Claire McCaskill blasts the McCain/Palin campaign: “stumbling, erratic, all over the map”

Great stuff from Claire McCaskill yesterday in Missouri in front of those huge, huge crowds. She blasted the Republicans -- and really let Palin have it for that stupid comment about some parts of the country being more "pro-American":

“We have reached a new low in American politics when someone dares to say that one part of America is more pro-American than another part of America,” McCaskill said at an afternoon Barack Obama rally.

McCaskill, an ardent Obama supporter and ubiquitous campaign surrogate said voters are beginning to “see clearly the differences between these two candidates.” She described the Obama campaign as exhibiting the “kind of leadership that America needs in a crisis” because in her mind it has been “slow, steady, thoughtful, constructive.”

McCaskill criticized the McCain campaign as “stumbling, erratic, all over the map” and said it is trying to “distract American with small, petty, unfair personal attacks.”

“As America has taken the measure of these men, they have looked at their judgments on the campaign trail. One picked one of the strongest candidates for vice president he could’ve picked in the United States. The other didn’t,” she said.

That's what we need to hear. Hold nothing back. We need to crush them -- up and down the ticket. Crush them.

Crowds of 100,000 in St. Louis and 75,000 in Kansas City. In Missouri. Keep this up for 16 more days and we will change the world.

Robin Carnahan, Missouri's most excellent Secretary of State, was on the stage in St. Louis yesterday. The Brennan Center reported Missouri was one of the best prepared states for the election, which has to do a lot with its Secretary of State. She sent us a couple pictures she took from the stage and press risers:


One historical note via Robin: The court house in the background was the site of Dred Scott trial, which ultimately led to the arguably one of the worst decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court:

In its 1857 decision that stunned the nation, the United States Supreme Court upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. All of this was the result of an April 1846 action when Dred Scott innocently made his mark with an "X," signing his petition in a pro forma freedom suit, initiated under Missouri law, to sue for freedom in the St. Louis Circuit Court. Desiring freedom, his case instead became the lightning rod for sectional bitterness and hostility that was only resolved by war.