here's kc:
this is kc. pat and james and kim and i are in this crowd, a short distance in front of the gigantic american flag. i can't estimate how many people were there; a fucking ton is as close as i can gauge though i don't think it was near 100k.
the speech wasn't too different than the stump speech he's been giving for a while now, but i have to say that hearing him at an event like this, surrounded with thousands of other like-minded people was honestly a pretty intense and incredible experience. we didn't even catch a glimpse of the man himself; we just stared at a speaker. it was crowd crowd crowd as far as the eye could see.
really cool.
edit: initial estimates for turnout at the kc rally is around 75k+.
edit: here's another shot from kc. even having been there i had no idea how massive this was.
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that must have been amazing. almost 200,000 in one day in MO
i'm so glad you all were able to be there.
that's an amazing turnout. the election is clearly in the bag; mccain is hemorrhaging traditionally republican states right now, including north carolina, florida, etc. i don't think mccain could ever draw comparable crowds, unless they'd formed an angry mob.
also, apparently mccain is calling obama's tax plan socialism. why is that a bad word, again?:
McCain used words like "welfare" and "socialism" to describe Obama's plans to raise taxes on businesses and Americans earning more than $250,000 and redistribute that in the form of cuts and credits to 95 percent of working families.
"Since you can't reduce taxes on those who pay zero, the government will write them all checks called a tax credit," McCain told a crowd estimated at 7,000 people, in Concord, N.C., criticizing Obama's plan. "And the Treasury will cover those checks by taxing other people."
Yeah, the rich.
it was nuts. and it underscored what i had previously thought was just an obama talking point: that his election isn't so much about him as it is about the coming together of his supporters.
if you know me at all, you know that standing outside in the cold with 75,000 other people isn't really my thing. i'm not much of a joiner. but i actually had a great time at this event and we never even saw the man. for all i know the speech was played back on a boombox. the feeling of unity was a palpable and fantasic thing.
it was kind of weird the way they ordered the speakers though. there was high-energy emmanuel cleaver with his soul preacher vibe followed by 77 year-old ike skelton who sounded either ailing or on 'ludes, then susan montee who sounded like she was beeing chased by a bee, then kathleen sebelius who didn't have any vocal quirks, but is a total silver fox.
you heard me.
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