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Oct. 21, 2012 6:01pm Mytheos Holt

Obama campaign deputy manager Stephanie Cutter apparently isn’t quite ready to close up the Obama campaign office on Sesame Street. Today, in a joint interview with Romney surrogate Kevin Madden hosted by Bob Schieffer, Cutter attempted to defend the Obama administration’s seemingly myopic focus on smaller and smaller issues, the issue of funding Big Bird among them.

“We are not the one that brought up Big Bird,” Cutter said. “Big Bird is important because that’s the only thing that Mitt Romney could point to as to how he’s going to reduce the deficit. Deficits are a big issue in this campaign, I think you would agree with me.”

But Big Bird wasn’t the only topic Cutter wanted to play defense on. She also tackled the topic of the much maligned phrase “binders full of women” that the Obama campaign has been frantically trying to spin into political gold.

“Now Mitt Romney could only point to binders for an accomplishment towards women,” she said. “He had a binder full of women. Now that’s important because it’s really symbolic of the governor’s policies. You know, he wouldn’t say whether or not he believes in equal pay for women, the Lilly Ledbetter Act. He wasn’t honest about contraception. He supports the Rubio bill which puts bosses in charge of whether women have access to contraception on their employer plan.”

And not to let her collegiate English major style of analysis go unimpeded, Cutter finished off with the equally mocked line from the president about “Romnesia.”

“Now Romnesia is a playful term to describe what Mitt Romney is actually doing in the closing days of this race,” Cutter said. “Mitt Romney has run as the ideal Tea Party candidate, severely conservative for the last six years running for president and in the last two weeks of this campaign, he’s suddenly moving to the middle. What about all those policies that he declared? He’s going to repeal Roe v. Wade, sign that into law. The tax cut for those at the top that he’s no pretending doesn’t exist, that’s going to either increase our deficit or increase taxes on increase taxes on the — on the middle class.”

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scudster
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:50pm
Is this all they have to run on after four years of hemorrhaging money like a drunken sailor??? Why dont you Obama supporters just electronically transfer all your income to his personal account since you obviously are to stupid to create a budget for yourself that works.

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- oneshiner
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:03pm
  Ha ha ha ha, it’s obama who can’t let it go because he has nothing else to use against Romney.
  
  In fact, I’m getting a kick out of how stupid this is making the prez look.
  
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- Mike Benton
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:21pm
  The guy who walks around inside the big bird outfit makes $310K a year.
  
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- Want our country back
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:31pm
  http://townhall.com/tipsheet/greghengler/2012/10/21/newt_its_offensive_for_obama_to_pretend_hes_offended_over_romneys_serious_libya_questions
  
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- SoiledDove
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 1:00am
  Mitt Romney attacked PBS, which has overwhelming support among the American people. We like funding PBS with tax dollars. It was a really, really stupid thing to say. The Obama Campaign is capitalizing on that. End of story.
  
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- johnjamison
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 7:43am
  Brought to you by the number 16,000,000,000,000 and the letter O.
  
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- Bill Rowland
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 7:44am
  Has anyone else noticed how the Obumbler campaign harps on an issue until you are sick of it. Bain Capitol, war on women, notebooks full of women, Big Bird and avoids the economy, unemployment, high fuel prices, inflation, the rise of more muslim terrorists?
  They are trying to distract us with BS while ignoring the things that matter.
  
  OMG Nov 6, 2012
  
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- Taquoshi
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 8:45am
  Soiled Dove -
  
  The American public is free to love $e$ame Street but the reality is that it rakes in the dough by the garbage can full via the licensing agreements. They don’t need tax payer dollars, trust me.
  
  Romney mentioned $e$ame $treet and “O”‘s campaign seized it and are beating it to death. $e$ame $treet actually asked the campaign to stop using Big Bird, but the campaign so far has ignored them.
  
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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:23am
  I thought Big Bird and Barney ran off together ?
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:44am
  PBS makes billions off of programs such-as SesemeeStreet all over the world combined!! They don need our stinkin taxdollars!!
  
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- JRook
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:55am
  Classic Romney… pound his chest on how he is going to cut government spending and then identify NPR to feed the base and identify a whooping $225 million per year. Something close to what military contractors overcharge the military every week. The nicest thing you can say about Romney is that he is a cheap salesman. You want to vote against the PRESIDENT fine. But stop pretending that Romney is a man of high character, ethics and integrity. Read about his real record in MA. I would say read about his real stances, policies and plans…. but he doesn’t have any real ones.
  
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noslave
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:46pm
you liberals are gettng hysterical,romney is advanceing in the polls by telling the honest truth,you got nothing but 4 years of failures,in nov. you’ll get the big bird but it wont come from the brainwashing station carrying sesame st??

