DISQUS

Ducktape · 3 months ago

This conference has a history of having some fairly bizarre speakers, for the humor value, I suppose. I guess Tillyosu wasn't available to explain his economic theories, so they had to settle for Sarah. AP said that one European had said she was "brilliant" but they didn't translate that from the Brit, lol! Not always the American meaning.

FunMe · 3 months ago

She might be speaking to an educated crowd, but who was so stupid to invite her?

Or should I ask who is sleeping with her?

nicho · 3 months ago

Oh, she is being shopped around. They don't care that more than a few people walked out on her. The propaganda channels will use this appearance to combat any claims that she has no foreign policy experience.

It's particularly hilarious to hear her praising Reaganism and Thatcherism at a time when the US and the UK are in economic turmoil because of the idiotic corporatist policies of Ronnie and Maggie.

This is just part of the program to prep her for a run in 2012.

hrh · 3 months ago

Did her word salad come before or after the eggrolls?

TrappedinaRedState · 3 months ago

They got what they paid for. Surely they must have known what an intellectual lightweight she was when they hired her.

bluebear · 3 months ago

I assume she will get the "Dixie Chicks" treatment from Conservatives for speaking out against the President "on foreign soil"?

KerrynowCampau · 3 months ago

Two US delegates left early, with one saying "it was awful, we couldn't stand it any longer". He declined to be identified.

http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/09/delegates-walk...

henrythefifth · 3 months ago

Palin's feeble mind cannot differentiate the vast differences between countries and political systems.

nicho · 3 months ago

The words "Sarah Palin" and "realize" really shouldn't be used in the same sentence. The woman is unaware. She is more of a blank slate than Bush was. Bush had some kind of an agenda -- as sick and twisted as it was. Palin just wants to be important, but has no agenda beyond that. She will say whatever someone scrawls on her cue cards without knowing what the words mean.

mardod · 3 months ago

Hey, don't be so hard on Palin. This has got to be the first invite in awhile that she accepted and actually showed up to. That takes courage, or tenacity, or ya know, something.

samiinh · 3 months ago

Did she know she was in China? Communist China? Can you see it from Alaska?

Butch1 · 3 months ago

She wouldn't know anymore. I think she's been residing in the lower 48 for awhile.

Tillyosu · 3 months ago

Wow, if "Chris in Paris" doesn't understand the federal government's central role in the financial crisis (you know, that thing that caused the recession), then he should stick to harping about gay rights, and leave the business issues to serious people...like Sarah Palin

mr_ed · 3 months ago

A:She is a bumpkin
B:Lack of regulation caused the mess

Butch1 · 3 months ago

Gee wiz, that's a tough question, but, I think I'm leaning towards answer A.

Dave of the Jungle · 3 months ago

The Alaska Dingbat rides again.

williambanzai7 · 3 months ago

HONG KONG NUT HOUSE WARDEN
(Hong Kong Garden, Siouxsee and the Banshees)
WilliamBanzai7

Hair brained nitwit flying here
Spreading necon garbage everywhere
Heaps of GOP brain disease
While the trailer trash population feeds
That junky GOP mama floats on polluted political water
An old custom to sell your daughter
Letterman you like number 23?
Leave your yens on the counter please
Hong kong nut house warden

Tourists swarm to see her face
A CLSA meeting is a puzzling place
Disoriented she enters in
Unleashing scents of wild moose and gin

Slanted eyes meet a troublesome surprise
A political gal with brains smalleer than dim sum size
"Oh, have some Chicken chow mein and chop suey guys"
Hong kong nut house warden puuuuulllease take her away
Hong kong nut house warden

Kuda99 · 3 months ago

You can make a pretty good case for government interference and many are starting to do as much.

About 30% of the MBC on books of were overvalued but were thought to be safe because they were backed by the Federal Goverment. Many of that portion were low interest loans that banks had to make due to the congress and the executive branch's increased pressure to enforce a law the went back to the Jimmy Carter 70's--community reinvesmtent act. Additional pressure came from regualtory agencies that could block financial companies ability to grow by stalling licenses and permits.
Both parties had a hand in this but one got blamed more that the other because they were in power during last 12 years.

When the ecomomy slowed, as usually happens after a boom, the low cost loans were defauled upon and the MBS not only lost value but worse--could not be valued because the good debt was packaged with the bad debt.

The fed also had a role when they kept intrest rates artifically low and overight was completely lacking. This was likely because the best finacial talant works on Wall Street and nerds go to work in study hall--just like high school.

The Financial companies got thier goverment guarantee--either party would have eventually passed some version of the Tarp bill --but it came at a hell of a cost.

Foreign goverments that though they were buying safe real estate securities got burned worse than our banks.

Blamming it on greed is like blaming plane crashes on gravity--greed goes back to BC and it is always with us.

The lack of regulation argument ignores that fact that There are 15 cabinet departments, nine of which control various aspects of the U.S. economy. None of these went away when republicans took congress in 1994.

Some have pointed to to the repeal of Glass Steagall Act --another bi-partisan bill signed by Clinton but the more serious falilures occured in the brokerage houses--it was Lehman that "broke the bank".



My guess is that is what Sarah Baracuda was alluding to.