Jeff Topping AP
Palin in Hong Kong: “We’re not interested in government fixes, we’re interested in freedom.”
Palin on China
The Wall Street Journal reports: The former vice presidential candidate understands Beijing better than the Obama Administration does.

“Sarah Palin was pounded by the media as a foreign-policy novice during last year’s presidential campaign. But when it comes to the U.S. approach toward China, she has ideas worth listening to.

“Twenty years ago, many believed that as China liberalized its economy, greater political freedom would naturally follow,” the former Alaska governor and Republican nominee for the vice presidency told a Hong Kong audience yesterday. “Unfortunately that has not come to pass…”

“…The Obama Administration could take a page from this book. So far, the White House has gone out of its way to downplay human rights in China and tiptoe around recent crackdowns in Tibet and Xinjiang, preferring to focus on hipper issues like climate change. This “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach to Beijing does no favors to the Chinese people, much less to the West’s core interests in Asia. At the same time, America’s other alliances in the region have been largely ignored.

Mrs. Palin also made a timely call against trade protectionism—an issue that will be high on the U.S.-China agenda this week at the Group of 20 meeting in Pittsburgh. She spoke up for the U.S.-South Korea free trade agreement, now stalled in the U.S. Congress. She also called the Obama Administration’s decision to slap a 35% duty on Chinese tires a “mistake,” while adding that China needed to respect intellectual property rights and “improve its rule of law.” Again, she made the connection with human-rights: “Our economic relationship will truly thrive when Chinese citizens and foreign corporations can hold the Chinese government accountable.”

Mrs. Palin’s speech will almost surely be dismissed by her critics as a scripted exercise. What we heard was a balanced and realistic view of China, founded on universal values that Westerners and Chinese alike can believe in.”

Video Responses to Palins Speech hosted on this site: Conservatives 4 Palin
Cameron Sinclair Tweeted the whole speech – apparently she took on the GOP! – Go SARAH GO!
When an administration in America is setting up a Big Brother infrastructure to keep tabs on its own people in a medical police state, why address human rights abuses in other countries? Team Obama looks to China as a “Model” for how to deal with dissidents and trouble makers.
Sarah Palin was spot on in all of her assessments in this speech, from the economy to relationships with totalitarian governments. She proposed and explained sound western principles of free markets and traditional American Values like Individual Liberty.

Video From New York Daily News
Sadly, the UN embraced a couple of murdering terrorists as a rambling 90 minute speech at yesterdays General Assembly was delivered by the murdering tyrant Moammar Kadafi and…
Evil leader Ahmadinejad in denial as he discusses ‘democratic’ Iran at UN

Iranian madman President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad served up his usually fetid mix of anti-American, anti-Israeli rhetoric at the United Nations on Wednesday night – causing a steady stream of diplomatic walkouts.

No one was at the U.S. desk when the tieless tyrant accused foreign forces of spreading “aggression, terror and intimidation” in Afghanistan and Iraq.”

Embedded video from CNN Video
Eleven Countries delegates, including the US, walked out while “I’m a nut job” was giving his speech.
and…
Libya’s Moammar Kadafi gives U.N. his opinions on Obama — and more
The Qaddafi Disaster at the United Nations, in Photos
LA Times Reports:

“Reporting from The United Nations – Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi had a lot to gripe about: He was jet-lagged. There was no comfortable place to plant his tent. Some of the diplomats on the floor of the U.N. General Assembly were distracted….”

Carolyn Cole LA Times

SNL had some fun with the speech…
But thousands of people demonstrated in New York yesterday against the two dictators welcomed with open arms by the United Nations:
Dictator Day at the United Nations (Video of protestors at the New York Daily News Link)

“A crowd of more than 200 included several relatives of the victims of the 1988 Lockerbie plane crash.

Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of carrying out the bombing – then freed on compassionate grounds by Scotland and given a hero’s welcome home by Khadafy.

“We don’t want to stay here too long,” said protester Matt Coyle of Wallingford, Conn., whose daughter Tricia was killed in the crash of Pan Am Flight 103.

“We don’t want to breathe the same air.”

