Delegates walk out of Palin’s first international speech.
Delegates walk out of Palin’s first international speech.
Sarah Palin made her international debut today in a closed-door speech at the CLSA Investors’ Forum in Hong Kong. AFP reports that Palin’s speech, which touched on issues like international terrorism and the U.S. debt, “divided” the audience and even prompted a few delegates to leave in disgust:
Former US vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin divided an international audience of financial big-hitters at her first speech outside North America on Wednesday with some leaving in disgust. [...]
Some listeners praised her forthright views on government social and economic intervention but others walked out early citing boredom or disgust. [...]
A US delegate leaving early with a colleague said: “it was awful, we couldn’t stand it any longer.”
Melvin Goodé, a property consultant who attended Palin’s speech, was interviewed about Palin’s speech by the Wall Street Journal. When asked how he thought she did, he “shrugged his shoulders…[and] said that she generally did all right, given that she ‘wasn’t supposed to know anything about the continent.’”
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I wonder if any of the delegates ran into John Ziegler trying to sneak his Palin fan club into the place.
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:30 pm.
Even in a “REAL” Red State, people leave Palin in the dust.
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September 23rd, 2009 at 2:31 pmCongrats Sarah, now you’re an INTERNATIONAL idiot!
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:32 pmI’m suprised anyone stayed for her entire speech.
WTF was McCain thinking when he picked that dumbass?
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:32 pmLife is like a box of planet-size stupid.
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:34 pm“well, ya know, also, that, from, into the, what with the, too, those, where there’s, AND, so, as they say, y’know, when the freedom is the reform, and what we need, for the ya know, the marverick kinda style of a way to see the reform and the freedom…”
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:36 pmyou missed it, TP… from the rove thread:
Badmoodman says:
- – O.T. – -
No post on Palin’s Asia speech? Heh….
“Two US delegates left early, according to AFP, with one saying “it was awful, we couldn’t stand it any longer.” He declined to be identified.”
Here’s the tweet from someone during the speech:
http://twitter.com/cellomonkey
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:46 am
hope you don’t mind, badmood… funny tweets there…
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:36 pmShe was exhibit A on why the 21st c. will be known as the Chinese century.
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:36 pmtexasrick says:
Congrats Sarah, now you’re an INTERNATIONAL idiot!
Now?? That ship sailed a long time ago…
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:37 pmWell I’m sure Hannity will be all over this like white on rice . .
We all know how Hannity hates when ANYone disparages our POTUS on foreign soil, eh?
[tick, tock]
*
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:38 pmPlease Please Please let this fraud be a part of the GOP ticket in 2012.
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:39 pmshe is a pig – pure and simple
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:40 pmhow did AFP get those photos (first link) if media was excluded?
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:41 pmIs it too much to hope, that this will also have been her “last international speech”?
I can see the embarrassment from my kitchen window, rearing its ugly head in my airspace…
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:42 pmFrom badmoodman’s link (through Katy’s post) comes this tweet:
“palin attributes asian economic prosperity to american commitment to security in the region”
Sure… China wouldn’t be such a prosperous nation if it weren’t for the USA’s commitment to stop communism, you betcha!
/*Insert Jon Stewart joke here*
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:42 pmSome listeners praised her forthright views on government social and economic intervention but others walked out early citing boredom or disgust.
– - Someone is actually giving Palin money to talk to 1,000 or so international investors about global economics and what’s going on in Asia.
In her new role as buck-raker extraordinaire, the darling of wingnut conservatives is pocketing a fat wad of cash from a China-based financial brokerage owned by a French banking conglomerate.
(Thanks, Katy.)
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:42 pmThe Pentacostal Pork-Barrel Princess of Wasilla has now officially added another word to her name — may she hereafter forever be known as “Flailin’ Bailin’ Failin’ Palin”.
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:44 pm“[lies&bullshit]” Palin said, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited an audio recording of the speech.
imagine that…
rupert strikes again…
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:45 pmDelegates walk out of the Diva’s 1st international speech.
