by John McCormick, updated
ST. LOUIS - Standing under the Gateway Arch, Sen. Barack Obama spoke this afternoon before a crowd his campaign said totaled 100,000, a new U.S. record for his presidential bid.
"All I can say is wow," Obama said as he took the stage, his home state behind his back across the Mississippi River.
In May, the Illinois Democrat attracted about 75,000 to an event in Portland, Ore., while his acceptance speech at the Democratic convention in Denver drew about 80,000 to Invesco Field at Mile High. He spoke to more than 200,000 in Berlin during a foreign trip in July.
The campaign provided a name and number for a St. Louis police officer to verify the estimate. He could not be immediately reached.
In the first of two Missouri stops today, Obama misspoke at one point, mentioning where he will be this evening instead of where he was this afternoon. "If we can rebuild Baghdad, we can rebuild Kansas City," he said.
Obama also defended his tax cut proposals, which Sen. John McCain had criticized earlier in the day during a stop in North Carolina.
"John McCain is so out of touch with the struggles you are facing, he must be the first politician in history to call a tax cut for working people 'welfare.'" Obama said. "George Bush and John McCain are out of ideas, they are out of touch, and if you stand with me in 17 days they'll be out of time."
McCain's campaign responded with a statement that echoed the Republican's comments from earlier in the day.
"Barack Obama would give tax cuts to Americans who don't pay any income taxes," McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said in a statement. "It's a policy Democrats used to call welfare, what Barack Obama calls 'spreading the wealth around,' and what Joe the Plumber calls socialism."
Every four years, Missouri commands attention because of its bellwether status. It has voted for every presidential winner since 1900, with the exception of 1956.
And a CNN/Time/Opinion Research poll released earlier this week showed Obama and McCain in a virtual tie in the state.
Being a resident from a neighboring state -- including one that shares a major media market with Missouri -- has offered advantages here to Obama.
His campaign said this was his seventh trip to Missouri since he secured the nomination. McCain, meanwhile, is schedule to stop in the state on Monday.
The ability of Obama to give attention to Missouri just more than two weeks before Election Day stands in stark contrast to Sen. John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic nominee who had virtually conceded Missouri at this point in his campaign.
As it has in other states, economic stress in Missouri has boosted Obama's campaign here, as voters express strong frustration with the nation's current direction.
If he is to win the state, Obama will need to boost turnout in the urban centers of St. Louis and Kansas City to counter the state's strong base of conservative evangelicals.
Obama's campaign, however, has been aggressively registering new voters, especially in the major urban centers of St. Louis and Kansas City, where it hopes to dramatically increase voter turnout.
"We are going to break every turnout record in Missouri and this nation," said Rep. William Lacy Clay, a Missouri congressman who was part of Obama's warm up act.
Clay and others cautioned voters waiting to hear Obama to be aware of potential polling place problems, while offering a toll free number for those who have trouble casting their votes.
Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri said she expects her state's outcome to be close because of its tradition that "sometimes a one-point victory in Missouri is called a landslide."
McCaskill also criticized Republican running mate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for a comment she made this week about campaigning in "pro-America" places.
"We have reached a new low in American politics when someone dares to say that one part of America is more pro-American than another part of America," McCaskill countered.
Even before Obama secured his party's nomination, he started making trips into the state, including one in May where he met with workers in Cape Girardeau, the boyhood home of conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh.
"We're going to spend a lot of time in Missouri making sure we win this state," Obama said during that stop.











Comments
Work hard! Sacrifice!
That is the American way. But Obama thinks that people who do that should be tapped by the government to spread the wealth, their wealth, around to the less fortunate as defined by those who will vote of Obama.
http://www.bop-o-rama.com
I might show up to a rally if I knew I would make a thousand bucks I did not earn.
McCain '08
Posted by: acarponzo | October 18, 2008 2:02 PM
This was an amazing event!!!
Posted by: Deb | October 18, 2008 2:07 PM
www.journalstar.com/news/local/doc48f91ff41e8ce920547249.txt
Check out this site! Nebraska university cancells Ayers trip there !!!
UNL???s invitation to Ayers ??? a founder of Weather Underground, the group that claimed responsibility for the bombings of public buildings in protest of the Vietnam War ??? represented poor judgment from the start, Hassebrook said.
???My concern has been not with what he was going to say about education. It was that he???s an unrepentant terrorist,??? he said. ???(UNL) did the right thing.???
This is Obama's friend, people are catching on to who Obama really is and what he really stands for!!
