Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

I think the involvement of comedic celebrities such as John Stewart and Stephen Colbert in rallies and politics is very beneficial for bringing more political awareness to the American people about their government. The amount of attention that was raised by the "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" is proof that one way to get American citizens to listen up is to bring in high profile celebrities. Personally, I think that the open mocking of the Tea Party to be quite humorous and actually very truthful. One of the signs at the rally read "Stop Socialism - Boycott Public roads, bridges, air traffic control, public sewers, fire fighters, police," which refers to how taxes are what holds the American society together. The event as a whole sounds like it was very successful in generating a deeper awareness of current party politics.

"Don't ask, dont tell"

I do not understand President Obama's decision to overturn the appeal of "don't ask, don't tell" by a judge. This issue has been a major issue of Obama's campaign and presidency, and after pledging to end the policy once and for all, he turned down the opportunity to do so. I know that he wants the decision to be made and enforced by Congress, but isn't the final much more important than the manner of means to get there? I see this decision of being more stubborn than honorable. I think the goal should have been to dissolve the policy as quickly as possible. As of right now, I am glad that the enforcement of "don't ask, don't tell" is temporarily halted.

Jerry Brown/Meg Whitman "whore" comment

On Tuesday nights gubernatorial debate between Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown, Brown seemed to finally apologize to Whitman about his staff member's comment about Whitman being a "whore". This apology was ill received by Whitman, and i feel like she was trying to make a bigger deal out of it than in was in an effort to gain sympathy for herself and villianize Jerry Brown. It wasn't Brown himself that made the comment, and whoever said it did so with the thought that the comment would remain private. Surely Whitman's staff has also said less than flattering things about Brown, but fortunately for her those comments remained behind closed doors. The comment was obviously wrong and demeaning, but Whitman by no means reprimanded her own campaign chairman, Pete Wilson, when he made a comment about Congress being "whores to public employee unions". People should be focusing more on the policies and plans of action of there political candidates than on stupid things their staff are saying.