QotD
"Our nurses worked so hard the last time on [President
Obama's] campaign. They worked for months. I mean, people left
their homes. They were excited. You know, they actually believed
in his candidacy. They thought that he meant what he said when he
actually supported single payer. And all we needed to do was get
him there.
"But we made a tremendous mistake. I mean, as a country, as
the nurses, everyone. And that is he said, 'You need to push me.'
Well, no one pushed him, except for the right, and except for Wall
Street. We didn't push Barack Obama. In fact, we had the liberal
groups who were yelling at anyone who stepped out of line to get
in line.
"So now we're in a situation that we, in part, helped
create. That's the dilemma here. You can't solve the problem
without changing the way you do your own work. And so this isn't
about Barack Obama. We are in a process of figuring out if we're
even going to endorse legislators this year, because it's so
bad."
-- RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses
United, on the PBS television program Moyers & Company,
2012-05-11
