Nah Pat, I think I'll go with "You didn't build that" as the most memorable line of the 2012 campaign.

Pat, Obama got rejected by a PUPPET!

It doesn't get any more pathetic than that.

Is Barry trying to compare Big Bird with OJ? I know one of them is GUILTY... not sure about the other..........

Hasn't Big Bird made enough money to fly without taxpayers support?

So, Pat, your line is always about how much Obama "cares", is it not?

Have a look at this

http://www.click2houston.com/news/Father-of-fallen-Marine-upset-by-president-s-letter/-/1735978/16904582/-/q7u9agz/-/index.html

Read the whole thing- especially the part where GWBush sent personal, sometimes hand written, letters to the families of the fallen.

Obama? Well, now, he DID jet off to Vegas the same day he got word an Ambassador and three other Americans were slaughtered.

Says all anybody needs to know bout how much Obama "cares".

That'll happen, Spanky, when the object of your adoration is rejected by an eight foot bird that LOOOVES everybody else.

Sad.

PBS is $2.1 billion corporation and much of their revenue comes from merchandising. The CEO makes a little over $980,000 a year.

When our economy is roaring, our budget is balanced, our deficit is slashed and our country is rolling in dough, then let's contribute a little to an organization that will get on just fine without our half a billion a year. Let's contribute to all kinds of nonessential programs. But not now.

That the Obama administration/campaign is missing the point and making jokes shows they are not taking our dismal fiscal situation seriously, and has no intention of putting our fiscal house in order any time soon.

Half a billion here, and half a billion there and pretty soon we'll wind up with some real money saved and get our priorities in order.

When it comes to making a choice between supporting PBS, who clearly doesn't need tax payer money or shoring up programs for the needy, who are we supposed to choose?

After I had been on the losing end in a debate, I think I would be offering something of substance to turn the tide back in my favor. Speaking about Big Bird and making ads including Big Bird doesn't make me feel that Obama "gets it". If he loses this race, I will think back to how he, and more importantly his campaign, handled the recovery from the disaster at the first debate. It's not making a good impression on me.

How can anyone think that Romney will help the deficit? He has already said he will get us into war with Iran and will cut taxes for the top bracket. He plans to cut PBS to do this? PBS is not a million dollar corporation. It is run on endowment, contributions and public money. CTW is a corporation but they only supply programming to PBS they do not get contributions from the government. The educational programming on PBS helps children learn to read as well as providing interesting, educational programs for adults. My guess is that those who want to cut it have never watched it because it does not carry reality TV. It's programming for adults tends to be more erudite than that.

President Obama has said all along he is building a strong base for the economy which means the growth is slower but sustainable and not as likely to crash as it does when the republicans get a hold of it. He is getting us out of wars that led to the deficit and is trying to use diplomacy to avoid others.

Romney will be the end of Social Security. Think about that. There are fewer young people today and if he goes into more wars he will kill or disable many of those younger workers we need paying into the system to keep it afloat. Then he will take away all the programs that help their families get by until they can get back on their feet. We can't afford anymore years like we had under Bush. Unless you are a banker or in the 1%, you probably weren't doing too well at the end of his term.

@Witty One....dude, even the people who follow you think you're paranoid

Just look at the deficit Witty One. Compare its growth in the last four years compared to the last 11 presidents.

Romney/Ryan is our only chance to stop the hemorrhage.

Republicans and Democrats sure have become stupid about this.

Oh, wait, yeah, it was stupid waiting to happen....

Congratulations one party voters! On politicizing BIG BIRD.

Losers....

Wow Ontor - didn't take long for you to re-reg. Tick tock, and cheers to you on the by-by list.

Adam0

Does it suck paying for someone to get free food and college when you work and pay taxes?

I'm a selfish bastard myself, I really don't care about those less fortunate, but the point of social welfare is a safety net for EVERYONE.

I understand.

Now, my good selfish bastard friend, lemme ax you a question.

We all agree we need social safety nets, and this is the responsibility of a compassionate free society, right?

In order to provide these services we agree to a method of government redistribution of tax dollars in an efficient and cost effective manner right?

Before I go any further, let me give you a few facts about our governments efficiency and cost effectiveness.

The federal government made at least $125 billion in improper payments in 2011.

Washington spends $25 billion annually maintaining unused or vacant federal properties.

Examples from multiple Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports of wasteful duplication include 342 economic development programs; 130 programs serving the disabled; 130 programs serving at-risk youth; 90 early childhood development programs; 75 programs funding international education, cultural, and training exchange activities; and 72 safe water programs. This report identifies more than $400 billion in annual government spending on 1,500 different programs that are wasteful, duplicative, or inefficient

Health care waste, fraud, abuse and corruption is estimated to cost taxpayers more than $750 billion annually.

Now, pay special attention to this last one.

Government auditors spent the past five years examining all federal programs and found that 22 percent of them, costing taxpayers a total of $123 billion annually, fail to show any positive impact on the populations they serve.

Here, as in the other examples, we have our own government admitting its incompetence in managing just about anything short of a lemonade stand. Read that last government auditor report very carefully.

Almost 25% of the social programs our criminal government runs do NOTHING for the populations they’re intended to help, at a cost of almost 1/8^th of a trillion dollars EVERY YEAR!

If you add just these 5 examples of waste, fraud, abuse and corruption we lose $1.423 trillion EVERY YEAR!!!!!!! Now I’m sure some of these reports are duplicative in themselves so let’s just take half of the governments own costs, or about $700 billion.

Call me crazy, but I just don’t see a very good return on my tax dollar investment.

Do you?

Now, having said all that, how can you, or any other reasonable person, agree to give our criminal government another penny of our hard earned money with this level of incompetence and corruption?

I don’t care if you’re living in a cardboard box poor or Warren Buffett filthy rich, NO ONE should be willing to just give our government anything more until they clean up this massive and embarrassing amount of waste.

I don’t think you’re anymore a selfish bastard than the next guy. I also doubt you don’t care about those less fortunate. I don’t think anyone in our great republic is that cold hearted.

What I can only hope is that you’re not so misguided to think that our government is qualified to provide the social safety nets that we need.

That $700 billion is the equivalent of 14 MILLION jobs that pay $50,000 a year.

That $700 billion is the equivalent of $140 million Americans getting $5,000 a year for health insurance, bills or food.

That $700 billion is the equivalent of every man woman and child in America pocketing $2,500 every year. Do you think that, over 10 years, $25,000 would have helped you pay for your college education?

Do you really believe our government is a better steward of your money than you are?

So, my question to you is. Are you willing to continue to blindly submit to an ever expanding, corrupt, unsustainable government that doesn’t care about how much money you give it because it will just keep wasting so much of it?

I think even us selfish bastards know the answer to that question.

BTW, if all we do is demand the government just use the savings from cleaning up all this waste, fraud, abuse and corruption to pay off our massive debt, it will reduce it by more than $7 TRILLION over the next 10 years.

This is better than Bowles-Simpson, the Ryan Plan and even the Rand Paul Plan.

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 FOR REAL AMERICANS©

THIS COUNTRY IS GOING DOWN THE TOILET! Especially when they are using sesame street characters. They probably think its ok since Henson is no longer with us. Show some respect you god loving @!$%#s.

Vote INDEPENDENT or LIBERAL on the ballot folks. Only way to stop these two parties from ruining this country.

Could you all PLEASE stop making this so ultra political? All I see is insults about Obama or insults about Romney. Maybe that's why we can't make any progress in the past 4 years: We're too busy fighting each other rather than electing decent leaders.

The fact of the matter is, Big Bird and co. don't want to align with a single political force. All they wanna do is teach your kids, because the majority of you lazy people won't do it yourselves. They don't care about the Liberals, or the Conservatives, or all the crazy going on between you people. They just want to teach the kids.

They're the only ones that actually seem to care about the kids. Meanwhile, you all just wanna argue and scream on your party lines. I really wonder who the children are in all of this...

Layton-3733410 Those contributions you speak so proudly of are tax deductable so our Federal Govt. is paying a "subsidy", to use your exxon example, for contributions to PBS in addition to paying cash directly to CPB.

