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I will reiterate:  Obama

Submitted August 21, 2008 - 5:06 pm by Steven Hunt

I will reiterate:  Obama has cultivated and owned an image of being a DC outsider.  In my view he has totally head-faked the corporate pundit class.

Schweitzer was decided on as a very, very, likely VP in May, when O-man had the nomination all but wrapped up.

Obama's campaign is playing chess.

Electing a non-white, half-African male for the first time in US history is a unique, outside-the-box, situation.  Why wouldn't Obama choose as unlikely a running mate?

You can bet that Schweitzer has been amply vetted--and he will bring a degree of authenticity (yes, cynics, the concept is always operative, everywhere) and down-homeness, regular-folkness to the campaign.   And he ought to bring his dog to the convention floor.

Where Obama causes pause in people because he is very honed and calculating (intellectual)--Schweitzer will appeal to folks more amendable to a humble, firm, and frank mild populist from the Western heartland.

All this is just my hunch--but I don't think that another stop in Billings is just part of regular campaigning.  The route that Obama has chosen to Denver has incredible significance--otherwise he might just as well be in Ohio or Florida.

 

 

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