REWIND - A Week of Quotes & Cartoons

SUNDAY

Quote of the Day
September 16, 2012

'(For my part, I think Obama should indeed set a red
line - warning Netanyahu to stop interfering in
American elections.) '

Columnist Nicholas Kristof
New York Times
September 16, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/9jkn9yk

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/9u4aoj5
Talk About Cold
KAL - The Economist

MONDAY

Quote of the Day
September 17, 2012

'In today's deeply unequal United States ... our
political elites don't fund, they bash. That bashing,
educationally, makes no sense. "Blaming teachers
for the failure of schools," as the New Yorker's
Rebecca Mead puts it, has to be about as absurd as
"blaming doctors for the diseases they are seeking to
treat."

'But bashing makes sense to the rich. And in a
plutocracy, the rich drive the debate - until the rest
of us rise up and change the conversation. In
Chicago, teachers have now done just that.'

Sam Pizzigati
TooMuch
September 15, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/9fa9pfz

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/9krzrze
Just in Case
Jeff Danziger

TUESDAY

Quote of the Day
September 18, 2012

'The Romney campaign has a messaging problem
because it has a policy problem ... How do you
message: I'm doing away w Medicaid over the next
10 yrs, Medicare after that, to finance a cut in the
top rate of tax to 28%?'

David Frum, a former speechwriter
for George W. Bush

Financial Times
September 18, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/8hqy584

[More -  (Reader discretion is advised):
http://tinyurl.com/8o8pwdn

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/9e8lz2t
At Sea
Jeff Danziger

WEDNESDAY

Quote of the Day
September 19, 2012

'Of all the blunders that Mitt Romney has made in
the current election campaign, this is the worst. We
can ignore the fact that the Republican presidential
candidate called the Olympic host Great Britain
incapable or attacked the incumbent Barack Obama
in sharp tones. But writing off one half of his own
country's population? Now that's something. The
candidate said that it was not his job to concern
himself with the 47 percent of voters who
supposedly rely on government assistance and are
therefore Obama supporters. It's amazing how a
politician can voluntarily brand himself as a cold-
hearted capitalist.

'We Germans can already hardly understand why
many Americans would prefer to vote for Romney.
But if we now like to believe that he has stumbled,
then that is wishful thinking on our part. The
policies that we like -- the welfare state, universal
health insurance, a foreign policy of
rapprochement-- are the policies that Obama stands
for. He is Europe's preferred candidate. But the
political culture in parts of the US is different. It is
more conservative, more religious, more skeptical
about government and more focused on the
individual. And some statements that would cause a
scandal in Germany are only enough to cause a blip
in the polls in the US."'

Financial Times Deutschland (Germany)
September 19, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/9oarg2d

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/8twczx2
A Problem?
Signe Wilkinson

THURSDAY

Quote of the Day
September 20, 2012

'I don't believe any legitimate voter that actually
wants to exercise that right and takes on the according
responsibility that goes with that right to secure their photo
ID will be disenfranchised. As Mitt Romney said, 47% of the
people that are living off the public dole, living off their
neighbors' hard work, and we have a lot of people out there
that are too lazy to get up and get out there and get the ID
they need. If individuals are too lazy, the state can't fix
that.'

Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-PA),
on KDKA Radio (Pittsburgh)
September 19, 2012
Think Progress
http://tinyurl.com/coemnw6

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/cnzbeov
Mooch
Ken Catalino

FRIDAY

Quote of the Day
September 21, 2012

'We've got to broaden our outreach to young workers
and hear and engage them in new ways. That's our
future. Our inspiration..We can't let joblessness
and crippling college debt be the trends that mark
this next generation. We can do better. And we have
to.'

AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler,
speaking at the Minnesota AFL-CIO's
Young Workers Convention
September 16, 2012

AFL-CIO Now
September 21, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/d38lpyu

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/cnzbeov
On Our Way
Ken Catalino

SATURDAY

Quote of the Day
September 22, 2012

'The strike was the first phase in our long struggle
for the soul of public education in the U.S.
Hopefully, the leaders of this country will
understand that public education belongs to the
public!'

Chicago Teachers Union
President Karen Lewis

'After Chicago Success, Teachers
Unions Spread their Message'
Washington Post
September 22, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/8zoyyop

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/8dfon4e
No Science Zone
Mike Keefe

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