It’s now Wednesday about 11 am. Sorry was unable to report until about Tuesday’s exciting convention activities, but I didn’t get back to our hotel until about 1am last night.
Yesterday’s convention was highlight by so many great speeches- some you probably heard about, and some you didn’t. The emotional highlight was clearly Sen. Clinton’s convention speech. Love her or hate her (and there aren’t a lot of folks in the middle), Sen. Clinton had all delegates in the palm of her hand during last night’s speech.
I found it to be gracious and obviously supportive of Sen. Obama. She underscored her support for the ticket, forcefully repeating that Senator Obama is her choice and should be the choice of all of her delegates. Let’s hope they hear her message loud and clear.
The best speech of the night, however, was from Brian Schweitzer, Governor of Montana. When I came into the convention hall, Schweitzer was already behind the podium, dressed in his sportcoat and trademark bolo tie. He swayed back and forth as he spoke (“Maybe he had a little before the speech,” a friend remarked), feeding off the energy as he made point after plainspoken point about the pitfalls of Republican energy “policy.”
When he finished his speech, everyone in the hall gave him a rousing ovation. As he walked off the podium, I noticed he was wearing blue jeans. My kinda governor.
