Mark Warner to give Keynote Tuesday at DNC
12 August 2008 11:05 pm by Taylor Marsh
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Hillary Clinton will be one of several headliners, but she will not be the keynote speaker
Tuesday at the convention. That nod goes to Mark
Warner.
Get ready for red state Democrats on parade.
Senate candidate and former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner is scheduled to deliver
the Tuesday night keynote address at this year’s Democratic National Convention
— the same role that launched Barack Obama to national prominence four
years ago.Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama’s rival during the Democratic presidential
primaries, is also scheduled to speak that night, Aug. 26. But Warner is being
given the plum position, according to an e-mail that Obama campaign adviser
Mike Henry sent to Virginia supporters late Tuesday….
I tried to get a confirmation today that Clinton would not keynote on Tuesday, because of some things I was hearing,
to no avail after a couple of tries. Unusual, to say the least.
Ben
Smith made the distinction again earlier today, as did McCain supporters
who sent a flood of emails into my inbox on the subject.
Clinton “is one of four prime-time headline speakers. We will have a
separate keynote speaker,” said Jenny Backus, a consultant to the convention.
“Stay tuned.”
The Obama team is keeping a lot very close to the vest. What I’m hearing isn’t good. Two words: Evan Bayh. As the DNC consultant would say, stay tuned.