BWAAAAHHAAAAAAHHHAAAAAAAHAAAAAA!
ROTFLMFAO!
POPCORN TIME!
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:47 pmI would have stayed for the whole speech.. the entertainment value would be priceless!
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:47 pmPeggy Hill teaching Spanish — again.
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:48 pmIsn’t the hype over Palin only about the rabid religious right desperately trying to get a foot hold in the door to end abortions? So who, other than these fools, would want to listen to Palin? And I would imagine the delegates realized they were being exploited so Palin could appear knowledgeable in foreign affairs.
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:49 pmShe still doesn’t know anything about ‘the continent’. Her speachwriter does.
I would like to see her try have an open Q&A with no pre-screening. Now THAT would be a hoot!
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:49 pmI don’t know. Being a Republican, he already had a lock on the dumbass vote.
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:49 pm“It was fairly right-wing populist stuff,’ one US delegate said.
Palin blasted Obama’s proposals on healthcare, reiterating her much-contested belief that the plan would include a bureaucratic “death panel” that would decide who gets assistance, he said.
uuuuuughhhhh…
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:49 pmPalin’s Hong-Kong Speech
constructed from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/23/palin-hong-kong-speech-im_n_295812.html
and Badmoon’s link to Twitterer ‘cellomonkey’
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/23/hannity-rove-global-warming/#comment-5814546
bolded text comes from those two sources.
Hi-ya (wink).
It’s really great to be here in this great nation of Hong Kong with all you patriotic Kongans to tell ya about governance, economics and U.S. and the Asian affairs also.
Ya kno Todd is part Eskimo so he’s just like ya, except he’s a much better driver.
I’m going to call it like I see it and I will share with you candidly a view right from Main Street, Main Street U.S.A., from where you can see those pesky Russians from and how perhaps my view of Main Street , how that affects you and your business, because as Governor of Alaska government interference got us into this mess in the first place in the respect that proud Alaskans like me aren’t interested in government fixes, we’re interested in freedom and the Reaganomics also and those things that Margaret Thatcher did in the Kingdom of Britain as well so now 10 months later, though, a lot of Americans are asking: more government? Is that the change we want?
Because that fella said some nebulous utopian sounding things with his health care reform and death panels that infringe on private enterprise that real Americans aren’t comfortable with and it’s also like the Uighurs and the Han goin’ at-it but ya know ya just don’t seem to have any mechanisms to deal with regional ethnic issues and maybe you should get some of those ethnic mechanics also, too, don’tcha think?
So that’s a business opportunity that can affect you in this great state of Asia without government interference interfering with your governance and freedom like I’ve been fighting for in the great state of Alaska also in that respect because it is in the interest of our safety for China to work out its contradictions and ya know we hope for China to rise responsibly because that fella in the White House over there is cutting the defense budget whilst I’ve seen Russia beef up when I go jogging and I bet you’ve seen China doing the same thing because its got to be about jobs also and if it weren’t for America’s commitment to security in this region your economic prosperity wouldn’t be on account of those missiles pointed at Taiwan and we don’t want a one-nation Asia do we?
But I’m glad the press isn’t here makin’ things-up, like I’m trying to burnish my foreign policy credentials, because I’m just here to benefit my knowledge base and defray some legal bills, you betcha.
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:50 pmJust read about this article about the twit on Raw Story. Pretty pathetic. Palin: The American idiot. Stay classy, Sarah.
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:51 pmAdvice to Sarah P: Make big money now because you soon won’t be any more valuable than a pile of moose dung fertilizer…which at least makes things grow!
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:52 pmListening to Sarah speak on that which she knows nothing would be akin to hearing fingernails on a chalkboard.
SQUEEEEEeeeeeek…!
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:52 pmooops Badmoodman’s link to cellomokey’s twitters,
sorry about that Badmoodman, and thanks.
