Thursday night the Phillips Center for Performing Arts hosted a very special guest appearance by the Reforms Party presidential candidate Pat Buchanan. In the year of presidential elections the two popular candidates George Bush and Al Gore really don't lash out on each other, which makes this years debates boring and long. Pat Buchanan is refreshing to the sense he doesn't care what he says about the other candidates. Pat Buchanan's history includes serving as an assistant to Richard Nixon, and also to Ronald Regan. An accomplished journalist in his younger career, Pat Buchanan wrote speeches for the Reykjavik summit...
that occupy Gainesville. Buchanan stressed," If you vote for me your not throwing away your vote, yet your voting for something you believe in the new Party". With a wide variety of people attending Buchanan handled all the comments quite calmly, and even had a wide variety of jokes about the other nominees to keep the crowd entertained. If you have never been out to see a speaker it is valuable about what you learn, and it may even inspire you to get more involved. We all have the choice to get involved and to control our own future.