Presidents Day: Government vacations, Islamists flourish, GM flounders.  The positive message that carried the 2012 national election for Barack Obama and Joe Biden was simple:  "Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive".  Now we know the slogan that swayed 65.4 million Obama-Biden voters is one part false premise, the other part whopping lie.

Socialist Democrats want as many people as possible to depend on the government for handouts, like food stamps, unemployment checks, public housing, "free" cell phones, school lunches, Head Start babysitting services, clothing allowances, and other perquisite goodies.  Programs like SNAP, TANF, SSI and SCHIP reward people who are too lazy to work and encourage single women to give birth to illegitimate children.  The government takes one-quarter to one-third of your paycheck and gives it to the deadbeats.  If you don't like it, don't vote for Obama!

What's so amusing about the "Julia" propaganda cartoon is the assortment of parody and ridicule that immediately sprang up on the internet in response.  The Obama team should have predicted the backlash, but that would require thinking ahead.

The Free-Stuff Primary:  What Democrats' Promises Will Cost.  Six months before President Obama's 2012 reelection, his campaign released an online slideshow.  It was not an effort that helped him win.  Called "The Life of Julia," it was an imaginary story complete with slick graphics and digestible talking points designed to illustrate "how President Obama's policies help one woman over her lifetime — and how Mitt Romney would change her story."  The timeline showed the mythical Julia growing up, graduating from college, building a business, giving birth, and eventually retiring.  For every major milestone, a federally subsidized government program was there to help.  Democrats saw Julia as illustrating the promise of a second Obama term under a caring and effective government.  Republicans, on the other hand, gleefully discovered a ready-made, cradle-to-grave narrative about the dangers of Big Government.

Gates Pushes InBloom's Massive Data Tracking System for Everyone in America.  The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave $100 million to fund a mega database to collect private information on every American school child from early education through high school.  He is also funding studies to prove the need for tracking students through college and into their adult life.  His thinking falls in line with The Life of Julia, one of Mr. Obama's campaign's socialist selling points.  The Life of Julia imposes the government into the life of every person from birth until death.  The "benevolent" government will be in a surrogate parental role under this type of system.  Julia's life is completely governed by the State and noticeably absent are parents, family, friends, and self-sufficiency.

Pajama Boy: The Obama Machine's Id.  The Obama administration isn't doing very well with putting an empathetic face on its calamitous health-insurance law, is it?  First, we had Julia, the creepy, eyeless, vision-of-horror from Brave New World whose life was run from cradle to grave by the federal government.  Then, we had Adriana, the painfully neutral and carefully ambi-racial stock-model-from-everywhere whose face became so synonymous with HealthCare.gov's hilarious launch that she had to be replaced with a graphic plugging an 800 number.

Poor Julia.  Yesterday I noted on Twitter that "The really funny part is that #Julia was a web designer."  Some people thought I was kidding.  But I wasn't.  Even better, the "Life of Julia" slideshow informed us that "For the past four years, Julia has worked full-time as a web designer. [...] Now, in the real world, thanks to Obamacare, her hours have been pared back to 29 hours and she's been dumped onto the exchanges where, as a young, healthy single woman, her premiums will go through the roof even as she earns less money.  That is, if she can even get onto a website created by and for people just like her.

Women comprise biggest opposition to ObamaCare.  Remember Julia? That cute little cartoon the Obama folks created to illustrate how the president's policies would provide "health and economic security" for women at all of life's stages?  The real-life Julias aren't buying.  A CNN/ORC International poll out this week finds 60 percent of women opposing ObamaCare.

Women Don't Need Abortion to Fulfill Their Dreams.  In 2012, the Obama campaign made its philosophical underpinnings clear when it released the notorious "Life of Julia" propaganda video.  This portrait of a woman's life course seemingly had no other purpose than to underscore the impossibility of female success without massive federal programs that cater to her every wish.  School, work, childrearing, aging — all of these stages in a woman's life are doomed to failure if Uncle Sam isn't there to guide her steps.  Last Wednesday, President Obama insulted American women more directly.

This is an original compilation, Copyright © 2022 by Andrew K. Dart

The Disappearing American?  Our popular culture reflects this multifarious growing reluctance to raise children.  And currently only 65% of children grow up in families with both parents.  The 2012 Obamacare ad, "The Life of Julia," fixated on the new ideal American woman: a single parent of one child, unmarried, and utterly reliant on nearly 65 years of government support.  The 2013 follow-up bookend ad fetishized "Pajama Boy."  He was supposed to be a typical prolonged-adolescent, man-child — sitting at home in his child-like footie pajamas, sipping hot chocolate.  "Pajama Boy" was likely the sort that "Julia" had no intention of marrying.  There are historical downsides — economic, cultural, social, and military — to nations that shun child-raising.  They shrink in size, age, no longer believe in transcendence, become mostly agnostic or atheistic, and obsess on the self.  And sometimes they eventually become dysfunctional — and slowly disappear.

