"Bizarre GOP Ad Paints Women As Obama's Girlfriends" [View all]

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Bizarre GOP Ad Paints Women As Obama's Girlfriends

Samantha Lachman at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/22/obama-women_n_5862004.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

"SNIP........................


"In 2008 I fell in love," the ad's narrator begins. "His online profile made him seem so perfect. Smart, handsome, charming, articulate, all the right values. I trusted him."

The ad uses a similar trope to other GOP spots in having supposedly former Obama voters say they have become disenchanted with the president.

"By 2012 our relationship was in trouble, but I stuck with him because he promised he'd be better," the narrator continues, citing the economy and National Security Agency surveillance as two areas in which the president had upset her.

"He thinks the only thing I care about is free birth control, but he won't even let me keep my own doctor," she adds, referring to the Affordable Care Act complaint that patients can't always keep their plans and doctors, which has been the focus of numerous Republican ads in races across the country this cycle.

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How utterly patronizing.