The President just got pwned by big bird.

Actually, Obama got hit with a double whammy. First by Big Bird & Co. Then by the ad itself which has no credibility, at least to those who are interested in the truth. By no means did Romney ever indicate that he wanted Big Bird off the air. But, it seems that the left has no concept that just because someone doesn't agree that politicians should forcibly take money from people to spend it on whatever pet project that the politician thinks is a good idea that the project is not a good idea. The fact is that Sesame Street, Barney and a lot of other shows would survive just fine without being subsidized by the taxpayers. And that is the point Romney made. But, the left just doesn't seem to understand that and could care less if they speak the truth about it.

Big bird and all the muppets have been owned by Disney since 2004. They have a history of going after those who use their trademanks. It's better, from a PR perspective, to have the children's television workshop take the point position.

I love it. Obama and the libs fighting to continue taxpayer subsidies to a 1% corporation like Sesame Street and the Muppets. The 1% they deride every day. Does the left ever do or say anything with consistencey? NO THEY DO NOT!

All you liberals upset over the oil subsidies, why are you not upset by the PBS subsidies? Both companies are doing great and do NOT need taxpayer support from govt.

This is where people lose credibility. You want what YOU like subsidized, but not someone YOU do not like....regardless if they are essentially the same scenario.

And don't give me that "in the classroom" garbage. If our teachers are teaching kids by watching tv, then it's no wonder the education system is in shambles. Of course, that's how parents are teaching their kids manners & morality these days....How's that working out? Not too good.

The fact that the Obama camp continues to camp out on little things (like Big Bird) shows that they have no substance or message on the big things. America is really tiring of this shrinking presidency, and this whole big bird thing is just one more example. Romney made a point during the debate that in tough economic times, he would defund PBS. Big Bird, Inc and Sesame Street do fine all by themselves and do not NEED government money. PBS is an animal from a bygone era, when many had very limited choices of entertainment. Romney is correct that we've got to start looking at things through the lens of, "Is it important enough to borrow money from China to pay for it?" The answer, in many cases, is NO. Sadly, Obama's response is to crisscross the country trying to make Romney look small for threatening to kill Big Bird. What he isn't realizing is that Romney isn't the one who looks smaller and smaller every day.

How pathetic that the white house has to stoop to a childhood character to promote themselves and avoid the REAL issues of their DISMAL plan!

Big Bird pulls in over 240 million dollars per year, and yet they receive funding from tax payers anyway. Obama is all set to talk about Big Bird, but not the economy or the failures of his policies over the past four years. Talk about a president with no record to run on, if Obama feels Big Bird is going to help him stay in the White House, then he really thinks the American people are stupid.

@Pat Boston MA. Ed Schultz is an idiot. He was a local talk show host in my area, which he was fired from because he quit showing up. I'm not big into politics, I couldn't tell you who's a Republican or who's a Democrat, but just 5 minutes of listening to him you could tell he's bat poop crazy.
If you met him on the street and said hi, he'd stick his nose up in the air and wouldn't even respond.

The Obama campaign has also dispatched Big Bird mascots to stand outside Romney campaign events and even Michelle has entered the fray. On Tuesday, the first lady told supporters in Loudon, Va.: “We all know good and well that cutting Sesame Street is no way to balance a budget.”

These people are serious? Big Bird protesters?

No wonder Obama won't allow a real reporter to ask him a question about Benghazi. Something like,'Why did you go to Vegas and party after apparently directing your surrogates to lie to the American people over the deaths of brave Americans?"

Big Bird indeed.

PBS is 99% funded by donations! This country does contribute a small amount as PBS is ... wait for it .. the PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE!

@ Layton,

That 1% left over is what we are borrowing from China. I believe the percentage is higher but for this argument let's just go with 1%.

Romney made it very clear in the debates that he wants PBS to continue but not if we have to borrow from China. He is correct.

I don't understand how people cannot understand this. It's very simple.

Maybe the head honcho's at PBS should take a pay cut to remove the percentage we borrow from China.

NEXT ELECTION DETERMINED BY CANDIDATE FOLKS DON’T WANT

Written by Glenn Honeycutt, Huntsville, OHIO

I continue to be amazed by those mesmerized with the shallowness of Barack Obama. To suggest he is the answer to solve our woes on economic and foreign policy, energy practices, our public education system and an out-of-control national debt, based on his dismal performance, is mind-boggling. His divisiveness has pitted Americans against one another. He has time for Dave Letterman, but can’t find time to meet with the prime minister of Israel, who fears he is facing Armageddon. His negligence and ignorance could potentially light the powder keg causing the Middle East to explode. It took a week of denial (while campaigning in Vegas) to get a quasi response to the terrorist assault on our foreign embassy, that killed four Americans. He is no more presidential than a three dollar bill, as evidenced by his leak of classified intelligence (Bin Laden) for political gain. I’m sick of the whining and excuses about what he inherited. It’s time to stop the charades and Land of Oz rhetoric. Look at what he’ll inherit if reelected. Can you imagine the whining we’ll hear? He’s incompetent for goodness sake. We need more from our president than cheesy smiles, mediocre golf performances and bricks launched toward the rim.

It appears the only way those on the left can promote Obama is to attack and denigrate his opponents. This has been the mode of operation by liberals/progressives/socialists/Marxists for years. It’s a Saul Alinsky strategy from his book Rules for Radicals, (1971) internalized and practiced by Obama. Smear tactics are a major part of their mission statement. They certainly can’t boast about Obama’s accomplishments, because he has very few. He is not only “Sleepless in Seattle” (Washington), but “Clueless in DC” (Washington). Most loyal Democrats don’t realize their party has been shanghaied by a group promoting top-to-bottom, radical change. They are good hearted people who want the best for their country, have confused arrogance with likeability and, don’t realize they’ve been bamboozled.

The hidden agenda (it is becoming clear) includes spreading the wealth (redistribution), bigger government, promoting secularism (attacking Christianity, an Alinsky principle) and reducing U.S. world power and influence, making us comparable to third world countries. These ingrates want to diminish accomplishments and lower our world status (confirmed in the Movie: 2016). The oil discovery in the Midwest suggests we have more oil reserves than the entire Middle east. Thousands of jobs could be created and our dependency on foreign oil would evaporate. Yet Obama loans billions to foreign countries to drill offshore, places restrictions on our own oil companies and permits gas prices to double, causing further depression on our economy. Where does such a witless mindset come from? Should the U.S. become a Marxist state (beyond what Woodrow Wilson and Roosevelt initiated) or China eventually gains complete control of our economy, guess what natural resource will be confiscated first?

The naysayers in denial have a closed mind, don’t understand what makes our country great and will wake up one day to ask, “What happened? Did something happen?” The progressive movement began years ago. They are now very well organized and have infiltrated a large percentage of the lame street news media, education (especially colleges — most professors are liberals), health care, energy and have manipulated the general public into putting a George Soros puppet in the White House.

If you want to understand a man’s ideology and what he stands for, all you have to do is look at role models during his youth and the people he surrounds himself with today. “Birds of a feather do flock together.” When you hang out with communists, Marxists, terrorists, socialists and secularists, then sprinkle in the Chicago mentality, guess what you get? I understand those in denial could never acknowledge this or even admit the risk involved with hanging out next to a hornet’s nest. Sooner or later the folks get stung. To make an error in judgment is understandable. To make the same mistake a second time reinforces what progressives have said about U.S. citizens for years. “The American people are dumb!” Unenlightened adults would deserve the consequences, our children don’t.

Presidential candidate, Mitt Romney has his flaws and is by no means a perfect option. But when you look at the alternative and decide on the best person to address our sad state of affairs, the choice is clear. It’s not possible to lead from behind or alter ideals ingrained in a person since childhood. The paramount question “Would you buy a used car from Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reed, Eric Holder or Barack Obama?” I hope not. It takes more than two hands to count Obama’s broken promises, including C-span postings and that of being transparent. His hundreds of executive orders circumventing Congress are shady at best. He promised if he couldn’t turn the economy around in three years, he didn’t deserve a second term. Oops?! Forgot, another lie! We’ve been fed a steady diet of lies and deception and many have taken the bait, hook, line and sinker. It’s time to spit it out and “just let him go,” as suggested by Clint Eastwood’s classical presentation. Did you notice the typical liberal/progressive reaction and strategy of bashing Eastwood? It proves the point made above. It rolled off him like water on a duck.

