2nd Day

It started out with me and Hunter oversleeping, but no worries, we were able to get ready in time. Our first stop at the first day of CPAC was the Leadership Institution's Introduction to Television Techniques workshop. The speaker addressed the importance of presenting your messages in a positive light... especially conservative messages. She explained that liberals tend to win over the American public more on audio-visual clips because they seem more friendly; they have more messages about what they want the government TO do, instead of what they DON'T want government to do.

Next, we went to the Regency Ballroom to listen to speakers like Mike Huckabee and Joe Scarborough. Huckabee spoke on Obama's stimulus plan, which he referred to as the Congressional Recovery Action Plan (C.R.A.P... you figure it out.) His main, and most valid, points were:

-Growing the government and the economy are two different things.

-There is horizontal politics, in which leaders walk directly in front of the people they are leading, and vertical politics, in which leaders take people, the economy, and the health of the government either up or down, in a positive or negative direction.

After the conference, I haggled with an Indian man in his store for a beautiful ceramic buddha. We went to dinner, walked around town, and saw the different sites. Seeing the front pages of many of the country's largest newspapers was pretty cool, and so was seeing the Canadian embassy, since I'll be doing an internship there this summer. Passed by a Sigma Kappa dormitory at the George Washington University on the way home; made me miss my sorority sisters A LOT. Overall, day 2 was a success.

Ali Edelstein