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Ex News anchor says that Obama's campaign to win the women vote is "condescending" and "embarrassing". Is she right?

Assassin~ Badass Buzz Guru 2012/05/21 14:09:04
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President Obama's recent outreach to women voters has won him strong support in polls, but former CNN and NBC anchor Campbell Brown says in an op-ed column published Sunday that the effort "so far has seemed maddeningly off point."


Brown wrote in The New York Times
that Obama is "trying too hard" to win the women's vote. "He’s
employing a tone that can come across as grating and even condescending.
He really ought to drop it," she said. "Most women don’t want to be
patted on the head or treated as wards of the state. They simply want to
be given a chance to succeed based on their talent and skills."


Brown charged that the women she
knows "couldn’t be further from the fictional character of Julia,
presented in Mr. Obama’s Web ad, “The Life of Julia,”
a silly and embarrassing caricature based on the assumption that women
look to government at every meaningful phase of their lives for help."

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  • bill 2012/05/21 20:45:04
    Yes, she is right.
    bill
    Obama wants everyone to think women are treated like second-class citizens in this country, and they have to be protected by the State!
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  • Met 2012/05/21 19:36:28
    No, she is wrong.
    Met
    +1
    The Women on fox news are condescending and embarrassing to independent women around the country.
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  • Rebel Yell 2012/05/21 18:27:02
    No, she is wrong.
    Rebel Yell
    +1
    Campbell Brown is one smart lady. She knows full well why Team Obama went with the Julia character. They knew she would attract howling Republicans like a magnet, and that in turn would cause other people to access the site. It worked like a charm. Now Republicans are probably trying to find a similar draw.

    Even without Julia, the GOP with its ongoing moral rants, which Pope Santorum really placed in the spotlight, was doing its best to highlight abortion and birth control and single moms and transvaginal probing. Of course Team Obama will work that to its advantage. No doubt about it.
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  • Huntclan 2012/05/21 18:13:11
    Yes, she is right.
    Huntclan
    First of all, being of the other gender (of which there are two) I have been told by many a feminist that I cannot speak for wimmin. So, any feminist who says Obie speaks for them is either admitting he's a fairy or a complete hypocrite.

    Having said that, I am of the opinion that Obie thinks less of wimmin then he does of men. In fact, I would go as far as to say he prefers men sexually too, but that is beside the point.

    This "Julia" thing, coupled with his misogynistic joke telling about Sarah P. shows what really lies beneath his mahogany skin. I think Moochelle is an controlling Amazon woman who instills Obie with resentment towards the fairer sex.
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  • mich52 2012/05/21 17:15:39 (edited)
    No, she is wrong.
    mich52
    +2
    I think she's wrong but I admit to not knowing anything about this stupid character "julia". It seems to me that with all the attacks on woman's rights by the GOP its be a shoe-in for Obama to get the women vote.
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  • ally mich52 2012/05/21 17:49:57 (edited)
    ally
    +1
    Agreed, mich. "The Real Life of Julia" is an Obama ad showing what a woman's life would be like under the Obama Admimistration as to what Romney's wouldn't do for her.


