Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney during last week’s debate with President Barack Obama said that he would scale back government subsidies to public entities such as Amtrak and PBS.
“I’m sorry, Jim, I’m going to stop the subsidy to PBS … I like PBS, I love Big Bird, I actually like you, too,” Romney said to debate moderator and former anchor of the PBS “NewsHour” Jim Lehrer, “but I’m not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for.”
Oddly enough, somewhere between the beginning and the end of that sentence, someone on the Obama re-election staff decided that they should make Big Bird a permanent fixture on the campaign trail.
“For all you moms and kids out there, don’t worry, somebody is finally getting tough on Big Bird. Elmo, you better make a run for it,” President Obama told a crowd last Friday. “Gov. Romney is going to let Wall Street run wild again, but he’s going to bring the hammer down on ‘Sesame Street.’”
No, really. This is actually a campaign talking point.
Even Former White House Press Sec. Robert Gibbs has gotten in on the action: “The only thing [Romney] outlined that he would cut in the budget is Big Bird. He’s taking the battle straight to Sesame Street and let Wall Street run hog wild.”
Really, someone on Team Obama thinks this is a good line of attack. So good, in fact, that the official campaign of the President of the United States of America on Tuesday released an ad accusing the former Massachusetts governor of having it in for the eight-foot-tall puppet:
Final Thought — Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: “If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run away from. You make a big election about small things.”
Uh-huh.
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