Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

Stewart, Colbert preside over lighthearted, star-studded rally

By the CNN Wire Staff

October 30, 2010 6:38 p.m. EDT

He was speaking of what he called "the country's 24-hour politico pundit perpetual panic conflictinator." It did not cause the nation's problems, Stewart said, "but its existence makes solving them that much harder ... If we amplify everything, we hear nothing."

"There are terrorists and racists and Stalinists and theocrats, but those are titles that must be earned," Stewart said. "You must have the resume. Not being able to distinguish between real racists and tea partiers, or real bigots and Juan Williams or Rick Sanchez is an insult, not only to those people, but to the racists themselves, who have put in the exhausting effort it takes to hate -- just as the inability to distinguish terrorists from Muslims makes us less safe, not more."
Most Americans, he said, don't live their lives solely as Republicans or Democrats, but as "people who are just a little bit late for something they have to do, often something they do not want to do. But they do it."

Some may paint the nation as fragile and torn by hate, he said, "but the truth is ... we work together to get things done every damn day."

Common sense says AMEN.  We should work together to get things done.  Some 215,000 or so Americans of a variety of persuasions showed up for a "non-political" gathering.  While common sense might despair that our elected congress might be influenced by 215,000 voters on their doorstep as opposed to campaign contributions from vested interest, we can all hope that at some point after tomorrow, common sense working together for the interest of the American people might come first, not last.

Common sense says that it doesn't really matter if you are Republican, Democrat, or Unaffiliated.  If you want to change things the sign says it all.