Water on a duck brings to mind another point. I have suggested to friends if the choice for president came down to Obama or Mickey Mouse, I’d have to vote for Mickey. Then I realized during the last election that Acorn, the group Obama served as a community organizer (the only job on his resume), registered Mickey to vote (in Chicago), along with several dead people. So, I’ve adjusted the option. The choice is no longer Mickey but Donald Duck. Once again, the choice is clear. When Donald was asked by the lame street news media (in the tank for Obama) about his platform and what he thought of his opposition, he indicated he would keep American heads above water. As far as his opposition is concerned he simply replied with several ... “quack, quack, quacks.” Further, to counter the cry of “racist,” a typical Alinsky/Obama/Jackson/Sharpton/Progressive strategy to discredit those in disagreement, he would vote for Allen West, a black Florida congressman for president, in a heartbeat.

For those having difficulty grasping this piece of satire mocking the travesty of the past three and a half years, let me suggest the election will come down to the person the folks don’t want. If those on the receiving end of entitlements and government handouts think more (selfishly) about free stuff they’ll get, rather than the country’s welfare, we will all be in deep doo-doo. Those who can’t do the math and have their heads buried where the sun doesn’t shine will bring about financial ruin and our own Armageddon. If I’ve offended anyone with my candid and straightforward remarks, that’s too bad. Too many folks have been hoodwinked by the current White House narcissist, concerned more about reelection and world favorability than the future of our great country. He has made clear his priorities through apologies. His ideology goes against the wind, the grain and the American people. If you look up, that’s the bottom of the bus zipping by over your head, filled with an empty load of promises, hope and change. For those moved to rebuff the irony of this parody with the typical liberal/leftist reaction, I quote the words of our beloved 40th President, Ronald Reagan, “There you go again.”

Glenn Honeycutt

Huntsville, OHIO

Pat Boston MA. Comment collapsed by the community

What disasters? He's done quite well and no help from the free loaders in the GOP.

Which is it, Pat? Are you blind, a liar, or ignoring the truth?

The economy is sinking under Obama and the consequences of the HCA are now impacting businesses; there will be layoffs and cutbacks in hours.

"The Obama campaign has also dispatched Big Bird mascots to stand outside Romney campaign events"

This pretty much sums up the depth of the Obama campaign doesn't it? The Democrat party is an embarrassment to America.

Does this retard Obama even realize this makes him look like even more of a joke....then to be so immature and send ppl dressed in cartoon costumes to Romney's rally. What an A-hole.
And Sesame Street doesn't even want him using it, he should respect their wishes and come up with a slogan that doesn't make him look like he is grasping at any straw to win.

There's that yellow bird that took my money!

Pretty cool, first Mitt thumps obumbo and now BIG BIRD has to scold him. Priceless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DJ-422465

Considering PBS costs the tax payer about $1 a year, I would think Romney could probably focus on something of importance. It was just bizarre that he opted to highlight this of all things in his debate points.

Um, I just saw on CNN last night their Federal Funding this year from taxpayer dollars will be $444 million.

That doesn't sound like chump change to me dude, the way you're trying to pass it off anyway.

I suppose you want Romney to cut all of Obama's mindless spending a Trillion at a time, huh? It don't work that way.....you have to cut here and there so over time our deficit is reduced.

Although it's going to take decades to reduce all the wasted taxpayer money Obama has thrown all over the place.

Obama wasn't wise to use BB unauthorized, but he didn't bring it up...Romney did. So who started the "picking on the puppet" and who actually said they'd cut funding? My 32 yr. old nephew and 14 yr.old daughter grew up with Sesame Street...looking at some of the alternative shows, I'd have to unplug my TV these days, if my baby were still a baby. Michelle actually offered the wisest coment.

In the 2008 campaign, Obama said that if you don't have a record to run on, you make a big deal about little things as a distraction.

He's obviously using that strategy in this campaign. Obama obviously doesn't want to cut ANYTHING, even though it means that we keep going hopelessly into debt.

Why would your candidate say that he would cut PBS but would not even speak about oil subsidies. I happen to live in an area where these so called small businesses are receiving subsidies for drilling -- these are not small businesses, they are multi million dollar companies--even the small ones.

The CEO of the Jim Henson Co. makes a few million more than what the govt pays them out of our poscket. Sesame St. doesn't need taxpayer subsidies. As for Romney not inheriting; he inherited and promptly gave it all to charity. He is a self made man. How much have your guys Joe and Barry kicked in? As for voter suppression; I know you libs count on illegals to be part of your 47%, the rest of us are tired of our votes being diluted. That is the true voter suppression. Personally, I remember when you only had 1 day to vote and had to show ID. Oh, BTW, speaking of voter suppression keep your NBPP buddies away from the polls this year(I carry concealed).

Obama desperation - that's all it is - Obama desperation. But when Obama can't run on his record he scratches and claws to find anything - ANYTHING!! - that he can try to use to change voters minds. But I think the Obama campaign is imploding before our very eyes because the people want a leader. And that is something we have not had the last 4 years.

Obama has blamed everybody and everything else for his failures including:

Volcanoes

Republicans

Videos

ATM's

Oil Companies

Middle East

Tea Party

Banks

The only ones Obama HASN'T blamed is Sasquatch and the Loch Ness Monster - but give Obama time.

The Obama administration CAN'T run on their record and will even bring Big Bird into the discussion to try and distract the voters - but it won't work this time............

FOLKS~!!!

Obama atteneded the Wedding of the VP Debate moderator!

ABC is scrambling to do a "cover-up" (again) Go to DRUDGE REPORT!

I knew it! You watch! The "town hall audience" will

be stacked with Occupy Wall Street types...Watch for boos

(like the DNC booed God) Watch for "gotcha" dishonest questions...

Watch for Obamas Home Girl Moderater to be hostile to Ryan..& give Biden

lots more time....Typical..when all else fails....BO DEMS CHEAT!

David89 -

No one said anything about where PBS ranks in where things need to be cut. It was used, primarly, because Jim Lehrer was the moderator and he works for PBS.

Now, what was behind the premise was, IS IT IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO BORROW MONEY FROM CHINA? The answer is NO.

Here's a novel idea - if you want your daughter to watch Sesame Street, donate to PBS. I do, in addition to my tax dollars going to PBS.

Now for the others on this thread that apparently stay awake all night worrying about so called voter intimidation by requiring ID - do you stay awake worrying that those same people cannot get into a casino, or buy a pack of cigarettes, or a bottle of beer, or fly on an airplane, or cash a check, get into an R rated movie, or go to the DNC convention? You need a photo ID to do all of those things. Why haven't you been protesting casinos, bars, conventions, airlines, banks, etc, for forcing people to show ID?

So PBS asks the Mr. Obama to discontinue using Big Bird in his campaign, he pulls the advertisement but just keeps on going using Big Bird, Elmo and the whole cast of Sesame Street for his doomed campaign. Such a condecending and arrogant person.

Too funny ...... Obama gets kicked in the ass by Big Bird ....! Priceless ...!

Now, Big Bird needs to teach Obama about numbers, so he can change his slogan to 'FOUR MORE WEEKS!'

I can't wait until tomorrow when Ryan rips Biden a new one, they better have a defibrillator close by, I think Joe 'Blow' Biden will lose it when Ryan schools him like Romney schooled Obama.

It will be fun to watch .....!

robscoole: What "subsidies" are you referring to? Last I knew, the government wasn't writing checks to oil companies. They are writing checks to PBS. Unfortunately, the left throws around the term subsidies so much that it is meaningless. To the left, if you keep your money you are being given a subsidy. So, please be specific about what subsidies you are talking about. Like most lefties who throw the term around, I suspect that you are just repeating what you've heard from another lefty.

