100,000 Strong!

I have never seen anything like this in my life. He has outdone his own huge attendance numbers with this rally in St. Louis. And they were pretty impressive numbers; 40k, 70k, not bad. Just look at this picture and how small he looks in the lower right corner.

"All I can say is, 'Wow,'" Obama said just after taking the stage.

People see hope in this man. This thrills me and scares me at the same time. Especially this from Raw Story about a gun shop owner advertising a 'pre-Osama bin Biden' sale in NM:

A New Mexico gun shop owner says that he is "proud to offend" supporters of Barack Obama with its sign outside the store which reads "Pre-Osama bin Biden sale! Today, 7 PM - MIDNITE."

And even while the sale is over, the sign remains.

"If this sign offended people, I am damn proud of it," said shop owner Cope Reynolds in an interview with The Daily Times. Reynolds explained that "a lot of it is because of his Muslim upbringing."

"His name is Osama, er ..." began a store patron during an interview. "I mean, Barack Hasam Obama."

"It's actually Hussein Obama," said the cameraman.

"Hussein Obama," continued the patron. "That is a Muslim name."

"It's his background," said another customer. "Part of his background is a Muslim background"

"I think Obama has ... Has terrorist ties," said shop owner Reynolds. "Whether he's Muslim or not is irrelevant."

Reynolds told KOAT that when he took down the sign he would probably replace it with "something equally as offensive."

It's this kind of racial hatred (and the stoopid it feeds upon) that will define this election. Are we as a nation ready to get past the skin colour to put the best qualified candidate in the White House?