than with a soulless, pathologically lying automaton.

...I hope it gets used repeatedly.

Obama's using that line...

... a lot more than was apparent last night, I think. So many Americans grew up with Sesame Street - it is really a quintessential part of growing up American, and the emotional attachment to your gentle, lovable childhood heroes runs deep.

Threatening any of the characters, especially Big Bird, one of the most gentle characters of the series, is something only someone like R could have decided to say. He meant to sound snappy and light-hearted, but it's a choice that noone with a regular feeling of empathy would have made. It revealed that he has sociopathic traits, unable to feel empathy, to relate to others.

The line got viral. CNN had it on the center of their webpage today, with the Sesame St cast. It's not gonna sit well .

The irony of Willard being laid low by a person in a bird suit. The cosmos does indeed have a sense of humor.

That's right -- you heard us Mitt!