Crossposted from Show Me Progress.
The sun shines down over the Arch onto the crowd of 100,000 watching Barack Obama's speech in St. Louis today.
For me, the most amazing thing about Barack's speech in Saint Louis wasn't or anything he said in particular, although it was a fine speech. It was the amazing crowd that had assembled to hear him speak. I've never seen Saint Louisans celebrate together so joyously, except maybe after a Cardinals World Series victory. I saw aging suburbanites, young loft dwellers, and elderly African-American women chatting together spontaneously, and old folks and emo kids smiling and warmingly nodding to each other. Everbody's on the same side, we' re going to restore American and we know we can pull it off in just a couple of weeks.
More analysis and pics below the fold.
UPDATE: Scroll to the bottom to see the video update.
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