He’s done the focus groups and they have done the data mining, and the ad is not aimed at my demographic, so what do I know about its effectiveness. But even so, it is the sleaziest and most disgusting ad I have ever seen in politics. They are working on getting the right number of electoral college votes and as I have been saying all along, their approach will look odd because we don’t see what they do. They are the ones with the terabytes of information and there is a strategy behind all this, that’s for certain.
And of course what they count on most is that they will not be sprung by the media who accept and share every one of the premises that are the foundation for Obama’s campaign. This article on Obama’s apology tour describes the radical left advisers who crafted where he went and what went into the teleprompter. The key point:
The president has followed a ‘doctrine of mea culpa’ crafted by a handful of radical advisers who have urged him to, in so many words, apologize for America’s war on terror and nuclear superiority.
Discussion of Obama’s deep left background has gone into hibernation in this election. It’s not there because it gets no resonance from where it needs to feed, which is in the media. Billy Ayers and Jeremiah Wright at least figured to some extent in the last election but not this time. Mitt Romney understands every bit of this but sees no advantage in moving along this trail. But we here should remember just who Obama is and the groups that he represents. A second set of four years would make the United States a very different place from what it is today.
And if you would like the text of the Obama ad, you can find it here. And thanks to Gab for sending the article on the apology tour.
Did they get the idea for the ad from the Australian Greens? Token raises this very intriguing idea. Compare and contrast:
And a similar ad for Putin:
But this one was posted to Youtube on 20 February 2012 so SH-Y was ahead of them both by two years. You can, however, see the genealogy quite well in the descent as the same grubby idea is passed on from one to another. Thanks to Infidel Tiger for the link.
You do know that’s a Romney ad?
Infidel Tiger
26 Oct 12 at 11:20 am
Ah, you’ve changed it.
Infidel Tiger
26 Oct 12 at 11:21 am
This ad turns from a cute joke to embarrassingly juvenile rather quickly and reeks of incest.
.
26 Oct 12 at 11:21 am
Hmmm…basing adulthood on the first time you have sex.
14 year olds are not adults. They might become adults if a baby comes along and they man (and woman) the hell up.
Romeny don’t care. He’s got binders of hot grandma.
.
26 Oct 12 at 11:27 am
hahaha, posting an Obama ad – well done!
SteveC
26 Oct 12 at 11:27 am
No doubt she’s now lining up for her free supply of Obama’s condoms, or does she wait until she’s 30?
James of the Glens
26 Oct 12 at 11:29 am
How embarrassing. Some ‘hipsters’ really are doofuses.
dover_beach
26 Oct 12 at 11:31 am
She lost her virginity to lying a douchebag.
Infidel Tiger
26 Oct 12 at 11:33 am
The Benghazi scandal has been surpressed well, but son’t stay hidden forever. The question is whether critical mass will be hit before/after Nov 6.
On the OT we have quotes from the father of one of the marines noting how Obama & Clinton callously misled him over his son’s death.
Token
26 Oct 12 at 11:35 am
That women is as appealing as Sarah Heartless-Hypocrit who did almost the exact same commercial in 2010.
Token
26 Oct 12 at 11:38 am
While you’re in the mood to post Obama ads featuring Lena Dunham, here’s another one:
You don’t own me
SteveC
26 Oct 12 at 11:41 am
All that girl power stuff must make your panties moist, SteveC.
Infidel Tiger
26 Oct 12 at 11:43 am
Judging by all her tattoos, I’m guessing it’s not her first time for anything…
ar
26 Oct 12 at 11:43 am
To me it t looks like it will be the first time with a man for Lena.
Token
26 Oct 12 at 11:45 am
“You don’t own me” she croons, even as she begs random men to buy her birth control so she can be fucked on their dime.
Uh huh.
That works.
sdog
26 Oct 12 at 11:49 am
So Shit-for-Brains, what does that mean for Australian women, who still don’t get “free” birth control pills? And why do you care about them less than you care about random American sluts?