Posted by: Gidget | October 18, 2008 2:15 PM
Governor Palin has more experience than Barack Obama. Moreover, as Joe Biden and Hillary said, Obama is not ready to be President. Obama and his ACORN are submitting thousands of fraudulent votes in all the swing and battleground states in an attempt to steal the election for McCain. Obama is an expert on stealing votes and submitting fraudulent votes which he learned when he was a Community Organizer in Chicago. His ACORN group needs to be stopped as it is destroying democracy here in America. The majority of the American people are not voting for Obama, even thought he pro-Obama media keeps suppressing from the American people Obama's serious negatives.
Posted by: Doreen | October 18, 2008 2:21 PM
Get ready for the riots!
Posted by: joe | October 18, 2008 2:24 PM
I wouldn't stand and listen to the appeaser for 1 minute, Remember, Hitler drew big crowds, too. The socialist is a tax and spend, tax and spend liberal democrat. Get ready, he wants your money to go to him!!
Posted by: sara | October 18, 2008 2:29 PM
Who'd a thought there would be that many Anti-Americans in Missouri?
Posted by: Tom | October 18, 2008 2:34 PM
meanwhile across town McCain got 12 people at a bingo hall.
Posted by: Toby | October 18, 2008 2:44 PM
Today I saw people of all economic backgrounds, social status and race come together to support a man I think is the best choice in this election of change. Thank you St Louis, for restoring the American dream and my faith in my fellow Americans to do the right thing.
Posted by: Air Force Officer | October 18, 2008 3:22 PM
Maybe NOW the GOP 'gets it'.
Go Barack - straight to the White House with blessings from the American majority.
Posted by: Jeni | October 18, 2008 3:31 PM
It is exciting and amazing to see so many people assembled in one place to hear and see Barack Obama. The crowd assembled on a sunny day in St. Louis is such a stark contrast to the foul, McCarthyist comments of McCain, Palin, and Minnesota Rep. Jennifer Bachmann about how liberal Democrats are anti-American. It looks like more than 100,000 Americans in St. Louis disagree with them! November 4th can't come fast enough.
Posted by: Ann Wong | October 18, 2008 3:35 PM
I am Joe.
Posted by: Joe | October 18, 2008 3:58 PM
Hitler used to draw crowds like that too
Posted by: nick | October 18, 2008 3:59 PM
I love that this pisses so many people off.
Posted by: Jesse Brooks | October 18, 2008 4:14 PM
It was a rally for Americans who want change from politics of fear, distrusts, special interests, financial irresponsibiliy.... It was a rally for all Americans.
Posted by: Ann Ballerini | October 18, 2008 4:17 PM
Adolf Hitler drew huge, rapturous crowds too...and look where that got us. HEIL BARACK !!!
Posted by: David | October 18, 2008 4:24 PM
Incredible! I am so happy to have been there and to see the powerful diversity of this crowd. We signed up thousands of people to go door to door in every ward of the city and throughout St. Louis County. Do you want to see something really amazing? See what happens when the Obama/Biden ground game goes into action in the next 2 weeks. You will see the power of people who are ready to take back America and lead this country back to a place of respect in the world. It's not just Obama; it's the people who he has brought into active community organizing for change! Check out $100M a month!! Where does THAT come from? Millions of small donors who are fed up by lobbyists and corporate fat cats buying our system and imposing their will even at the cost of thousands of lives.
Posted by: Martin in St. Louis | October 18, 2008 4:27 PM
I didn't know there were that many socialists in East St. Louis and St. Louis proper...but then again, the high crime and poverty rates should have been a sign. Funny how the Tribune can show the large Obama crowd but NEVER pictures the huge crowds for Palin.
Posted by: Derrick | October 18, 2008 4:49 PM
Comrade Obama at full tilt -
Wonder if they could understand him?
Posted by: LOAM | October 18, 2008 4:52 PM
The McCain campaign intentionally and dishonestly confuses the issue by ignoring the fact that even people who don't make enough money to pay income taxes still pay other taxes.
Posted by: Eric Bloomquist | October 18, 2008 5:18 PM
a picture makes 100,000 words....
Posted by: ucanthandlethetruth | October 18, 2008 5:44 PM
This is unbelievable!!!!
There is no way McCain can turn this tide in any significant way. He should sit down with Joe the six pack and watch the election unfold on the television. There is no need for him to run around.....not now. McFailin can go back to Alaska and turn up the heat on the Alaskans, like she normally does. Watch out troopers she is coming back.