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:52 pmWhen will we learn that exporting stupid adds nothing to the trade imbalance? I can almost imagine the people who sat through the whole thing walking out and giggling to themselves about how easy it will be to dupe Americans if this is an example of one of our ‘experts’.
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:53 pmYeah, sure, she bombed the speech, but what I’d like to know is:
How’d she do on the talent portion???
/snark off
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:56 pmI would hate to see the investment returns of anyone who stayed for the entire talk. Her words can kill brain cells at 100 paces.
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:56 pmfear nada says:
Maybe she should have heavily screened the audience like the (d)’s do?
I thought she did, fear nada.
From the first article:
Sounds to me like she not only screened the audience, but demanded the speech be closed to the media. Sounds to me she screened pretty harshly.
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:56 pm(you’re welcome, badmoodman)
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:57 pmPity the Mandarin interpreter, trying to convert gibberish into
an Eons old language.
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:57 pmDelegates walk out of Palin’s first international speech.
– - If you give a speech in China AND get paid well for it, that means you’re “pallin’ around with terrorists”, right Sarah?
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:58 pmDumb me wrote:
– – If you give a speech in China AND get paid well for it, that means you’re “pallin’ around with terrorists”, right Sarah?
Ummm, Communists.
Geeze.
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:59 pmThere are about a couple of Palinites over at the WSJ site regarding this topic.
But man, you should see the other comments.
Moose Boogers, er… Moose Burgers, anyone?
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:00 pmTodd could have spoke Inuit & got more comprehension than Palinese…
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:01 pmL O L , 5th estate…
can you even imagine 75 minutes of that???
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:01 pmfear nada says:
Maybe she should have heavily screened the audience like the (d)’s do?
It’s amazing you can write that with a straight face…
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:02 pmWell, I’m sorry if I misunderstood what you were trying to get at, fear nada. Could you explain?
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:02 pmYeah, sure, she bombed the speech, but what I’d like to know is: How’d she do on the talent portion???
Actually, I think that the talent portion came long before the actual speech.
After all, she must have played someone’s “meat flute” just to get the gig in the first place.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:03 pmI guess know nada never heard about the oath of loyalty everyone was required to sign in order to attend Bush/Cheney rallys and “town hall meetings”.
Hey dipstick, it was meeting of hedge fund managers. They were all right-wing global corporatists. How much more do you want to screen them
Gawd, what a moron.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:03 pmfearful na-da says:
Just throw a flag over her head and do her for ‘old glory’
Me, I would not touch that with a entire case of Trojans, I just KNOW I’d catch something nasty.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:03 pmfear nada says:
Maybe she should have heavily screened the audience like the (d)’s do?
Despite what Fox News has repeatedly insisted, “(D)” is not short for “Republican”.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:04 pmKaty,
If you took out all the, “you knows, also, and too’s” the speach would have been about 10 minutes.
About long enough for me want to kill myself.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:05 pmshe generally did all right, given that she ‘wasn’t supposed to know anything about the continent.’”
But she went ahead anyway and stated that the Uighur-Han riots were “a sign that China lacks mechanisms to deal with regional issues,”(attendee Palmer).
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:06 pmAnd she helpfully mentioned ‘missiles pointed at Taiwan’ and said that China’s prosperity was due to America’s commitment to the region’s security.
I’m sure none of the Chinese took any offense to that.
Couldn’t they just have detained her and put her in a work camp.
Then imagine Bill Clinton months later getting her out of prison.
Would the right just freak?
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:08 pm’she generally did all right, given that she ‘wasn’t supposed to know anything”
There was no need for him to be so specific.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:08 pmIt’s the same thing I thought during the election. She acts like the only people she cares about are Alaskan. Or like they’re more important than the rest of the country.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:08 pmI’m sure none of the Chinese took any offense to that.
I wonder if the Chinese government fully understands that she is no longer a political figure, and no longer entitled to any kind of immunity just because of who she used to be. If they took offense at anything she said, her return trip might be, shall we say, “delayed somewhat.”
