‘Real News From The Blaze’: The Life of Julia
- Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:00pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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Do you know Julia?
She hit the scene Thursday and is here to save the Obama campaign against big, mean, Mitt Romney.
“The Life of Julia” is a 12-part slideshow posted on the official Obama/Biden campaign website Thursday, that illustrates an American girl trying to maker her way through life encountering at each stage a situation where things would be seemingly much easier with the policies of Barack Obama, as opposed to Mitt Romney. The slideshow doesn’t resist in taking jabs at “The Romney/Ryan budget,” giving thanks to Obamacare for allowing 25-year-olds to stay on their parents insurance, and knocking Mitt Romney’s decision to support the Blunt Amendment–”Which would place Julia’s health care decisions in the hands of her employer.”
As in, force her employer to take on the additional costs of covering her birth control.
Since its release the glorified powerpoint presentation has predictably been a hot topic of discussion among political commentators.
“Let’s, for the purposes of this post, set aside the misleading generalizations regarding policy in the ad (no one is innocent on that account, obviously),” Human Events’s David Harsanyi writes in his column Thursday “Who the hell is ‘Julia,’ and why am I paying for her whole life?”
“What we are left with is a celebration of a how a woman can live her entire life by leaning on government intervention, dependency and other people’s money rather than her own initiative or hard work. It is, I’d say, implicitly un-American, in the sense that it celebrates a mindset we have — outwardly, at least — shunned.”
“Obama is setting forward a vision contrary to the American tradition of self-sufficiency–a welfare state that runs from cradle to grave, ” James Taranto writes on WSJ.com, going on to slam the slideshow for its presentation of Julia as a mother, never mentioning whether or not the composite girl got married.
“‘The Life of Julia’ is an insidious attack on the institution of the family, an endorsement of bureaugamy even for middle-class women,” Taranto writes.
The “Real News” panel Friday was also unmoved by “The Life of Julia.”
“We always talk about the cradle to the grave society,” Andrew Wilkow said Friday. “Here it is.
“The choices that we are being given under this dynamic are either central planning or Nihilism.”
Matt McCall noted that the $10,000 grant to Julia for college from President Obama’s American Opportunity Tax Credit featured in the ad, which Mitt Romney would allow to expire, is not much to celebrate considering how far $2,500 a year will get you with today’s tuition ranging from $40,000 to $50,000 a year.
“Ten thousands dollars, I hate to break it to you President Obama, is not going to change her decision (to go to college),” McCall said.
As the discussion progressed through the stages of Julia’s life, it became clear that while the ad art may only be so-so, “The Life of Julia’s” message is a fantastic illustration of the entitlement society which conservatives stand against.
“At no point do we see Julia taking control of her own life,” Wilkow noted.
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Comments (55)
AHarst
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:53pmHey, I don’t need a man! Big ol’ government will be my Sugar Daddy!
Report Post »Kathleen
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 3:35pmJulia divorces her Sugar Daddy Government who keeps her hooked on ‘benefits’
Julia’s new independant life of freedom
http://blog.heritage.org/a-better-life-for-julia/
Report Post »Anamah
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 3:53pmWhat a sad woman’s life! She is the hands of big brother, a prisoner of the Federal government, from birth to death. Julia can not pursuit happiness she has not incentives at all, a flat life with not goals, she has not even a husband!!! The whole thing is a Progressive, castrated and unamerican idea! Maybe she has a hidden sister, Jane, who wants to escape, looking for permission to enter as a refugee in China?… Russia? Egypt? South Africa? No, there will not be then a host country; nobody giving her to asylum. In that new country of Julia, Jane will useless try to escape..If the USA disappear it won’t be another country in the entire world to save anybody. No country with a exceptional Constitution to ensure freedom and opportunity to all citizens; no country as one time America was. This is a very sickening project.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 11:51amJulia, like our President loves rap music. She enjoys her life being called a “ho”.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 11:10amJulia sounds like a lazy, whining brat that lives off of other peoples sweat. Oh wait, there’s a whole Obama voting block doing exactly that already.
Report Post »Stiggs
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 9:47amThis Julia-scenario will not work at all because there will be no funding for it in the end without taxpayers, the source of government monies. It’s all a big lie and doomed to failure. This only purpose of this Julia-BS is to manipulate stupid people to vote for another lie, another broken promise. If it sounds to good to be true – it’s a scam.
Duh…
Report Post »4blackhorses
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 8:12pmThere is no funding for it despite what the government takes in from taxpayers. Every year the government spends more than a trillion dollars than what it collects in taxes!
