
From Team Obama's website:
It's right out of Karl Marx's playbook.
One of the best measures for the degree of it's backfire is when even the White House talking point network MSNBC, and especially the Obama-adoring, Democrat shill Mika Brzezinski, find fault with it:
Conn Carroll reports:
The cast of Morning Joe blasted the Obama campaign for their new "The LIfe of Julia" website this morning. The original purpose of the ad was to show voters how Obama's policies help women throughout their lifetimes. But as pretty much every member of the show concludes, that effort backfired:
llen: "One of the things that those hundreds of young people in the Chicago headquarters do is create viral pieces of content for the web. Things that people will share. This is one that I think may be viral in the wrong way, that I think is a lot bigger on the Republican side, than it is on the Democratic side. The Life of Julia takes her from age 3 to age 67 and at every point along the way the government is giving her a hand."
MSNBC's Willie Geist: "They did lob this up as a softball for Republicans, one conservative saying, "Who the hell is Julia and why am i paying for her whole life?'"
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough: "Who brushes her teeth?"
Mika Brzezinski: "I don't think it helps. ... I think we are at a state, time in this country where people feel that there is no hope, that they need help so desperately, but at some point we do have to inspire innovation and hope and get people on their way. ... They do need a leg up but then at some point ... but their whole life, funded?"
Donnie Deutsch: "Our character is John Wayne, rugged individualism. ... Yes the government is there, but we feel weak in that. You don't feel proud in that. ... In reality, nobody, even a progressive guy like myself, wants to see America portrayed that way."
Geist: "No one wants to think that from the age of three they are going to need the government to take care of them."Rich Lowry aptly sums up '#Julia's message as 'Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what your country can do for you':
In the competition for the creepiest campaign material of 2012, we may already have a winner. It is "The Life of Julia," the Obama reelection team's cartoon chronicle of a fictional woman who is dependent on government at every step of her life.
e-to-grave welfare state" originated with Clement Attlee's socialist government in post -- World War II Britain. Back then, it was meant as a boastful description of a new age of government activism. Subsequently, it became a term of derision for critics of an overweening government. In the spirit of Attlee, the Obama campaign revives the concept of "cradle to grave" as it highlights Obama-supported programs that take care of Julia from age 3 to her retirement at age 67.
[...] Julia's central relationship is to the state. It is her educator, banker, health-care provider, venture capitalist, and retirement fund. And she is, fundamentally, a taker. Every benefit she gets is cut-rate or free. She apparently doesn't worry about paying taxes. It doesn't enter her mind that the programs supporting her might add to the debt or might have unintended consequences. She has no moral qualms about forcing others to pay for her contraception, and her sense of patriotic duty is limited to getting as much government help as she can.
[...] Her life is framed to show that she gets more from President Barack Obama than from Republicans. The same contrast could be achieved differently. She could lose her web-design job and go on unemployment, which President Obama always wants to extend despite Republican objections. With her family's income dropping, she could resort to the food-stamp program, which has expanded massively under President Obama despite Republicans' inveighing against the trend. These examples don't suit the campaign's purposes, though. They show government to be a poor substitute for the robust recovery that President Obama hasn't delivered even as he has endeavored to make Julia's birth-control pills free.Meanwhile, not long after the president's Twitter account, run by his reelection campaign, tweeted the cartoon ... it wasn't the hashtag the Obama campaign attached to their cartoon character, #women2012, that took off, but the one adopted by conservatives to tweet their feelings about a woman they saw as overly dependent on government.
The RNC's rebuttal to 'Julia,' #Julia And The Obama Economy, provides a much more realistic picture of Julia's life.




