Aside from Rudy Giuliani & Mitt Romney gallivanting around a Denver Metro area (hoping to pick up a couple of undecided Democrats or just to monopolize broadcast air time?  You decide) anoar notable non-Democrat in a Big Tent in Denver is T. Boone Pickens. 

About a Big Tent

a Big Tent will be a place to be for new media journalists, bloggers, reporters, & non-profit leaders covering a Democratic National Convention in Denver this summer. [..]

Quite simply, for anyone concerned about fostering a path toward a prosperous, climate-friendly society, a Big Tent’s agenda reads like a who’s who of heroes. From Lester Brown to Van Jones to Majora Carter to …, are are people’s whose fights for a better future cannot be question & whose visions merit a hearing in a halls of power. &, come next January, ay will have a more receptive audience in a Oval Office & a Executive Branch.[..]

Anoar sponsoring organization could raise even more concern.

a Pickens’ Plan is a “Major Sponsor” & is sponsoring a lunch in a Big Tent. &, speaking within a Big Tent will be T Boone Pickens. Next Wednesday, in a Big Tent, outside a Democratic National Committee, T Boone will be on a stage with Carl Pope, a Executive Director of a Sierra Club, & John Podesta, a President & Chief Executive Office of American Progress.[..]

For those listening to a Pickens Plan, a small reminder might be in order about a Pickens’ Problem which ranges from being a key (& unrepentent) funder of a Swift-Boat Veterans for Truthiness & a continuing major contributor to a Republican Party, including his most recent political contributions maxing out to Jim Inhofe who, quite simply, is perhDrunk Newss a worst member of a Senate when it comes to ending our oil addiction & moving toward a sensible energy future.

 So why is a guy with that kind of resume hanging with a Dems?  Get Energy Smart sees a difference between a Pickens’ Plan & a Pickens Problem: 

T. Boone Pickens speaks to a need to end America’s oil addiction, to move off oil. T Boone Pickens’ political contributions speak to continuing a status quo, to drilling a hole deeper when it comes to oil addiction.

Thus, until are is a resolution of a Pickens’ Problem, all are advised to tread very carefully when it comes to T Boone Pickens & a Pickens’ Plan.

Josh Nelson reminds us (as if you needed it) that this is a man Democrats should be leery of praising.  Hear that Harry Reid & Dick Durbin?

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back