Report Post »boyd9
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 11:46amThere is a slide missing from the Julia slideshow, it is developed by looking at what is actually happening in Greece, Spain, and other European countries. This slide shows Julia rioting in the street because Obama has run out of others peoples money and can no longer keep the promises he made to her in order to buy her vote.
Report Post »DCSKIHOG
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 7:15amThis country has descended into a quagmire of government fools who think in cartoons and believe voters can be convinced by cartoons.
Report Post »rsanchez1
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:11amRemember girls, you can aspire to be a web designer with all expenses paid trip through life paid for by Obama. What, you want to aspire to be a CEO of a major technology company like Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina? Silly girls, we don’t associate with the 1%.
Report Post »Bigolfascist
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:06amSeems like since julia is going from 3 to 67 years old, and they keep talking about Barry in the present tense, he has plans to be President for life! That’s the subliminal story here.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 6:36amDid you also notice they don’t start until age 3? What happens in Obama’s world if a 2 year old gets sick? I had a fever of 107.9 (that’s not a typo) at 20 months. Turned out to be not only rheumatic fever but a kidney/bladder infection from 3 kidneys. Cass Sustein doesn’t believe a life is worth anything until age 2 or 3.
Also, it ends at 67. Isn’t the life expectancy for women much higher than that? After 67, your life is not useful anymore and if you get sick Obama will give you pain meds and send you to a government run nursing home.
Report Post »Legal Immigrant
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:53pmAt birth Julia was selected as a “token caucasian woman for useful idiot and political propaganda” purposes.
At 6 Julia had won 3 state awards for her artists rendition of the Caucasian recycling centers.
At 12 Julia received her first burkha and genital mutilation.
By 18, Julia was a successful mass murderer, having aborted a President, two doctors, a teacher and a Minister by using abortion as birth control.
By 45 Julia had made her first million dollars by defrauding entitlement programs.
At 75 Julia died intestate in a state-run euthanasia clinic.
Report Post »Comeandtakeit
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:49pmCheck out the Real Julia:
Report Post »http://www.tyrannyslain.com/
RedDirtTexas
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 4:23pmI could not be more proud! I’m working in and around Gonzales in the Eagle Ford Shale and have read that story, at the museum I believe. And of course the cannon, hence your handle, and the 42 who rode in response to Travis’ call. You have the true spirit my friend! Made my day. Think I’ll haunt the Longbranch for a cold Bud or two tonight!
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:33pmWhen a population isn’t even smart enough to detect a marxist poser such as BHO than it deserves what it gets!
Report Post »bestartist
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:24pmpoor Julia, lurching one entitlement to another, totally unable to self actualize or bring home the bacon and then cook it up in the pan…not even independent/cool enough to be in an old Virginia Slims ad. If George Clooney doesn’t hurry up and ask her out for a date…looks like all she has to look forward is a life of cats, recycling and being an OWS supporter….and it’s the Republicans who are having the War on Women? Julia is a boring frump….she needs to get a life…real women don’t depend on the Nanny State.
Report Post »bombshelterbob
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:48pmBestartist;
You missed the most important inference of the Obama social policy. Between the aggressive birth control measures and unbridled abortion factories, poor Julia NEVER would have made it to a third birthday.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 6:42amAlso with so many free abortions being used as birth control, she never would have been able to conceive. I had a friend in high school who had 3 abortions, using them as birth control, who, when she wanted to conceive, couldn’t.
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:22pmI Love Julia! Julia will be BHO’s undoing:)
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:52pmIt would please me very much if the potus clarifies more and more what it is he wishes to offer Americans. A clear choice, then we can see where the people wish to take the country.
Report Post »marhee9
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:07pmI agree Stoic One, the more he exposes the true agenda, the more Americans that care will turn away from his destructive policies. If there is anything good about his Presidency it’s how much of the liberal mindset that has actually been put under a spotlight.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVXFGTUNDjE
desertpirate1955
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:45pmI hope that everyone who votes, first sees this “Life of Julia” piece. If Obama still gets re-elected, then we truly DO have a problem.
Report Post »frust@ted
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:40pmI can’t wait for a good response to this that shows the life of Julia as the country goes bankrupt and sharia law becomes the law of the land, because of President Obama’s policies.
It is clear that this administration thinks that women voters are the key to winning this election.
Report Post »frust@ted
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:38pmI really hope everyone goes through the entire slide show. This is just horrid propaganda, it’s based on false premises and the assumption that we are still goint to be able to get other countries to buy are bonds to fund these programs.