This isn't the first time the Obama campaign has used unauthorized footage in its ads. They should stop and they should be held accountable. It is unacceptable for them to continue doing this, regardless of the point they are trying to make.

romney would really cut funding to pbs? wow of all the wasted money in government thats what he is worried about? but his response will probaly be something like- you should just borrow the money from your parents to pay for cable , and tell your 5 and 6 year olds to stop freeloading off the government!- hey mitt, my 7 year old daughter runs home after school to watch curious george on pbs. and she sits there with a great big smile and says its her favorite show, would you really take that smile away from all the little kids who by no fault of their own cannot afford cable tv? and whats next, a monthly bill for network television? no mitt, you will not get my vote even tho i agree the president has not accomplished what he set out to four years ago, but most of us know its because the republicans block him every chance they get. they swore obama would be a one term president and they are willing to do whatever it takes to make that happen. pitiful, just pitiful... i guess im part of the 47% old mitts not worried about. are you?

Someone tell Ontor that Big Bird is fictional, he's not one of the 1%!

Romney is the one who brought up Big Bird in the debate, so yeah, that line should be remembered! Showed how trivial he is. PBS is one of the very few items that he will actually tell people that he would cut spending on. He says it so loudly and proudly, too. The Obama campaign is just taking that and running with it.

Romney= Attack Sesame street but leave wall street alone... Ya, Right!

Romney

I will add +++ $2 trillion to the DOD

I will cut ---- $450 million from PBS

Looks like Ryan's math?

I'm dreaming right? tell me this isn't reality, we're all just living in a big dream....
I'm going to wake up to a world where the people who dictate our lives don't talk like they're on WWE, right???

Yeah Obama, quit trying to drag "Big Bird" into your carnival act! He is going to wake up and then what are you going to do??

Romney - Ryan 2012 The comeback team. Let's clean up this country and get some jobs!

Im seeing alot of rhetoric on this thread but few facts. Fact U.S. oil production has risen by almost 20 percent the last 4years why havent gas prices gone down? Answer because oil is a global market place! Why would they sell it cheaply here when they could sell it abroad at a higher price? They wouldnt and they dont. You could dig up every gallon of oil on the continent (if you could refine it and you cant because oil companies shut down many refineries here in the States to keep the price of gas high) and it would hardly put a dent in gas prices. It is not in oil companies interests to have cheap gas!!! Why would they sell a product for 2 dollars that people will pay 4 for? They wouldnt and they dont. An earlier poster equated being liberal or progressive with being marxist, thats the equivilant of me saying a conservative is the same as a fascist. If I believe that the trend of the rich getting richer and nobody else getting anywhere is alarming and I decide to use my freedom of speech and my vote to try to get other people to be aware of it too then Im a liberal or a commie....its just words to incite peoples hatred.

I truly believe the wealthy have become far too powerful in this country. A man on welfare may or may not be trying his best to get a job but you know hes probably not proud of it. A wealthy man however generally devotes his entire life to the accumulation and protection of wealth, it consumes him. To me one is as bad as the other. To me the lazy welfare food stamp recipient is just as good as the wealthy, low wage payer who always finds the tax loophole and the hides his money in Swiss banks, because in the end they are just taking care of who they love most...themselves.

ROMNEY MAKES AN ASS OUT OF HIMSELF FIRING BIG BIRD ON NATIONAL TV AS IF BIG BIRD FUNDING IS A PROBLEM, BUT CAN'T DIVULGE ANY OTHER COST OF ANY OF HIS PLANS DURING DEBATE.

That is what the discussion is about. Now Romney tries to defuse the fact ROMNEY HAS NO MATH with his everchanging budgets in his Big Bird comments. Romney's only budget plan math is firing Big Bird and the moderator! Romney had his chance to tell his budget and chose to HIDE IT INSTEAD!!!

WHERE IS THE MATH ROMNEY? WHY HIDE YOUR MATH? CAUGHT AGAIN HIDING YOUR MONEY PROBLEMS. HIDES HIS TAXES, HIDES HIS BUDGET!

@kaybeetoys

President Obama has used Big Bird as a symbol.

So did Romney and his message was pretty clear. He was saying that nothing was off the table, from the very large to the very small. All government spending must be reigned in. (except military spending of course)

Some of you seem unaware of the value of PBS and its shows like Sesame Street for the education of American children,

Some of you seem unaware of the VALUE of PBS. The Sesame Workshop alone is worth a third of a billion dollars. So why exactly do they need any money from us again?

ROMNEY HIDES HIS TAXES AND BUDGET PLANS AND REPUBLICONS CHEER HIM ON!

WHY DON'T REPUBLICONS WANT ROMNEY TO BE AN AMERICAN? All real Americans pay their fair share of taxes. Rt Wingers cheer Romney NOT to show his taxes like all other rebubs did...WHY ?..Because they know he is a crook!

WHY DON'T REPUBLICONS WANT ROMNEY TO SAY HIS MATH DURING DEBATES? because they know the math doesn't add up. The plans he makes never MATH UP!!!!

Vote President Obama/Biden and Team America, they have the economy improving despite republicans voting against America!

PBS has put out their own commercial to: Please contact your representatives regarding cutting their funding. PBS does not pick sides! You should watch them instead the other news stations, if you want the facts and no one's personal spin on it! And, I recommend C-Span to see your representatives for yourself!

And, we are not borrowing money from China to pay for PBS. We are borrowing money from China because some people think they are better than everyone else and don't want to pay the same percentage of taxes!

@david89

It is not in oil companies interests to have cheap gas!!! Why would they sell a product for 2 dollars that people will pay 4 for?

And apparently you are not immune to the rhetoric over fact phenomenon on this board. You do realize that the oil companies have to buy the oil they refine into gasoline right? Oil companies don't make any more per gallon of gas regardless of whether the price is $4 or $2 so they most definitely benefit from cheap gas. The cheaper the cost of gas the more of it people will use meaning greater profits for the oil companies.

If I believe that the trend of the rich getting richer and nobody else getting anywhere is alarming

Trend??? Gee, more rhetoric... what a shock. It is only since the recession that the trend of upward mobility for all Americans has taken a stumble and once the economy is back on track that trend will continue. You must not be very old if you don't see how people today are better off than they were even just a generation ago and you sure as hell are looking for any facts to back up your assumptions. http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/tax-policy/Documents/incomemobilitystudy03-08revise.pdf

haha! big bird ,yeah more like "BIG TURD" with all the bull$hit money spent !

@starsailing

WHERE IS THE MATH ROMNEY? WHY HIDE YOUR MATH? CAUGHT AGAIN HIDING YOUR MONEY PROBLEMS. HIDES HIS TAXES, HIDES HIS BUDGET!

Mark Twain once said "Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt".

The former may be Romney's strategy but the later is the Presidents. His "math" and budgets are laughable. And FYI, you might want to consider going with the Romney strategy yourself.

Romney makes a point in the debate that we must cut discretionary spending, and gives an example of PBS, which turns into a silly lib rant as most debating points do.

Speaking to a crowd of 15,000 in Columbus, OH the President said, “Today (Romney) decided we’re going after Big Bird. Elmo’s making a run for the border and Oscar is hiding out in a trash can.”

You should really lay off of these outlandish caricatures, especially since you didnt have the benefit of editing what Romney said. You all look foolish.

@Backcountry164 Why not military spending? The military industrials would have us think we need to spend even more on defense..but what is the incredible amount we are spending on defense getting us now? Our enemies aren't threatened by our massive and powerful military. They know that nukes are the great equalizer, and they all rush out to get them like cowboys rushed out to get Colts. Our real weapon is our American dream of freedom and opportunity. We spend more on defense than the rest of the world combined, yet our enemies get bolder and bolder. Just look to Turkey to see what a successful Muslim country can be like (though not as religiously tolerant as I'd like) they are very peaceful and prosperous.

@david89

@Backcountry164 Why not military spending?

Because he is a republican of course.