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- oneshiner
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:05pm
  Want another laugh? Look at this ad from 2008 and how he repeats exactly the same in 2012
  
  http://patriotupdate.com/31090/maybe-the-best-ad-of-the-political-season-so-far#.UIA7xucsSpg.email
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:29pm
  Oneshiner… that was awsome shows just how insane Obama and his followers really are. Same old story same old song and dance.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:37pm
  @ONESHINER
  I noticed how Oblameus said exactly the same thing at the last debate, about what he was going to do, as he said in 2008. Why ANYONE would STILL believe this lying sack of s#|t is beyond me.
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:12pm
  Is Big Bird Obamas nickname for Michelle? Or his little man. Let it go let it go.
  
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BODYBAG
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:42pm
Stephanie Cutter campaign scorecard:
Mitt Romney is a tax dodger who hasnt paid taxes in 10 years
Mitt Romney is a Felon
Mitt Romney killed a man’s wife
Mitt Romney wants to kill Big Bird
Mitt Romney puts women in Binders
Mitt Romney is a vampire

Yup. Stephanie Cutter = Communist propagandist

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- idarusskie
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 5:22am
  and big bird is richer then Romney
  
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HKS
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:41pm
Here’s an idea to help Obama balance the budget. Since his cabinet already responds to embassy attacks with drones and cameras, he could sell tickets to watch the carnage as terrorist rape and mangle the diplomats. Like, since their already doing that any way, might as well make a few bucks at it. Ya see that’s Obama’s problem, he just can’ see opportunity.

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stoptyranny
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:40pm
The Lilly Ledbetter Act has nothing to do with making pay equal for women. It only changes the amount of time you have to file a lawsuit for pay discrimination. Obama is selling this like HE gave equal pay to women. He doesn’t even pay women on his staff the same he pays the men. Pay discrimination for gender is already illegal under the Civil Rights Act.

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- barber2
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:18pm
  STOP: We know Obama. He still claims he killed Bin Laden. Poetic / social justice if that arrogant boast comes back to bite him. ( not sure how that arrogant boast fits in with his ” reach out” to the Muslims . Maybe Obama plans to confuse them with his lies just like he does the American people. Who knows . )
  
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meister41
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:38pm
Hoe do I stop the ads from playing ! The Blaze is ******* me off!

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:13pm
  Download an ad blocker for your browser.
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:37pm
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In my opinion, Sesame Street is a propaganda brainwashing tool.
That show turns nice kids into evil liberals.

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- HKS
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:45pm
  True, it’s a liberal propaganda machine.
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:38pm
  Our grandchildren are not allowed to watch any PBS broadcasting. My Children did not watch that sesame street cr.p either.they can go broke for all I care. No taxpayer funds.communist bast.rds
  
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- DOra Glasberg
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:35pm
  Have your Cocoa Puffs arrived yet.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 9:41pm
  Ms. Gasberg: no need to spew racist stuff here….
  
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meister41
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:37pm
I’ll cut Big Birds head off and cook him for Thanksgiving!!!Yum Yum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:17pm
  Read this at least until you get to the part about Big Bird. Even SNL got tired of their Muppets, Land of the Gorch.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live_(season_2)
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:36pm
We have four dead Americans because of an act of war and the stupid bastard who read a book about communism and had a communist father and mentor can only fixate on a non issue such as this?

This idiocy alone is enough of a reason to fire the Marxist mulatto heathen SOB.There’s many more reasons to fire him this is just the latest,wait a few hours and the pig will give us more reasons.

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- BODYBAG
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:48pm
  @PROGRESSIVESLAYER
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:36pm
  wait a few hours and the pig will give us more reasons.
  ————————————————–
  LOL. Thats about right.
  Monkeys or Pigs. Its all the same.
  I guess I think of this situation like Planet Of The Apes
  I walk around most of the time feeling like Charleton Heston
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdmqn9JIuzc
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:12pm
  LMAO BAG we were separated at birth! I loved that movie,the remake not so much.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:52pm
  @PROGRESSIVESLAYER
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:12pm
  LMAO BAG we were separated at birth! I loved that movie,the remake not so much.
  —————————————————
  LOL. Same here.
  If the situation werent enough of a pisser already, this is enough to make ANYONE
  blow a gasket. Looks like they’re now trying to re-write the whole story before tomorrow’s debate:
  http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/20/obama-admin-recalibrating-benghazi-narrative-again-before-fp-debate/
  
  “Now it looks like the White House might be trying to rejigger that narrative yet again align more favorably with President Obama’s self-stated successes, do some damage control on his administration’s incompetent and bungled response to repeated security threats in the region, and may be most particularly looking get any “al Qaeda”-related language out of the Libya story. “
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:09pm
  BB This is good though let the bumbling fools keep changing their position on this matter,Romney can exploit it and demonstrate how incompetent the regime is. Schiefer will obviously favor Barry but Romney just needs to plow over the propagandist ie Schiefer and just talk over him and ignore his interference that we all know is coming.
  
