While I was walking across the mall last Sunday, having just left the anger, madness and hilarious misspellings that were the Tea Party rally in Washington, D.C., I said to a friend, “We need to get a rally of our own.”
Thank you, Stewart and Colbert for helping out.
Among my liberal friends, there has been the shared, but quiet, message that: the recession was harder on the U.S. than we expected; that the effects we are seeing now are from an economy broken well before Jan. 2009; and that many an economist has said that, no matter the rhetoric that was used to sell the stimulus, without it we would be far worse than we are today.
These messages, despite their accuracy, are simply too tempered to really get energized about. Until Oct. 30, 2010.
So Thursday night, a group of us got together to watch The Daily Show, which isn’t out of the norm. In an eerily – but most likely planned – similar manner, we had ourselves been hype-ing-up the show because former President Clinton would be the guest. Unknown to us, we were about to see the culmination of two weeks’ worth of random movie clips in preparation for Stewart’s “big announcement.” We were ecstatic to hear that, not only would we stop hearing about the announcement and find out what it was, but that it would take place just in time – both for the elections and while we are in D.C.!
Finally, we’ve got a rally of our own.
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