Please don't misunderstand- I was not trying to defend the stance just state what it actually is. In other words he talks about cutting wasteful spending but at the same time he wants to give more money to one of the biggest wasters.

Posts 1.56 Jim Spence and 1.75 Ticked off in Ohio were EXCELLENT posts!!

I can't believe that Obama is actually stooping as low as to have mascots standing outside Romneys camps....really this is what this election has come to? This is not about Big Bird, this is about getting this country back on track and out of debt!

Romney/Ryan 2012 *Ohioians for Romney*

Pat from Boston - Military Times poll has the military voting for Romney 2 to 1. I wonder how many military absentee ballots will be surpressed by the Obama Adminstration this year like in 2008? Please stop your lying rant about the Dems supporting the military. Since Obama has been in office the military has had the smallest pay raise in the last 8 years. He tired to take away Tricare for retirees and put us under Obamacare. Raised my co payment. The miltiary didn't have the right equipment to fight the war in IRAQ after 8 years of Clinton's budget. I believe in strong military and peace through detterance. I concept that hard for dems to understand.

Backcountry162 Your assertions are based on incorrect assumptions and faulty data compilation. To say that demand for gas would rise if prices were lower is true to a small extent. People would buy less efficient vehicles and drive a bit more. But to speculate a 100 percent increase in demand to me doesnt even sound remotely possible. To your point about quality of life, while electronic gadgets and food have no doubt become more abundant housing, automobiles, college tuition and healthcare have not. Adjusting for inflation wages have been stagnant for 30 years for middle and low wage workers,.while high earners have been steadily earned more and more, you can do the math yourself or find the info on any nonpartisan economic websight...Im not making it up lol.

Who is in the "Chair" that Romney is speaking to.

Obama is losing his mojo---Does Obama want a Second Term or Not?

It looks like he has given up---this is not Presidential, and very scary for a Country who knows he has no interest in Leading.

If Obama wants the Presidency for a Second Term, then he better get off the "Big Bird" rhetoric; it is the ECONOMY/and Unemployment that matters.

Americans are tired of Bullying voters, and Negative Ad Campaigns from either Political side.

David: If you are going to present information as "factual" maybe you should actually state it factually?

First, yes oil production is up - but on PRIVATE land!! Obama has blocked a significant number of permits on PUBLIC land!! Oil production on PUBLIC land under Obama is 1/3 of oil production on PUBLIC land under Bush. So it is disingenuous to take CREDIT for increased oil production on PRIVATE land when the increased oil production is in SPITE of your policies and not because of your policies.

Second, oil prices are a commodity and commodities are priced globally. Our Federal Reserve is printing money because they are finding that borrowing it is becoming more difficult. And when a country prints MORE money it makes the current money devalued. Meaning GLOBALLY it takes more to buy the same amount of goods. Which means it is the printing of money that is also partially responsible for the increased cost of oil because it takes "more dollars" to buy the same amount of goods.

So when you pretend to know something and try to present as "factual" next time it might be a good idea to actually know what you are talking about first.

Which currency is the dollar supposed to be weakening against? Certainly not the Pound, Euro, or Yen, And why does it matter who's land the oil is coming from a 20 percent increase is still a 20 percent increase. As far as issuing debt we certainly aren't having any trouble doing that bond yields are at near historic lows (how long is the question).

So President Obama's main character in his "fowl" advertising has come back to bite him! You just can't make up stuff like this.

So inditicitive of the paucity of ideas of President Obama's White House.

Next

It's funny how all of these guys go after "pirates" when they are in office but when it comes to an election year, we see the most gross examples of pirating or copyright infringement ever. If this was a regular corporation using trademarked video images or audio to promote something without the copyright holders permission, they would be banhammered with a cease and desist or DMCA takedown notice but since it's done in the name of "vote grabbing" it's OK and falls into a grey area, which is bulls--t. It's either copyright infringement or it's not. It's not based on whether or not a political clown (or president) thinks it would work for one of his ads. Sesame Street Workshop should sue the F-in pants off of the Obama Admin. for using the images and Will-I-Am for using the audio track. I doubt there was any permission granted for any of this usage based on the news article.

Did nobody else see on CNN...funding for PBS and NPR from taxpayer dollars total $444 million. That's not chump change.

@david89

But to speculate a 100 percent increase in demand to me doesnt even sound remotely possible.

I would agree and I'm not sure why you think that was what I was speculating.

To your point about quality of life, while electronic gadgets and food have no doubt become more abundant housing, automobiles, college tuition and healthcare have not. Adjusting for inflation wages have been stagnant for 30 years for middle and low wage workers,.while high earners have been steadily earned more and more, you can do the math yourself or find the info on any nonpartisan economic websight

Please look at my link from the Treasury Dept, upward mobility is a very real thing. People don't stay in the lower quintiles, they routinely move up and into the higher categories. The implication that people at the bottom are stagnant is just false because they don't stay at the bottom. They transgress from the low to the middle and then to the higher. Surely you make more money than you did in your very first job even if the person in that job now makes the same as you did when you worked there.

I thank you for your correction sir and I will now state things "factually" I assert as a fact the major cause of global oil prices rising is demand from emerging markets such as China, India, Brasil, Argentina etc etc. I also assert that raising U.S. oil production even 200 percent would hardly make a dent in global prices due to emerging market growth. I also assert that such a boost to output while creating some jobs (a very welcomed side effect) would do almost nothing to bring down prices at our pumps.

@ DJ-422465

PBS gets $445 million a year. Not a dollar. Thats $445 million I want spent paying on the debt, not TV.

@Hu Phlung Pu

Sesame Street Workshop should sue the F-in pants off of the Obama Admin. for using the images and Will-I-Am for using the audio track. I doubt there was any permission granted for any of this usage based on the news article.

Both of these usages likely fall under the "fair use" clause of the copyright law seeing as neither party was attempting to either profit from the usage or deny profit to the copyright holder.

@david89

I also assert that raising U.S. oil production even 200 percent would hardly make a dent in global prices due to emerging market growth.

But you aren't taking into consideration the impact such a thing would have on speculation. Let's not forget, speculation is a two-way street, it drives the cost of gas both up and down. Even small interruptions of supply drive prices dramatically higher, likewise even small increases in supply could drive prices down dramatically. If you doubt this just look at what happens every time a President taps the Strategic Reserve.

Layton:
This is what the Republicans intend to cut. The ONLY cut Obama has talked about making is cutting the military which is NOT what should be cut. One of the most importand government functions is to protect the American people and Obama is making America a laughing stock and weak on the world stage.

A List of Republican Budget Cuts

Notice S.S. and the military are NOT on this list.

These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting.

* Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy -- $445 million annual savings.
* Save America 's Treasures Program -- $25 million annual savings.
* International Fund for Ireland -- $17 million annual savings.
* Legal Services Corporation -- $420 million annual savings.
* National Endowment for the Arts -- $167.5 million annual savings.
* National Endowment for the Humanities -- $167.5 million annual savings.
* Hope VI Program -- $250 million annual savings.
* Amtrak Subsidies -- $1.565 billion annual savings.
* Eliminate duplicating education programs -- H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.
* U.S. Trade Development Agency -- $55 million annual savings.
* Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy -- $20 million annual savings.
* Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding -- $47 million annual savings.
* John C. Stennis Center Subsidy -- $430,000 annual savings.
* Community Development Fund -- $4.5 billion annual savings.
* Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid -- $24 million annual savings.
* Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half -- $7.5 billion annual savings
* Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20% -- $600 million annual savings.
* Essential Air Service -- $150 million annual savings.
* Technology Innovation Program -- $70 million annual savings.
* Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program -- $125 million annual savings..
* Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization -- $530 million annual savings.
* Beach Replenishment -- $95 million annual savings.
* New Starts Transit -- $2 billion annual savings.

