Just in case you thought silly season was over, climb aboard and fasten your seat belts for the Obama campaign’s final descent into self-parody. Team Obama is out today with a new attack ad featuring … Big Bird.
https://twitter.com/jaycaruso/statuses/255620755872677888
Oh, it’s real. And it’s spectacular. Spectacularly humiliating for the campaigner in chief.
https://twitter.com/cdbarker/status/255629624132907010
There goes the nursery school vote!
“Mitt Romney: taking on our enemies, no matter where they nest.” This ad brought to you by the letters O, M and G.
For real? The Obama campaign may have just jumped the shark. http://t.co/loPBppcw
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) October 9, 2012
The best part? The campaign is proud of this! Our aching sides! Team Obama thinks the 30-second video is so very clever and effective that it’s floating the rumor that the ad will appear on national television:
new Obama ad mocks Romney for Big Bird remark. running on national broadcast & cable, they say. http://t.co/lJ68xDu6
— Peter Hamby (@PeterHamby) October 9, 2012
Politico reports that the campaign is “calling this a TV spot.” But at least one member of the Palace Guard media desperately hopes it ain’t so.
Obama TV ad press releases usually include tag line about which states a TV ad is airing in. Nott included on Big Bird. http://t.co/XpVi4YHj
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) October 9, 2012
Mitt Romney is talking foreign policy and President Scaremonger is making Sesame Street ads. Oh how we love the taste of desperation in the morning!
@jpodhoretz this Big Bird ad is the most embarassing ad of the cycle..what were they thinking? Romney talking FP & Econ & O-Big Bird?
— poppy (@poppy848) October 9, 2012
What does @theonion do when real ads look like this? RT @PoliticalTicker: Big Bird the focus in sarcastic new Obama ad http://t.co/W6DP4IWg
— John Valerio (@johnvalerio) October 9, 2012
Is that Obama big bird ad for real? Maybe they are in a bit of strife. #Election2012
— Daniel Breban (@DBreban) October 9, 2012
Is the OFA Big Bird ad really on TV? Think David Plouffe needs to read The Audacity to Win again!
— Joe Pounder (@PounderFile) October 9, 2012
https://twitter.com/DefendoLibertas/status/255622723756228610
Whoever made this Big Bird ad for President Obama needs to be fired! Not only is stupid but embarrassing for Democrats. Oh wait, keep it.
— Tonda (@justTonda) October 9, 2012
The more I consider the Big Bird ad, the more I look at it as a symptom of campaign brain lock. Cute, trite, unPresidential, base-only.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 9, 2012
This is a takeaway we can believe in:
https://twitter.com/conncarroll/statuses/255624077627256832
Sunny day, sweepin’ the clouds away …
Update:
Obama henchman David Axelrod adds to the campaign’s humiliation:
Tell your friends to flock to this!http://t.co/CqrjJFHH
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) October 9, 2012
Oh, my.
i think it's mostly conservatives lol'ing and liberals #facepalm-ing… RT @davidaxelrod Tell your friends to flock to this!
— Ryan (@chasinghumility) October 9, 2012
Update: Double side-splitting! “Sesame Street” requests that the ad be taken down.
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