I know he’s not speaking in prime time, so the crowd really wasn’t ready for a big speech, but Ed Rendell laid an egg with his speech on energy.
The substance was great, but the delivery was terrible. He rushed through it, and didn’t give the crowd a chance to get involved.
He made some great points that hopefully he’ll repeat in interviews. He focused on John McCain’s record of voting against initiatives for clean energy or energy independence. These themes need to be repeated over and over again. Hopefully other speakers will pick up on the theme and do a better job.
For example, McCain keeps saying that he favors a strategy of “all of the above,” meaning that he favors drilling and all other approaches. The problem is that he has consistently opposed ALL of these in the past. He’s a total fraud on this issue. On this point, Rendell’s speech just didn’t go far enough.