· Exchange Programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts -- $9 million annual savings
* Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants -- $2.5 billion annual savings.
* Title X Family Planning -- $318 million annual savings.
* Appalachian Regional Commission -- $76 million annual savings.
* Economic Development Administration -- $293 million annual savings.
* Programs under the National and Community Services Act -- $1.15 billion annual savings.
* Applied Research at Department of Energy -- $1.27 billion annual savings.
* Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership -- $200 million annual savings..
* Energy Star Program -- $52 million annual savings.
*Economic Assistance to Egypt -- $250 million annually.
* U.S.Agency for International Development -- $1.39 billion annual savings.
* General Assistance to District of Columbia -- $210 million annual savings.
* Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority -- $150 million annual savings.
*Presidential Campaign Fund -- $775 million savings over ten years.
* No funding for federal office space acquisition -- $864 million annual savings.
* End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services.
* Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act -- More than $1 billion annually.
* IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for some services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing it to remain as part of its budget -- $1.8 billion savings over ten years.
*Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees -- $1 billion total savings.WHAT IS THIS ABOUT?
* Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees -- $1.2 billion savings over ten years.
* Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of -- $15 billion total savings.
*Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress.WHAT???
* Eliminate Mohair Subsidies -- $1 million annual savings.
*Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- $12.5 million annual savings WELL ISN'T THAT SPECIAL
* Eliminate Market Access Program -- $200 million annual savings.
* USDA Sugar Program -- $14 million annual savings.
* Subsidy to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) -- $93 million annual savings.
* Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program -- $56.2 million annual savings.
*Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs-- $900 million savings.
* Ready to Learn TV Program -- $27 million savings..
* HUD Ph.D. Program.
* Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.
*TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years

I admit some of these programs need cutting but you lay out this list like they are all useless wastes of money. Now you put some skin in the game and means test social security to 50 thousand in retirement income, raise income tax rates and capital gains on 250k hoouseholds and deep cuts to the military and maybe we can talk.

Hey; "Pat in Boston." This is Planeguy from Boston, and frankly sick of the Kennedy-esque liberal politics of the place. The Kennedys were the biggest putzes in American politics! They invented the earmark-vote buying process of the late 40's through today! They warehoused people in government subsedized housing projects, and every 4-to-6 years, came out and told those "warehoused" how wonderful their life was because Teddy, or Jack were providing the funds for their meger existance in rat, drug and booze infested projects. Many lost their life, and certinally their will for living in this; but along with crucifex, and a picture of Cardinal Cushing, they also had one of the Kennedy-putzes hanging on their wall, totally oblivious to the fact that the policies of the democratic party were putting them there, and keeping them there. But every 15th and 30th, they had a check, and hit the Tam O'shanter, or any tavern on the street to blow the stipen, without even realizing how they were being minipulated.

Then there was the "community activism" of the 1960's and 70's that, brought an overabundence of "government support" to Roxbury, Dorchester and Southie, which equally got squandered away; all at taxpayers expense. I use to deliver groceries there, and it was heartbreaking to see community parks and re centers built brand-new, only to have them ruined 2 months later by an uncaring population! The only thing that ultimately cleaned-up those areas were gentrification, and the proximity to good paying jobs in Boston!

Then there was W Arthur Garrity's social experiment in Bussing. While not a political party endeavor per se it was championed by the left for the social blending it would create. Funny thing was, I, as a white kid got bussed to a black school, which had race riots every day, but nary a mention of the plight in the broadcast or print news. Only the black kids going to white schools had the "international press coverage."

This leads into our current state of biased news reporting, where OZero has to totally blow it, before there is any criticism of him what-so-ever, and even then, it's tepid criticism.

After all, Obama's legacy is a direct descendent of the Kenedy "pay for votes wth other peoples money" ponzi scheme. Because after-all, POWER is the only commodity they seem to undersatand, and everyone else be damned!!

Yeah, Boston,,,,,,great place to visit, but unless you're a 1 percenter, not really good to live there, because the other 99%, only have about 1% to live on after all the taxes.

If bill Mahar is right,,Republicans are in a bubble,, then he must concede that Democrat's have there heads in the sand.

How can Obama ask me for more money for his campaign when this is the way he spends it. WTF! this is the most ridiculous ad I have seen yet! What a waste,, who cares about this issue,, our country is in a fix and this is what you speak of?

At least if your in a bubble you can see whats going on. even if your perspective is strange. If your heads in the sand your ass is showing and also available for anyone that may want to take advantage of that kind of situation.

I cant stand to listen to Maher or any athiest including money worshipers.

the commercial is a dumb move, immature and unprofessional. nothing new.

Romney mentions Big Bird and Obama is obsessed with it. It is all Obama and the left can talk about. Probably because it is all that they can understand.

Because it seems ridiculous that this is even near the top of his head when wasteful spending is brought up.

david.

oil companies have closed no refineries. There has not been a refinery built in 40 years because the epa will not allow it. People have tried only to be rejected. They would love to have more refineries. And they would love to not have so many different blends.

Every dollar the govt spends should be scrutinzed and every dime cut that can be cut.

Big Bird is a 1%er .

And still gets some of those Obama freebies .

Did I read that right? America spends less than 1/150th on PBS that it spends on corporate welfare. That's Romney Hood for you. The wealthiest Americans, millionaires and billionaires, are begging "raise our taxes!" but Romney's answer is still "No! There's still a surviving program that teaches American kids to read!"

The military families are begging "Bring our children home!" but Romney's answer is still "No! There's this tiny little program that teaches American kids to read!" America spends as much on our military as all other countries of the world COMBINED, and this so we can be the world's babysitter. We send $3 billion to Israel every year, alone, and you guys are worried about a couple mil for Sesame Street? Why can't we ask other countries to BORROW the money they need from us? You know, PAY IT BACK? We don't need our troops stationed all over the world, protecting other countries when they could be at home, protecting our own. Time to slash military spending, and it's time to stop treating our military like it is some world's military. It is only our own military, and it is paid for only by our tax dollars.

BTW, notice that Romney is also catering to the hispanic vote? Don't be expecting any border protection from that guy. It was Reagan who first passed amnesty granting legalization to millions of illegals, and Bush Sr. who passed the 1990 Immigration Act which more than doubled our legal immigration rate. America now naturalizes more immigrants than all other nations of the world COMBINED, and it's due to Bush's 1990 Immigration Act. Look it up. Liberals were against it. Liberals were also against Reagan's amnesty act.

Our national debt grew from billions to trillions under Reagan's "trickle down economics", the same plan Romney has for corporations (the same corporations that are currently sending American jobs overseas). Even Bush Sr. called this plan "voodoo economics", and it most certainly didn't work! Clinton's term ended with a surplus, and the national debt clock was covered because it couldn't run backwards. Back then, the CBO projected every term would end with a surplus, under Clinton's rule called "pay as you go", and we would have the entire debt paid off by now. Instead, the national debt doubled from $5 trillion to $10 trillion under George W. Bush, as we fought two wars while obtaining extensive tax breaks, which went primarily to the wealthy. That's why Clint Eastwood accused the GOP of "spending like drunken sailors". American CEOs made 42 times what Americans workers made in the 1980s. Today, they make 343 times as much as American workers make. America's wealth gap has grown so much that the Middle Class has fallen into the hole. If you look at an index of standard of living or corruption, you will see that the poorest countries, with the lowest standards of living, tend to have the greatest wealth gap. This is the result of fraud and corruption, just as it was in our own country, with Wall Street. Corrupt countries lose their Middle Class.

Apple was making more money than America when 15 children committed suicide in their ipad factory in China. The problem with Obama's ad is that it's over everyone's heads. Obama consistently makes this mistake, as Bill Clinton has so often accused. He needs to stop overestimating the intellect of Americans (particularly when it comes to corporate lobbying on K Street), and start telling it like it is. He needs Clinton as his "secretary of explaining stuff" because he keeps assuming American voters have done their homework.