Posted by: James | October 18, 2008 5:53 PM
HOPEFULLY, this momentum continues to grow..great.. Oh, and one more thing, the next time I hear this ludicrous argument that Palin has more experience than Obama I'm going to scream. BECAUSE using this very logic (if there is any), Palin has more experience than McCain!
SO STFU!!!
Posted by: RB-Chicago | October 18, 2008 5:55 PM
Guess what? Those "hard workers" who you think should keep their money? There are a lot of hard workers out there who don't any money to keep. Is that their fault? Can you look a caretaker who makes $11 in the eye and say that she doesn't deserve the same break that all our beloved multi-millionaires are currently enjoying? Or the middle-class person who's barely making ends meet because his property taxes are going up regardless of changes he makes to his house? Or the single mom trying to feed her kids and taking a second job because the cost of food has gone up? Give me a break; those of you who cry "socialist" don't know the meaning of the word. Why why WHY would you prefer to keep the status quo when I doubt many of you have prospered in the last eight years?
Oh, by the way -- Joe the plumber wouldn't be penalized by Obama's tax plan. Look it up, morons.
Posted by: Jones | October 18, 2008 6:01 PM
There must have been a free concert just like in Berlin.
Posted by: KPO'M | October 18, 2008 6:10 PM
To all of the right wing fanatics - Hitler was an extreme right wing fascist, not a socialist. Get your history straight before you start posting on -line.
Posted by: Joe | October 18, 2008 6:25 PM
What an incredible sight for sore eyes compared to the ridiculous negative smear campaign run by good ole John McCain this October!
Senator Barack Obama inspires Americans all across this great nation with his economic plans for reform during these very difficult times.
McCain chooses to try the same ole character assassinations from the Karl Rove playbook, though is too dumb enough to realize that somebody stole a copy and chose to play offense to his now defense! NO WONDER HE GRADUATED 5TH FROM LAST OUT OF A COLLEGE GRADUATING CLASS OF 899!
GO OBAMA BIDEN !!!
Posted by: Bryan | October 18, 2008 6:30 PM
You can tell people are desperate when Hitler's name is used. Also let be correct on the issues ACORN submitted false voter registration applications, none of which have led to actual votes. This has nothing to do with Obama. ACORN hired people to sign up voters with a number in mind. To meet the standards set they registered false people, which again didn't lead to actual voting. Obama only association to ACORN was helping the federal government defend them in a lawsuit. Secondly, the fact that Biden and Clinton said Obama wasn't ready to be president is not a issue. They were running against him at the time.Obama is getting this support because people aren't falling for the false things being said about Obama. So you can attack him on facts. Or just call him Hitler.
Posted by: Veronica | October 18, 2008 6:30 PM
For those of you invoking the name of the fuhrer, there's a well-known Internet rule that the first person to do so loses the argument.
So which one of you wants to claim Loser "honors?"
Posted by: Tar Heel Fan | October 18, 2008 6:31 PM
What a beautiful sight! So many AMERICANS out to show their support for the man who will help our country return to glory after 8 years of the Bush - Cheney nightmare. Perhaps Scarah Palin has spent too much time peeping out her back window at Russia to realize that we are ALL Americans - from sea to shining sea! Obama / Biden '08! The only REAL choice!!!
Posted by: AChangeIsComing | October 18, 2008 6:32 PM
What an incredible sight for sore eyes compared to the ridiculous negative smear campaign run by good ole John McCain this October!
Senator Barack Obama inspires Americans all across this great nation with his economic plans for reform during these very difficult times.
McCain chooses to try the same ole character assassinations from the Karl Rove playbook, though is too dumb enough to realize that somebody stole a copy and chose to play offense to his now defense! NO WONDER HE GRADUATED 5TH FROM LAST OUT OF A COLLEGE GRADUATING CLASS OF 899!
GO OBAMA BIDEN !!!
Posted by: Bryan | October 18, 2008 6:35 PM
You can tell McCain supporters are desperate when they start using Hitler's name. Why attack Obama on facts when you can call him Hitler. By the way Obama never worked for ACORN, except to help defend them in a lawsuit. ACORN hired other to get people to register to vote with a goal in mind. To get to this goal some people registered false name. This did not lead to votes. There has been no voter fraud because this is easy to catch especially if your voting under the name Mickey Mouse. Obama will win fair and square on Nov 4. I doubt there will be voter fraud in this election.
Posted by: Roni | October 18, 2008 6:53 PM
Ah how sweet the sound of frightened right-wingers. Down to Hitler, socialist, communist in their impoverished vocabularies.
Soon to be heard, sobs and tantrums.
