On Julia

I heard a lot about this fictional Julia business and so I checked out the Obama reelection website to see what it's all about. Then I came across this, from The Hill:

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Friday that the Obama campaign's new website — which uses a fictionalized woman named Julia to illustrate how the president's policies help female voters — is "creepy" and "demeaning."

“It suggests that this woman can’t go anywhere in life without Barack Obama’s government-centered society. It’s kind of demeaning to her,” Ryan said during a constituent meeting in Wisconsin, the National Review reports. “She must have him and his big government to depend on to go anywhere in life. It doesn’t say much about his faith in Julia.”

Dubbed "The Life of Julia," the website follows a hypothetical character from age 3 to 67 and provides examples of when she might benefit from policies backed by the president — while suggesting that presumptive Republican candidate Mitt Romney would support policies that might have the opposite effect.

Julia is probably also a law student at Georgetown University who needs Obamacare for free contraceptives. Of course, Ryan is right. The whole thing is creepy. You see exactly how liberals view the individual, as faceless, helpless beneficiaries of an all-powerful government. Check it out here and see for yourself.