If free birth control and abortion – free consequence-free fucking — makes a woman free, why aren’t you fighting the good fight in your own country rather than going to the wall for American women?
sdog
26 Oct 12 at 11:53 am
I know. I’m renting you by the hour.
Infidel Tiger
26 Oct 12 at 11:54 am
SteveC, you really are a pathetic excuse of manhood.
Have you no honour?
JamesK
26 Oct 12 at 11:54 am
Looks like Bambi’s team stole this ad from Putin:
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/10/25/is_obama_taking_ad_ideas_from_vladimir_putin
Infidel Tiger
26 Oct 12 at 11:56 am
It’s OK putting up the white chick who wants a piece of the black man, Steve, but Wednesday Addams??? Horrorshow.
Tom
26 Oct 12 at 11:57 am
Hey, whaddaya know, it looks like Illinois Democrats tried some voter surpression on the president:
Wait a minute, if Illinois Democrats can ask voters for photo ID…
Token
26 Oct 12 at 12:00 pm
You don’t own me
Amazing how they don’t apply this idea to the unborn child; and some of them with their own child sitting in their lap.
dover_beach
26 Oct 12 at 12:09 pm
Just two of Obama’s Apology Tour architects.
Gab
26 Oct 12 at 12:14 pm
Racism alert!!!
From a response to the above link…
“Obama: “Where da white women at?”"
Isn’t that from Fletch Lives?
Anyway, so why is Obama pimpin’ for white virgins? There goes the Bible Belt…
The Beer Whisperer
26 Oct 12 at 12:14 pm
I don’t know why I bothered clicking on that because I had a fair idea already – absent objectivity, quite irrational (describing anything as “amazing!” tells me nothing other than “I’m really inarticulate”) and bloody awful elocution. After about 20 seconds it picks up speed and it’s almost impossible to understand the meaning of any part of the single continuous word that follows.
Is it male or female? Is the thumping big tattoo on the arm a modern statement of acute self awareness … “I’m important because, as you can see, I self-harm”? Presumably it is permitted to vote however one trusts it is discouraged from breeding.
If that is Young America then perhaps they deserve what they’ve enjoyed for four years and warrant another four of the same. By the time reality smacks ‘em in the mouth it will be too late.
Mick Gold Coast QLD
26 Oct 12 at 12:17 pm
Tattoos are self harm now?
SteveC
26 Oct 12 at 12:19 pm
Isn’t that misogynist? She is saying it has to be a guy when you vote for the first time.
Andrew Reynolds
26 Oct 12 at 12:20 pm
Obama has his very own Lee Rhiannon:
Gab
26 Oct 12 at 12:22 pm
Why do I never get credit for these finds?
Alex Pundit
26 Oct 12 at 12:24 pm
Also, homophobic.
sdog
26 Oct 12 at 12:24 pm
Beer Whisperer, it’s from Blazing Saddles, as is so much brilliant modern insight.
But anyways. This ad is fuckin kerr-eepy.
Ooh Honey Honey
26 Oct 12 at 12:24 pm
The Zeitgeist of the chattering classes [CC] whose defining characteristic is cognitive dissonance in respect of every one of their great issues or manifestations of their ego; especially AGW where they do not have the wit to realise their lifestyles will be compromised and most importantly in respect of islam where they don’t realise their lives are at risk.
Islam has prospered in the West because a social vacuum has been created by the rights without accountability driven agenda of the CC; designated victims, groups or individuals, such as muslims and islam are given the prerogative of unconditional acceptance; islam has taken this with both hands using the rights of the West to assert their values even if those values are anaethema to the right they have been given.
In effect the CC have emasculated the West; the ascendancy of women and their male equivalents, has removed from the West a capacity to counter the drive by islam to propagate in the West.
If Obama wins and Gillard is reelected the women in the “You don’t own me” adds will be wearing burqas within 10 years.
Funny, eh?
cohenite
26 Oct 12 at 12:26 pm
Liberty quote?
