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Ewww, the poutrage! This from a party that practically condones rape? Really??
Lena Dunham's 'your first time' Obama ad: Too racy?
President Obama's campaign puts out an ad with the young HBO star implicitly comparing voting to sex. Obama critics aren't amused
posted on October 26, 2012, at 4:59 AM
HBO star Lena Dunham says your first time voting should be with someone "who brought the troops out of Iraq."
The video: President Obama's re-election campaign released a slightly risqué TV ad on Thursday from Lena Dunham, the creator and star of the hit HBO series Girls. Almost immediately, Twitter and conservative blogs erupted in outrage. In the get-out-the-vote video (watch below), Dunham, 26, offers an extended double entendre about how voting for the first time is like losing your virginity. "Your first time shouldn't be with just anybody," she says. "You want to do it with a great guy." She then explains why she thinks Obama's policies are good for women and concludes her "edgy, feminist monologue" by talking about her first time... voting, when she cast her ballot in 2008 for Obama.
The reaction: This "cheap, last minute attempt" to win over young voters reeks of desperation, says Breeanne Howe at Red State. Dunham "must somewhat be forgiven for her role; she seems to have a thing for talking about her first time." But what excuse does Obama have for exploiting that? He's "an adult man, with two young daughters, who should know better." As "unabashed fans of ascendant auteur" Dunham, "we watched and highly enjoyed her adorable new campaign ad," says L.V. Anderson at Slate. It won't win over many older, more conservative voters (or bloggers) it was never meant to but it's solid "proof of the Democrats' savvy in appealing to the portion of the population that some might describe as hipsters." The voting virginity angle is "a clever conceit," says Joshua Keating at Foreign Policy, but hardly a new one. In fact, essentially "the same joke was used in an ad for Vladimir Putin's presidential campaign earlier this year."
Watch Dunham's take @ link~
http://theweek.com/article/index/235467/lena-dunhams-your-first-time-obama-ad-too-racy
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,962 posts)Oh the hugh manatee!
lunatica
(53,410 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,426 posts)Cicada
(4,533 posts)She isn't talking to old fogies like me. She's talking to people under 30, mostly under 23. And they enjoy talk about sex. It's a great ad even if it makes folks like me nervous.
Cha
(297,496 posts)"old fogie" to another
RomneyLies
(3,333 posts)and so is Lena Dunham.
Wounded Bear
(58,685 posts)The idea that it pisses off Republicans and "moralists" is just icing on the cake.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Jennicut
(25,415 posts)Young people have sex. And they vote! How dare they.
Conservatives need to get their panties out of a wad. This is a 26 year old woman. At 26, my mother was married with a kid already. I got married at 25.
This ad was funny and cute to me.
Columbus Free Press
(141 posts)They want young white women to have sex and vote. With and for Republicans. Within in the framework of a monogamous relationship. See Binders.
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)Never with Republicans.
avebury
(10,952 posts)people's attention.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)I don't see how even the most prudish could be offended, unless they are out looking and hoping to find something they can pretend to be offended by.
GETTINGTIRED
(330 posts)They don't have anything near as effective and appealing to young people as this,
blazeKing
(329 posts)She's really cute too
Cause some trouble all you ladies out there...make em squirm
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)shireen
(8,333 posts)I liked it.
I don't understand the outrage.
But when it comes to this election, there's a lot of stuff i don't understand and find deeply troubling.
fujiyama
(15,185 posts)Wow, this country really is prudish.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)And it speaks the language of young people. I know. I work in UC Berkeley so I'm surrounded by smart young people. They won't even notice anything that could be considered odd about it.
WallaceRitchie
(242 posts)Republicans think if your FIRST TIME was rape, it was God's Will.
Then they think your SECOND TIME should be via Transvaginal Ultrasound.
krawhitham
(4,645 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,208 posts)They turned out pretty well in 2008 - 46% - but that's expected to go down and that would hurt Obama more than Romney.
WeekendWarrior
(1,437 posts)spent more than three seconds watching TV.