Remember all the folks here who swore that Obama could never be elected, and then when it happened, they tried to blame Rush?
I guess they were wrong.
http://barbaricthoughts.blogspot.com/
A couple of guys were in the CLSA audience during Sarah Palin’s speech and twittered the event. Their accounts are here and here. The second guy is also a speaker at the event.
Cellomonkey seems to be left-leaning, but fairly unbiased, although he follows Obama and Rachel Maddow. Casinclair is an environmental architecture guy who has had articles posted on the Huffington Post and is a fan of Van Jones on Facebook. Still, he seems to be sincere in his belief and focused on architecture, so I don’t think he’s necessarily a Kool-Aid drinker. Anyway, in that context, here are both of their Tweets in chronological order (Cellomonkey = CM, and Casinclair = CC) :
CC: Kind ironic. Sarah Palin will talk foreign policy (wed keynote) and I’ll speak about lack of US policy during Katrina (thurs keynote).
CC: Checking keynotes sched for this event in HK. I’m firmly in between Sarah Palin and Sheryl Crow. A sentence I never thought I’d ever write.
CC: Funnily enough palin and my talks are the only ones closed to the media. Mine is probably lack of interest.....
CM: Think sarah palin will wink at me tomorrow?
CC: So far six outlets want me to speak on camera right after the Palin talk today. Silly politirazzi.
CM: Anticipation building as palin prepares to speak at clsa forum in hk.
CM: Sarah palin pretty in pink today.
CM: Palin ties her lineage to asia by saying todd is part eskimo.
CC: Stimulus failed will keep unemployment high - Palin.
CC: Fed is immoral - Palin
CC: Palin calls self common sence consertative - quotes Reagan and Thatcher as ‘getting it right’.
CM: She takes a stab at policy speak since she’s from main street.
CC: Palin suggests her cost cutting in the Governors house shows her fiscal conservative.
CM: Palin pushing “common sense conservatism - a respect for history and tradition and common sense.”
CM: Palin: “mccain and i came in second in a competition of two!” shes funny.
CC: Palin suggests GOP has sold out since Reagan and are as bad as the liberals. They lost principles.
CM: Palin preparing for 2012 bid by evoking reagan, lauds hkg as model for free mkt economy.
CC: Cap and tax (trade) will cause unemployment. Say it will cost $1800 per Americans and cause no change.
CM: Palin seemingly campaigning but i wonder how many of us are actually us citizens.
CM: 30 minutes in, im not sure palin has said the word “china”
CC: Palin pro Nuclear and energy independance advocate. Tap the god given resources of America and not foreign entities.
CM: “nukular”!!!
CC: Natural gas IS the future - Palin
CC: Palin wants ‘all of the above’ energy policy to ween ourselves off natural resouces. Says we need to ‘drill’
CC: Death panels - governments not being honest. Can’t increase healthcare and cut costs - Palin
CC: Palin says drill. Say death panels were a way to show mainstreet what is wrong w gov plans
CM: The guy next to me is reading a macro strategy report.
CC: Palin listing all deaths caused by twisted vision of terrorists. ‘this is a war’ - Palin suggesting the surge pushed the war out of Iraq.
CC: Palin says Pelosi and liberals stopping Obama from making right decision to increase troops in afghanistan.
CC: American defence of Asia has allowed it to prosper - Palin
CM: Palin critizes cutting of defense budget while china and russia are beefing up.
CM: Palin attributes asian economic prosperity to american commitment to security in the region.
CC: American military precense in Asia has allowed it to prosper - palin.
CC: Folks walking out on palin as she’s running over Q&A time.
CM: Palin hopes to integrate india into asia... hrm.
CC: We can help intergrate Asia and India -Palin.
CC: Palin says China key to global push out of recession. China needs to be responsible stakeholder. (and free).
CM: Palin warns against rise of a one-nation asia, citing missles pointed at taiwan.
CC: China needs to ease off Taiwan and to back off supporting Sudan and Zimbabwe. Notes Tibet issue - Palin (on a tear)
CM: Palin: “it is in the interest of our safety for china to work out its contradictions”
CM: Wow, palin is lashing out against china “we hope for china to rise responsibly”
CM: palin has found herself a spot on hu jintao’s to-do list [Paramount Leader of the People’s Republic of China]
CC: Palin wrapping up saying local Chinese wanting more freedom in China. ‘No one worrys about India and it’s growth’
CC: Palin - notes Charter 08. Anyone!
CC: Palin wrapping up.
CC: Last 20 min of Palins talk on china us relationships and free trade. Current US gov are anti-open and anti-growth -palin.
CC: Palin says us must recognize we must lead by example not words. Americans are suffering and frustrated dems exempt themselves from hlthcare.
CC: Palin says tea party movement are democrats and republicans and fighting the good fight.
CC: Palin notes bush changed view on china - notes we are interconnected and need to put diplomatic pressure on china. Says taxing tires was bad.
CC: Local elected officials need to be heard. GOP will be re borne through locals - palin.
CC: Government need to stay the heck out of salary decisions - palin.
CC: Palin - Chavez is Castro lite. We need to play hardball with Cuba.
CM: Palin says “i have a husband, yea, i think i coulda used a wife” on being asked “how do you do it”
CC: Palin on Todd and schedule - ‘i needed to have a wife’ (ouch)
CC: Palin on Twitter - I love it!
CM: Zuckerberg gets props from palin for embodying american ingenuity.
CC: Palin - facebook is a success story of US ingenuity. Shows ‘we still got it’.
CC: Palin shows picture of son on stage. Then exits.
CC: Nothing like being attacked by press leaving ‘it was awful and right wing, wasn’t it’ - ask to comment, I said go on Twitter....
CC: Dear @CNN your reporter is the only one trying the sweet tactic to get a quote. Not working either.
CC: Hey ms Palin, I’ll let you tweet my keynote tomorrow lunch. I’m talking on Katrina and school reform through public/private partnerships.
CC: @cellomonkey my pics sucked. My keynote tomorrow will have 180 more slides than Palin.
CC: @Tx4Obama no problem didn’t realize I was one of only two tweeting. Had to find alt. Network to send.
CC: ok speech with occational hits. Interesting Palin attacked GOP more than Dems.