Messiah Serves Loaves And Fishes To The Masses In St. Louis, Sarah Wows Them In Indy With The Truth - With Videos
Knottie and Kurt and my ‘retired’ Marine bud Chuck (orig. from `round-abouts the St. Louis area as the armadillo waddles) have done a little legwork for me on this.
The MSM is “reporting” Hussein drew 100,000 (city estimates) in St. Louis at his loaves-and-fishes rally today.
However, the Secret Service (who actually uses real math formulas to figgur dees tings ut) says more like 80k.
Knottie’s hearing lower numbers. Knottie is looking into my suspicions that a free “pre-Messiah sermon” concert was given. Maybe Devo, Black Keys (We are Demo) were there, and possibly Chrissy Hynde of Pretenders … as they were all at an event prior in Akron. SOMEBODY had to be there to ‘entertain’ … for FREE. Recall the Portland free concert draw of over 70k months back.
AOL News says: “Perhaps the big draw here was the Red Schoendienst replicards being handed out to the crowd.”
Either way, there were also groups of anti-Obamites on hand, that get counted into the throng.
Anyhow, the Obama masses have waned a bit since the emergence of Gov. Palin on the campaign trail. And she consistantly draws some big numbers (10k-20+k) that sorta kinda maybe get a mention in the MSM … but usually ONLY to say the McPalin supporters are blood-thirsty racist savages.
That’s cool …
Obama draws huge crowd in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS | Barack Obama set the attendance bar high for followers turning out to see him in Kansas City tonight, drawing as many as 100,000 enthusiastic supporters for a rally this morning on the Gateway Arch grounds.
Police estimated the crowd at six figures; the Secret Service offered a more conservative estimate of 80,000. In either case, it was being hailed as perhaps the largest turnout for a political gathering in state history.
The Obama campaign announced today that President Bill Clinton would host a rally Monday night at Kirkwood High School in suburban St. Louis. Republican John McCain is scheduled to make two stops in Missouri on Monday, including one in the Kansas City area.
Polls show Obama and McCain in a virtual dead heat in the state.
St. Louis police said there were no major disturbances or arrests at the rally.
Mostly, those attending this morning were the already converted, shouting “O-bam-AHH†to his ideas on easing the nation’s economic crisis and lifting the middle class.
But a number of undecided voters also were in the crowd that filled the Arch grounds.
Randy and Christi Butts of Kearney, Neb., are independent voters. The custom home builders say they’ve really been hurt by the credit crisis.
They say they were at the rally to listen and learn, but were leaning toward Obama.
Missouri, a critical swing state, has been getting lots of presidential attention lately.
(AP)
Meanwhile, just a bit east of there …
Palin rallies before thousands in Indiana At Noblesville event, says vote for McCain would ’shake things up’ in D.C.
By Niki Kelly - (The Journal Gazette)
NOBLESVILLE - After watching Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin from afar for months, nearly 20,000 Hoosiers got their first glimpse of the stylish and feisty vice presidential nominee at the Verizon Wireless Music Center on a perfect fall Friday night.
And she didn’t disappoint.
“Indiana, soon the choice will be yours to make, and are you ready to help carry this state to victory? Are you ready to make John McCain the next president of the United States of America? Are you ready to send us to Washington, D.C., to shake things up?” she asked.
She said the choice for Hoosiers is between a politician who puts his faith in government and a leader who puts his faith in the citizens.
“It’s the choice between a politician who wants to raise taxes and redistribute your hard-earned money according to his priorities, versus a true reformer who wants to lower taxes and create jobs and get this economy going,” Palin said.
It was her first visit to Indiana as GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain tries to hold onto a state Republicans usually can afford to take for granted.
But his challenger, Democrat Sen. Barack Obama, has been to Indiana six times since the May primary in addition to his wife and running mate stumping here as well. He has also blanketed the state with TV ads.
“My fellow Republicans, enough is enough,” said Murray Clark, chairman of the Indiana Republican Party. “Yes, we have been outspent in Indiana. We have been outspent across the nation, but guess what? I don’t care how much money he pours into this negative campaign, the thing that is going to win this election is people like you.”
The atmosphere was more rock concert than political rally, as students from Ball State University painted “Maverick” on their bare chests and supporters bought pretzels and nachos from the concession stands.
Country music artist Aaron Tippin entertained the crowd with a few songs, including “Kiss This,” which he dedicated to Obama.
The gates opened more than five hours before the program began and a line of people snaked as far as one could see, filing into the venue. All 6,000 pavilion seats were filled and thousands more perched on the lawn.
There was no official crowd estimate, but capacity is 24,000 and there were some empty spots on the lawn.
Once Palin took the stage, no one in the crowd sat down for the length of her 30-minute speech.
Fort Wayne Realtor Alva Clay, 76, sat only feet away from Palin. To get the VIP tickets, she volunteered to make 300 get-out-the-vote calls. During those calls, if a person said they supported Obama, she told them he or she was a socialist.
But not Palin, Clay said.
“She is an amazing American, Republican or not,” she said. “I really wasn’t for John at first because he seems like a Democrat sometimes. But I think Sarah is bringing him around.”
Palin’s speech included a rebuke for Obama’s ties to ACORN, a national reform-minded community organization under investigation in a dozen states including Indiana for possible voter registration fraud.
She said a front group for ACORN received money from the Obama campaign and he represented the organization as a lawyer earlier in his career.
“We have to talk about this. It is not mean-spirited and it is not negative campaigning when we talk about someone’s record,” Palin said. “Americans are entitled to answers before Election Day. We need a little straight talk. These associations are important and they go to the heart of someone’s judgment and truthfulness.
“On Election Day you are going to be asked to choose between a candidate who will not disavow a group committing voter fraud and a leader who will not tolerate it.”
Obama has repeatedly said his campaign has not been involved with ACORN’s voter registration drive.
Palin also invoked “Joe the plumber” - an unlicensed plumber from Ohio who took center stage during this week’s presidential debate, when McCain used him as an example of a citizen who could be hurt by Obama’s plan to raise taxes on wealthy Americans.
The man met Obama in his neighborhood last week and asked about the plan. During his response, the Democrat presidential candidate alluded to the need to spread the wealth to help struggling Americans.
“You’ve really got to hand it to Joe the Plumber. Somehow he succeeded in getting Barack Obama to finally state his true intentions,” Palin said. “He wants the government to take more of your money and decide how best to redistribute it. Joe said it sounded kind of like socialism.
“I call it real bad medicine for an ailing economy.”
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