The Obama campaign’s “Big Bird” attack line is being panned by the media as “goofy” and “small.” Politico’s Maggie Haberman writes:
The Obama campaign is out this morning with a goofy video of the Big Bird variety, mocking Mitt Romney, as the president has put it, as going easy on Wall Street but heavy on Sesame Street. …
And the president, as others have noted, and his team have been going fairly small at a moment when Romney is consistent in a message and pivoting toward going bigger (the foreign policy speech, more emotion on the trail, and so forth). And this video is the kind of small ball that Boston smacked over for months.
According to the Obama campaign, the ad is intended as a “parody” and it’s going to run during “comedy shows.” Somebody should stop the campaign staff before they embarrass themselves any further. The ad might be mildly amusing if it wasn’t such an obvious attempt to change the subject.
The Obama campaign’s normal reaction to good performances by Romney or Paul Ryan has been to attack them as liars, with help from friends in the media. That didn’t work this time around, probably because most people realize that if Romney was incessantly lying throughout the debate, Obama would have (or at least should have) called him out on it right there on stage.
The Obama campaign wasn’t able to discredit Romney as a liar, so it’s moved on to trying to discredit him as an object of ridicule. But the Big Bird meme is backfiring on Obama, making him seem focused on the trivial. As the Republican National Committee pointed out, Obama has mentioned Big Bird and Elmo 13 times on the campaign trail over the last few days. He’s mentioned the attack in Libya zero times. While the Obama campaign was joking around about Sesame Street, Romney was giving a major foreign-policy address that captured the news cycle yesterday.
People wondering why Obama’s debate performance was so dismal should look at the last few days. Has his post-debate defense been any better? When you have no good arguments, the only defense is ad hominen attacks; calling someone a liar, or an idiot, or a joke. Notice that’s all the Obama campaign has been doing since the debate.
I guess for the Obama campaign, now, hope is that thing with feathers . . .
Romney should say: n n'Obama may say he has Big Bird's back, but he failed to protect our Ambassadors in the field, and now one of them is dead, along with three other Americans who were serving their country. And the reason is absentee leadership.' n nOr something similar.
It must be pointed out and stated clearly that Obama himself has been playing ball with Wall Street and big corporations. He says one thing and does another. Hence, he's a hypocrite. n nHe made deals with drug companies to ensure their support for obama care. Likewise he has favored certain Wall Street firms.
You must understand Mr. Romney. He did not say that Big Bird should be thrown off the TV, He said that the American tax payer should not have to pay the tab for PBS. PBS should operate the same as any other TV affiliate . At least half or more of the country donot agree with their leftist views. nLet them get their own advertisers ! Do you get the message?
One more thing ! I truly wish that the American people would understand that the left socialist movement does not have our best interest at heart. Can't people see that they are driving this country into the ground? I think a third grader would be able to see it !!! Where is nthe brain work in this country?
and more specifically, Romney said that PBS was not worth borrowing money from China for, and he's absolutely right. but remember, liberals don't run on facts, they run on feelings.
"Notice that’s all the Obama campaign has been doing since the debate." Hardly, this has been the Obama campaign meme since Romney became the de facto Republican nominee. n nThis is the last gasp of a dying campaign so bereft of ideas that instead of a squirrel they use a muppet character. n nRyan will demolish Biden and the flood gates will truly open…..
PBS is like the lady who won the lottery and stayed on food stamps. PBS gets such a small portion of the budget and even that can't be cut. What portion of the budget is not going to have it's champion? n nThe critical focus here is that we need good governance. Good governance just like at home begins with fiscal responsibility. All the mongering and name calling aside, can we talk about the real issue? Who will best lead this country out of recession to more economic strength and fiscal responsibility. We have had better economies under other presidents (Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton, JFK) and the common detonators is that they got out of the way of the private sector. You can't continually demonize that sector and then expect it to pull you out of a recession. The business sector needs consistency to make long term decisions not temporary or part time jobs. Keynesian economics is only a short term solution and a costly one at that. Economists disagree on whether Keynesian efforts help or prolong a recovery. From the Keynesian efforts that we have done, I would say that it has prolonged it. This has been the longest recovery ever. n nThis time, we need the business man's acumen at the top not just advising the president. Our economy has become a national security issue. Our economy has become a social issue. Our economy has become a military issue. We need someone who understands how businesses thrive, how business people think.
The only thing left is diversion, misrepresentation, insults and demonization.