Sarah Palin a HUGE success at the CLSA in Hong Kong

According to Market Watch Sarah palin addressed a packed ballroom of mostly high-flying fund managers at a five-star hotel in Hong Kong Wednesday -- on issues ranging from the Alaskan fishing industry to the financial crisis to Sino-U.S. relations.

The investors forum CLSA told reporters that Sarah Palin was without a doubt the much awaited speaker at the convention. The press were barred from her event and the reports of her attendance and segments of her speech are gleamed from different news sources. Here are some snippets:
"I'm going to call it like I see it and I will share with you candidly a view right from Main Street, Main Street U.S.A.,'' Palin was cited as saying by the Associated Press, which said it had seen a video recording of part of the speech.

"And how perhaps my view of Main Street ... how that affects you and your business," Palin's speech reportedly continued.

"We got into this mess because of government interference in the first place," The Wall Street Journal reported Palin as saying, citing a recording of the speech

European newspapers were also all praise for her performance. "She was brilliant," said a European delegate. "She said America was spending a lot of money and it was a temporary solution. Normal people are having to pay more and more but things don't get better. The rich will leave the country and the poor will get poorer.
She described her political philosophy as a "common-sense conservatism," and said the free-market policies of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher should be guides for how to get out of the current economic situation. "Liberalism holds that there is no human problem that government can't fix if only the right people are put in charge," she said.

Bloomberg had the following:“It was a great speech,” Jonathan Slone, CLSA’s chief executive officer, said. “People got a lot of information” and “are now fully informed on Sarah Palin’s views.”
Palin criticized Obama’s plan to give the Fed powers to monitor risks to the financial system. A meltdown last year led to $1.6 trillion of bank losses and writedowns and triggered a global recession.
“How can we think that setting up the Fed as monitor of systemic risk in the financial sector will result in meaningful reform,” she said. “The words ‘fox’ and ‘henhouse’ come to mind.”

The First Post, UK had the following to report:
Tweets from audience members during her speech said she warned against a "one-nation Asia", stressed the importance of multipolarity in the region, and said: "We hope for China to rise responsibly."

She even touched on human rights, explaining that the US was concerned by China's support for repressive regimes, such as those in Sudan and Zimbabwe, and reportedly mentioned Tibet, Burma and North Korea as places where China should be more sensitive.

Palin did not abandon her folksy roots altogether - she introduced her speech as "a view right from Main Street, Main Street USA," and portrayed herself as "a commonsense conservative", name-checking Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher along the way.
It would seem she has come a long way in a year.