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Palin’s Bridge to Hong Kong
WSJ.com: Washington Wire —
... Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin opened her big speech in Hong Kong by drawing connections between her home state and Asia. She talked trade, the old land bridge between Asia and Alaska, seafood, shared bloodlines and shared values. “We’re both young and transient, independent and libertarian,” she said. Here’s more in her own words: ...
Sarah Palin V. Barack Obama: Round Whatever
Dr. Melissa Clouthier —
... Did Sarah Palin’s message work? No one can fully say. The press wasn’t allowed in to hear it. But here are a few of her words via the Wall Street Journal: ...
The soul of wit
sisu —
... but just as easily, Twitter's requirement that the writer condense expression of her ideas into 140 or fewer characters can be a refiner's fire that leaves ideas clarified with no need of further exposition. One example from a series of tweets plucking out highlights of Sarah Palin's historic keynote yesterday before a room full of world-class investors at a conference sponsored by investment firm CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, her first public-speaking engagement outside North America:" There is no justice in taking from one person and giving to another ," she said. "History shows ...
PalinTracker: The Hong Kong Speech
Pajamas Media —
... , which actually listened to the audio before reporting: Palin Addresses Asian Investors Former Governor Touches on Budget Deficit, Health Care and China September 23, 2009, 12:15 PM By JONATHAN CHENG and ALEX FRANGOS HONG KONG — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, in what was billed as her first public-speaking engagement outside North America, blamed the world financial crisis on government excesses and called for a new round of deregulation and tax cuts for U.S. businesses.“We got into this mess because of government interference in the first place,” the former Republican U.S. ...
Does Sarah Palin realize how bizarre her statements were in Hong Kong?
AMERICAblog News —
Sarah Palin is always good for a laugh, especially when she has no idea how silly she sounds. (Her being out of any office of significance when she says things like this is much funnier than if she was in power.) Talking about "liberalism" may play well in Alaska or the south but it doesn't necessarily have the same meaning abroad. In France or other countries, for example, being in favor of liberalism means you support conservative business practices as opposed to being a leftist. The previous PM of Australia, John Howard, was the Liberal Party leader and few would confuse ...
Palin Gets it Right
Blogs For Victory —
Going to the ultimate source of our economic ills:
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, in what was billed as her first public-speaking engagement outside North America, blamed the world financial crisis on government excesses and called for a new round of deregulation and tax cuts for U.S. businesses.
“We got into this mess because of government interference in the first place,” the former Republican U.S. vice presidential candidate said Wednesday at a conference sponsored by investment firm CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets. “We’re not ...
Palin's World View Takes Shape in Hong Kong
The Cable —
... Sarah Palin made huge news when she spoke yesterday to a group of Hong Kong business types with former McCain campaign foreign policy guru Randy Scheunemann ...
Tyrone: "Sarah Palin Definitely Isn't Like Barack Obama"
Booker Rising —
... More commentary about the speeches, zeroing in on government power versus freedom: "This line by Sarah Palin best illustrat[e]s why tens of millions of Americans are vocally expressing their outrage at the government. 'We're not interested in government fixes, we're interested in freedom'. People are becoming extremely angry at Obama and other elitist politicians for wanting to inject more government control into their lives at every turn. Sarah's statement is the symbol of why millions of people attended the Tea Parties across the country and on 912 and also why they attended ...
"Hong Kong" Palin vs. "Katie Couric" Palin
Crooks and Liars —
... platitudes don't merely fly in the face of the consensus of economic analysts. As a flashback to her catastrophic interview with Katie Couric reveals, Sarah Palin doesn't even agree with herself.
Palin's rewriting of history begins with the causes of the global economic meltdown. While the villains behind the calamity are many (see, for example, Time and the New York Times' excellent series, "The Reckoning"), for Sarah Palin there is only one. As the Wall Street Journal summed up her closed-door remarks:
"We got into this ...