Obama bailed out the banks to prevent a second Great Depression. Look up the cause of the first one. If banks fail, the economy fails, because so much of it is dependent upon the banks. Then, Obama forced Wall Street to create their own fund, in case they need to be bailed out again, since they refused to leave their original derivatives plan that cause the first failure. Republicans voted against Wall Street Reform. I'm sorry, but the GOP is funded by the wealthy, and they will tell you only what they want you to hear, because they wish to remain wealthy. They have paid mouthpieces like Rush Limbaugh telling you that second hand smoke won't cause cancer, because he was being paid by the tobacco companies. Now, he's convincing you that global warming is a hoax, because he is being paid by the oil companies. Why not do your own homework and vote for yourself, not for the large corporations that purchase mouthpieces to feed you their misinformation? Snopes has a hundred times as many corrections for e-mail hoaxes spread by Republicans than for any hoaxes spread by liberals. The GOP just lies and you people listen.

All last week obama has been traveling the country on a mission to 'save big bird'.

What about saving American jobs, our economy or saving America from terrorist who have proven once again that they want to kill us and distroy America...?

**RR 2012**

Obama just signed an ex. order that will allow Joe Bidento wear a big bird costume to the debate with Ryan. The DNC has advised Joe to just stand there and chirp once in awhile!!

@backcountry164

Both of these usages likely fall under the "fair use" clause of the copyright law seeing as neither party was attempting to either profit from the usage or deny profit to the copyright holder.

They were denying profit by not paying royalties to the Workshop and attempting to profit from the usage is subjective since they get campaign contributions even though they weren't using the video or soundtrack to direct sell a tangible item.

It's all moot anyway because the political campaigns get a pass on almost anything. Look at the Do Not Call registry. The telemarketing boiler rooms are exempt from following the law in that regard because it's for a campaign. Congress made sure of that back when they crafted the law.

The big bird issue shows me that liberals are not serious about cutting federal spending. Every federal government program benefits someone, so if you mention cutting anything, the liberals would contend that you hate or want to kill the person who benefits. This might be why we run a 1 trillion dollar deficet. It seems the only thing they want to cut is military, which I believe is misguided

So did Romney and his message was pretty clear. He was saying that nothing was off the table, from the very large to the very small. All government spending must be reigned in. (except military spending of course)

@Backcountry: and why should military spending be off the table? The Pentagon didn't ask for and doesn't want Romney's huge spending increase. How about we keep some of that bloated defense budget at home and do some nation building here for a change?

What is Romney's true agenda for proposing to increase military spending so outrageously? Will he ever be honest about that (or anything else...)?

@kaybeetoys

@Backcountry: and why should military spending be off the table?

Actually I've already addressed this. I didn't say military spending SHOULD be off the table, I said that for Romney it WOULD be. Why would you expect anything else from a republican today?

Will he ever be honest about that (or anything else...)?

If you libs are going to keep calling Romney a liar it's about time you started criticizing your own guy for the exact same thing because anything less makes you a hypocrite. Romney is playing the same BS game every politician, including Obama, plays by twisting and turning the facts. But we now know that our President told bald-faced lies to the world about what happened in Benghazi. Where the @!$%# is all the criticism from the left on that?????? If Bush had done the same thing you would all still be bitching about it 10 years later but not a peep when your guy does it. PATHETIC!

Sesame Street is so successful they can find alternate funding as opposed to our government having to borrow more money from Red China to support it. Because the federal government is already more than 16 trillion dollars in debt, I estimate that to repay the money that the federal government is borrowing, the tax payers will have to pay back 10 times the amount borrowed over a period of 180 years. I would think that there should be more important issues for the President to be dealing with then Sesame Street. Maybe the President would look better if he debated Big Bird rather than Romney. Maybe the President would have a better chance to beat Big Bird by being rude.

Fiesty is a fixture on these blogs Joe. Who the hell ever heard of Joe Thomas??

Who the hell ever heard of Joe Thomas??

Those who have seen enough to toggle the IGNORE button...

Barry has a fondness for Big Bird..... Joe's been learning so much from him lately.....

Everyone notice how Feisty is no longer the first post EVERY time? Also, notice how this happened when one of two things happened: 1) It is no longer MSNBC, but rather NBCnews.com and 2) Comcast bought out NBC.

What has been obvious all this time is coming to light...Feisty was somehow a part of MSNBC and now that has changed, she no longer automatically gets the first post.

Ya think Joe's using Big Bird as a debate partner?

Makes you wonder who O used - Elmer Fudd?

Of maybe Feisty. She was suspended that week and had a lot of free time.

"leroy brown

Fiesty is a fixture on these blogs Joe."

You mean more like a tool...

Don't get smart Baloney!

Pay her no mind. She is, and always has been, irrelevant. Unfortunately for her, she is just now figuring that out.

"leroy brown

Don't get smart Baloney!"

Keep being a clown Brown!

LOL, Feisty is so dumb, that she/he actually told me that an illegal citizen "became legal" when they married a US citizen (this was in response to talking about my son-in-law, who is less than legal).

My other thought is that perhaps she/he IS an illegal, and has bought into that whole myth about marrying into citizenship.

Feisty never says a word on the actual issues. Her claim to fame is belittling and insulting anyone who dares to insult the man who gives her those food stamps.

Prof-1231703 .... you and Kumar-889209 are so OBSESSED! It's not that hard to be the first post. I've done it myself numerous times. It's timing and luck. Something people with common sense have. Prof. Feisty is a personal friend of mine and I seriously doubt she said what you posted.

You all barking about Feisty! HELLO! Still can't find a damn thing to post that is positive about YOUR candidate but certainly love posting crap about the other posters. You're all SO like your candidate! Bullies love company ... don't all trolls travel in groups? Better to attack with a crappy defense rather than lead with a perfect offense.

Obama/Biden 2012

oooooooooo, if Feisty is part of MSNBC, maybe she's Rachel MadCow??

Good laws Sal_Cow2006!

That's all you have? To post about another poster and not about the topic? Sad little basement world you live in! You are so much cooler on line!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE6iAjEv9dQ

Get a grip, make a post that shows your own thoughts rather than bashing those that have them!

Obama/Biden 2012

I think layton and fisting deadhead are a gay couple.......................what do you all think??

With all the toys and stuffed animals that Sesame Street sells, it doesn't need public money. One of those goofy Elmo dolls is like 30 bucks a pop. So what if it is a dollar a year, I think this is a good approach, cut something that isn't going to kill everyone, it's only a dollar but look how many ppl there are in America paying that dollar, do the math folks, it adds up to millions. Start trimming the "wants" first instead of the needs like medicare. There are a million useless programs that depend on gov. money we can cut. There are sooo many after school programs we could cut b/c I have been to them and MAYBE 3 whole kids show up and yet they get thousands a year for rent, electric etc. Cut all these useless programs Obama put into place when we could least afford to do so.

Fisty, leroy, and layton are paid trolls for the DNCforO. Just doing their part to keep everyone focused on a bunch of little issues.

@Layton-3733410

It's not that hard to be the first post. I've done it myself numerous times. It's timing and luck.

Luck?? She has first post so often that people actually notice how often it happens. If that is luck she should be buying a lottery ticket every day.

Good laws Sal_Cow2006!

That's all you have? To post about another poster and not about the topic? Sad little basement world you live in! You are so much cooler on line!

Ummmm, you do realize that was what FRH did in the OP right?? So I'm just going to assume you believe she also lives in a sad little basement world.

@Red_Cloud

BC,

you sound jealous.

what's the matter, you want to be a first post but you get beat out by FR each time?

If you had even one fully functional brain cell (the fact that you can rarely manage a post which is longer than a sentence and the fact that you vote for your own posts suggests you don't) you would realize that I came to this discussion 14 hours after the OP. You really think I'm coming to the party 14 hours later and give a crap about being first?

@Red_Cloud

BC,

since you continue to mention it, I would say you seem obsessed with being first.

I have absolutely no doubt that somehow makes sense to you.

Layton - sorry but feisty is getting what she has been dishing out for sometime. Maybe you should review some past seeds of the disrespectful, useless barrage of name calling, bashing, childish, playground mouthing she has handed out to anyone who comments with something which does not favor obama.

AMEN TO THAT ghost67. I've been watching her posts for months and she never ceases to amaze me with the things she gets away with. Even her avatar was disgraceful, but newsvine didn't do anything about that either.

Layton--The biggest gaffe EVER was "you didn't build that". That insults every (working) American in the country. That trumps any gaffe by any candidate past or present.

