Original sentence: "  In March 2009, Barack Obama was named the third "Comrade of the Month" in response to his proposed $3.6 trillion budget and projections that his economic policies will result in a doubling of the national deficit to $12.5 trillion.The Club's website features a "Comrade of the Month" award, which is given at the end of each month to the public official or figure "who best lives up to the policies of big-government redistribution and restrictions on economic freedom
Edited sentence: Comrade was a term used to self-identify members of the Communist Party,, a party said to have been responsible for the death of as many as 60 million people.In March 2009, the Club for Growth awarded its "Comrade of the Month" award to the sitting President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, in effect labeling him a Communist.The Club for Growth's website advertises a "Comrade of the Month" award.The award's emblem is the flag of the Communist-ruled former Soviet Union, with its hammer and sickle.This award placed the United States' highest democratically elected official into the Club for Growth's "Comrade Hall of Shame