SteveC
26 Oct 12 at 12:27 pm
Sarah Hyphen Young proves to me that the Greens are a cult. The scene where she gazes adoringly at a photo of Bob Brown is beyond creepy.
Cold-Hands
26 Oct 12 at 12:36 pm
“When Idaho Legislator Curtis Bowers wrote a “letter to the editor” about the drastic changes in America’s culture, it became the feature story on the evening news, people protested at the Capitol, and for weeks the local newspapers were filled with responses. He realized then… he’d hit on something. .. Join Bowers for a fascinating look at the people and groups that have successfully targeted America’s morality and freedom in their effort to grind America down. It’s a well documented AGENDA.”
Bowers has now made his film available on vimeo –
http://vimeo.com/52009124
where he charts the close connections Obama has with extreme left/commie groups. He calls the documentary ‘Agenda’ because he wants people to know that there is no conspiracy theory stuff going on – it’s all out there, published and promoted, for everyone to see.
Ellen of Tasmania
26 Oct 12 at 12:38 pm
Blazing Saddles, innit?
Fleeced
26 Oct 12 at 12:41 pm
Blazing saddles also managed a few rape gags… can’t do that nowadays.
Fleeced
26 Oct 12 at 12:46 pm
“A second set of four years would make the United States a very different place from what it is today.”
Possibly, but I doubt it. Any changes championed by the White House will have to run the gauntlet of lobbyists and Congress, as well as public and court opinion.
When Obama was elected in 2008, Focus on the Family made a similar prediction to Kates, outlining negative events and changes (from the trivial to the profound) that would occur by the end of Obama’s first term. Out of their 34 predictions, guess how many came true? None.
Jarrah
26 Oct 12 at 12:51 pm
They can run as many crummy ads like this as they like, but it’s hardly evidence of some incredibly uber high tech-powered strategy. The Obama campaign’s running ads to try to get out the vote of the demographic that was massively enthusiastic about him last time but is so much more meh now. You don’t need voting pattern programmes designed a gaggle of 190 IQ computer nerds to tell you that it’s not a bad idea to try to psych up Obama’s neophytes from 2008, as well as the class of 2012.
And about all this massive data mining business that the Obama team is allegedly employing and has some quaking in their boots; look, you can have the most advanced barometer on earth but it’s still not going to change the way the wind is blowing.
Oh come on
26 Oct 12 at 12:52 pm
LOL.
C.L.
26 Oct 12 at 12:52 pm
Distancing oneself from the failed Bush-era policies of civil liberties abuses at home and rampant aggression abroad was good policy that Obama unfortunately soon abandoned.
Romney’s me-too approach in the debate with Obama on current foreign policy shows this view to be correct.
Wheher the small target/me-too approach is carried over into office makes a Romney victory the more interesting one.
Scapula
26 Oct 12 at 12:53 pm
They are just like HG Wells’ Eloi – only a bit more gormless and talkative.
Viva
26 Oct 12 at 12:54 pm
Ouch.
https://twitter.com/Slublog/status/261620049431912449
C.L.
26 Oct 12 at 1:00 pm
Having watched Lena Dunham simulating getting boinked in about the most joyless and mechanical fashion possible, I admire her abilities as a writer and an actress – in particular her considerable sang-froid in performing such humiliating scenes, but I am afraid that I simply could not care less what she thinks about politics. If I ask Hazel down at the coffee shop what she thinks, it would have equal weight. When will luvvies learn this?
Besides, look at where she comes from: 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. She could not have been more precisely moulded to have been a mindless (in the political sense) reflexive lefty if she had been to a Victorian government school.
James in Melbourne
26 Oct 12 at 1:03 pm
Oh for Pete’s sake, I thought she was a stupid teenage nobody and now I find she is a famous stupid teenage nobody. You’d do better taking political advice from Lara Single or Fairley Arrow!
