From Politico:

“There’s been a strong grassroots outcry over the attacks on Big Bird. This is something that mothers across the country are alarmed about, and you know, we’re tapping into that,” Psaki told reporters aboard Air Force One on Tuesday.

While some have questioned the campaign’s seriousness and intent to put money behind the ad in swing states, Psaki maintained that it is running on cable networks – albeit during comedy shows – that swing-state viewers watch.

“The larger point… is, aside from our love for Big Bird and Elmo, as is evidenced by the last few days, the point that we’re making here is that when Mitt Romney… was given the opportunity to lay out how he would address the deficit, when he said ‘I will take a serious approach to it,’ his first offering was to cut funding for Big Bird,” Psaki said. “And that is absurd and hard to take seriously his specific plan.”

Good.  While the world burns Obama in effigy, the “Arab Spring” turns out to be a ruse by the Muslim Brotherhood, we flee the failure that Afghanistan has become (and recently returned Tim Lynch tells me it will get a lot worse), the dollar crashes because we’re printing so much of it trying to pay our debts, Greece and Spain go into austerity measures, Iran figures out how to block the Strait of Hormuz, the ATF sends high powered rifles to the Mexican cartels in an effort to create a crisis to limit our second amendment rights, we go into ever more debt that our children and children’s children will have to repay, and we throw that borrowed money away on failed solar companies and other unnecessary entitlements – genius Obama talks Big Bird.

Every minute his campaign spends talking about Big Bird is a win for Romney and his campaign.  He is appearing the more serious candidate, and while the attacks at Benghazi, Libya, have Romney talking about personally meeting one former Navy SEAL who perished in the attack, Obama still hasn’t responded to the attack and has gone no further than to say that it is “under investigation.”  Who knew Obama would take the bait?

But the bait is spoiled.

President Obama has ruffled some feathers at PBS by putting Big Bird in a TV ad attacking Mitt Romney.

“We have approved no campaign ads, and as is our general practice, have requested that the ad be taken down,” Sesame Workshop, the PBS-affiliated non-profit behind Sesame Street, said today in a statement.

When Big Bird gets pissed at you, there is deep trouble afoot.