Apparently the security queue is so long that there are still thousands of people outside wanting to see Hillary, so they’re bringing out the light guns.

Brian Schweitzer named a Republican to the lieutenant governorship, lowered taxes, and greatly expanded energy production in Montana. Oddly enough, this gets little applause from the crowd. Barack Obama will do the same for the country. (OK, great!)

He had a framed picture of President Kennedy in his boyhood kitchen, even though his parents had no education. (Not sure what the connection is here.) But they believed in education so they worked hard to send their kids to school.

Until we address the energy crisis, our problems will only get worse. The White House is leading us in the wrong direction. Now Senator McCain wants four more years of the same. Can we afford four more years? NO, responds the crowd. Everyone got the talking points, I guess. Is it time for a change? YES! When do we need it? NOW! And who do we need as the next President? BARACK OBAMA! This guy should be leading protesters outside.

Right now we import 70% of our oil, while spending billions of dollars all over the world that always seems to end up in the accounts of people who are hostile to American values and our way of life. (PETA gets oil money?) CO2 emissions are increasing global temperatures, sea levels are rising (I thought they had stopped when Obama made that speech, but I guess I was wrong.) We need a new clean energy system that is clean, green, and American-made. We need a president who will marshal the nation’s resources, get the job done and deliver the change we need. That leader is Barack Obama!

Barack Obama knows there’s no single platform for this new energy system. Oil, geothermal, renewable, we need them all, in a system built on American innovation. After eight years of a White House waiting hand and foot on Big Oil, John McCain offers more of the same. At a time of rising fuel prices, while American families struggle to keep their tanks full, John McCain voted 25 times against renewable and alternative energy. (Booo!) He voted against biofuels, against solar energy (booo!) - he even voted against wind energy. This hurts American energy independence and cost 100,000 jobs.

John McCain has taken more than $1 million in contributions from the oil and gas industry. (Crowd is shocked.) Now he wants to give those companies $4 billion in tax breaks. He’s a devil, that McCain! (FactCheck.org says that Obama has taken $213,000, so I guess he’s only 21.3% evil.

A joke about McCain’s inability to enumerate his houses wins applause in the blogger lounge. There isn’t enough oil in America to meet our energy needs. The most important barrel of oil is the one we don’t use. Barack Obama understands this. Barack Obama will take every opportunity to create new sources of energy, across the board. (Does that include ANWR?)

Obama’s energy policy will create 5,000,000 green-collar jobs and save America. He’ll give you a tax credit for buying a hybrid. Barack will provide total energy independence. John McCain’s plan will not, because it is (once again) four more years. America needs energy independence. The petrodictators will never own American wind and sunshine and we should never again be beholden to their barrels of crude. The Obama energy plan is ambitious, and critics will pick away at the details. Cynics will say it’s impossible. Senator McCain will say “no we can’t”. He’s a downer, that Senator McCain.

Can’t America do better than four more years of Washington as usual? (Yes!) Is it time for a change? (Yes!) As strong a team as Obama and Biden are, they need all of us to win this election and create a new energy system and bring in an era of American energy independence. They need everyone to stand up. (The crowd duly stands up.)

We want them! We want them to hear you, from Denver to Detroit, from Montana to Mississippi, from California to the Carolinas…even our men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan can hear us. Can we afford four more years of the same? (NO!) Is it time for change now? (YES!) Are we going to declare our energy independence and change the world? (YES!) Who’s going to do it? Barack Obama!

Let’s go win this election.