Quick, hide under the covers. The nation’s storyteller,
Barack Obama, unveiled a frightening new fable on the Internet intended to
scare women away from supporting fiscal conservatives in November. But as is
increasingly common with Obama’s social-media propaganda initiatives, “The Life
of Julia” immediately flopped.
Why? Because 1) self-sufficient women voters aren’t as
sheeple-ish as Democratic strategists make them out to be, 2) conservative
activists are overtaking Obama’s zombie army online, 3) non-delusional
Americans don’t want cradle-to-grave utopians turning their country into the
next Greece or Spain, and 4) responsible grownups are getting sick and tired of
radical Saul Alinsky–style tall tales from the progressive Pied Piper.
Using snazzy graphics and interactive slideshow features,
BarackObama.com spins a glowing narrative of imaginary Julia’s life from age 3
to age 67. But “Julia” is a pathetic figment of the progressive imagination.
She simply cannot function without the lifelong intervention of federal
patriarchs.
Instead of two parents preparing her for school, Obama credits Head Start bureaucrats with ensuring that Julia is “ready to learn and succeed” in kindergarten.
Instead of individual teachers, private mentors, home-school
organizers, or charter-school leaders, Obama extols his federal Race to the Top
program for implementing the high-school “classes she needs to do well” in
college.
Instead of thrift-minded families who save for their own
kids’ higher educations (or who opt for non-college alternatives) and who
encourage those kids to work in private-sector summer jobs, Obama praises his
“opportunity tax credit” and Pell Grants for putting Julia through college.
Instead of acknowledging how costly Obamacare mandates have caused individual-market health-care insurers to drop plans altogether, Obama promotes the government-manufactured umbilical cord tethering “children” like Julia to their parents’ health-care plans until age 26.
Instead of accepting that the costs and consequences of a
woman’s sexual choices should be a matter of personal responsibility, Big Daddy
Obama heralds his religious-liberty-crushing birth control/abortion mandate for
allowing Julia to “focus on her work instead of worrying about her health.”
Despite the fact that most private health-care plans
already covered maternal screenings, prenatal care, and related screenings
before Obamacare passed, the president attributes Julia’s pregnancy well-being
to the law.
And it’s not local sovereignty or financial discipline
that results in better schools for Julia’s new son, Zachary. Nope. It’s Obama’s
“investments” in education and “programs like Race to the Top.” (Is there
nothing Race to the Top can’t do?)
“Under President Obama,” the campaign web feature then
crows, “Julia starts her own web business. She qualifies for a Small Business
Administration loan, giving her the money she needs to invest in her business.
President Obama’s tax cuts for small businesses like Julia’s help her to get started.
She’s able to hire employees, creating new jobs in her town and helping to grow
the local economy.”
In the real world, according to Dun and Bradstreet, the
SBA supported fewer than 62,000 small-business loans: a measly 0.2 percent of
the nation’s 27.5 million small businesses. The vast majority of entrepreneurs
get their start without the SBA’s “help” and want only one thing: for Obama and
his wealth-confiscators to leave them the heck alone.
As soon as Obama publicized “The Life of Julia” on the web, conservative activists swarmed Twitter to provide real-world counter-narratives. “I’m no Julia,” one wrote. “As a small-business owner I’m being taxed to death. I need the (government) to get out of my way and let me make money.” Another young conservative female tweeted: “As a woman business owner I’m offended that POTUS thinks I need him to survive and thrive.” Conservative writer Kemberlee Kaye added: “What the Julia example really shows is the Democrat ideal. Complete and total reliance on the government.”
My story? I’ve founded three web ventures over the past
eight years without a penny of taxpayer money or government venture socialism.
We free-market-centered small-business women can “grow the local economy” and
raise our children and improve our schools just fine without the meddling,
patriarchal hand of President Obama taking credit for our every last success.
After hyperventilating for months about the Republican
“war on women,” Democratic new-media gurus have inadvertently exposed the real
Barack Obama: a chauvinistic control freak who would tether every last woman
and child to his ever-expanding, budget-busting nanny state.
Mamas, for the sake of your family’s freedom and our
republic’s survival, don’t let your babies grow up to be “Julia.”
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