Posted by: andy | October 18, 2008 6:55 PM
Mark my words, in 500 years from now, when some historian in Asia writes the book called "The Rise and Fall of the American Empire" the election of Barack Obama will be universally accepted as the beginning of the fall. Under Barack we'll have everything - universal health care, free car insurance, lawsuits and abortions for everyone, regular tax rebate checks for immigration, illegal immigrants will be granted citizenship and along with their friends and neighbors, and the messiah will have blessed us all, except that the deep underbelly reveals that no one has an incentive to work, our financial system will officially crash, foreign countries will own our most vital industries. Bread and circuses as the country descends into the abyss...Nov 4th will mark the beginning of the end.
"Be careful for what you wish, lest it become true...."
Posted by: goodness | October 18, 2008 6:58 PM
Why are folks upset that the Hilter/Obama comparison is being made on this blog? Where you same folks bothered when Madonna did the same thing at one of her concerts with John McCain?
Posted by: TW | October 18, 2008 7:17 PM
Awesome stuff. This is history in the making, guys.
Posted by: ronbailey | October 18, 2008 7:21 PM
"Hitler used to draw crowds like that too"
Sarah Palin draws big crowds, too. Lame analogy.
It's hilarious to watch the Archie Bunker set get all grumpy about a positive gathering of 100,000 people in the heartland.
Posted by: reilly3 | October 18, 2008 7:22 PM
Why are folks upset that the Hitler/Obama comparison is being made on this blog? Where you same folks bothered when Madonna did the same thing at one of her concerts with John McCain?
Posted by: TW | October 18, 2008 7:23 PM
The last I heard, the Republicans gave the superrich $700 billion. Talk about welfare!
Posted by: ebnozn | October 18, 2008 7:34 PM
"Hitler used to draw crowds like that too."
And what is your point?
Posted by: Craig | October 18, 2008 8:10 PM
I'm glad there is a Fuhrer rule. Americans invoking such irrational thoughts have lost their way. We are in debt, our armed forces fight bravely to maintain order in coutries that the present civilian government intentially wanted to distrupt under the false pretense of fighting, now imagine a narley old man putting up his fingers, "TERRORISM". What has all of this created in this nation? A near depression and crisis of confidence not seen since the Great Depression. For those going to the McCain / Palin rallies spewing your vile rhetoric when this is all over believe or not, we will welcome you back to the civil discourse that is needed to solve our problems. God Bless and good luck
Posted by: Joe Obama | October 18, 2008 8:12 PM
It's not surprising that so many McCain supporters don't understand socialism or fascism. They certainly don't understand democracy; in fact, they hate and fear it.
Posted by: Michael | October 18, 2008 8:24 PM
I think it's pathetically ironic that after eight years of warrantless wiretapping of citizens (including our own soldiers), restrictions of habeas corpus, torture, the arrests of journalists and other transgressions committed by the Bush administration - that Bush/McCain supporters feel compelled to compare Obama to Hitler...
Posted by: Jim | October 18, 2008 8:37 PM
Barack Obama is an illusion manufactered by Hollywood and the left wing media. Those supporting him are being duped.
Posted by: Dusty | October 18, 2008 8:39 PM
That's 100,000 cups of Kool-Aid!
Obama is our new Lenin comrades!
Posted by: Rey Flores | October 18, 2008 8:40 PM
When I saw that photograph, I told my wife this looks like a modern day version of the Sermon on the Mount. Trouble is, is it the Messiah giving it or the Anti-Christ?
Posted by: Trunk | October 18, 2008 8:41 PM
People like SARAH, NICK, DAVID AND TW need to back to school and read a history book. One more time HITLER WAS A FASCIST NOT A SOCIALIST!. FASCIST IS RIGHT WING LIKE THE REPUBLICANS. No wonder people think the school system has failed.
Posted by: Joe | October 18, 2008 8:56 PM
As of January 20, 2009, it will be PRESIDENT Obama. Get used to it. And as of January 20, 2010, all of you ill-informed sheeple who are spitting in the wind will be bragging that you voted for Obama too. Life is good!
Posted by: Susan Peterson | October 18, 2008 9:01 PM
Obama is a divisive figure in a time where we need to come together as a country. His policies will create class warfare. There is no way he can keep his campaign promises without raising taxes. Watch... Obama is Chicago politics at a national level. The voice of the people don't matter, only those that line the pocketbooks of corrupt politicians.
Why does Chicago have some of the highest crime rates, highest taxes, significant government welfare, and political corruption? Obama hasn't done anything in his own backyard, what makes you think he can deliver on the national level!!??? WAKE UP AMERICA!!
