[video=youtube;o6G3nwhPuR4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6G3nwhPuR4[/video]
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President Obama's campaign is out with an eyebrow-raising new ad targeting young voters in which Lena Dunham, the creator of the HBO hit series 'Girls,' compares her first voting experience to losing her virginity.
'Your first time shouldn’t be with just anybody,' Dunham, 26, says in the ad. 'You want to do it with a great guy.'
Dunham goes on to explain that 'your first time' should be with 'someone who really cares about and understands women; A guy who cares whether you get health insurance and specifically whether you get birth control.'
'The consequences are huge,' she continues.
Dunham wraps up the Obama ad by describing her coming-of-age experience at the voting booth.
'It was this line in the sand,' she says. 'Before, I was a girl. Now, I was a woman. I went to the polling station, I pulled back the curtain, I voted for Barack Obama.'
[b]Your first time shouldn't be with just anybody,' Dunham, 26, says in the ad. 'You want to do it with a great guy'[/b]
Dunham has amassed a cult following among 20-somethings as the creator and starring actress in the HBO hit series, 'Girls.' She has been widely dubbed the 'voice of a generation' for her show's hilarious representation of life as a middle-to-upper-class millennial living in New York City.
The young star is one of many celebrities that the Obama campaign is calling on to try and reach and inspire young people, whose record-breaking turnout on Election Day four years ago was critical to Obama's victory in 2008. Obama needs similar turnout among young people on Election Day this year to win re-election.
Dunham's tongue-in-cheek references to losing her virginity are not lost on Republicans, many of whom say they are outraged by the ad and call it 'disgusting.'
Lena Dunham is one of many celebrities that the Obama campaign is calling on to try and reach and inspire young people ahead of Election Day
'Talk about desperation,' a conservative blogger wrote on 'The Right Scoop.'
'They've finally sunken to a new low trying to get the youth vote by comparing voting for the first time to having sex for the first time.'
RedState editor-in-chief and CNN contributor Erick Erickson wrote, 'If you need any further proof we live in a fallen world destined for hell fire, consider the number of people who have no problem with the President of the United States, via a campaign ad, ridiculing virgins and comparing sex to voting.'
He said the only honest part of the ad is that Obama's 2008 supporters 'have been screwed -- economically.'
Fox News analyst and conservative author Monica Crowley called the ad 'sick' and 'degrading' on Twitter.
'Of the many sick things about this degrading Lena Dunham "lose your virginity to Barack" ad? The left thinks it's "empowering" to women,' she wrote.
Conservative blogger John Nolte of Breitbart News added: 'How could a president with two young, blossoming daughters release an ad as disgusting as this?'[/quote]
Source:
[url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223316/Lena-Dunham-says-time-Obama-US-election-video-paid-Presidents-campaign.html[/url]
A real source:
[url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/10/26/lena-dunham-talks-about-first-time-for-obama/[/url]
Some fox content:
[url]http://nation.foxnews.com/monica-crowley/2012/10/25/monica-crowley-tweets-ad-super-gross[/url]
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God, he has a great campaign, you have to give him that.
Not always great positive, but still, great from a distant point of view.
I can't wait for the campaign is over and there's not a new FP thread for every new Obama ad made.
Didn't putin do this too
[img]http://puu.sh/1j2ys[/img]
Fucking lmao
People have no sense of humor nowadays.
[QUOTE=smurfy;38197623][IMG]http://puu.sh/1j2ys[/IMG]
Fucking lmao[/QUOTE]
Its funny because its pretty much how republicans see women.
[QUOTE=codemaster85;38197707]Its funny because its pretty much how repbulicans see women.[/QUOTE]
Binders fulla women.
I saw this before I saw the real ad and was confused as hell.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ497HEa9Y4&feature=ytfce[/media]
I find it to be a real stretch to be comparing these two things.
Obama is my special guy. :)
Oh fuck
[img]http://i.imgur.com/PffvS.png[/img]
The two evils have joined forces. This is the end of all things
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[QUOTE=newbz;38198164]Health care and birth control are important for men too. :'([/QUOTE]
obongo is misandrist!!!
[QUOTE=smurfy;38198097]Oh fuck
[img]http://i.imgur.com/PffvS.png[/img]
The two evils have joined forces. This is the end of all things[/QUOTE]
Clearly the world must end.
[QUOTE=Megafan;38198249]Clearly the world must end.[/QUOTE]Agreed. I'll go teabag Putin while draped in the stars and stripes, you fist Obama while wearing a ushanka.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;38198311]I know that's satire, but I can't help but get annoyed each time I read it, because Republicans actually do think of him like that.[/QUOTE]
I actually googled Obongo after posting that... it's even worse than I thought :(
Hahaha no, no please stop.
Conservatives are not allowed to tell "liberals" what is and isn't sexist.
[QUOTE=smurfy;38198097]Oh fuck
[img]http://i.imgur.com/PffvS.png[/img]
The two evils have joined forces. This is the end of all things[/QUOTE]
God help us if RT joins the mix.
I thought her show Girls was crap, but this ad was pretty good. She's one of those people who mostly annoys me, but is occasionally funny.
The only offensive thing possible is the name of the video. Watching it removes any sort of complications or possible offences.
What if you lost your virginity in a voting booth voting for your first time?
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;38198662]What if you lost your virginity in a voting booth voting for your first time?[/QUOTE]
That would give a whole new meaning to "politicians fuck the people over"
The only thing offensive about that ad is how laughably stupid it is.
Obongo bongo bongo I don't wanna loose my virginity in the jungle, oh no-no-no-no
From what I've heard, this isn't even an official ad for Obama. It's just Lena Dunham making a tongue-in-cheek video showing her support for Obama that everyone's assuming is a real ad.
Either way, though, the hypocrisy coming from the right is HILARIOUS.
God damn, political adverts in the US are horrifying. It's like High School tit-for-tat crap, except everyone has to take is seriously.
A bit questionable, but brilliant nonetheless
What the fuck, american politics are fucking retarded
I think it's just really dumb. It's not really sexist, but not actually a good ad either.
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