For Obama, Size Matters
Not that he's bragging or anything, but Barack Obama has something he'd like you to know: Size matters.
At virtually every stop the candidate makes in these closing days of the election, the campaign sends out an announcement with a boast about how really, really big Obama's audience is.
Sunrise, Fla., Oct. 29: "A capacity crowd of 20,000."
Norfolk, Va., Oct. 28: "22K: 11 in the stands/11 on the field."
Fort Collins, Colo., Oct. 26: "45,000-50,000, with thousands still flooding in."
Not only does Obama want you to know how huge his crowds are, but he also wants you to know his opponent, John McCain, has itty-bitty crowds. "University of New Mexico fire marshal Vince Leonard quotes approx 35,000 inside Senator Obama's event tonight and at least another 10k-15k outside," the campaign boasted Saturday night. "Senator McCain reportedly had less than 1,000 this morning."
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-- Dana Milbank
By Dana Milbank |
October 31, 2008; 10:21 AM ET
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I came from a socialism country and lived there for 40 years. So I am very familiar with this system. The slogan “redistribution of wealth” was very popular in the communist party and was used to stir poor people up to overturn the previous regime. So I was very surprised when I heard about this word, which was talked by Obama in 2001 and the similar word “spread of wealth” with Joe in Ohio. So it is getting clear that Obama wants to change America with some socialism principles. And it is also clear that he shares these principles and values with his radical and socialist friends. But I would like to remind Obama and his team of the fact that socialism system has bankrupted
Whenever I watched Obama’s speech, his style made me recall the scene: the Russian communist leader Lenin was speaking eloquently and intensely in front of mass of excited people. A tactic that was used by communist leaders was to incite hatred to rich people among poor people especially young people and promise a wonderful prospect to the masses. This is a typical tactic that was used by communist leaders. But I believe that American voters are mature and would not let the historic mistake that occured in German in 1933 repeat.