High profile speakers have agreed to speak at the congress on Saturday, including the anti-abortion campaigner and Victorian upper house Liberal member Bernie Finn, and the federal government social services minister, Kevin Andrews.
The Oxford Union (not to be confused with the Oxford University Student Union) hosts weekly debates and high profile speakers.
The three-day conference -- hosted at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland -- features a long list of high profile speakers, including Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-La.) and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin (R).
The Dean's Speaker Series is the highest profile speaker series at Berkeley Haas.
In the 1990s, he was just about the highest profile speaker of the house ever, as well as de facto Republican leader, Bob Dole not withstanding.
Some analysts say that if Ms. Pelosi seems diminished now in her role as minority leader, it is mainly because she was such a high-profile speaker.
Another high-profile speaker will be Robert Wright, chronicler of evolutionary psychology and author of "The Moral Animal," which ranked among The New York Times Book Review's 12 best books of 1994.
I've seen very little mention in the press of the half-dozen citizens who told their stories immediately before Obama was introduced, but from where I sat (in the end-zone seats, to the right as you faced the stage), Barney Smith and Pam from North Carolina and the others were more effective than any high-profile speaker all week in arguing that Obama is on the ordinary American's side.