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Kupo
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:36pm
I have a question for this Obama groupie – if it’s legal for insurance companies to charge men more for car insurance than women then why isn’t it thinkable to charge women more for health insurance than men? I understand that there is a huge difference in cost between the two but that doesn’t change the principle of the matter.

Men’s car insurance is higher because, presumably, they rely on it far more than women do because of their higher risk driving. At the same time women go to the doctor’s office far more often than men which is why it makes sense to charge them more – the more often health insurance is relied upon the more it eats into the insurance company’s profits.

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- Wisdom7
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:42pm
  The question is why is insurance still higher for men when studies show women are worse drivers?
  
  http://www.mid-day.com/relationships/2011/jul/080711-Confirmed-Women-are-worse-drivers.htm
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1574402/Women-and-gay-men-are-worst-drivers.html
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/6849247/Women-worse-at-parking-than-men-study-shows.html
  
  Two countries show women suck at driving. lol
  
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- Kupo
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 9:46pm
  Yeah I know, that’s why I said “presumably”. Whatever the reality is, the rationale that most people use regarding men and car insurance is that men get into more accidents than women.
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:35pm
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Tax money should not be used to fund public television.
They can get sponsors and run commercials like network TV.

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- barber2
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:23pm
  Agree 100%. Hope that is one of the first actions of the Romney Administration. Time to separate the Far Left Propaganda machine from it’s tax- payer funded base. Can’t believe that our tax money goes for this biased brainwashing / water-boarding of public opinion.
  
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BlackCrow
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:31pm
CTW (Children’s Television Workshop) has made BILLIONS of dollars over the years off mechanizing licenses. Remember Tickle me Elmo? They set up a separate “for profit” corporation where these moneys go. Big Bird makes MORE than enough money to support himself but NO! They need to go to the government for support. BULL………!!!!!!

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:41pm
  I happened to come across a travel show that was featuring Austria on PBS, yesterday. After the show, they offered DVD’s of the show. Who gets the money from the sales of the shows? Does it get paid back to the taxpayers? PBS can get plenty of sponsors, like they do with the Home Improvement shows, plus their money begging twice a year brings in enough money to keep running, plus all the profits of merchandising, that I don’t believe they need to be on the public dole anymore.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:31pm
  ANONYMOUS T. IRRELEVANT, We all know that PBS can make it on their own. First of all they are already well established, and look at all of the other tripe on the other bazillion of channels that pick up advertising to support them. There is no sense that the taxpayer should support them. I love the woodworking, and building shows too. But, I am willing to put up with commercial breaks. Shoot, I hate the no bathroom breaks.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:44pm
  Well, I don’t know about you all, but I get three to five channels each of three different public television stations. Kentucky Educational TV (KET), Cincinnati Educational TV (WCET), and Dayton Public TV (WPTO). That’s waaay more public TV than is needed for one area.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:09pm
  ANONYMOUS: But the Democrats LOVE PBS and NPR which provide them with all of that ” free advertising” …at our tax payer expense ! Totally Left wing biased ” news” coverage 24/7 . And they are part of the International Far Left / UN propaganda machine which is now running the world through their media influence. The media controls the ” news” and the media influences the public. And the media is ruled by the Far Left. Anti-Americanism , anti-capitalism, and anti-Isreal are now the “message” of the Far Left media…..24/7……
  
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Rob1231
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:29pm
Stephanie my dear…he is going to repeal Obamacare. How much bigger can you get than that?

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:38pm
  he will not
  
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- Gregb
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:56pm
  first thing in office – repeal obamacare – Romney is trustworthy…as opposed to the current administration!
  
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The-Monk
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:26pm
Dear LGBT Sesame Street Big Bird,

Meet Mr. Bad Ass Big Bird…..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzfLCudE3EI

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:36pm
  Hi MONK, I always did like that scene. LOL
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 9:16pm
  Hi RJJ,
  
  A big smile for the better Big Bird that knows how to use a shotgun….. : )
  
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StacyR
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:22pm
Who cares? We have real problem in this country that Democrats and Republican can never fix.

The revolution has started! It’s just waiting for you!

