Day 3-4

Thursday, February 26th
Today was our first day at CPAC. The first person I saw speak was former UN Ambassador John Bolton. For those of you who don’t know I live for foreign policy, and Ambassador Bolton is a true hero for those of us who believe in a strong national defense. Bolton discussed the issues that threaten U.S. National Security like Iran and North Korea’s nuclear weapon programs and the increasingly aggressive Russia. Bolton was bipartisan in his criticism. The likidhood that Iran will acquire a nuclear weapon within this year is just as much to blame on Bush being a coward as it is on Obama’s inexperience and naivety. The next important speaker was Mike Chickadee of Arkansas. I don’t have a lot to say about good ol’ mike other than he’s just as ignorant as he’s always been. (Anyone who needs proof of this google Mike Huckabee on “Talking to Americans”.........Although our “brilliant new president believed that Canada has a president) Anyway the final person of importance today was Senator Bob Coker of Tennessee. I was rather looking forward to seeing the senator from the great state of Tennessee speak, but he was too busy doing his job to stick around and give a speech. (Unlike elected officials from other states Tennesseans like Bob Corker, Marsha Blackburn, and even Democratic governor Phil Bredesen actually do their job)

Friday, February 27th
Today was pretty uneventful on the intellectual front. Senator’s John Cornyn, Jim DeMint, John Boehner, Coburn, and McConnell spoke today. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich gave a speech that laid out steps he belived could help revived the Republican Party. As always he was articulant and well informed. We were in an out of the ballroom to see the speeches throughout the day. To be honest we all really just wanted to see Rep. Ron Paul. As always he was very entertaining. After leaving the conference Dr. Turner and the rest of us walked from one end of the National Mall to the other and looked at all the sites. I have walked the mall several times, but it’s always an interesting walk.

Jeremy Roe