Positive post about Romney?

Other than being a great guy?

He, on national TV before an audience of 60 million people, forever destroyed the myth of Obama as being fit to be the leader of the greatest nation on earth. Hands down.

@Marge-1323260

Layton--The biggest gaffe EVER was "you didn't build that".

I'll go with his "bumps in the road" comment after our ambassador was murdered. Too bad it went largely unchallenged and ignored by the media.

Red_Cloud

Ummm that is MY POINT duh, it won't go off air if PBS isn't around it could more then afford to move to a network or cable. Maybe you should sober up BEFORE you start posting and trying to attack ppl when there is nothing to attack, you just make yourself look stupid.

Chad, brilliant! Couldn't have written it better myself!

Who mentioned black ?

It's posts like these from Obama supporters that makes others vote for Romney .

Extremely bigoted response.

How many types of Democrates are there?

Chad: Democrats are racist too you know. STOP pulling the race card when things don't go your way "it is so yesterday." HA HA! Don't you know that when you post a novel on a chat board no one reads the whole thing. Be succinct my dear not a bore. Hey at least you made a friend Greg J agrees with you. Ahhhhh!

I just don't like Obama because of his policies, his weaknesses and because his ears are too big and they stick out and make him look silly. Joking about the ear thing. Seriously, I do not want to see him re-elected because of his failure. Now, stop trying to make this a race war or a religious one. When you say things like that you really infuriate and disgust people.

HUGE difference in MAN and CHRIST......

one is here for God's pleasure, the other, the Savior of man.....

Ontor,

Chad mentioned it and the fact that you responded to it shows where your mind and heart is.

You got punked. XD

OBAMA/BIDEN 2012

You want to look up the war on women or racist remarks from the Dems look up the hate after star Stacey Dash recently tweeted her support for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney

He only punked all Obama supporters .

Layton- here's your link

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2941991/posts

You want to look up the war on women or racist remarks from the Dems look up the hate after star Stacey Dash

Whaaa, whaaa, whaaa .. let's compare side by side the comments the insignificant faux star Dash received compared to Sandra Fluke. Ms. Dash's flailing career tells the more likely story - she tweeted the negatives to herself for fame.

Chad-4213400 ...

ONTOR- Extremely Idiotic Republican

Extremely Idiotic Re-reg. I'm pretty sure he/she will be gone soon. Takes a personality and character to stand true to your posts and not run and duck for cover behind a screen name and avatar. I've shared mine with many I've met on here. For all of you that bash the President and other posters ... would YOU???

Obama/Biden 2012

Romney deliberately threatened the moderator which deliberately caused the moderator to not challenge Romney during the debate. It is why the moderator, Jim, did not persue Romney's non answer of his plans. The ONLY budget plan announced was getting rid of Big Bird.......A few weeks away and ROMNEY LIED ALL NIGHT DURING THE DEBATE BECOMING THE THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE!

Before the debate Romney was on both side of the issue on EVERY issue, the night of the debate he was not on either side of the issues, he denied he was Romney!

Vote President Obama/Biden and Team Democratic Party 2012

Poor Chad has nothing better to do except stereotype and judge people.

Common The Fox watchin mental midget militia can surely come up with better responses than that.

Please keep posting.

I'm glad to see Big Bird has no use for being exploited in desperate campaign tactics. He has more class than that.

Chad,

It is your party that basically calls all Christians stupid, idiots, and rejected God in their party platform until President Obama realized the mistake. Just saying you can't defend something like a deeply held belief and pass it off as a joke. The joke is the majority of the country is still considered religious since only 1 in 5 agree with your statement about God or religion. Those 1 in 5 are mostly liberal or progressive Democrats according to research yesterday on MSNBC. You take great pains to paint with a broad brush all people who reject your message and beliefs. If you pay attention to the research you just rejected the belief of 4 out of 5 Americans...this is not a way to win friends and influence people.

By the way Jesus was not a liberal, democrat, republican, conservative...he was and is the Son of God and is totally other centered. He came to tell us the "truth" about God through his life and teachings. As such it is sad to see you slam someone who came with the offering of true freedom and truth. Someone who would risk all for a friendship with you and welcome you into His presence...unless you reject Him. The truth is He is about unselfishness, love, acceptance, and He will meet you where ever you are in life but will not leave you there...He will draw you to Himself for healing and new life. Christians are not God...we are just flawed humans seeking healing and forgiveness...it is a shame our mistakes make Jesus and God look bad. But He love us and you regardless. Slamming His people is expected and a fulfillment of what Jesus meant when He said if they kill me they will harm and kill you as my followers as well. No matter how you malign Christians we will not call for burning you home or attempt to take your life...we will pray that you have a real encounter with Jesus and recognize him for who He truly is.

Just saying God and politics are completely separate issues and you should know better. That said it does not allow Christians to legislate morality or belief to you against your will. God's kingdom is about freedom of choice " choose you this day whom you will serve" and "come let us reason together" are not a prescription for force against ones will.

Chad, Starsailing, Layton and RedDev, you prove daily that you should heed the sage advice of Mr Samuel Clemens. Chad, your post was the definition of a bigot. Layton and RedDev, you proved that you are at war with women, but will be the first to claim otherwise. Hypocrite much do you?

The people posting against Ms Dash are some of the most racist known, and by most of their own post they are people of color, which makes their post all the most pathetic.

Tracy- Unfortunately this is what the Republican party has become. I call em like I see em.

Rick Colo -

"If these idiots get the chance to cheat in the voting by letting illegals and other criminals vote because they want to eliminate ID's, they will try it!" This is a lie, google the Brennen Center study. And Pennsylvania admitted in legal documents that their efforts to require voter ID was NOT related to voter ID fraud.

"The lying suck up liberal media is also a bunch of scum bags who should be banned from reporting news to the American people!" Pretty durn sad when you are deliberately advocating the violation of the First Amendment of our Constitution. Oh, and remember that it was FOX news that won their court case in Florida when they argued that they had the right to lie as part of free speech.

"The moron-in-chief should have been impeached . . ." Get real, if he had done anything impeachable don't you think it woiuld have happened?

"This racist . . ." It's not him, Rick. Go back and read your own hate filled rant.

More like cult leader Obama

Of all the comments, only two things are clear. First, everyone here knows who they are gonna vote for and nothing will change their mind. Second, Rick Colo represents everything that is wrong with this country. I am so very glad that he has only one vote and can use it only once every four years. His family and friends are not so lucky.

Rick Colo: I think I know who you are. Weren't you the head of the bully pack in school? I hope you don't have any offspring. Remember the apple does not fall far from the tree. Stop the silly name calling and post intelligently!

Nothing good to say about Obama ? It figures, another libbie poster with a personal assault on the post of another with a different opinion ! LOL !!

@One Nation,

You probably should go look at post 6 and 6.13 before you keep going on and on about liberal self-righteousness. Not saying either is for sure right, but if you claim one if wrong, you have to claim both are wrong..

Post the links, Rick. Let America see them. Just remember to post links with the entire speechs, not the edited and cut versions. Thank you.

What is your problem rick colo? Did your wife finally cut you off and decide to vote Democrat?

Rick

Chad you are about as stupid as Obozo. He is a racists and if the liberal media would put his racist speeches up for view the American people would get the message loud and clear. The biggtot Rev Wright, Farahkan, and the other scum have an agenda to further divide Americans and Obozo is at the forefront! Of course stupid people never get the message and you are one of them!!

Are you talking out of your Colo, again?! You need to stop I can smell you from here! XD

OBAMA/BIDEN 2012

Oh faahhhrrrrttttt, you are so clever... did you think that one up all by yourself, or did you have help from "the boyz" in the sixth grade ???

The "smell" you refer to was Obama's performance in the last debate ... he really stunk !

Touche, Jim, touche.

I bow down to your infinite wit and wisdom! *eyeroll*

Willard lied so much that made the milk in my frig curdle to cheese, we all know it despite what you may preceive POTUS performance to be on this first debate.

Don't get your witty hopes up, Jimmy!