The Obama campaign’s Julia site is an attempt to show the benefits of the different social programs created or protected by the Obama Administration by tracking a fictional woman, Julia, through different stages of her life. I’m too marinated in politics, not to mention too used to having a penis, to know how it will strike the target audience. But something must be right about it, since it’s got Morning Joe making asshole remarks:
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough: “Who brushes her teeth?”
Interestingly enough, after micturating on the parts where Julia’s behavior strays outside the lines of the Catholic Bishops’ color-by-numbers plan for non-orgasmic women who preserve their precious sexuality for procreation, Douthat seems to like it:
The condescension inherent in this vision is apparent in every step of Julia’s pilgrimage toward a community-gardening retirement. But in an increasingly atomized society, where communities and families are weaker than ever before, such a vision may have more appeal — to both genders — than many of the conservatives mocking the slide show might like to believe.
Translation: proles like Pell Grants, low-interest Student Loans, insurance policies that cover birth control, Medicare and Social Security, and when you give them five minutes to think about how losing some or all of those things might affect their lives, they may just vote for Democrats.