#Julia

The BO-2012 campaign [1] comes up with The Life of Julia, which explains just how wonderful the country is when your life is managed and facilitated by government.

Fortunately, David Steinberg notes that:

Right off the bat, “#Julia” trended to the top of Twitter as the second-most popular current hashtag in the United States; to the horror of David Axelrod and the increasingly dated tacticians of the Obama campaign, virtually every mention of #Julia was a conservative mocking the slideshow...

On my count, the last five hashtags introduced by Obama’s campaign have been instant public relations disasters; another smear tactic backfired into the legendary #ObamaEatsDogs. They keep trying, however, and that’s because propaganda, sloganeering, and various issues for rallying the rabble are the only weapon in the progressive toolbag.

What's the definition of insanity, again? It gets worse, though. As one commenter points out: 

“Julia first appears in Nineteen Eighty-Four at the age of 26, an enthusiastic participant in the ‘Two Minutes of Hate’ directed against Emmanuel Goldstein, a Party co-founder who claims the Revolution was betrayed”

Ok, everyone got that? The leaders of the statist vision of government in this country just tried to drop a bit of political campaign propaganda on us, but used a character out of a book that serves as a direct warning on the nature of overreaching suffocating government to do it.

You-cannot-make-this-up!

... which actually takes this from being amusing, to being horrifying; because you realize that while the Obama campaign might not intend to make this sort of connection, they probably missed seeing it because to them, there's nothing wrong with it.

[1] Now that I think about it, "BO-2012" sounds like a disease designation, doesn't it?