Posted by: NOBAMA08 | October 18, 2008 9:21 PM
I referenced this article in a blog disucssing Obama's publicity achievements.
Posted by: J | October 18, 2008 9:22 PM
Obama is a divisive figure in a time where we need to come together as a country. His policies will create class warfare. There is no way he can keep his campaign promises without raising taxes. Watch... Obama is Chicago politics at a national level. The voice of the people don't matter, only those that line the pocketbooks of corrupt politicians.
Why does Chicago have some of the highest crime rates, highest taxes, significant government welfare, and political corruption? Obama hasn't done anything in his own backyard, what makes you think he can deliver on the national level!!??? WAKE UP AMERICA!!
Posted by: Nobama-2008 | October 18, 2008 9:26 PM
I was there and it was great to be part of history. Very diverse crowd, mirrored America
Posted by: Brother | October 18, 2008 9:27 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/magazine/24Obamanomics-t.html?_r=2&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
He said it made him think of Warren Buffett, an Obama supporter, who, if anything, might argue that he wasn’t going far enough to change the tax code.
“If you talk to Warren, he’ll tell you his preference is not to meddle in the economy at all — let the market work, however way it’s going to work, and then just TAX THE HECK OUT OF PEOPLE at the end and just redistribute it,” Obama said.
“That way you’re not impeding efficiency, and you’re achieving equity on the back end.”
Posted by: Chuck | October 18, 2008 9:29 PM
The article doesn't mention whether Bruce Springsteen was playing before or after Obama's speech. The msm usually fails to mention that the draw at big Obama events, such as those in Berlin and Portland, is the name bands hired to play either before or after "the messiah" utters his pronouncements.
Posted by: judithod | October 18, 2008 9:29 PM
Unless the RNC voter suppression squads enjoy more success than they had in Ohio this month, Obama will win in a landslide.
Posted by: chuncha | October 18, 2008 9:34 PM
Wow, What a bunch of angry childish, hatemongers, with comments like "I love that this pisses so many people off.", "Obama is a terrorist" and references to Adolf Hitler it's easy to see why people refer to Bush & McCain supporters as the "Proud to be STUPID Crowd"! The Bush admin has been the most TREASONOUS, Divisive and Destructive cabal of miscreants to ever haunt America and disgrace the honor and prestige of the White House!
Bush said he would bring honor & dignity back to the White House, he said he's a Uniter, yet we have seen nothing but Division, Hatred, Disgrace, Fear Mongering, Lies, Deception and blatant attacks on good Americans, their children, The Constitution of the United States of America and outright TERRORISM on "The People" of America and the world.
This Disgraceful and Dishonorable cabal of Corporate Whores has turned our Democracy into a Corporate Kingdom where our laws are selectively enforced and written by Corporate Shills who use sex, money and coercion to pass their most vile, fascist legislation dragging Americas hope and strength into a stagnant pool of autocratic self destruction!
Like other great empires, America is on a path of Self Destruction hastened by ignorance, greed, anger, division, and selfishness! Unless we stop pretending to be "Good Christians" and actually act like one by Paying our Dues, being our Brothers Keeper, Love our Neighbors, Turn the other Cheek, and return to the day when America believed in a square deal, stop trying to get something for nothing, stop trying to be frugal, and understand "you get what you pay for" like Health Care! we are paying for it yet thousands of Americans are dying, it's like seven 9-11s every year damn-it! A healthy Nation is a Productive Nation! How is it we turn our backs on our own children, elderly, veterans, on ourselves? We can do so much better than this!
Could we step back to the days after 9-11 when we were all Americans? ...But this time, lets do it right!
Posted by: ShroomDuke | October 18, 2008 9:36 PM
People please STOP with the negative comments about Sen. Obama , i.e., Hitler and etc. ALL clear thinking American's know that fthe fear based campaign of John "ole dude" Mccain is race based and negative and will not stand for this type of smear based campainging, i.e., look at the Polls.
Posted by: ric n california | October 18, 2008 9:37 PM
Wow, What a bunch of angry childish, hatemongers, with comments like "I love that this pisses so many people off.", "Obama is a terrorist" and references to Adolf Hitler it's easy to see why people refer to Bush & McCain supporters as the "Proud to be STUPID Crowd"! The Bush admin has been the most TREASONOUS, Divisive and Destructive cabal of miscreants to ever haunt America and disgrace the honor and prestige of the White House!
