YOU KNOW THINGS ARE GOING BAD FOR YOU WHEN...

Remember all of that talk before the debate, about how Romney was having an absolutely horrible couple of weeks? And how many on our side were slamming his campaign, which of course only served to make it all the easier for those on the other side to trash it as well? Well the shoe kind of appears to be now on the other foot, which just goes to show you how political fortunes can turn on a dime. And old Bobby Gibbs kinda found that out the hard way when he made a recent appearance on the "Today" show. You know the fallout behind a campaign move is bad when even the morning mainstream media is expressing disgust. Even more so if the campaign in question is Barry's. And that‘s exactly what NBC’s Matt Lauer did on the "Today" show on Wednesday morning with Barry campaign representative Bobby "Dumb As Dirt" Gibbs over the Barry-approved Big Bird ad.

The ad in question, the goal of which, I guess, is to somehow mock Mitt Romney for going after PBS funding, has become pretty much of a laughing stock among conservatives and liberals alike. Both have essentially skewered it as being beneath the campaign of a sitting president. And on Wednesday, Lauer made it a little personal by adding his thoughts in an interview with Gibbs. "I have to be honest with you, I personally was a bit surprised that the campaign released this Big Bird ad yesterday," Lauer said. "I mean, is that the kind of political ad that a campaign releases when it feels it has ideas and solutions on its side, or is that the kind of political ad a campaign releases when it simply wants to get attention?" Now I'm not exactly a fan of Lauer or his silly little morning show, but on this issue, I have to say, he raises an excellent issue. And I'm not sure if Gibbs was expecting what he might have been walking into.

Gibbs responded in what was pretty much standard fashion, by twisting Romney’s position, saying the governor wants to end "Downton Abbey" and "go to war" with Sesame Street instead of holding Wall Street accountable. "And, look, we can’t have a president who does that." Lauer’s disgust, however, was pretty obvious. "And I find it hard to believe I’m asking this question here this morning, but will the campaign take Big Bird out of its ads?" he asked with a smirk that is usually only visible when he happens to be interviewing the likes of Sarah Palin. "I don’t know of any plans to change that ad," Gibbs responded. That being even though Sesame Street has demanded the yellow figure’s removal. So now it would appear that maybe the Barry campaign is struggling 20 some days from the election. But this thing is far from over, and it is still very much a horse race. In political terms there is an eternity left, while we need to be careful, we must also be determined!