Spread the Wealth

Much has been made about Senator Obama's comment that Americans should be willing to "spread the wealth" around. When viewed in context, which political sound bites rarely are, this made perfectly good sense, but cynical conservatives have painted this as proof of Obama's support for forced wealth redistribution. But now I wonder whether Senator Obama was really talking about this:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raised more than $150 million in September, a stunning and unprecedented eruption of political giving that has given him a wide spending advantage over rival John McCain.

Campaign manager David Plouffe, in an e-mail to supporters Sunday morning, said the campaign had added 632,000 new donors in September, for a total of 3.1 million contributors to the campaign. He said the average donation was $86.

Talk about a massive redistribution of wealth! I am proud to say that I made the first political donation of my life to Barack Obama on the night of the Iowa caucuses. I maxed out for the general election on the night of Sarah Palin's convention speech.