Fancy Pageant Talkin’ With Miss Wasilla
At an annual conference of global investors in Hong Kong, Sarah “Barracuda” Palin was (allegedly) paid more to give one address than the average family earns in several years.
At an annual conference of global investors in Hong Kong, Sarah “Barracuda” Palin was (allegedly) paid more to give one address than the average family earns in several years.
What the f#%*!?
Alaska’s “Runaway Governess” used this opportunity — one most thinking folks would consider golden — not to throw open doors to understanding and extend olive branches of friendship, instead, she turned it into a campaign speech for her already-failed bid for the presidency in 2012.
The woman gives being clueless a bad rap.
At the outset of her diatribe to a gaggle of high-fliers from the worldwide investment community, (how on gawd’s green and blue planet was she even allowed in that room other than to clean tables and mop the floor?), the former Miss Everything-She-Ever-Got-Involved-In claimed that she was going to “share… candidly a view right from Main Street — Main Street U.S.A.”
So, the secessionist’s wife would speak for all Americans about life in these United States — as she sees it from a semi-isolated state perched atop the Northwest Territories of Canada — while being put up in luxury accommodations and getting a single-appearance fee large enough to buy herself a second airplane.
You see, with two planes, the great huntress won’t have to wait for Todd to return from the Iditarod when she wants to fly off and slaughter defenseless denizens of the wild from above.
(Does anyone remember why Native Americans hated the Iron Horse so much? It was because privileged sleazebags from the East slaughtered buffalo indiscriminately from the relative comfort and safety of passing trains.)
“Bible Spice”* blamed the economic disaster on “government interference,” when the reality is we’ve languished in a two decade governmental policy of eyes shut.
*I can’t take credit for this descriptor, but I wish I had. I read it in an uncredited comment somewhere, and have been anxiously waiting for an opportunity to use it.
According to Mrs. Palin, she praised the Gospel of Economics according to Saint Ronnie Reagan, and — get this — even invoked the name of former British PM Margaret Thatcher.
Mrs. Thatcher? Indeed.
Just how thick is Alaska’s “Quitter-In-Chief?”
The elimination of “government interference” into commerce and industry was the brainchild (if such a thing was possible) of Saint Ronnie.
Throughout the Reagan-era, bankruptcies and corporate failures ran rampant; massive deregulation of virtually everything during his tenure is the major reason why so many corporations, banks and media sources grew to gargantuan proportions, gaining enough muscle to thumb their noses at Government while raping the American people.
The overall effect was to eliminate any choice whatsoever for the individual, and crush smaller businesses.
In the view of the ex-guv, “the U.S. economy would roar back to life” with the elimination of capital gains and estate taxes on top of further tax cuts.
Even after these policies have proven to be failures of the highest magnitude, this vacuous waste of oxygen lauds the very administration that began this snowballing turdstorm as having the right idea.
Ms. Sarah attacked the administration of President Barack Obama, inheritor of the worst financial mess since the Great Depression, by referring to his campaign promises as “nebulous” (does she even know the definition of the word?), and “utopian sounding.”
Well, I’ve always figured that a positive outlook trumps hate and derision every time, especially when the negativity is only speculative and accusatory, incapable of being backed up with no basis in fact.
Numerous attendees were less than impressed with what could best be labeled as a political speech, hoisting high the Righties’ mantra while minimizing Centrists and demeaning those on the Left.
By offering her opinion on China’s internal struggles — “China lacks mechanisms to deal with regional issues” — stating that the U.S. will help China find its future (we’re all about promoting freedom, you betcha), Sarah left little doubt that her acumen of serious issues, both nationally and worldwide, is severely limited at best.
With true self-righteous Christian zealotry, this painfully maladroit basketballer- turned- sportscaster goes to Hong Kong and regurgitates how it’s up to the 233-year-old new kid to show the 5,000-year-old nation, that’s something like 10 times our size, how to live.
Can you say “hubris?”
While none of those offering comments would share their identities with interviewers, one was quoted thusly by Agence France-Presse (AFP, an independent international news organization): “As fund managers we want to hear about the United States as a whole, not just about Alaska. And she criticized Obama a lot but offered no solutions.”
Sounds an awful lot like what we heard from August until November of 2008.
It was noted by some in attendance that this warm-up campaign address by a veritable amateur was politely received, yet marked by general disinterest.
Two members of the U.S. delegation were so disgusted they walked out early in her diatribe.
It kind of makes one wonder how she went over with any Russians that may have been present.
I’d like to know how many conference-goers demanded their money back.
So, Sarah, tell us — What are you doin’, pallin’ around with Commies?
Shalom.
(Erstwhile Philosopher and former Educator Jerry Tenuto is a veteran who survived, somewhat emotionally intact, seven years in the U.S. Army. Despite a penchant for late-night revelry, he managed to earn BS and MA Degrees in Communications from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. On advice from a therapist, he continues to bang out his weekly “Out Of The Blue” feature in The Lone Star Iconoclast — providing much-needed catharsis. Jerry is also licensed to perform marriage ceremonies in 45 states.)