Mick Gold Coast QLD
26 Oct 12 at 1:17 pm
Not as pretty either.
cohenite
26 Oct 12 at 1:18 pm
Lefty Lie FAIL…let’s check the transcript:
Thank you come again…
Token
26 Oct 12 at 1:19 pm
Imagine if she was your first time. Ugh. Shudder.
Oh come on
26 Oct 12 at 1:23 pm
Even now the Cameron Goverment is refusing Obama’s requests for military support in relation to their planned attack on Iran.
One imagines the attack will be the first order of business after the election of either candidate.
Scapula
26 Oct 12 at 1:29 pm
Well, at least the blonde in the putin ad is cute.
All the others (hyphen-dung, dumpy dungham, putin, bozo brown & obongo) are about as sexy as a freshly laid dog turd…
Rabz
26 Oct 12 at 1:36 pm
You are a twit wingbone
JamesK
26 Oct 12 at 1:40 pm
Oh for Pete’s sake, I thought she was a stupid teenage nobody and now I find she is a famous stupid teenage nobody.
Same here.
dover_beach
26 Oct 12 at 1:40 pm
That Sarah Hansen Young person is the spawn of beelzebub. You can see it in her eyes.
Jannie
26 Oct 12 at 1:55 pm
I know this is misogynistic and all, but Sarah H-Y doing soft centre is very deeply unattractive. Young chaps flocking to give theirs to the Greens on the strength of this effort must enjoy Praying Mantis fantasies.
Dr Faustus
26 Oct 12 at 2:02 pm
“You don’t own me”
How can she own herself? Did she make herself happen?
Her parents gave birth to her. There would have been doctors in hospitals, her schooling, the bus etc. provided by someone else.
I think after Bambi gets her vote, it should be off to the re-education camps with her.
Aqualung
26 Oct 12 at 2:29 pm
Jeez, thanks for the image of Sarah Hansen Young .
I’m eating my lunch.
DMS
26 Oct 12 at 2:36 pm
I hadn’t heard of this girl, I have to say.
C.L.
26 Oct 12 at 2:40 pm
The left parody and mock the virtue of real virginity with a trashy sexist parallel of electoral virginity and it’s okay. Tony Abbott is asked about his attitudes to virginity with his own daughters and is ridiculed.
So it’s okay to allude to having sex with a gay man old enough to be your grandfather in the hope of persuading similar aged youth that the Greens will respect you in the morning after the
erectionelection?Spatacrobat
26 Oct 12 at 2:45 pm
The mob has spoken, the ad is out of touch:
Token
26 Oct 12 at 2:47 pm
Obama to Lena: “Hey baby, of course I’ll respect you in the morning…of course I’ll phone you…”
And the term ‘coyote ugly’ springs to mind.
Cuckoo
26 Oct 12 at 2:51 pm
More from twitchy
LOL
Cold-Hands
26 Oct 12 at 3:00 pm
Obama’s mother was one Ann Dunham – subliminal what?
Viva
26 Oct 12 at 3:12 pm
The left parody and mock the virtue of real virginity with a trashy sexist parallel of electoral virginity and it’s okay. Tony Abbott is asked about his attitudes to virginity with his own daughters and is ridiculed.
In fact Spatacrobat they specifically referenced the Abbott quote in the ad. It’s a knowing parody.
Not saying that it’s good, mind.
Interesting how lefties all over the world (though I’m not sure if a Putin government fits in that category) seem to love this style of ad. It’s a cute and funny idea… if you don’t think about it too much and present it very very carefully. The Dems seem to be expert at a number of clever but disturbing campaign techniques (another example, targeted iPhone apps that direct you towards neighbours who you could make vote for Obama). You’ve got to think that in a couple of years when the enthusiastic new voters of 2008 and 2012 look back at these examples, they’ll find it all very creepy and patronising, and many will turn to the right.
Even if Romney doesn’t win this election he’ll have done a great service to the Republican Party in the years to come – he’s treated serious problems seriously, and treated the voting public as people who are able to deal with such matters responsibly.