In the afternoon, thousands of Iranians stretched from First to Second Aves. and more than 50 rabbis blocked traffic south of the UN to show what they thought of Ahmadinejad’s visit to the world body.

“Everyone is here to show support for the people of Iran,” said Ivan Partovi, 25, a Queens truck driver who took the day off from work.

“I have never lived in Iran,” said Abie Sayas, 27, a daughter of Iranian exiles who lives in Washington.

“But for the first time in my life, I feel like an Iranian.”

President Obama at the UN General Assembly

“In a world where scientific advances every day confirm the emerging possibility of techniques that will allow the abusive manipulation even of human perception and consciousness, the denial of a standard for justice beyond what people can, at any given moment, determine for themselves leaves open the door to abuses of the human person more thorough and unscrupulous than history has ever known before. Slyly, with a careful eye upon the outward trappings of self-evident truth, Obama and those who ultimately help to craft his rhetoric (as Bill Ayers apparently helped to craft his semi-fictional autobiography) wean humanity from its hard won acknowledgment of the substantive authority for truth that arms conscience against the depredations of those who make the claims of knowledge (scientific and otherwise) the basis for a claim to unlimited power. Their excuse for the power grab is the good of mankind, but why should we believe their motive is any different than it has ever been for those with such ambitions – the arrogant self-worship that prides itself upon making the promise of good a successful mask for evil.”

Bayefsky:

“This speech ought to send shockwaves through the United States and our European allies,” concludes Bayefsky. “We have the weakest president in modern times ensconced in Washington, a man who will run away from saying what has to be said, if it doesn’t appeal to an audience rife with demagogues.”

Victor Davis Hanson:

“The key question is at what point will the American people sense that the Obama feel-good magic comes at the expense of long-term American interests — and that making some unsavory characters like our president now, will mean only trouble ahead for the country itself and its friends abroad.”

NRO Editors:

“Underneath the vast rock-candy mountain of Obama’s insubstantial rhetoric, this was a speech that was both hard-headedly “realist” and naively utopian. “Realist” in that it sought deals with governments of all stripes by promiscuously making concessions to them while staunchly refusing to criticize their faults; utopian in that it had no additional or more persuasive strategy to advance its ambitious aims.

Uncle Sam arrived at the U.N. in penitential mode. He promised to mend his ways, to treat the other governments with proper deference, and to continue to pay everyone’s bills. He can get ovations every time with similar speeches. But he will also continue another trend that began yesterday: losing their respect.”

Krauthammer:

“This one was worse: When he [Obama] boasted about how he had reversed the course of America, and those who doubt our character should look at our actions, among the actions he cited was our joining the U.N. Human Rights Council, which is led by the worst human rights violators on the planet. It is an Orwellian, farcical organization. The idea that we should be on it is regrettable, but the idea that we should be boasting about it as an American achievement is a scandal.”

Bolton:

Also noteworthy, Bolton says, was how Obama highlighted “just how much of American foreign policy that he wants to run through the U.N.”

“Usually presidential speeches at the U.N. are ‘state of the world’ addresses. Obama’s speech was filled with talk about U.N. bodies, U.N. treaties, and sending Secretary of State Clinton to a conference on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which would be an incredible waste of time for her. The president’s speech showed a fascination with U.N.-centric issues. Obama talked about getting past ‘balance of power’ politics. He talked about the interests that unite us rather than divide us.”

Bolton’s conclusion: “It was all extremely naïve. The president did everything he could to say: ‘Can’t we all just get along?’”

Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.

Sheesh!
And finally a slide show of Despotic Housewives from Fox News…. All five of them seem really sweet…

“Zimbabwe’s first lady Grace Mugabe also holds the title of ‘first shopper’ — ‘Gucci Grace’ — infamous for going on shopping sprees reportedly paid for through slush funds totaling millions of dollars. But don’t cross Grace. Bobby Mugabe’s second wife — who formerly held the titles of secretary and mistress — also has a temper, displayed earlier this year when she pounded a Times of London photog — with a Jimmy Choo-style bag and a fist full of diamonds.”

For an example of a great political speech, please review Sarah Palins Speech from the RNC. I wish she had made her Hong Kong Speech available to us here at home,