Delegates walk out of Palin?s first international speech.
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 24th, 2009 4:36 am by HL
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 […]
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.’”