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:09 pmfear nada
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:10 pm—
Stick arouind eventually all the poser learn to fear…
shoeless says:
’she generally did all right, given that she ‘wasn’t supposed to know anything”
There was no need for him to be so specific.
Who in the Hell hires someone to speak, knowing that they don’t know anything?
Hedge fund managers are supposed to smart people. This group?…
…not so much.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:10 pmWe ARE inching closer to Palin/Huckabee 2012. Just think of the cabinet!
Press Secretary: William Kristol (Rich Lowrey would be too busy ogling the Pres)
Secretary of Defense: Elizabeth Cheney (her father would be too damn old to do anything except cower in fear)
Secretary of State: Newt Gingrich (will advocate a giant EMP attack over the entire Eastern hemisphere)
Secretary of Treasury: Don Young (no one knows how to spread the wealth around like the man mot directly responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars winged to tiny Alaskan villages)
and so on.
And people thought Quayle was a joke…
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:11 pmCaribou Bible-thumping Barbie: Young, dumb, and full of c**.
WTF was Insane McCain thinking? His utter contempt of the American electorate?
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:12 pmHe should have been shot for hoisting this ________ on us.
It’s treasonous.
Caption: Trig fixed my hair this morning…
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:12 pmshot with squirt guns full of piss that is.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:13 pmI think that’s what really burns me about Palin, Shayne. Look, I love my state and all its citizens, but if I ran for President, I would be emphasizing my ability to unite the nation, not just conservatives or Alaskans.
If you’re going to sell the moose burgers, you have to sell them to America by how they will benefit America, not just about their origins in Alaska.
Moar stk, less szzl, plz.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:13 pmkaty says: can you imagine 75 minutes of that?
Glad you liked it, katy.
If you look carefully at my ‘dramatic reconstruction’ you will see that I really only actually imagined about 1/8th of what I wrote (quite a lot of the un-bolded parts which are supposed to be my original writing is just other stuff she’s said elsewhere.)
And no, I could not stand even 7.5 minutes.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:14 pmCould she see Alaska from Hong Kong. Wait, that was Russia she was seeing from Alaska.
Visiting Hong Kong then saying you visited China is like saying that visiting San Francisco is like saying that you visited the United States. Now I like San Francisco a lot but I would never say it was much like America.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:14 pmSince when are fund managers delegates?
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:16 pmDallas NE says:
Don’t knock San Francisco, I pulled a short tour of duty there 40 years ago. I LOVED IT!
Haight-Ashbury, flower-power, Hippies, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, the smell of incense.
Far out, groovy.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:18 pmangry little troll: “Maybe she should have heavily screened the audience like the (d)’s do?”
The pathological inability to recognize the irony in this above statement is not necessarily limited to what psychologists call projection, the unconscious transfer of one’s own desires or emotions to another person. In this case, the troll isn’t displaying his own desires as much as willfully forgetting that conservatives wrote the book on this kind of thing. I mean really. People got arrested for wearing the wrong t-shirts for cryin out loud!
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:19 pmoh, QVHD, how you really nailed it there.
you’ve caught us all in our unrepentant misogyny…
everyone knows what an intellectual/political powerhouse SarahP really is, and they just bash on her because they fear her.
i’m grateful you had the courage to expose this sham, and force everyone here to take a long look in the mirror, and confront their latent sexism, because that’s all it is – no one person has ever been as qualified to lead the nation, and the sooner we understand that, the better.
right?
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:20 pmQuick! Vote him down!
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:21 pm—
May I ask why you selected this screen name? Is it just cover so you can then post dumbass stuff?
DallasNE: “Now I like San Francisco a lot but I would never say it was much like America.”
At least Presidents don’t get murdered in San Francisco, Dallas. Maybe that’s what you mean.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:21 pmbut mayors do, niner…
you took it wrong, i dare say…
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:24 pmsilly troll: “NEVER SEND A WOMAN TO DO A MAN’S JOB!!”
