sounds excited. And he's tackling McCain.
UPDATE: Also, nice note on "American wind and sunshine." Even if it is a little jingoistic. Even the sun is American!
UPDATE #2: OK, he kinda killed it. And MSNBC missed the whole thing.
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Man when I moved from Houston to Mississippi there wasn't much change in styles. But since I moved out here to New Mexico, I see those silly bolo ties everywhere. It's obviously a Western thing. It's kind of grown on me, to the extent that I don't really look twice anymore. Turns out its the New Mexico state fashion accoutrement or something like that. It's still odd to see national politicians wearing them, though. Maybe I just never noticed them anymore. Jeff Bingaman wears them, Ken Salazar wears them, Bill Richardson does, and obviously Schweitzer does as well.
He's warming them up nicely for Hills.
Too bad he wasn't actually televised.
Schweitzer finally showed someone that has a pair, what a bad ass.
Sick bolo tie too.
You didn't hear? American sunshine cures AIDS and cancer. See: Magic Johnson.
That was awesome.
Schweitzer - best speech so far tonight. Blew Warner away.
MSNBC? You should be watching PBS, good, low key coverage.
Like I said, he's almost Terry Mcauliffesque in his maniacal exuberance.
I LOVED this speech even a little more that Hil's. People who are on the fence need this sort of 'maniacal exuberance' to make the jump. This is all about the fence sitters. Not the converted and certainly not the haters.
I was telling my dude about Schweitzer not too long ago in the context of Obama's VP pick. I was saying that Biden was my second choice, after Schweitzer. He didn't know who dude was and I had to advise him to get on that youtube to do the knowledge before I explained how Schweitzer was one of the folks that was actually making good on all that alternative energy and bi-partisanship and fiscal responsiblity stuff we're hearing so much about these days. Plus he speaks fluent Arabic, which is what's good. Yallah America!
Too bad I would have missed him if I wasn't watching on C-Span.
TNR has this as the surprise highlight of the convention so far. (Michelle, Ted, and Hillary all expected to be strong.) Worth noting that Schweitzer and Obama are the two guys someone (Nate Silver I think; could have been Jed of the Jed Report) reported meeting and thinking "this guy could be president someday." This may have been this year's Obama 2004 moment. For myself: he's a soil scientist, his wife is a botanist, and they've pushed science education in Montana, so I'm 90% won over on bio alone.
TNR similarly gnashed teeth that all that was shown off CSpan was Warner, Clinton, and 2 zillion anchors analyzing the holdout Clinton people. (No tv, so I'm following off internet analysis.)
And Hillary is hitting the key points--I think there's a lot of truth to the notion that she moved feminism 20 years forward and her dead-enders, with their "it's not rational, it's emotional" stuff, moved it back 50. This is her chance to recapture a positive legacy. (I think she could be tremendous at a number of roles in government that capitalize on her policy expertise, so long as they aren't executive.)
Something to watch for next week: Sebelius, Schweitzer, Webb, Napolitano, Warner, and Kaine all look very bright and shiny for Democrats over the next decade; who do the Republicans have up and coming besides Bobby Jindal?
He didn't kind of killed it.
HE KILLED IT.
The Cowboy Governor ROCKS!
Says the eternal urban dweller.
Shweitzer lived in Saudia Arabia for seven years and speaks fluent Arabic. Obama should have picked him for V.P. and doubled down on the whole secret mooslem terrorist thing.