Media ignores Obama’s failing focus on liberal social issues (like the new campaign video featuring Planned Parenthood CEO)
Here’s how it is for socially conservative Republican politicians.
If they broach the topic of abortion, liberals howl, “It’s the economy, stupid!” and proclaim them obsessed with divisive social issues.
And if they focus on fiscal issues, the media asks them questions about social issues and proclaim them obsessed anyway.
Now we have Barack Obama sinking in the polls only after making gay marriage, free contraception, and “choice” the centerpieces of his campaign, and the media doesn’t notice. It cannot be that a Democrat could possibly suffer politically by focusing on social issues. This narrative is reserved solely for Republicans.
The latest example of Obama’s preoccupation with social issues is a two-minute video featuring Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards (who’s looking a little weathered), posted at BarackObama.com/Women on May 17…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cFc-4TSLvo[/youtube]
Before that, as documented by LiveAction.org’s David Schmidt on May 4, the Obama campaign began running web ads aimed at supporters of “choice”…
The barackobama.com/stand-for-women site is already gone, presumably replaced by barackobama.com/women.
At the new site you can get a free Women for Obama bumper sticker, but only if you’re a woman who believes in the “right to choose.”
(I just ordered one so as to make the campaign waste money on me.)
But where’s the media? As I wrote last week, Obama has been bombing in the polls among women ever since he started trying to attract them to himself via supposed women’s issues, including cradle-to-grave government patriarchy.
This is a story. But it’s not.
It is also a story that President Obama would cut an advocacy video for Planned Parenthood Action Fund, when Planned Parenthood is under federal investigation. It’s like making a video to support Solyndra.
It’s a story that President Obama would cut a video for that political action committee in the White House and with “www.WHITEHOUSE.gov” at the end – an official presidential video. Had President Bush done the same for the Susan B. Anthony List, would the media not have noticed?
Would the media not notice if Mitt Romney suddenly decided to make the pro-life and marriage issues the focal point of his campaign – and immediately sank in the polls?
Nevertheless, it’s still a fact.
So Cecile, keep making those videos.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
…”Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards (who’s looking a little weathered)”…
Researchers have not yet identified a ‘gay’ gene [unless you count homosexual Anglican Bishop, Vicki Gene Robinson] but I do believe missy Richards carries the ‘wrinkle’ gene, which she inherited it from her mom, the former governess of Texas, Ma ‘wrinkles’ Richards.
On an UN-related note: “This narrative is resolved solely for Republicans.”
I believe you intended this to read, ‘This narrative is reserved solely for Republicans.’
i went to the utube page where this video is located to try to post my opinion….they are censoring on it….i wrote:
what about the rights of pre-born women…statistics show that roughly 2 of every 3 babys that would be born are girls….what about their health care options? Europe is suffering from a negative birth rate which means there are not enough babies being born to replace the population. In many places in the world families are opting for the choice to have a boy instead of a girl. what kind of a future is it going to be where there are not enough women to have children.
Maybe Cecile needs to use some of that wrinkle cream made from aborted baby parts.
I ordered a bumper sticker for my garbage!
I also asked all my facebook friends to do the same.
Ken – whoops, thanks, fixed!
GK Chesterton said it: When the real revolution comes, you won’t read about it in the papers.
Here it is and there they aren’t, just as GCK prophesied!
@ken,
Wrinkles are just a part of being a grown-up middle-age fetus. I’m damn proud of my wrinkles.
“Now we have Barack Obama sinking in the polls”
– I don’t think somebody knows what “sinking in the polls” actually means.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html
Okay now, what’s the deal with that tinkling music in the video? Isn’t that something you’d hear over a baby’s crib?
Creepy! But, what would you expect?
Maybe Cecile needs to use some of that wrinkle cream made from aborted baby parts.
Don’t give her any ideas. She does remind me of Elizabeth Bathory.
I’m going to order a bumper sticker to save for my future great grandchildren as proof that it really was once legal for a mother to kill her own child.
When GWB was president, WhiteHouse.gov was a place to get news about events at the White House and transcripts from various speeches. It was 100% informational, not political. Under Obama, since Day 1, it has been turned into an extension of BarackObama.com – It’s now a political campaign website. Naturally, this malfeasance is of no concern to the media.
“Obama has been bombing in the polls among women”
Really? Here’s this week’s NBC/Wall Street Journal poll results
“In the newest poll, Obama leads Romney among African Americans (88 percent to 2 percent), 18 to 34 year olds (55 percent to 35 percent), women (53 percent to 38 percent)”
“Under Obama, since Day 1, it has been turned into an extension of BarackObama.com – It’s now a political campaign website. Naturally, this malfeasance is of no concern to the media.”
Seriously! Where is the uproar that Obama has inserted himself into the biographies of former presidents! I just can’t get over how completely inappropriate that is.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/05/15/obama-drops-his-name-into-presidential-biographies/
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, as a woman, Obama and Cecile Richards do NOT speak for ME.
Ex-GOP says:
“Now we have Barack Obama sinking in the polls”
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Haha! I thought you wrote “Barack Obama stinking in the polls.”
In spite of all the hyperbole, Obama needs to pick up the ground he has lost among likely voters if he hopes to win November. There is good reason for his campaign to panic.
I think he sees that women value their religious freedom more than they want insurance coverage for contraception. He is attempting to court Catholics without stepping in the poop of his HHS mandate against us. I may be the first one saying this, but it looks like he’s trying to win back the Catholic women whom he has insulted.
After everyone orders the “Women for Obama” stickers replace Women with something more appropriate such as Child Predators, Dead Voters, or Undocumented Democrats.
Aww, Susie Allen beat me to it. I was going to say, “Maybe Cecil Richards needs to use some age-defying wrinkle cream made from aborted fetus cells for her aging feminist face” ;)
As Cecile Richards says at the end of the video, ‘there is a clear choice’…..
Yes, there is a clear choice – life or death.
I’ll choose life!
Where did the other Obama QoD post go?
Which one, Elizabeth?