Sarah needs to channel Reagan. She certainly did that in the speech below.
Posted on 08/31/2009 8:47:20 AM PDT by Maelstorm
Yep, you heard that right: former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will travel to Hong Kong for her first commercial speaking engagement, a keynote address at the CLSA Investors' Forum September 23. Given that foreign policy was a soft spot for Palin during the 2008 campaign, this will give her a chance to boost her foreign policy cred (and she'll be able to see Taiwan from her hotel room).
It could also boost her business cred, while she's at it, depending on what her speech focuses on..."Our keynote speakers are notable luminaries who often address topics that go beyond traditional finance such as geopolitics," a CLSA spokeswoman said in a statement. Past luminaries include Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Alan Greenspan.
This will be Palin's first trip to Asia and her first major international speaking engagement. What will she say? The event will be closed to media, but we'll almost certainly get some kind of word about what she says. Here are six things to watch for:
1. Energy policy. Energy was Palin's pet issue during the 2008 campaign; she has direct experience with it in Alaska, and it was a hot topic last summer. If Palin wants to talk about geopolitics, it would make sense for her to approach it from an energy standpoint. Everything she says about drilling for more oil seems to rile environmentalists, but it'll likely rile them even more if she calls for more drilling while in China, a major polluter.
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Is this another Palin appearance that’s highly advertised but unconfirmed? When she writes about it on Facebook, then I’ll believe it. Until then, I’ll just consider this a rumor.
Isn’t it great? Ears are burning already!
Is the appearance "Hong Kong Phooey or the real deal?
Unconfirmed!!!!! Do not believe this announcement until you hear it from Sarah and/or her people themselves.
Foreign Policy a soft spot? Yikes! Look at Obama, the clueless. I agree with Joe Scarboro today on the “Obama approved Lockerbie bomber release” thing. Either Obama approved or the Brits have REALLY mocked him and us too.
Either way it is OBAMA who has shown himself to have both no foreign affairs ability or experience, together with a tragic ability to make the worst of all possible choice in dealiing in foreign affairs.
Let us not forget that he and Michelle seem to harbor a bitter grudge against the Brits, and have egregiously dissed them at every opportunity — dumping the Churchill bust on the curb, gifting the Queen cheap DVDs that don’t even work on Brit sets, etc etc. Obama is the descendant of a father whose family included civil servant eating Mao Maos. By “eating” I mean as in cannibal. At least that is an alleged atrocity claimed by some against the Mao Mao terrorists.
The Mao Mao hated the Brits.
“(and she’ll be able to see Taiwan from her hotel room)”
How terribly clever. This writter could get a job with SNL. /s
I would be willing to bet a rather large sum of money that she WON’T go over there and bash America, which is what the typical liberal does, especially when they are the party out of power.
She should Bash Obama. Obama isn’t America. He is the antithesis of it.
I don’t disagree that obama needs to be bashed, early and often, but Sarah Palin has way too much class to go do it on a foreign stage.
Keshr ta ying-gang shwo:
Dwei bu chi. Wo bu hwei jiang kuang-tung hwa.
She should bash socialism. She doesn’t even have to mention Obama’s name.
I don’t know what she will say, but, tell her to buy a couple of nice suits at Sam’s!
I completely disagree. Not that she needs my advice, but I would give an impassioned speech on American exceptional ism. That would cut Obama off at the knees without every mentioning him, his cronies, or his policies.
“she’ll be able to see Taiwan from her hotel room”
And the Chinese government will be able to see her in the bathroom with all their hidden cameras in mirrors, lights, and televison sets.
They'll be "riled" whatever she says or does.
The permanently outraged are outraged whatever you say or do.
But, for what its worth, anyone who throws a fit if you drill anywhere other than an OPEC oilfield isn't an environmentalist at all. He's a conman and he's carrying the water for OPEC. He's their boy. Have you ever heard of an environmental group trying to shut down a project in Venezuela or Saudi or Iran? No?
No. Only non-OPEC projects get the benefit of their full-on round-the-clock outrage.
That’s right. American exceptionalism tied into the economics of free markets. All positive, all inspiring, and none of it directly getting into the obvious embarrassment that is our sitting president.
I want grand, optimistic, historical and forward-looking.
That explains the sudden flood of resumes pouring into the Chinese State Security offices.
It's hard to hold a press conference when you have smoke from a Kalashnikov still wafting through the new holes in your head.
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