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I was in kindergarten class the day “Sesame Street” premiered its first episode. Unlike a lot of things that happened when I was five, I remember this vividly.
My teacher, who I don’t recall a single thing about except that she was female, wheeled a large television into the playroom and told us all that we were about to watch a brand new TV show just for kids.
We watched Sesame Street. It was the first and last time I had a chance to watch the show without knowing anything about it other then my own opinions. I was enchanted. Like many great and important moments in my life, something inside of me knew to freeze-frame this time and make an imprint to keep for posterity. I just knew even at 5 that watching the first episode of Sesame Street was something important.
Of course I moved on, as I got a little older, Sesame Street which provided a voice for the magical Rita Moreno and Morgan Freeman in their pre-star careers, gave way to tween shows like “The Electric Company.”
But Big Bird, Oscar the grouch, Kermit, and Burt and Ernie (who I think are a gay couple don’t you) were characters of my youth, as much as my friends were. It’s funny that I remember so few children that I played with at age 5 but remember so vividly my new friends on “Sesame Street.”
I have long felt Mitt Romney doesn’t have a clue what it means to be an average American guy. His great wealth perhaps has him far removed from the day-to-day lives of most Americans. You would think his team of advisors might tell him, “Hey Mitt, even though you want to cut funding for public television, maybe don’t tell them until after they vote for you.”
How many parents who are die hard Republicans watched that debate and thought to themselves whoops there goes my best babysitting tool. No more Big Bird!
I was, like a lot of democrats, not happy with Obama’s performance at the debate. He seemed tired and out of that famous charm and moxy that has long propelled him.
Maybe he was depressed to spend his 20-year anniversary to Michele in a debate with Romney. Maybe he was surprised to see Romney so charged up.
I have to admit, I went to sleep that night sadly disappointed with Obama.
But I woke up, more worried about Big Bird. Yes, of course, it’s a lot more then “Sesame Street” Romney wants to cut, but nothing illustrates what’s wrong with this man as president more to me than this moment of disconnectedness. He would buy more guns and have less joy for children.
I’d like to see Romney have his credit cards and his money and his power taken from him and be made to spend a month in the home of an average American family with children in the suburbs and then decide what can be so easily cut.
I may be decades past watching Sesame Street but like a lot of folks, decades past their Big Bird watching days, I don’t want the great characters of my child-hood killed off.
Romney why don’t you go to your rich boy’s club where kids can be driven around in Porches and have their own ponies and their own ranches and leave the rest of us alone.
Long live Big Bird!!!
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It makes me really wonder what’s going on, like in “professional wrestling” when one “loses.” But both of them are bought and sold by ???, so don’t freak out too much. The future will be the same either way. Not happy to be saying that…
Big Bird is part of the 1%