I note with interest David’s take on the Big Bird ad.
The Obvious: Democrats have never cut any program but the Military. The fact was and remains PBS is profitable in the extreme, to the point where Big Bird alone, given merchandising and so on, could fund all of PBS’s activities. I submit that if you’re not serious about cutting that off you are simply not serious about any kind of spending reduction.
let’s call this ad what it is…. desperation
I suggest the problem it exposes is somewhat deeper than may be obvious.
Look again at the ad in question;
“Bernie Madoff. Ken Lay. Dennis Kozlowski: Criminals. Gluttons of greed. And the evil genius who towered over them?” a voiceover says as a silhouette of Big Bird moves on screen.
“Big. Yellow. A menace to our economy. Mitt Romney knows it’s not Wall Street you have to worry about, it’s Sesame Street.”
OK, so we see that from Obama’s point of view, Wall Street types are greedy criminals, in the view of Obama and Company. Rather like what Marx preached, if I’m not much mistaken. The point about Marx aside for the moment, I’ll ask again what I’ve been asking for the last three years… When you make enemies of successful people, enemies of anyone motivated by profit, why on earth is anyone surprised when companies leave the country, taking jobs with them, and when as a result, the beconomy takes a dive?
Clearly the lesson of the last three years has been lost on Obama… he’s still of the misbegotten idea that the problem is Capitalism, and the solution is government. He’s still holding onto this fantasy, even when the rest of us… including a rather healthy number of people who used to believe the Obama hype enough to vote for him last time, have grown up and are planning on voting against Obama.You’d think the evidence to the contrary would be overwhelming.
Then again, this is the same guy who told us a movie was responsible for Benghazi a week after it was obvious to everyone else what the story was…