TimT
26 Oct 12 at 3:13 pm
So the message to all young aspiring women is…”without the right man guiding your life you’re screwed”. It’s feminism meats hipster-irony!
Seriously though, these are about the creepist ads I’ve ever seen.
Luke
26 Oct 12 at 3:19 pm
Gawdalmighty!
I just watched Sarah Hyphen-Hyphen banging on about her “first time”. The mental images created by that crazy woman have now traumatised me and I am going out to get on the turps.
Pedro the Ignorant
26 Oct 12 at 3:23 pm
Another case in point the first video in that link from Steve C.
A pro-Obama (or perhaps better described as an anti-Romney) ad by, amongst other people, Lena Dunham, basically featuring them all singing to their cameras
Don’t tell me what to do
Don’t tell me what to say
And so on.
First impressions might be – an effective ad demonstrating the power of collective action: a strong message from women all over the US about personal choice.
But, second impression: – hang on – they’re all singing exactly the same words. At once. Some of them look quite disengaged – they might be thinking ‘well I’ll just get this done, upload it to the net, and then I can get on with my life.’ In other words, in order to get this message about personal choice across to the public, they all had to conform to the same choice!
And third impression: the ad presents itself as speaking out for women across the US. But how many women watching that really agree with the message of the ad? It’s one thing to support the right to abortion – it’s another thing to support the right to free abortion, in which even practitioners with clear moral and religious objections to abortion nevertheless are compelled under law to deliver that service!
This is a simplistic message being presented by the lefty media – but again, I think, when left-inclined voters look back on it in a few years time, they’ll find it very creepy and manipulative indeed.
TimT
26 Oct 12 at 3:30 pm
Token: That would be because he was taking advantage of “Early Voting”. There’s no such requirement when voting on election day.
cratou
26 Oct 12 at 3:32 pm
That’s a very clever ad but how effective will it be for Obama? I suspect that those who are yet to pop their voting cherry might be encouraged to vote by it, but that’s all.
Nanuestalker
26 Oct 12 at 3:37 pm
first time with this dickhead would certainly be unforgettable
GeorgeL
26 Oct 12 at 4:05 pm
What do you know. Ol’ Mad Eyes, Sarah Hyphen-Young is only the second most whiney, annoying, self-righteous woman in the world.
H B Bear
26 Oct 12 at 4:07 pm
Oh no! Obama has the lesbian vote sewn up!
Seriously, does anyone think a young person watching that wouldn’t make gag reflex gestures? Both because it’s twee and patronizing and, fir young men, she’s a bit of a proto-lesbian dog?
No offense intended to dogs.
Abu Chowdah
26 Oct 12 at 4:29 pm
I had the same thought when Ms. Gillard said in her little rant that she was speaking for Australian women.
They get stuck in to people for being ‘sexist’, then they believe they can become the voice of women. In their world, what particular voice is that? Isn’t that ‘sexist’?
Ellen of Tasmania
26 Oct 12 at 4:30 pm
I have never seen that disgusting Greens ad before. This is just typical of the greens- they are a totally statist party. By conflating voting: a public act, to sex: a private act, they are showing that, for them, there are no boundaries to the power the wish to exercise at all.
The law used to define it’s limits as stopping at the door of the house until the development of Family Law in the 1970′s with the power of feminist and marxist legal theory as battering rams to knock those doors down. I’m not saying there weren’t some cockroaches that needed to be seen in the light of day. But the law recognises its limits.
There are no limits to the power that the Green’s want for themselves in the state they want to create; for our own good of course. “Picture a jackboot stamping on a human face forever.”
MT Isa Miner
26 Oct 12 at 4:59 pm
“Discussion of Obama’s feverishly-imagined-by-clueless-deep-right-fantasists deep left background”
FTFY
Jarrah
26 Oct 12 at 5:05 pm
Like I said, it reeks of incest.
.
