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The Obama campaign’s Big Bird nosedive
By Jennifer Rubin
“Jumped the shark.” “A campaign in panic.” “Lost it.” “Shocking.” These are just as few of the reactions among the media to the latest, dumbest move by the Obama campaign, an ad so trivial and unpresidential it makes one wonder if an epidemic of tone deafness has descended over Chicago:


Just the thing to get over an unpresidential, contentless debate performance by the incredible shrinking candidate, huh? The Republican National Committee couldn't resist and won the battle of Sesame Street ads.

Almost as intriguing as the lame ad was the near-uniform negative reaction among mainstream reporters and pundits of all stripes.

Let’s tally up the ways in which this ad is not helpful to the Obama camp. It keeps discussion of Debate-aggedon going. It is petty, suggesting that’s all the campaign has got to talk about. It makes Mitt Romney’s budget argument all the more powerful — liberals can’t part with PBS subsidies, so how are they going to make the tough calls on the debt? It chews up news cycles and time, neither of which Obama can afford to fritter away at this point. It gives the media another opportunity to show their “even-handedness” by lambasting the Obama team (after months of cooing and protecting the president from hard questions). It will annoy liberals donors and the base, who are already wondering if Obama really wants to win this race.

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ORIGINAL: subrob1967
Go ahead and hang your hat on this ad Kali, you won't have Obama's shoulder to cry on come November 7th.

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic




Go ahead and hang your hat on this ad Kali, you won't have Obama's shoulder to cry on come November 7th.

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If your pal wasnt making so many gaffes would be taking the piss....
Wheres your send of the ridiculous??
Oh ya... it only works one way:)
Ill take stewarts take on it over miss priss WaPo blog:)
snicker

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"Sesame Workshop is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization and we do not endorse candidates or participate in political campaigns. We have approved no campaign ads, and, as is our general practice, have requested that both campaigns remove Sesame Street characters and trademarks from their campaign materials."

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ORIGINAL: kalikshama

The Obama campaign is out with a new TV ad, going after one of Mitt Romney's most memorable lines from last week's presidential debate: his desire to cut funding for PBS and its beloved Big Bird.

Since the debate -- which Romney was widely acknowledged to have won -- President Barack Obama has been campaigning around the country, saying his GOP challenger "plans to let Wall Street run wild again, but he’s bringing the hammer down on Sesame Street."

"Elmo, you better make a run for it!" joked Obama last week at a campaign event.

The latest tongue-in-cheek ad shows pictures of notoriously corrupt financial figures -- Bernie Madoff, Ken Lay and Dennis Kozlowski -- and states there is an "evil genius" who towered over them.

"One man has the guts to speak his name," says the narrator, with the ad then flashing to Romney saying "Big Bird" repeatedly -- followed by Big Bird cheerfully saying his own name.

"Big, yellow, a menace to our economy. Mitt Romney knows it's not Wall Street you have to worry about it, it's Sesame Street," adds the narrator.

The ad ends with a cute shot of Big Bird in his nest, with his teddy bear, sleeping: "Mitt Romney, taking on our enemies no matter where they nest."


Read more and watch video: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/09/obama-ad-mitt-romney-big-bird_n_1949942.html