Posted by: ShroomDuke | October 18, 2008 9:39 PM
I hope McCain is watching. And I hope he notices that no one in the crowd called him a terrorist or yelled "kill him" or any other hateful rantings. McCain lied when he said they do the same things at his rallys that they do at Obamas. Hes full of it. Obamas rallys are positive experiences for real Americans who crave a real change in government. There is no room for hate here, even with 100,000 people. Its all positivity because most Americans are so tired of lies, bigotry, hatred and ignorance. Obama will make a wonderful change for this country and only the hateful and ignorant are against him. Thank God theyre in the minority.
Posted by: Christopher | October 18, 2008 9:42 PM
I have a feeling most of these negative comments are from McCain officials or lobbyists... just like the people who comment with crap on youtube videos!
Posted by: Emma | October 18, 2008 9:55 PM
EVIDENTLY THOSE REPUBLICANS WHO ARE NEGATIVE TOWARDS SENATOR OBAMA, ESPECIALLY IN THE USE OF WORDS THAT MUST HAVE NOT APPEARED IN ANY DICTIONARY THE REPUBLICANS USED WHEN IN SCHOOL,ARE ANGRY THAT SEN. OBAMA IS DOING SO WELL. MORE ANGRY NOW THAT THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND LOS ANGELES TIMES ANNOUNCED THEIR SUPPORT FOR SEN. OBAMA.
ELI FROM WORCESTER,MA
Posted by: ELI FREEDMAN | October 18, 2008 9:58 PM
I don't know what's better. Seeing the inspiration that Obama gives to Missouri. Or watching right-wing idiots' heads explode in frothing rage.
By the way, Obama spoke in front of 75,000 people in Kansas City AFTER the St. Louis rally.
The Show Me State got quite a visit today!
Posted by: Elrod | October 18, 2008 10:12 PM
So Missouri must not be "pro America" like Sarah Palin stated, since 100,000 turned up for the rally.
Love the constant parroting of right wing talking points. So is Obama a terrorist, socialist, communist or fascist? It's tough to keep track
Keep on yammering you ignorant trolls!
Posted by: FedUp | October 18, 2008 10:21 PM
100,000 people. This guy's crowds are so large there's no stadium that can hold them all.
I've always voted Republican, but not this time. The more McCain and Palin attack him the more I like him. Their nastiness turns me off, and Obama is just too likeable to resist.
I wish there was something not to like about Obama -- and by that I mean TRUE stuff, not that fiction being spun by the Republican party.
And I wish the GOP had put forward someone other than McCain and Palin -- and by that I mean there's just no way I can hold my nose and vote for them.
CNN showed video Friday of people filing into a Palin event, and the things they were saying were absolutely shocking. If they'd been going to a Klan rally they'd have fit right in. If those are the people voting for McCain then I'm voting for the other guy -- even if his name is "Obama".
Posted by: derek jacobs | October 18, 2008 10:43 PM
There are still a lot of race hating people in this country who would rather chop their own hands off than be led by a great man who happens to be black. I'll ebjoy laughing at all the handless idiots standing in soup lines if McPalin gets in office. Have it your way Stumpy.
Posted by: H Steele | October 18, 2008 11:43 PM
Beautiful! What an awesome turnout...go OBAMA/BIDEN. A Change is coming!
Posted by: Rhonda | October 18, 2008 11:48 PM
what a bunch of whiners! Camparing American voters to nazi's! Sen. Obama will make a great president! All you klan members enjoy getting you butt kicked!
Posted by: richard | October 18, 2008 11:56 PM
McCain has no policy to uplift this economic crisis. He has no idea about the health care plan. Republicans and McCain are divisive.
Obama is the exceptional leader of this century. He has a vision and judgement to lead this country in good direction.
Obama 08
Posted by: Amy | October 19, 2008 12:02 AM
I love how all you right wingers use the Hitler reference. McCarthyism is back. If you idiots knew your history and paid attention in school like the rest of us you would know that liberalism is the foundation of this nation.
No wonder you want the bonehead duo of McCain and Palin in office, they do represent you! Stupid and belligerent.
Do the rest of us a favor, stay home on Election Day and keep your low expectations to yourselves.
Educational Background:
Barack Obama:
Columbia University - BA Political Science with a Specialization in
International Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (JD) Magna Cum Laude
Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware - BA in History and BA in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (JD)
Vs.
John McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899
Sarah Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - BA in Journalism
THIS IS THE 2 HIGHEST SEATS IN OUR COUNTRY AND AMERICA DESERVES MORE THAN MEDIOCRITY!!!
