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Do you remember the rule that you do not criticize the U.S. or its President on foreign soil? Well, take a look at the blog at DailyKos about what Sarah Palin said to Chinese Communists in a speeach in Hong Kong:
Sarah Palin went to Chinese Hong Kong, an area run by the Chinese Communist Party, and an area with an adaptation of Britain’s dreaded “socialist medicine” to attack the President of the United States. There was a time not so long ago when politics stopped at the water’s edge; sure we’d have ferocious internal debates about foreign policy–debates which, mind you, are clearly over Sarah Palin’s head. But a politician who went overseas to attack the sitting President of the United States would rightly be seen as a disloyal idiot–the modern day version of Benedict Arnold if you will.
Just like Palin’s health care reform through the bailout plan, Palin’s speech to foreign investors was a massive failure:
“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.”
Two US delegates left early, with one saying “it was awful, we couldn’t stand it any longer”. He declined to be identified.”
Now, just consider this: Sarah Palin gave an Anti-American speech that was so dreadful that two U.S. delegates had to leave the room. I’m waiting to hear the Dixie Chicks weigh in on this matter.
No speech of Sarah Palin’s would be complete without a mind-numbing statement by Sarah revealing that she doesn’t know anything about the world, and what’s more, is so incurious that she doesn’t ask someone to look up information for her.
“We have much in common with Hong Kong. We’re both young and transient, independent and libertarian. Places that continue to show the world, the power and the resilience of the free market system at a time when too many are questioning it. So for Alaska, which is the air crossroads of the world, to this prosperous dynamic force in the world, Hong Kong, I bring good tidings, wishes for more blessing and vibrant life and even more freedom.”
She thinks that Hong Kong and the United States are both “young and transient”? Does she know what transient means, or is this a hint that Sarah is going to support the secession of states to dissolve the Union? We know where “First-Stud”, Todd, stands on this issue.
BTW, Sarah, trust me. That second sentence is not really a … sentence. That’s a sentence fragment. I’m sure if you would have typed it into a word-processor, ( you know, on a computer), it would have even suggested to you that it was not a real sentence – or at least one that you would use in public. I would put the legal pad away, and use a computer (the typewriter with the TeeVee on it) for writing. It will be better for everyone.
Now, take a look at this sentence:
“I bring good tidings, wishes for more blessing and vibrant life and even more freedom.”
I can actually picture Sarah writing that sentence:
“I bring good tidings… Hmmm. What goes after ‘good tidings’? Oh, I know! I bring good tidings of great joy… No, wait. That’s been used somewhere before.”
“I’ve got it! I bring good tidings, wishes for more blessing, and… Dang it! Oh, how about “more blessing and abundant life”? No that still isn’t it.”
“‘Vibrant life’? That’s it! I’m done. Boy that was really hard! We never had to write this kind of stuff in communicficatio…, communityica…, journalism school.”
Todd enters the room, “I don’t know, I think it’s still needs a little something.”
Sarah: “You’re right – how about ‘even more freedom’?”
Todd: Ha! You nailed it!
Sarah: “I told you not to use that word around me”.
