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Video: The Life of Emily
Hot Air
Ed Morrissey
6/11/2012
Excerpt:
"Last month, the Obama campaign tried to sell women — especially younger, single women — a life of government dependency in its unwittingly Orwellian “Life of Julia.” Even women inclined to support Barack Obama objected to the characterization of women as wards of the state. Polling results two weeks later showed that Obama lost significant ground among the demographics he had hoped to improve, and ever since, the Obama campaign has apparently relegated the eyeless, mouthless “Julia” to the Island of Misfit Campaign Mascots.
That doesn’t mean that critics have forgotten “Julia,” though. A new video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity features Emily O’Neill, who accurately deconstructs the message from Team Obama within the first minute, with devastating impact. Emily then proposes an alternate reality, called “The Life of Emily,” which relies on hard work, good economic choices, and rejects the need for a Hubby State for young American women — such as herself:
View the complete article, including video, at:
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/06/1...life-of-emily/
Hot Air
Ed Morrissey
6/11/2012
Excerpt:
"Last month, the Obama campaign tried to sell women — especially younger, single women — a life of government dependency in its unwittingly Orwellian “Life of Julia.” Even women inclined to support Barack Obama objected to the characterization of women as wards of the state. Polling results two weeks later showed that Obama lost significant ground among the demographics he had hoped to improve, and ever since, the Obama campaign has apparently relegated the eyeless, mouthless “Julia” to the Island of Misfit Campaign Mascots.
That doesn’t mean that critics have forgotten “Julia,” though. A new video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity features Emily O’Neill, who accurately deconstructs the message from Team Obama within the first minute, with devastating impact. Emily then proposes an alternate reality, called “The Life of Emily,” which relies on hard work, good economic choices, and rejects the need for a Hubby State for young American women — such as herself:
View the complete article, including video, at:
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/06/1...life-of-emily/