The silly troll is a man, and as a man, he prefers men and the company of men, the smell of men and the sound of men, strictly in a manly way of course.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:24 pmFrom the bits and pieces gathered so far, it appears that Palin thinks Alaska is the most fascinating place on the planet ( because of her no doubt), that it represents all America and therefore SHE represents all America, and she Sarah Palin, isn;t impressed with China and they had better behave themselves or else she (america) won’t be very happy.
Palin thinks she’s some kind of ambassador for the US with some kind of authority and expectation of respect.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:25 pmi wonder how well cut n’ run palin’s “word salad” english translated into cantonese?
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:26 pmI took QVHD’s advice and did just that–voted him down.
Hated to do it, but he was kinda sorta being a troll and posting nonsense.
Sorry man, you axed for it.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:28 pm****
#62,
qwiki,
do you know this guy?
:)
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:30 pmthin skin, niner? was that YOU who voted me down?
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:31 pmOn her way to Hong Kong, did she stop by “our neighboring country of Afghanistan”?
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:32 pmThey didn’t want her to speak, they rigged a camera under the podium, perverts just wanted pictures of her undies.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:33 pmShe did all right, even though she “wasn’t supposed to know anything….”
What???? What a heartening comment for the rest of us! — So I could be a keynote speaker discussing medicine, space travel, Greek, Thai cooking, Cape Horn…. oh, I could go on, there’s so many things I’m not supposed to know anything about. How much can I charge?
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:33 pmi hope cut n’ run enjoyed her one stop speaking “tour” since i am sure once news of this debacle hits, she’ll be hearing the word “cancellation” a lot in the future.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:34 pmNo, there is a huge market amongst right-wingers for stupid and crazy these days.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:37 pmThese financial geniuses that listen to this dork reveal themselves. They should have just hired a stripper to pop out of a cake and be done with it.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:38 pm#75 5th Estate says:
Parts of Alaska are breathtakingly beautiful and virtually untouched by human exploitation.
Other parts are scrummy and like boom-towns with a lot of misguided people–kinda like Palin.
Of course she has a misguided opinion of herself too, and is not deserving of any kind of respect–especially that of an ambassador.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:38 pmfear nada says:
Maybe she should have heavily screened the audience like the (d)’s do?
Bush and Cheney are Republicans.
.
Quick! Vote him down! says:
OK.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:38 pmKaty, I never vote anyone down. I don’t appreciate someone from a flat, ugly, sprawling conglomerate of crap like Dallas saying San Francisco is not America. That’s all.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:39 pmThat’s what they thought were getting when they asked Sarah to their meeting. When it didn’t happen, they left.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:40 pm“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.” How scary is it that this is her FIRST international speach.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:40 pm88. Shoeless
They could had her and Prejean jump out together, of course with bibles in their hands.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:43 pmSomeday the US is going to realize the rest of the world is sort of waiting for us to fall on our ass. We have been holding ourselves up as the best and the brightest for a long time and in the past 30 years that has been slipping away.
We aren’t #1 in much of anything but arrogance and consumerism. Education, health care, justice and law, we have slowly let other countries surpass us. We have outsourced our industry, overspent on our military, ignored the trends of globalization and spent an entire generation convincing the world that the ugly American is dead.
Good news is, and Caribou Barbie is our poster child, stupid lives on.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:45 pmHe probably watches too much porn. :)
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:48 pmI guess that time she talked her way out of being busted, when customs found her bag of meth at the Canadian border doesn’t count, eh?
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:48 pmShe’s lucky the audience members were “guests”. If they’d paid themselves they’d be clamoring to get their money back.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:49 pm91. Hoodathunk…..Summed up nicely, Since Reagan it’s been a race to the bottom.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:49 pm#92 Shayne says:
Doesn’t watching porn cause homosexuality? I mean, the (misguided)ValueVoter summit made that perfectly clear–right?
