John McCain Gives Somewhat Important Talk, I Am Told.
Today John McCain gave what I am told is a very important speech laying out his full economic policy with details that I guess up until this point he neglected to mention. At least the New York Times and a bunch of other media outlets seem to think so.
Interestingly this talk was at Carnegie Mellon, which means I was sitting in the third row (see picture taken by my iPhone – it was a mistake not to take a real camera) and I got pretty bored. It might be that I just can’t bring myself to care much about politics at the national level. It might be that as he spoke I could read ahead of him on the teleprompter.
It is likely the best part of the experience was being able to represent the Graduate Student Assembly at the greeting before he went on stage. He came in quickly, shook all our hands and seemed ready to move on before President Cohon slowed him down and brought him back around to introduce each of us. He seemed very lively, very human, and very much ready to get out there and speak. Also his mannerisms seem very similar to a certain president who is currently holding office, which I found a bit jarring.
Soon (once I get a copy of it) I will post the picture of the students posing with him from whoever all those people were with the cameras, but for now I can hold on, excited for an even more spectacular person who will be speaking at Carnegie Mellon: Al Gore (at commencement, May 18th).
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