"Do you know how to do simple math, Mr. Romney? Maybe you and the Countess Von Backward could

[kpete]

OP-ED COLUMNIST
Don’t Mess With Big Bird
By CHARLES M. BLOW
Published: October 5, 2012

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Big Bird is the man. He’s 8 feet tall. He can sing and roller skate and ride a unicycle and dance. Can you do that, Mr. Romney? I’m not talking about your fox trot away from the facts. I’m talking about real dancing.

Since 1969, Big Bird has been the king of the block on “Sesame Street.” When I was a child, he and his friends taught me the alphabet and the colors and how to do simple math.

Do you know how to do simple math, Mr. Romney? Maybe you and the Countess Von Backward could exchange numbers.




Big Bird and his friends also showed me what it meant to resolve conflicts with kindness and accept people’s differences and look out for the less fortunate. Do you know anything about looking out for the less fortunate, Mr. Romney? Or do you think they’re all grouches scrounging around in trash cans?


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/06/opinion/blow-dont-mess-with-big-bird.html?_r=0

[HuckleB]

1. Recommended.

[tk2kewl]

2. K&R

[Beowulf]

3. I don't have the skills to do it myself,

but someone should do a poster. On the right side a picture of smirking Mitt and his actual quote "I like firing people." On the right side Big Bird and the Sesame Street gang holding pink slips, walking away from a couple of teary-eyed children.