It also makes you go blind, grow hair on your palms and makes G-d cry!
/snark
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:56 pmAll she can do is throw out old Reagan/Thatcher talking points. Didn’t even finish the job she was elected to. Just shameless.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:59 pm**PITY THE POOR INTERPRETERS*** trying to faithfully translate this into other languages !!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for me, I’ll wait for the William Shatner rendition.
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:02 pmNinerFan says:
Katy, I never vote anyone down.
good to know… now do me a favor and undo that negative at 72 for me please…
I don’t appreciate someone from a flat, ugly, sprawling conglomerate of crap like Dallas saying San Francisco is not America. That’s all.
like i said, i think you took it wrong… try it again:
Visiting Hong Kong then saying you visited China is like saying that visiting San Francisco is like saying that you visited the United States. Now I like San Francisco a lot but I would never say it was much like America.
and, coming from s.central illinois and visiting san francisco i’d have to agree!
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:03 pmWhy dib Prejean not like the breastesses GOD gave her?
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:05 pmWhen will Palin realize that her style and politics appeal to only a minority of hard core conservatives. She has no place on the world stage.
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:06 pm**PITY THE POOR INTERPRETERS*** trying to faithfully translate this into other languages !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Even worse, English is sort of the de facto language of business so I would guess the vast majority of the attendees understand the language.
I would also wager that most of them couldn’t understand much of what she said and were wondering when the strip show started.
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:07 pmHeh! When her speech was first announced I told a friend, “I bet half of them will leave after the third time she adds a random also to a sentence”. She just doesn’t have anything to offer people with a functional human intellect.
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:11 pmNinerFan says:
Katy, I never vote anyone down. I don’t appreciate someone from a flat, ugly, sprawling conglomerate of crap like Dallas saying San Francisco is not America. That’s all.
San Francisco is not “America”. San Francisco is part of America. So is Dallas. So is Boston, so are New Orleans, Miami, New York, DC, and OneDogTown NA.
/So are Mexico and Canada, for that matter.
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:12 pmI would rather sit through a speech by Mushmouth from Fat Albert on the subject of “toothpicks or floss” than this person on anything.
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:16 pm105.
Mushmouth would’ve been more coherent.
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:22 pmAh, schadenfreude!
I’ll bet you big money that Our Miss Sarah thinks she knocked it out of the park.
She isn’t smart enough to be properly embarrassed.
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:27 pmSo, former governor vice-presidental candidate Palin spoke for 75 minutes in Hong Kong, China, about the evils of big government, blaming government interference on our economic “mess”.
Wearing a flag pin.
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:29 pmKaty: “and, coming from s.central illinois and visiting san francisco i’d have to agree!”
Right. It’s different. Some people think it’s one of the best places in America.
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:30 pmI’ve always thought people who take too much pride in what city or town they’re from are a little too provincial (to put it nicely).
Look, it’s the U.S. I’ve got to say I’m bothered when some loon comes on and says Texas is this, Texas is that. When you start crowing about where your from it just shows a certain small mindedness.
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:46 pm****
caption:
“I just sat on an air hose!”
:0
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:52 pmniner – i LOVED the berkeley/sanfran area when i visited my son while he was at berkeley getting his PhD in chemistry (!)…
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:55 pmha! just remembered this – his Starter jacket (remember those?)
from when he was a kid is SF49ers!
@110 you’re right, Rich. Too many people confuse civic pride and patriotism with provincialism.
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:02 pmHey, folks, I said I like San Francisco a lot. Like Hong Kong is the beacon on the hill for China, so is San Francisco the beacon on the hill for America. That was a compliment. It was the pretending that she was doing by thinking that she was in China in more than name. Much like Bush thought he was in New Orleans when he flew over in Air Force One.
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:07 pmI’ve thought about changing my name. It’s interesting to see what part of the country people are in, though.
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:12 pmI really don’t think true liberals are likely to be caught up in provincial perspectives.
