Obama sought rape victim for ad

cnredd · #1 (**permalink**) 09-30-2008, 02:11 PM

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Barack Obama's campaign earlier this month sought to find a rape victim to appear in a campaign commercial, according to an e-mail obtained by Politico.

Kiersten Steward, director of public policy at the Family Violence Prevention Fund, served as a conduit between the campaign and victims and women's advocates.

"Obviously, this is a big ask and I haven’t seen a script but presumably it will be a brief 'this is what happened to me, we need someone who will fight for women like me, these are the guys to do it,'" Steward wrote in a Sept. 15 e-mail. "Again, that’s just my assumption, given how these things
usually go."

Steward, a former top aide to Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.), said the Obama campaign would have a crew in Washington and was hoping to film that week.

She didn't respond to a message.

The Obama campaign wouldn't detail the strategy behind finding an individual to discuss such a sensitive topic but did suggest the ad may be aimed at underscoring their candidate's support for abortion rights and ongoing effort to retain those women who backed Hillary Clinton in the primary.

Here's an actual ad for casting agencies...I guess is they can't find a real rape victim that doesn't look "break your heart" enough...

Is this the "hope" and "change" his supporters advocate?...

faithful_servant · #2 (**permalink**) 09-30-2008, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by cnredd

Obama sought rape victim for ad

Here's an actual ad for casting agencies...I guess is they can't find a real rape victim that doesn't look "break your heart" enough...

Is this the "hope" and "change" his supporters advocate?...

..and limited to "caucasian" as well. I guess he figures he's got the "black vote" sewed up, so he's focusing on the white liberals now.

cnredd · #3 (**permalink**) 09-30-2008, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by faithful_servant

..and limited to "caucasian" as well. I guess he figures he's got the "black vote" sewed up, so he's focusing on the white liberals now.

And not paying them...

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Rate/Compensation - NONE - but production will supply talent with a DVD of the ad

foundit66 · #4 (**permalink**) 09-30-2008, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by cnredd

Is this the "hope" and "change" his supporters advocate?...

Well, it's not "change" from the capability to have an abortion IN CASE OF RAPE, which I would suspect is at the heart of this issue.

But, like SOOOOO many other things, the heart of the issue is ignored while the specter of a < gasp > scandal is what is fixated on.

Obama sought a rape victim for his ad.
He sought to have a voice to the issue of whether or not rape victims SHOULD or SHOULD NOT have the right to have an abortion.

Oh golly gee whiz! WHY oh WHY couldn't he just insist that they never be asked THEIR opinion regarding what happens to THEIR bodies after another person rapes them...

foundit66 · #5 (**permalink**) 10-01-2008, 11:32 AM

And one of the "not funny" parts about this?

The "no money" thing was a way to make sure the speaker was speaking FROM HER HEART and not from her pay-check.

Hell. When Michael J. Fox went on TV, we heard the right-wing mantra that "he's faking it! he went off his meds to do this!".

And if the rape victim had gotten paid, the mantra would be "paid actor. she's being paid for her statement and her opinion".
Seeing if anybody would volunteer OBVIOUSLY HAS NOTHING to do with capability to pay. Obama has the money.
It's about showing the people what Palin's mentality would mean. How it would impact a real person, without the Republican possibility of criticizing it "cause she got paid".

You guys CONTINUE to prove that Obama is damned if he does, and damned if he doesn't.

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