Congratulations to all who attended! Crowd estimates are trickling in and are showing that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's rally matched and even surpassed the numbers that attended Beck's in August.
But that was never the point of this demonstration.
The point was to show solidarity with all Americans and to encourage civility and cooperation--the opposite of what we have seen and heard at Tea Party rallies where we've witnessed anger, fear, and loathing of our American president--where divisiveness is their goal, and hate is the engine that has been driving it.
As an example, here's a sign seen at a Tea Party Rally:
versus one from yesterday's Stewart/Colbert rally:
(Blogger is acting up and won't let me post the photos of signs from the Stewart/Colbert rally), but here's the link. Go and enjoy the fun. I guarantee that there will be no hatred and antiAmerican dishonoring of our president. What you will find is funny signs with intelligence behind their messages.
Our blogging buddy, Sue, of "Helloooo...Mr. President Are You Listening?" has Stewart's entire speech posted. Go here and read it and be proud to be a liberal with a message of unity and cooperation, rather than hatered and fear.
It was a great day, a great rally, and proof that there really are more people of good will than there are malcontents with nothing but bile and rancor for their fellow Americans.
I'm proud, as I've always been, to be a Liberal.
UPDATE:
Stewart beat Beck by 2-1. Oh, but this rally isn't about numbers, as I said. But it feels soooooo good to read and then report this! LOL!
UPDATE 2: Blogger is cooperating (thanks Jon and Stephen!) and here's another funny sign:
Great rally. No H8!
4 comments:
thanks for the linky love Shaw. The speech is a great one, I've read it more than once. What a crowd, ENORMOUS!!
Our friends across the pond have given it great play. Over 250,000 people.
The TPs think they are the voice of America.
This rally showed them that's not true.
We are evenly divided. The TPs are not a majority.
Also the majority of TPs are older Americans, whereas those who came to the Stewart/Colbert rally are the young Americans.
I think the young liberals are scaring the rightwing more than anything. The right likes to dumbdown their youngins to keep them in the party of NO Progress.
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