1) To understand why America is great, at least 35,000 people-- some reports put the number as high as 50,000-- gathered on a cold, damp autumn night in New York to march three miles. There was no daily radio or television show blaring invitations, no guest speakers, no bands.
Contrast that with the Glenn Beck rally a few summers ago: a warm August Sunday afternoon, guest speakers galore, including then-flirty candidate Sarah Palin, with subsidized buses bringing church groups from all across the nation in to stand in a beautiful field and listen to speeches and music.
He drew 70,000 people.
Good work, OWS!
2) To understand why America sucks, Regis Philbin has logged more on-air time than any other television personality in history.
3) To understand why America is great, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have coaxed Aung San Suu Kyi into political activism again.
4) To understand why America sucks, this right-wing "Obama is Anti-Christ" spouting lunatic was able to get a gun.
5) To understand why America is great, the Green Berets are 50 years old.
6) To understand why America sucks, we live in a police state, even in church.
7) To understand why America is great, we can still have grass-roots political movements that express the will of a group of people looking to capture the opportunity to live the promise made to them of the American dream, that flummox the establishment.
8) To understand why America sucks, we can still have a faux political movement, funded with corporate money and organized by lobbyists, that can co-opt an entire political establishment.
9) To understand why America is great, look in a mirror.
10) To understand why America sucks, turn on the TV.
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