Posted by: garrick | October 19, 2008 1:01 AM
What a glorious city St. Louis. Such a clean and articulate city. Low crime, one of the top educational facilities in the world; the people here are just smarter than the rest of North America. Go Bebop Obama - Go!!!
Posted by: johnny | October 19, 2008 1:04 AM
The devil must be smiling big time.
Posted by: Rey Flores | October 19, 2008 1:18 AM
Its funny that all the people that are complaining about Obama seem to be earning more than 1/4 of a million dollars a year.....his tax plans for normal people will make them lower than McCains period.....what a bunch of whiners....Obama's not only going to win the election , its not even going to be close......the republicans can't voter supress anymore...or cheat like Bush did....Obama has the numbers to win hands down....why on earth would you want a 72 year old out of touch senator running a country? If he can win wars, why did he get captured in one...or crash several plains....if he's not an elitist....why does he own several houses.....McCain is so out of touch with normal people lol
Posted by: Shaun | October 19, 2008 1:23 AM
Amazed that there are so many ignorant people in the US that aparently think America needs to continue on the downward spiral it's been on for 8 years. Sure a different face at the top, but for the rest of the team (those who have been pulling Bush's strings) it would be business-as-usual.
Quit watching the FOX lies and wake up you 44%.
Posted by: shaun patrick | October 19, 2008 1:35 AM
To Christopher..
Lies- well where do we start. Obama's facade he has been putting on since he has been in the limelight. He stopped going to the church he went to for 20 years because it it was a racist, American hating church. He continues to lie about his relationship with Bill Ayers, who did by the way give him his 1st political party two yrs ago in his living room. He continues to lie about how extensive his employment with Acorn was (16 years). He also denies the fact that he was involved with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I and many others (obviously not yourself) have seen a video on his extensive meetings with them. Wow and we are to over look these things? I believe many politicians will talk a good game but why not look at how they have spent their lives before they were in the limelight. It's comes down to common sense and values and morals.
Posted by: Laura | October 19, 2008 1:43 AM
Well I guess you people don't really give a damn about character. Obama is a eloquent speaker with a lot of charm but wow, does it not bother you that he continues to lie about his relationship with Bill Ayers, his church that he went to for 20 years, how long he worked for ACORN, and how in depth his involvement was with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. These are serious issues and he was all about it until he was in this political race. People you need to know the truth and if these kind of issues don't bother you then that is very scary in itself. Once a democrat but now a republican~ I will not vote for my party just because it's my party like i did with Bill Clinton. Would of voted for Hillary but never for someone like this. It is sad!
Posted by: Rick | October 19, 2008 2:02 AM
American viters are not Nazis. It's just that they have been brainwashed as thoroughly as Nazi voter were. And, the result of choosing this puke will be catastrophic and irrevocable. Affirmative action leftists ahve brought the mortgage industry and our whole economy to its knees, but we ain't seen nuthin', tragically. Bob
Posted by: Bob | October 19, 2008 2:12 AM
McCain and Palin are SORE losers!
Posted by: Bob - Wheeling | October 19, 2008 2:30 AM
Hooray for Socialism!
Senator Obama: Protecting Your Job and Your Guns?
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-117655
Posted by: Mike Abrams | October 19, 2008 2:46 AM
Obama's massive crowds remind me of the nonviolent rallies Gandhi used to kick the British out of India...the British couldn't do anything...their heads exploded just like the wingnuts for McCain.
Posted by: john Lundin | October 19, 2008 2:59 AM
IF YOU VOTED FOR 'W. BUSH' TWICE, THEN YOUR OPINION IS NOT CREDIBLE. Think about it. It is bad enough that you didn't see Bush's incompetence prior to his first term, but to repeat in 2004 your voting mistake in light of clear evidence of Bush's poor judgment is a wretched shame! And now you two-time Bush-backers have the audacity to pen your opinions on this commentary in support of a FAR WORST presidential ticket than Bush-Cheney. McCain-Palin is so pathetically worst than Bush-Cheney, that if Obama-Biden were not an available option, I would write-in Bush-Cheney for another 4 years. YOU TWO-TIME BUSH-BACKERS HAVE NO CREDIBILITY ON THIS COMMENTARY. IT IS BETTER THAT YOU SAVE YOUR DIGNITY THEN TRY TO PROVIDE ANOTHER OPINION.
Posted by: higgs_lonnie@yahoo.com | October 19, 2008 4:09 AM
I do not live in America, but have been following the American election, a little. I was saddened by all the racist remarks I saw on the McCain-Palin videos.
It seemed as if America did'nt care how it appeared to the world as large.