Also what a sad picture it paints that you cannot “do” without the government. Whatever happend to “Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country”
Report Post »RougeFastFingers
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:38pmI bet Joe Biden thought it up.
This idea is incredibly inept, even for Obama.
Talk about handing the right ammo, they just gave them an arsenal.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:18pmI remember in the 90′s there was a “fax-machine“ joke that was sent around showing the title ”Life-Stages or “Life Cycle”(something like that)”. Baby girl & the images of youth,middle-age & were silhouette & around 60 yrs old the subject starts aging & more years pass & shows a silhouette of about 3 more stages & she becomes more bent-over & with a cane & the final picture has a word caption, “Well, that sucked”. Now a new twist, government “the designer” and not “God is the Designer” Reminds me of a joke: Doctors waiting room & first time patient & every patient comes out after doctor has seen them & they say he is a “miracle-worker” etc..Old lady with a cane, so bent over it was pitiful. Old lady comes out after visit with doctor and standing straight & tall. New patient asks,”the doctor does perform miracles..how did he do it ?”..Old lady,“he gave me a longer cane”.
Report Post »Stand-up America. Throw-away that “Obama Cane”!
Razlord
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:34pmUS should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations
UN‘s correspondent on indigenous peoples urges government to act to combat ’racial discrimination’ felt by Native Americans,
Chris McGreal in Washington
Report Post »guardian.co.uk, Friday 4 May 2012 18.46 EDT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/04/us-stolen-land-indian-tribes-un
lukerw
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:38pmThere are No Native Americans: American Indians are Asians who came to America!
Report Post »trueamerican40
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:34pmEmperor BO doesn’t care. His agenda is power, absolute power. Nietsche states that in his book.
Report Post »Razlord
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:33pmUS should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations
UN‘s correspondent on indigenous peoples urges government to act to combat ’racial discrimination’ felt by Native Americans
Report Post »drudge.com
Stoic one
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:59pmThe USA should do this and no other country? Reparations all the way to the dawn of history?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:57pmThis is the typical insanity of the so0called social justice crowd as in – give me something because my ancestors suffered ” injustices.” Whaa. Gimme stuff. ( what will they do about the Muslim and Africans who sold people into slavery ? How will those guys get served a plate of social justice since their crimes did not involve land ? ) Make no mistake this is all about revenge . This is all about getting land . Remember what has happened in Zimbabwe: they took land from the white farmers, broke up bountiful crop producing farms, and gave the land to poor natives to farm. Guess what ? No more crops because these new farmers either did not know how or did not want to be bothered to work their little plots. Just another “ great” idea . Based on “revenge” and done without good thought. End result : bad for EVERYONE.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:31pmInteresting sidelight on this : Obama’s father was raised by and was. himself, a fellow who had some real issues over white , European colonialism in Africa. The Dreams of Obama’ father , am sure, included a big batch of anger / social justice as well as the fact that the father was never terribly successful. THEN , bi-racial Obama grew up in Hawaii. Native Hawaiians have real anger issues, to this day, over their loss of native lands to Dole and capitalist America. The white issue always gets put into the mix. Am sure those years in Hawaii were fertile ground for Obama’s anger toward white ” colonialist/ capitalists. “
Report Post »barber2
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:33pmThe Obama Administration : Hollywood invades Washington ,D.C. All Smoke and Mirrors . The Teleprompter. Air Force One travel. The teleprompter . Videos. The Mega Bus, Ground Force One. The Giddy , Mesmerized Media . David Letterman Show. The View. Showmanship. The teleprompter. One gets visions of the Wizard of Oz who operates behind the curtain while Obama’s face flashes large upon the screen. Disneyland. Fantasyland. All phony. Looks real but no substance. Smoke and mirrors. All planned. All organized. All scripted.
Report Post »cookcountypatriot
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:26pmfluke julie
Report Post »wianno94
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:26pmJulia is representative of a composite of women. Barack Obama’s girfriend was of composite of plastic resins that had to be blown up.
Report Post »inblack
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:20pmIF JULIA CAN’T GET A JOB, HER LIFE WILL SUCK!
50% of College grads are NOT getting jobs in their field.
50% is the only number that matters.
Obama is in denial.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:48pmAnd yours is just the message the Republicans need to get out there into the distraction world of the Obama campaign! Also if there are no jobs, there will be fewer taxes which means that the Democrats’ Magic Money Tree will also disappear ! Poor Julia….what ever will she do then ?
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:17pmMy 12 year old did better power points in the 5th grade. Clueless, inept, lack of vision, lack of research, outright lying bunch of dweebs. I’m surprised they have been able to cause so much harm. They must of had help.
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