July 20, 2007

Adventures in ostrich suits....

I never thought that I would spend my fifteen minutes of fame dressed as as ostrich.

Together with two friends from my summer internship at Students for Saving Social Security, today I was featured on the front page of Time.com. Hoping to get some attention for Social Security reform for next Monday's CNN-YouTube Democratic Debate in Charleston, South Carolina, we went ahead and submitted our own video question!

Out of more than 1300 video questions that have currently been submitted, Time.com is featuring ours as one of "Ten Weirdest YouTube Debate Questions." Go see our brief spotlight here.

Time's snarky comment was, "If standing in front of the White House wearing ostrich costumes spreads awareness about social security reform, then you can bet the AARP is going to buy up all the ostrich costumes."

If my looking like a fool for a national audience will convince a few more people to support personal retirement accounts, I will gladly abandon all dignity.


Posted by MeganRitter at July 20, 2007 2:50 PM

Comments

I watched the debate tonight... I saw one guy ask about social security, but I didn't see yours (did they use it?)

Either way, doesn't sound like any of the candidates have a good plan for fixing the problem. They talked about "bipartisan solutions" and "stopping the raid." Generic stock phrases. Although Kucinich seems to think that stopping the war will somehow save social security... so there's that.

Great work!

Posted by: Mike Rubino at July 23, 2007 11:03 PM