This picture though, of the crowds that gathered to see and hear Obama shows the world the America that believes in equality.
I personally found this photo very impressive, and will remember it, no matter who wins the election.
Posted by: Soni | October 19, 2008 6:33 AM
Goodness, Hey genius (and I use that term lightly):
1. Under Bush for the past 8 years we are in the "Fall".
2. If the US is an Empire, good riddence, this is not what my Partiot Ancestors fought for on Bunker Hill.
3. Hurry, GOP, push the panic button and pray for another terrorist attack in the sad hope it will sway Millions of American back to the GOP.
You will all be up to a pile of Bovine Sactology to your collective A***S (Plural) before you realized it, still screaming the world is well, America is OK if you elect McCain.
If you elect McCain, you will get exactly as you deserve, and when you are pearing into the pit of depression, look into the waters and see your reflection, it is you who brought your selves to this point.
We can have more wealth for more people, or we can have more wealth for the wealthy, let the poor eat cake.
We can care about each other, or we can care less about each other.
We can come down from our Empire softly, like the British did, or we can flame out like the Romans, or explode like the Germans, no Empire lasts forever.
Keep throwing tantrums, keep throwing Hitler and Fascist and Stalin, and Communist and Socialist. It shows your fear. "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself." FDR
"Fear leads to pain, pain leads to suffering, and suffering leads to the path of the Dark Side"
Posted by: Buckley | October 19, 2008 7:39 AM
There is so much hate here with so little understanding of the realities of the political spectrum and political history that it is frightening. For the record, Adolf Hitler WAS a socialist. Nazism, a short name for National Socialism, refers primarily to the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, (the name of Hitler's political party).
The "political spectrum" of left and right is realistically more like a circle. The difference of the effects of Communism and fascism on individual liberties are nil with pure democracy 180 degrees away.
Posted by: Realist | October 19, 2008 8:25 AM
I am glad I am not a young man. I am witnessing the death of my great country....turning it from a bastion of freedom to a nanny state where "The One" will take care of all of us, cradle to grave. With his stance on abortion, and his super liberal majority in Congress, he will allow us to "weed out" the unwanted and the ungifted, and his brown shirts will be able to re-educate anyone who has the audacity to disagree.
May God have mercy on our country.
Posted by: Steve | October 19, 2008 10:10 AM
Colin Powell just endorsed Obama, the wave is coming!
Posted by: richard | October 19, 2008 10:43 AM
Yes, change you can believe, I mean Chicago politics type of change.
And most of all your partial birth abortions will be free, free, free. And the government will now pay you your taxes back...well not your taxes, but someone else's. And diversity, each Marine platoon gets one free gay guy. First visitor to sleep in the Lincoln bedroom; Hugo Chavez, maybe Fidel...hey they can sleep together....
Posted by: BBub | October 19, 2008 11:14 AM
Godwin's Law! The Republicans invoking Hitler automatically lose this discussion, lose at life, and will lose this election.
Posted by: Kat | October 19, 2008 11:43 AM
Sarah Palin has more experience than both McCain and Obama..... as governor of Alaska! Case Closed!
Posted by: Robert McDonald | October 19, 2008 12:04 PM
This only proves how desperate the corrupt acorn voters are for a cigarette.
Posted by: fuobama | October 19, 2008 12:50 PM
Funny how this site will not allow any people to leave comments about Obama's career, lack of record and other facts. They've not allowed any of my non-name calling posts to show up because they don't want the facts to confuse the Obama people. See how these rags cover for him and people are still stupid enough to follow him. By the way Veronica, you are wrong. Acorn people ahve been convicted here in Kansas City along with those who did vote illegally, so do your research before you and the others embarass themselves more. This is one disabled veteran who sees through his lies, so the rest of you open you eyes before he takes away the rest of your rights.
Posted by: Ozark_Sunshine | October 19, 2008 7:07 PM
This is in response to Joe who said we needed to get our history right before posting. For you info, the long name for the Nazi Party was the Democratic Socialist Party. Socialism is left wing not right wing. Maybe you should study your history a little closer.
Posted by: Leslie | October 19, 2008 9:26 PM
Posted a wonderful comment here two days ago about which party is facist along with actual examples. No post showing up yet. Hmmm... seems like they are picking the most incendiary posts to allow through mods.
Pretty lame if you ask me.
Posted by: Anna | October 20, 2008 7:31 PM
I will give you all a hint:
Facism = Corporatist
Which party faithfully does whatever it can for corporations to the detriment of individual citizens of the good ole USA?
Posted by: Anna | October 20, 2008 9:22 PM