“Be Smart!” –
FIGHT THE CAUSE – NOT THE SYMPTOM

U.S. Citizens
Read “Common Sense 3.1” at ( http://revolution2.osixs.org )

Non U.S. Citizens
Read “Common Sense 3.2” at ( http://SaveTheWorldNow.osixs.org )

How else can I say this? “We Are Free!”http://WeAreFree.osixs.org

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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:35pm
  Paul Krugman? Lol…
  
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- barber2
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:00pm
  STACR: Still pushing that ” let’s have a revolution” rhetoric ?? Somewhere there is an OWS missing you ! That anti-capitalism garbage is getting so old…
  
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sndrman
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:21pm
not any posts going through

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sndrman
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:19pm
hi

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RougeFastFingers
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:19pm
Man, you can taste the desperation.

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- Gregb
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:53pm
  Amen – desperation is the perfect word…
  
  Romney is giving a big bird to obama and obama can’t handle it.
  Romney has a plan to cut taxes…obama has not plan – obama wants to raise taxes
  Romney will repeal obamacare – obama will raise taxes for everyone
  Romney will run America like a prosperous business – obama wants a failed socialist society
  Romney will increase oil production and drive gas prices down – obama will create more solyndras and bankrupt America
  Romney will keep America and Israel safe – obama will side with the muslim brotherhood.
  Romney will build a strong America – obama will have America bend over and he will lead from behind!
  
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- meister41
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:06pm
  No I can’t wait to taste Big Bird…….He still has 4 more hours to go in my oven! Yum,Yum!!!!!!!!
  
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sndrman
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:18pm
wonder what the liberal outcry would be if big bird was used for a republican?how is it the left has defined the Conservative movement as you fill in the buzz words……….oh yea the left plays to win and “our” elected play to get along

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tonypro
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:17pm
Where are Maddens responses, and comments in this article?

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soybomb315_II
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:14pm
“Mitt Romney has run as the ideal Tea Party candidate, severely conservative for the last six years”

LMFAO

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- justangry
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:31pm
  Yeah really. The media is really trying to make the tw*t waffle sound like a conservative.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:47pm
  Obama makes LBJ look like a conservative but that dont make it so. Man the media has no clue
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:52pm
  C’mon SOY. To her the term ‘Tea Party’ is a slander. Get with the context from somebody like Cutter. Oh that’s right, its slanderous coming from you as well.
  
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- Gregb
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:58pm
  obama or Davis is a left wing radical – tutored by his real father in the ways of communism and it shows.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:06pm
  Hi Soybom315,
  “Obama makes LBJ look like a conservative…”
  
  How old were you when LBJ was POTUS?
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:50pm
  Why do you ask monk? Are you going to tell us a personal story about how you knew LBJ?
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 9:23pm
  Hi Soybom315,
  “Why do you ask monk? Are you going to tell us a personal story about how you knew LBJ?”
  
  Nope. Just wanted to see your response. It was very….. well, I guess you never understood the story so I’m not surprised.
  
  Would you like to hear a story about yourself? I’ve got a dozy for you…… and all you other Dr. Paul supporters. Want to hear how I helped you guys? You’d be surprised.. : )
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 9:41pm
  i dont know what LBJ story you are talking about – as i simply assumed you had one tucked away in that brain of yours. I dont really care to hear a story about how you ‘helped us” because your posts lately have been terribly disingenuous. I certainly dont want to hear your story about me, as it will surely be spoken in some sort of tongue unfamiliar to my reading comprehension….
  
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randy
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:13pm
Dems truly are running scared.

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- Tractorboy
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:46pm
  I love how Rhomney thru Big Bird out there for Obama and the MSM to play with, turned them both into a couple of suckers.
  
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chips1
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:07pm
Did you see the size of Big Birds beak? Obama has pecker jealosy.

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- hidden_lion
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:09pm
  Romney should call in Dicky Cheney, invite big bird out for some huntin…
  
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CatB
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:06pm
Brought to you by the letter O and the number 16 TRILLION.

R & R 2012!

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:40pm
  I really liked that line and I want to see Romney get in Barrys face and keep proving Barrys wrong about everything.
  
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- Want our country back
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:36pm
  Rmoney – Cute
  http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/socialpoliticalissues/ss/Romney-Money-Picture.htm
  
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gastimers
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:04pm
Big bird makes millions and obama,wants to give them more of our money,WHY?

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- Black Midge
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:14pm
  I want to know why no one in management at PBS has not negotiated a percentage of what Sesame Street and other programs on PBS make in merchandising to offset the federal monies given in good faith.
  
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- Chrison
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:49pm
  @BLACK MIDGE:
  
  Because they didn’t have to because they had their faces in the government trough. If PBS were taken off of the dole, they’d definitely start negotiating such terms so that they could stand on their own two feet. But, no, Obama wants to make sure they continue to suck taxpayer money instead of being self-sufficient.
  
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- IMCHRISTIAN
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:50pm
  Because he is yellow.
  
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