If I were to ever win the lottery, I’m moving back to SF.
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:15 pmBuy a pad in Haight-Ashbury, and redo the place into Hippie Heaven. I still have my Lava lamps, beaded curtains, paisley tapestries, blacklights, and blacklight posters.
We almost moved to SF 25 years ago, but didn’t because the high cost of living and family. I love the whole nw California coast.
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:23 pmAnd it’s alway been a fantasy of mine to not be the only democrat on the block.
fear nada says:
You are a liar a fool a moron an ignorant piece of gargage and a stupid punkass troll. Just STFU since you are too stupid to contribute to an adult conversation
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:27 pmWow, I am way too prickly and way too full of myself. Apologies to DallasNE and Katy. The truth is that I’ve been to hundreds of beautiful places with nice people in this country that are NOT San Francisco.
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:29 pmHere’s the thing about Palin:
As long as she doesn’t defecate or hurl on stage, she will be considered to have given a “successful” speech.
Expectations for this Uber-Moron and First Class Embarrassment to the USA are so low that as long as she gets up on stage and recites something she obviously didn’t write herself (far too stupid to do anything like that), she passes the “test.”
John McCain owes the world an apology. She will forever be his shameful legacy.
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:31 pm@ 67. Uncle Ho says: … Don’t knock San Francisco, I pulled a short tour of duty there 40 years ago. I LOVED IT! … Far out, groovy.
Me too me too…
Well, pulled a tour there, kind of. My ship was home-ported at Alameda NAS and we also got locked into drydock at the Hunter’s Point yard for a 6 month refit. But that was in ‘62-’65, well before the Summer of… Also lived in the Sunset District for a little over a year in the early ’70s. Moved from SF to Eugene, which is even better, in some respects, but SF is great.
I’d have a hard time choosing between the two places, but as a consequence, I’d also have to say that I’d probably find Juneau and a few other places on the Alaska Coast south of Anchorage congenial, as long as Sarahcuda was way and the hell gone somewhere else. Hong Kong isn’t quite far enough. How about stranded on Diego Garcia without a rowboat or a boarding pass out?
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:51 pmWe live here and she did not make any of the news at all.Nothing.0000. Will see in morning if she made the papers.
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:52 pmMost people here are more interested in horse racing since the season has begun.
After all, what could she say that has any value?
It’s not like she is an expert on anything but jeeeeeeeeez that kinda fits the con mold.
This was a trial run with a semi neutral body count.No shots fired / no dead people.
Watch out!She may get better at saying nothing. Ya know?? Like more polished at script reading.
Good ol reagunz could do it, why can’t she??
So, she’s in Hong Kong, talking about China likes it’s not in the room. This reminds me of snot-nosed, crony, college kids with no banking experience, lecturing Iraqi people who did have banking experience and also had Phds from all over the world on “democracy” and “freedom” while taking over the Iraqi banking system.
Fortunately, Palin’s utter lack of coothe, and unawareness of who she is talking to will be of little consequence. Thank heavens she is not a position to do the damage she could do if unleashed in Bush-league fashion.
September 23rd, 2009 at 8:29 pmApparently Palin also walked out halfway through her speech.
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Rab says:
They could had her and Prejean jump out together, of course with bibles in their hands.
Don’t forget Bachmann. She can keep the crowd covered with an AK-47 in case anybody tries to make any sudden moves.
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P.S: That photo at top totally looks like it came out of a brochure for a care facility for special needs people. “At Enabled Courtyard, your loved one can live an almost normal life. We take them on outings and have plenty of supervised activities.”
September 23rd, 2009 at 10:49 pmNow would be an opportune time to start making up stories about Palin’s speech. Since the press wasn’t allowed to listen to her speech, she doesn’t have anyone to speak in her defense.
September 24th, 2009 at 8:59 amYeah, he could have included, “And she doesn’t know anything about banking, economics or anything else for that matter.”
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September 30th, 2009 at 11:49 am