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  • mich52 ally 2012/05/21 19:09:39
    mich52
    Got it, so they (Cons.) even have to mis-represent ads too....
    lol They are so pathetic.
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  • ally mich52 2012/05/21 19:23:54
    ally
    They attack this one, but were willing to go ahead with a their race baiting hate rhetoric Jeremiah Right ad! Go figure!
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  • Elaine Magliacane 2012/05/21 16:26:32
    Yes, she is right.
    Elaine Magliacane
    +2
    You mean Julia... the fake woman who can't tie her shoes without her big Daddy government holding her hand from cradle to grave?
    sahMom
    DemsWar
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  • luvguins 2012/05/21 16:12:32
    No, she is wrong.
    luvguins
    +1
    She has NO credibility when married to a Romney senior advisor. There are a lot of successful Julias just because of government student loans for their education, and I am one of them. What else can Republicans do but deny the war on women when it is patently obvious with all the state and federal bills attacking womens reproductive rights, defunding Planned Parenthood, against equal pay, and now trying to water down renewal of the Violence against Women Act in the House. Even conservative women in Congress like Kay Bailey Hutchison, and Lisa Murkowski have criticized their fellow Republicans for focusing on this.
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  • No nons... luvguins 2012/05/21 16:52:39
    No nonsense NanC...don't BS me!
    +1
    You have a link for this info?
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  • luvguins No nons... 2012/05/21 17:27:40
    luvguins
    Which info?
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  • whitewulf--the unruly mobster 2012/05/21 16:06:00
  • ally 2012/05/21 15:35:07
    No, she is wrong.
    ally
    +3
    It's funny that after creating the attacks on women with bills and legislation, they are now claiming that Obama is the one who's "condecending to women".
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  • Melizmatic ally 2012/05/21 16:23:44
    Melizmatic
    +1
    This.
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  • Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆ 2012/05/21 15:28:34
    Yes, she is right.
    Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆
    +7
    Obama is condescending to everybody. He takes half the people for granted and regularly insults the other half.
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  • Tinka123 Temlako... 2012/05/21 17:03:33
    Tinka123
    Exactly. The repubs are no better - but that doesn't negate from the fact that Obama uses the same tactics.
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  • Maria 2012/05/21 14:59:32
    No, she is wrong.
    Maria
    +2
    that's stupid thing ever said..it is remind me of french talking and end up it was nothing...she ran out with idea..
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  • mk, Smartass Oracle 2012/05/21 14:58:24
    Yes, she is right.
    mk, Smartass Oracle
    +5
    He's a lot of bad things he doesn't show in public.




    Obama male chavenist pig
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  • Farnsworth 2012/05/21 14:53:11
    Yes, she is right.
    Farnsworth
    +4
    but in the end, she's a good Obamabot and will wander in and vote for Obama. So her words are meaningless.
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  • Cliff 2012/05/21 14:49:38 (edited)
    Yes, she is right.
    Cliff
    +6
    It's the same with his campaign to win black, Latino, homosexual and youth votes.
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  • FAWKES' NOOSE ~ ΔTX 2012/05/21 14:48:58
    No, she is wrong.
    FAWKES' NOOSE ~ ΔTX
    +4
    And we should listen to a failed anchor who was fired for poor ratings for what reason again? Isn't she the same wag who defended Sarah Palin by blaming McCain's advisors with the "Its your fault for picking her" line?
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  • Meako 2012/05/21 14:48:37
    No, she is wrong.
    Meako
    +3
    ummm Brown is married to one of Romneys top advisors.... what do you think she would say?? lmao....
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  • cc 2012/05/21 14:44:49
    Yes, she is right.
    cc
    +4
    I am a Women and Obama will get a NO Vote from me ......PS ... It's not working your little fake war on women as a matter of fact it's Pi**ing us off !
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  • FromJesus'sPerspective 2012/05/21 14:39:35
    No, she is wrong.
    FromJesus'sPerspective
    +3
    champagne glass bubbly

    I don't believe this party girl
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  • zbacku 2012/05/21 14:28:36
    Yes, she is right.
    zbacku
    +4
    http://www.sodahead.com/unite...
    I beat you on this one.
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  • Assassi... zbacku 2012/05/21 15:07:57
    Assassin~ Badass Buzz Guru
    LOL !! Sorry. I will come vote on yours. Thanks.
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  • keymanjim 2012/05/21 14:20:07
    Yes, she is right.
    keymanjim
    +5
    Obama's invented "war on [insert demographic you are trying to court]" isn't going to distract from his dismal failure as pResident.
    There is no way that boy is getting back in that office.
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  • Tinka123 2012/05/21 14:19:11
    Yes, she is right.
    Tinka123
    +5
    I mostly agree with her.
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  • ProudProgressive 2012/05/21 14:14:23
    No, she is wrong.
    ProudProgressive
    +4
    LOL it's funny how no one seems to want to acknowledge that Brown is married to Dan Senor, one of the top advisors to the Romney Campaign.
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  • zbacku ProudPr... 2012/05/21 14:29:26
    zbacku
    Campbell Brown did.
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  • ProudPr... zbacku 2012/05/21 14:35:43
    ProudProgressive
    +3
    Yeah, buried in paragraph 12. People usually don't read past the first few paragraphs and instead depend on "pundits" to tell them what was actually said. If she wanted to be honest it should have been ahead of paragraph one.
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  • Assassi... ProudPr... 2012/05/21 15:08:35
    Assassin~ Badass Buzz Guru
    +1
    Good Point.
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  • baboula 2012/05/21 14:12:19
    Yes, she is right.
    baboula
    +3
    Women are better than that and should demand better
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