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September 23, 2009 09:16 PM UTC

Is it time to stop underestimating Sarah Palin ?

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September 24, 2009

Palin Speaks to Investors in Hong Kong

By MARK McDONALD


HONG KONG – Sarah Palin, in what was billed as her first speech overseas, spoke on Wednesday to Asian bankers, investors and fund managers.

A number of people who heard the speech in a packed hotel ballroom, which was closed to the media, said Mrs. Palin spoke from notes for 90 minutes and that she was articulate, well-prepared and even compelling.

“The speech was wide-ranging, very balanced, and she beat all expectations,” said Doug A. Coulter, head of private equity in the Asia-Pacific region for LGT Capital Partners.

“She didn’t sound at all like a far-right-wing conservative. She seemed to be positioning herself as a libertarian or a small-c conservative,” he said,…

Mrs. Palin said she was speaking as “someone from Main Street U.S.A.,” and she touched on her concerns about oversized federal bailouts and the unsustainable American government deficit. …

Cameron Sinclair, another speaker at the event, said Mrs. Palin emphasized the need for a grassroots rebirth of the Republican Party driven by party leaders outside Washington.

A number of attendees thought Mrs. Palin, the former vice presidential candidate, was using the speech to begin to broaden her foreign policy credentials before making a run for the presidency in 2012.

“She’s definitely a serious future presidential candidate, and I understand why she plays so well in middle America,” said Mr. Coulter, a Canadian.

Mr. Coulter said CLSA has a history of inviting keynote speakers who are “newsworthy and potentially controversial.” Other previous speakers at the conference have included Al Gore, Alan Greenspan, Bono and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Mrs. Palin’s speech took place at the Grand Hyatt on the Victoria Harbor waterfront and amid the soaring towers of corporate giants like AIG, HSBC and the Bank of China. Some attendees saw Hong Kong as an auspicious place for her first major international appearance.

Melvin Goodé, a regional marketing consultant, thought Mrs. Palin chose Hong Kong because, he said, it was “a place where things happen and where freedom can be expanded upon.”

“It’s not Beijing or Shanghai,” said Mr. Goodé . “She also mentioned Tibet, Burma and North Korea in the same breath as places where China should be more sensitive and careful about how people are treated. She said it on a human-rights level.”

Mr. Goodé, an African-American who said he did some campaign polling for President Obama, said Mrs. Palin mentioned President Obama three times on Wednesday.

“And there was nothing derogatory in it, no sleight of hand, and believe me, I was listening for that,” he said, adding that Mrs. Palin referred to Mr. Obama as “our president,” with the emphasis on “our.”

Mr. Goodé, a New Yorker who said he would never vote for Mrs. Palin, said she acquitted herself well.

“They really prepared her well,” he said. “She was articulate and she held her own. I give her credit. They’ve tried to categorize her as not being bright. She’s bright.”

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  2. I’m glad this closed press event where she delivers a speech written by someone else at last establishes her as qualified to be president. What a relief!


  6. Not all reports were quite so glowing.

    From Huffington Post:

    Two US delegates left early, according to AFP, with one saying “it was awful, we couldn’t stand it any longer.”

    And from Yahoo News:

    “It was almost more of a speech promoting investment in Alaska,” he said, declining to be named.

    “As fund managers we want to hear about the United States as a whole, not just about Alaska. And she criticised Obama a lot but offered no solutions.”

    Another said he was disappointed that she took only pre-arranged questions…

    Several delegates saw the speech as a sign of her ambitions to run as a presidential candidate in 2012 and a useful indication of the potential direction of US politics in the future.

    “It was fairly right-wing populist stuff,’ one US delegate said.

    1. Another said he was disappointed that she took only pre-arranged questions…

      After Katie Couric, I don’t see how she could do anything else.

      Of course, it’s not exactly a quality you want to see in a Presidential candidate.

  7. A lot of unqualified “controversial” people are given the podium just for the entertainment value, and Palin is no different.  Since we in America have such short memories it serves as a good reminder of why not to vote Republican if nothing else, and on behalf all rational Americans our apologies to Hong Kong.

  8. You don’t go to another country, particularly one with an awful human rights record, which is our major economic and military competitor, and criticize the President. Telling the Chinese how to undermine America is treason.

    If she wants to run for President of China in 2012, I encourage her. If she tries to run in America, I think any decent person should question her loyalty. Will she take the oath of office? “I pledge to defend America from all enemies except China”?

    1. Glad to see the echo chamber is still reved up.

      This was a NYT story, not a rightwing blog story.

      The Huffington Post is about as relevant as the  Ann Coulter blog on this subject, which is to say, not at all.

      1. Did she go to Hong Kong and trash the President or not?

        Presumably there are facts that people agree to, and whether you read them on a right-wing blog or the New York Times is irrelevant to whether they’re facts or not. Or are we all just operating in our own realities?

        Consider Tom Delay’s mind BLOWN.

      2. that going to a foreign country to trash America was considered beyond the pale. This isn’t about Coulter or Huffington Post, it’s about right-wingers thinking the rules don’t apply to themselves, and it’s disgusting.

        1. Used to be taboo, until George Bush was elected, and then it was practiced regularly by the left.

          I am still against “Going to a foreign country” to trash America, that’s a crime.

          I am all for “going to any country” to trash Obama’s policy’s, that’s a patriotic duty.

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