Big Bird

I think Obama's campaign is acting completely deranged in running their ad accusing Romney of blaming the US's economic troubles on Big Bird. This is the old kind of propagandizing that assumes popular ignorance. It surely cannot work in the Internet age, where the truth is so accessible. And it surely cannot work on something a record-high audience watched on their own TVs. This is just destroying their credibility on anything else they say. And it is like putting a big pink neon sign on the campaign bus saying "I'm a lightweight. My concerns are frivolous."