26 Oct 12 at 5:10 pm
Jarrah, perhaps you should calm down, after all, I had to correct you in your mistaken belief the Economist is non-partisan, and it overtly backed Obama, which you didn’t know but presumed was incorrect.
Obama has a deep left background.
The end.
.
26 Oct 12 at 5:11 pm
Ah, yes, Blazing Saddles. I stand corrected.
The Beer Whisperer
26 Oct 12 at 5:19 pm
Me too. Ever since I sat on my biro.
Ooh Honey Honey
26 Oct 12 at 5:48 pm
“Possibly, but I doubt it. Any changes championed by the White House will have to run the gauntlet of lobbyists and Congress, as well as public and court opinion.”
But that’s the reason why the US would be a different place @Jarrah. If things continue on the current trajectory budget-wise the US will be a very different place in 4 years, especially if Obama no longer has to worry about getting re-elected…
scotty
26 Oct 12 at 5:57 pm
She looks a bit like hairdresser Tim’s daughter. Very few girls want to look and be like that. Also, big shoulder tats like that don’t come with virginity. They come with ‘I’ve got problems’. So does the rapid rave speak. Hazard alert.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
26 Oct 12 at 6:10 pm
In some quarters the koolaid is still fizzy but for anyone else wanting train suppressing their gag reflex:
Obama and the Road Ahead: The Rolling Stone Interview (and cover story)
In an Oval Office conversation with a leading historian, the president discusses what he would do with a second term – and his opponent’s embrace of ‘the most extreme positions in the Republican Party’
JamesK
26 Oct 12 at 6:13 pm
Charles Krauthammer, in his Wa-Po column today tears strips out of his President on his debate performance earlier in the week: Obama stoops, doesn’t conquer
L’etat, c’est moi.” — Louis XIV
“This nation. Me.” — Barack Obama
JamesK
26 Oct 12 at 6:31 pm
Generally true Mt Isa, but does it follow that a root amongst the gumtrees is a private act made public or viceversa, or, if with a green, an act of solipsism?
cohenite
26 Oct 12 at 6:38 pm
JamesK: I’m sure there are some ideologues who do think his record’s impressive. However, the fact that he’s not running on his record and is running as the anti-Romney candidate is instructive. Most people think his record stinks, and he knows it.
Also let’s consider the difference between what he promised and what he’s delivered. Only ideologues wouldn’t hold him to that. Remember his ‘one term proposition’ interview? Going on the state of the US economy, by his own words, his Presidency should be a one term proposition.
Oh come on
26 Oct 12 at 6:39 pm
Greens ad: 2010
Putin ad: 2012
Obama ad: 2012.
It looks like the Australian Greens ad was the original, and Putin and Obama both borrowed from that.
Bad idea. The Greens can get away with it because they’re a fringe party with a niche following, but Obama’s trying to win the hearts of the middle class.
Also, this crass attempt to rekindle the Obama 2008 vibe will surely backfire. Advertising that Obama is a sex symbol is surely the fastest way to destroy his sex-symbol status.
dd
26 Oct 12 at 7:39 pm
Not for Putin.
jupes
26 Oct 12 at 7:43 pm
I agree Lizzie.
She looks like a cheap ugly chubby slag.
JamesK
26 Oct 12 at 7:44 pm
I hasten to add, she could be sweet, charming, shy and mysterious.
But this is less likely
JamesK
26 Oct 12 at 7:47 pm
Breeanne Howe at Redstate has more on this.
but she adds,
dd
26 Oct 12 at 7:55 pm
Obama and Putin’s publicists could very well have come up with the idea independently of the Greens DD – it’s not so original as all that.
TimT
27 Oct 12 at 9:23 am
Rather than SHY, why didn’t they get a nobody?
Oh, wait
kae
27 Oct 12 at 10:20 am
On the subject of apology tours:
Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock aren’t outliers. Banning abortion for rape victims is the new Republican mainstream.
SteveC
27 Oct 12 at 3:36 pm
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