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Topic: Obama Campaign Lashes
Out With 'Big Bird' Attack |
Obama Campaign Lashes
Out With 'Big Bird' Attack
Breitbart's Big Government, by John Nolte
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 10/9/2012 9:11:16 AM
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| It's as though Barack Obama didn't diminish himself enough during his debate with Mitt Romney and decided diminishing himself was actually a good tactic. And so, in the immediate aftermath of the debate debacle, instead of showing some dignity as other presidents before him have after a loss, Team Obama started a nanny-nanny-boo-boo name-calling campaign. In ads and in interviews and presidential speeches, Romney's been called everything from a "liar," to a "flip-flopper." Obama isn't just a sore loser, he's a petulant, dishonest, crybaby, narcissist loser. Believe it or not,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
pineledger, 10/9/2012 9:13:37 AM (No. 8919892)
The Obama Campaign lies. What Romney said was that we should not be borrowing from China to underwrite Big Bird. That's very different from the way they're spinning it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ocjim, 10/9/2012 9:21:50 AM (No. 8919913)
The subtext on this one is too obvious to ignore...
With his finger rubbing his temple, Obama's been publicly giving opponents the bird since at least his 2008 campaign debates with Hillary. I think it's a passive aggressive thing with this most bizarre of characters. But now, for his rude [to him] nemesis Romney, he's ratcheted up this message to the big bird.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Coy860, 10/9/2012 9:26:31 AM (No. 8919921)
WHO is taking in the profits from the Sesame Street brand?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
pgvoisin, 10/9/2012 9:43:34 AM (No. 8919968)
Bain Capital needs to buy all the rights to Big Bird and then make it an enterprise that MAKES money.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
GringoinQuito, 10/9/2012 9:54:32 AM (No. 8920012)
Just saw the rebuttal ad on Fox. Goes something like this: Obama mentions BigBird 8 times, PBS 6 times,
Lybia 0 Economy 0
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
pinger, 10/9/2012 9:55:22 AM (No. 8920015)
A typical straw man argument from the Left: The Sesame St. budget is infused with only 2% of federal money. A joke that this is being pressed in ads They truly are targeting their ads to MORON voters. There money is wasted....all of the MORON voters are already on their side; they won't find any undecideds in that category. Where they get that Gov. Romney wants to close down Sesame Street can only be characterized as desperation. The Titanic that IS the Obama Campaign keeps hitting iceberg after iceberg.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bugboy, 10/9/2012 10:01:53 AM (No. 8920036)
Obama gives the Big Bird to the American people every day he is in office.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Scottyboy, 10/9/2012 10:01:56 AM (No. 8920037)
Infantile
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Robinsolana, 10/9/2012 10:07:40 AM (No. 8920059)
Voters are catching on to the fact that with Obama, under that slick metro-sexual exterior lies a mean nasty little guy.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
conrep62, 10/9/2012 10:12:59 AM (No. 8920077)
Big Bird will be our Thanksgiving Turkey!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
dallasdude, 10/9/2012 10:13:41 AM (No. 8920078)
Empty Chair prez exposes his empty brain with Big Bird. Explain profits of Bird vs money given and how many teachers could be hired and presto bingo bamo.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Mobyclik, 10/9/2012 10:19:50 AM (No. 8920094)
Is this the best the obama-bots can do?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
happy conservative, 10/9/2012 10:32:41 AM (No. 8920133)
Give Big Bird an obamaphone so he can call someone who cares!!!
This country is turning into an ash heap and we're supposed to feel sorry for the richest bird, grouch, and little read fuzzy guy in America? Puleeze!
PBS cuts it's great BBC shows short to beg for more bucks from people who already give to them through subsides, just like Planned Parenthood and ACORN, without even knowing it. Until Romney brought it up, how many tax payers knew that Big Bird was subsidized by them? I think it was brilliant to bring up the fact that something as Big Bird is too big to fail!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mean Gene, 10/9/2012 10:38:32 AM (No. 8920151)
Obama tries to create a ''dog whistle'' false narrative which equates Big Bird to convicted criminals.
Sesame Street is a gong concern, thanks to the popularity of their product lines.
They don't need a penny of our gov't money borrowed from China.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Moritz55, 10/9/2012 10:39:23 AM (No. 8920153)
It is hard to imagine any previous campaign sinking to something so ridiculous. It just shows how little the Obama camp has going for it. They should add some subtitles. Two words. The noun is despair. The adjective is desperate. Or maybe hope-less and short-changed.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
pearlyjo, 10/9/2012 10:44:13 AM (No. 8920173)
News Flash Mr. Obama: Big Bird isn't on the radar screens of most American voters. We.Don't.Care. about Pulic Television.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
KingBubo, 10/9/2012 10:47:20 AM (No. 8920180)
send the IRS to the Henson Compound to seize the profits from all muppet merchandising. Have Kermit D Frog on the scene reporting.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
rayscain, 10/9/2012 10:57:51 AM (No. 8920207)
The world is falling apart, America is in decline, and 0bama is focusing on Big Bird???
This administration is sick!!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
King of all trolls, 10/9/2012 11:01:15 AM (No. 8920215)
It's amazing how stupid Axelrod and that Jarrett woman think we are.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
lil dotty, 10/9/2012 11:06:51 AM (No. 8920238)
oh dark won and big bird have much in common. Both have yellow bellies
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
rpool, 10/9/2012 1:10:39 PM (No. 8920762)
Let me deconvolute the President's message:
He wants to borrow money from China, having our children and their children on the hook for that tab, so he can give money to a corporation that posted net assets of $227 million as of June 2011 (data from their tax return). Try and spin that one.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
ocjim, 10/9/2012 2:49:29 PM (No. 8921030)
Good, quick comeback on this from Romney pointing out the unseriousness of Obama and his crew dwelling on Big Bird in these serious times. Values, maturity and a broader perspective are the order of the day in responding to Obama's Alinsky snark and ridicule campaign.
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