Zachary Earl Smith

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My overall experience of the Republican National Convention was just absolutely wonderful. It truly was an amazing experience and one I will never forget. I was just blown away by both Gov. Palin’s and Sen. John McCain’s speeches, they were truly inspiring. McCain, I believe, was absolutely right in calling Republicans out on our failure [...]

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I am about to leave the hotel now to head back to Maine. I will blog more when I get back home but I just wanted to say what I great time I had here, and how privileged I feel to have been a part of this historical event. This was truly one of the [...]

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The morning was fairly uneventful, but I spent quite a bit of time helping out at the volunteer center making care packages for hurricane victims. It was hard work but good. I really enjoyed the work, and it felt good knowing I could help my fellow Americans. Plus there wasn’t anything else going on so [...]

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I was very fortunate that one of our delegates wasn’t going to be able to make it for the evening and I was given their credentials. This enabled me to remain on the floor the entire evening, and even better - I am in the official convention photo. There were many good speakers but things really [...]

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Looks like things are getting back to normal and plans are to get the convention back on schedule. Had breakfast this morning with the Vermont delegation and heard from several speakers. The most prominent speakers during our breakfast were Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett Packard (also once briefly mentioned as a possible VP pick), [...]

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While at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota I got a chance to catch a special pre-release screening of An American Carol. A good laugh, a bit jumpy at times that was a little confusing but overall some decent funny entertainment. If you are a conservative or simply find liberal dribble annoying and always fantasized [...]

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After our exciting morning we went back to the hotel room where we finally got some broadband internet and were able to work. We had a snack for lunch and got ready to head over to the convention. The convention site located in Saint Paul at the Xcel Energy Center was very impressive. The bus [...]

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Got up at 7am this morning to get ready for our 8am delegation meeting, and at which we had a surprise guest pop in. Just as we were getting ready for Josh Tardy (House Minority leader) to speak, he introduced Karl Rove. Wicked, Rove spoke about John McCain and how McCain had defied his Vietnamese [...]

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After getting to bed around 2am (gotta love 24 hour days), we got up around 9am to get our credentials which are very nice (different ones for each day for security purposes). Wasn’t too much going on at that point so we walked to the metro station and went to the Mall of America. WOW. [...]

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