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Critics blast Obama campaign over Lena Dunham’s ‘first time’ ad

Actress Lena Dunham likens voting for Barack Obama to losing her virginity in an official Obama campaign ad appearing on the campaign’s website.

Critics have lambasted the spot, vetted and approved by President Obama’s campaign, calling it tasteless and inappropriate for the campaign to target young female voters with the sexual double entendre.

Titled “Lena Dunham: Your First Time,” the creator of HBO’s hit series “Girls” talks directly to the camera, saying: “The first time shouldn’t be with just anybody. You want to do it with a great guy. Someone who really cares about and understands women.”

Dunham proceeds to get a bit more overtly political in the commercial, adding the “first time” should be with “a guy who cares whether you get health insurance and specifically whether you get birth control.”

She then gets into full campaign mode, touching on several hot button issues in the Presidential campaign, saying “You want to do it with a guy who brought the troops out of Iraq” and “You don’t want a guy who says, ‘Oh hey, I’m at the library studying,’ when really he’s out not signing the Lilly Ledbetter act.”

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