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Convention blog: Obama goes after Ryan

The Obama campaign issued an attack ad on Wednesday ahead of Rep. Paul Ryan’s speech accepting the Republican nomination for vice president.

Searching for anything to hang around Ryan’s neck, the video claims that Ryan is anti-woman.

Ryan, according to the Obama campaign video, is “fiercely and harshly anti-female” because he voted four times to defund Planned Parenthood. “It’s clear that Paul Ryan’s vision for America is one that will take the nation back to a very different era,” the narrator says.

So wanting to get taxpayer money out of the business of aborting babies is the same as coathangers and back-alley procedures?

Perhaps this overreach is the reason the terms people associate with Ryan are “honest” and “good” instead of “extremist.”