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Barack Obama
Undeterred by Driving Rain, Obama Rallies Pa.
By Robert Barnes
CHESTER, Pa. -- Is Barack Obama's luck running out?
We're talking about the weather.
After a string of huge rallies in idyllic fall tableaus and under crystal skies, Obama spoke today to thousands in a driving, cold rain on a muddy field at Widener University. With temperatures in the 30s, he spoke an hour earlier than scheduled because of the worsening weather and ditched his usual dark suit and white shirt for a heavy jacket, jeans and sneakers.
His Republican rival John McCain canceled a rally in Quakerstown, Pa., because of similar conditions.
Obama noted that the "Stop Global Warming" signs some in the crowd held might have more appeal on another day.
"I saw [Pennsylvania Gov.] Ed Rendell backstage and his teeth were chattering," Obama said.
But he saw a silver lining in the shivering crowd of thousands standing in the mud and braving the at-times horizontal rain. "If we see this kind of dedication on Election Day, there's no way that we're not going to bring change to America," he said.
Obama hit back hard on McCain's new charge that he is "the Redistributor." McCain charged Monday that Obama plans on "taking your money and giving it to someone else. He believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that grow our economy and create jobs."
Obama said there was no reason for voters to believe McCain has answers for the nation's economic crisis.
"John McCain has ridden shotgun as George Bush has driven our economy toward a cliff, and now he wants to take the wheel and step on the gas," Obama said.
"When it comes to the issue of taxes, saying that John McCain is running for a third Bush term isn't being fair to George W. Bush."
Obama said McCain is "proposing $300 billion in new tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and the biggest corporations. That's not even something George Bush proposed. Not even George Bush proposed another $700,000 tax cut to the average Fortune 500 CEO. Not even George Bush proposed a plan that would leave 100 million middle-class families out of tax relief."
Obama is hoping for sunnier skies later in the day in Virginia, where he is making his ninth visit since securing the nomination. He is hoping to win the commonwealth for the Democrats for the first time since 1964, and will hold rallies in Harrisonburg and Norfolk.
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