The Pajama Boy White House.  During the showdown over Obamacare, the pro-Obama PAC Organizing for Action put out an ad now known as "Pajama Boy."  It showcased a young fellow in thick retro-rimmed glasses, wearing black-and-red plaid children's-style pajamas, and sipping from a mug, with a sort of all-knowing expression on his face.  The text urged:  "Wear pajamas.  Drink hot chocolate.  Talk about getting health insurance.  #GetTalking."  Most men in Dayton or Huntsville do not lounge around in the morning in their pajamas, with or without built-in footpads, drinking hot chocolate and scanning health-insurance policies.  That our elites either think they do, or think the few that matter do, explains why a nation $20 trillion in debt envisions the battle over transgender restrooms as if it were Pearl Harbor.

Pajama Boy Nation.  Somehow we as a nation went from the iconic Marlboro Man to Pajama Boy — from the noble individual with a bad habit to the ignoble without a good habit — without a blink in between.  There are lots of revolting things in the Pajama Boy ad.  After all, how can you top all at once a nerdy-looking child-man dressed in infantile pajamas while cradling a cup of hot chocolate with the smug assurance that he is running your life more than you his?

Obamacare's 'Pajama Boy' was accused of racism, anti-Semitism.  Ethan Krupp, the little man who played "Pajama Boy" in a widely-mocked Obamacare ad, was accused in college of racism and anti-Semitism.  Krupp, an Organizing for Action (OFA) content writer who became the face of progressive America when he sipped cocoa and smirked while wearing a onesie pajama suit in a recent Obamacare ad, is also a failed comedy writer whose work was not appreciated in his own time.

Meet Ethan Krupp: Pajamacare boy and Organizing for Action employee.  Pajamacare boy is Ethan Krupp, an Organizing for Action employee and the subject of ridicule after OFA created a social ad encouraging everyone to sign up for Obamacare.

Obamacare 'pajamas boy' gets roundly mocked.  The White House is trying to get families to spread the word about Obamacare coverage options ahead of the holidays.  Relatives will gather around a common table, and key deadlines loom for enrollees who want to select a plan and be covered by the new year.  The Obama administration wants young people — like the man in pajamas, say — to sign up for coverage in state-based exchanges so that healthier people balance out risk pools when sicker consumers with preexisting conditions enter the market, because they cannot be denied.

Pajama Boy, An Insufferable Man-Child.  Pajama Boy's place in Internet infamy was secured as soon as the insufferable man-child was tweeted out by Organizing for America.  He is the face of a web ad that is the latest effort by the Obama team to leverage the holidays for conversation about Obamacare.  "Wear pajamas," the ad reads.  "Drink hot chocolate.  Talk about getting health insurance.  #GetTalking."

Pajama Boy: The Obama Machine's Id.  The Obama administration isn't doing very well with putting an empathetic face on its calamitous health-insurance law, is it?  First, we had Julia, the creepy, eyeless, vision-of-horror from Brave New World whose life was run from cradle to grave by the federal government.  Then, we had Adriana, the painfully neutral and carefully ambi-racial stock-model-from-everywhere whose face became so synonymous with HealthCare.gov's hilarious launch that she had to be replaced with a graphic plugging an 800 number.  And now, courtesy of Organizing for Action, we have Pajama Boy, a metrosexual hipster in a plaid onesie who wants you to spend your precious Christmas days talking to him about the president's vision for health insurance.

Pajama Boy: The Obama Machine's Id.  OFA, and its various offshoots, are staffed by third-growth McGovernites who have come of age at the exact point that the radicalism of the 1960s finally won out.  As David Burge of "Iowahawk" fame likes to joke, perhaps it wasn't "a good idea to turn the most successful country in the history of the world over to the grievance faculty at Harvard."  Still, that is what we have done.  And we have ended up with a parade of over-educated and under-experienced perpetual children who don't think twice before dressing a grown man up in footie pajamas.

ObamaCare Chaos Continues.  We begin with the unintended comedy known as Pajama Boy.  The Obama administration's former campaign apparatus, Organizing for America (OFA), apparently believes the way to get the so-called "young invincibles," necessary to subsidize older and sicker Americans to sign up for healthcare, is to appeal to their inner metrosexual. [...] When the only commandment for implementing the progressive agenda is "by any means necessary," there are no such things as stereotypes, cliches, unseemly titillation — or the rule of law.

Pajama Boy: Obama's Smirking Commissar.  The effete visage of the ObamaCare pitchman known as Pajama Boy already is a figure of fun.  But now it comes to light that Ethan Krupp is more than just a smirking, turnoff face for an ad.  He's a leftist extremist.

Left is getting desperate over Pajama Boy.  The palpable embarrassment of the Left over Obamacare has led to an odd and disturbing reaction.  Following the creation of the now-infamous Pajama Boy tweet from Barackobama.com (aka Obama for America, aka Organizing for Action), embodying so much that is wrong with Obamacare and socialism in general — the infantilization of adults, the smirking know-it-all attitude of the nanny state, and the inappropriate intrusions in our private lives — conservatives erupted with a wave of hilarious mockery.  The resulting sting obviously has psychologically wounded the Left.

Meet Reema!  White House puts out childish propaganda video on Syrian refugee screening.  Remember Julia?  Reema is the Syrian Muslim Julia!  This will make you want to scream!  There is nothing to "crosscheck" her "biographic and biometric" data with — there is no data available from Syria!  Interesting that it confirms that it is the UN High Commissioner for Refugees sending the Syrians to your towns!  And, that they have 23,000 in a pipeline to America at this very minute.