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What in the world does she have to say to anyone ? Certainly she will know little about investment banking, the economies of the world or anything else of any substance! She will simply embarrass herself and the US, I believe. I doubt she will take the time to learn anything about Hong Kong and its history so what in the world does she have to say that anyone cares to hear?

I'd like to never read about her again.

Tomorrow they will be saying she never confirmed it

You gotta be kidding ?????? She is probably trying to build her defense fund, if this is true.

Does this mean she'll be "Palin" around with communists?

Wow, so based on her criteria of education and world knowledge...ANYONE can speak at this thing. She has NOTHING to contribute to anything....what is this fascination of an uneducated, unskilled and moronic woman to the uneducated, unskilled moronic right?

What in the world would she have to contribute at a brokerage conference in Hong Kong? She won't have a room full of slack jaw cross burners to whip up into a bigoted frenzy. Her new set of handlers had better prepare her well.

Great, now she can embarrass us abroad in person.

I guess she's going to show the Chinese how to make Alaskan style Chicken wings....

She's ready to cash in and make money and this is a no-brainer (excuse the pun).

If Mitt Romney buys her a new wardrobe and throws in a few million more as pocket change, she'll stand aside for him in 2012. That would be the best use for Romney's millions, since she would destroy him with the republican "base", no matter what he spends on advertising, since the republican "base" is now borderline insane.

Why is this news? Who cares what she does. She'll only make a fool of herself at the investor conference!

HAHAHA! Maybe she can move to Hong Kong and run for office! Nah, they surely won't be able to understand her!

Some poor Chinese tranlator is going to be responsible for taking the words that come out of her mouth and have it make sense to the Chinese people when it doesn't make doesn't even make sense to the majority of her fellow Americans. Good luck with that

Now that she's made her first trip there she'll bill herself as an expert on the Orient.

Can we make it a one way trip?

She wants the international stage not just here in America where she shuns her own party invites weekly. What in the heck would these people want to hear from her? I'm sure she is being asked purely as a novelty. I hope CNN reports their reaction to her magnificent oratory abilities.

I wouldn't be suprised if she didn't bother to show up. If the reports that I've read about her behaviors are actually true, I would consider her commitments tentative at best.

It would be intersting howerver to hear her views on global economic polices. I hope she is up for the challenge. I would suggest a top notch speech writter for this conference, no point in embarbarrassing yourself.

Apparently she has trouble speaking to Americans. Is it that we ask to many questions or don't take her word as the truth and look to verify it? I guess there was less of a scheduling problem because of the greater time difference.

Good. She should stay there. She would make a much better Chinese sex-slave than an American politician. Or, perhaps they asked her to speak because the conference really does need some comic relief.

What could anyone even learn from this DIMWIT?

Away to go Sarah.

When will this dimm whit go away?

And to think, there were some people prepared to put this snowbilly grifter and professional quitter a heartbeat away from the Presidency!

Mistake #1: Letting Sarah Palin out of the country, where she might give the impression that the rest of us are like her, or even tolerant of her nonsense.

Mistake #2: Letting Sarah Palin speak in public, when she still cannot string together a coherent sentence, still cant account for her public behavior, and still thinks that she has a future in national politics.

Mistake #3: Covering yet another trivial detail of Sarah Palin's daily doings.

Sarah Palin still has no idea that her nomination was a political attempt to 'Jump the shark', based not on some strong resume involving statesmanship and understanding of the issues, but on her ability to be photogenic and 'invigorate a younger generation of the right wing'. All this goes over her hear and she instead harbors significant delusions of adaquacy.

>sigh< Will she ever just go away?

Can't she just stay there?

..And PLEASE don't come back Sarah!

Obviously they brought Palin in for comic relief. There is no possible way they could be taking this dimwit seriously.

Why would you want this Fascist, right wing whacko, religious zealot to speak anywhere let alone a conference?

Palin...Palling around with communist CEOs... Pew – Pew – Pew!

Bravo Sarah!

Who in their right mind would invite a quitter to address a heavy hitter investors conference?? It's no wonder the world is so screwed up!! These people don't have the brains that they were born with.

Lets ask them to keep her for good. That would be good riddance.

She can see Hong Kong from her house too, but that is a different window. She cannot remember doing anything significant.

Hong Kong-based brokerage firm CLSA..... ?????

I am sure is a Useless and Defunct Orgainzation, because it is inviting Bogus and Dull Headed People like Palin......

Any Body who Invites Palin for Speaking Something Sensible, Is probably mistaken.

Talking Sensible – Not Palin.
Talking Logical – Not Palin.
Talking Prudently – Not Palin.

Well !! If they are inviting her for some amusement and non-sense talking. They have the right person – Palin.

I guess its fair play. They sent us poisoned food so they get her in return. I think we got the better deal with the poisoned food.

Why do they want Sarah........she is clearly out of her league.

Oh please, Sarah, don't you dare to embarass us in Hongkong. With your stupid brain, I don't think you can score a point there.

Can she see Hong Kong from her house in AK???????

What will she be speaking about? Her vast knowledge on Geopolitics and Global business, or the intricacies of being Governor of Alaska? I'd love to be there for this upcoming foot in mouth session. Any bets that she is unaware that Hong Kong is now part of China?

Let's hope it's a one way ticket.

God bless Hong Kong denizens, if those Chinese, in there, believe in Almighty!

Let us all just hope that they keep her. The only thing that she has invested in is herself. If she wants to speak with the other speakers, rest assured she will really look and sound stupid next to them. Then maybe we won't have to listen to her. Once again everything is just about her. Hard for me to believe someone would pay her to speak. Anyway, that is just something I think is funny.

Then why does she keep saying she's going to 'King Kong' ?

Slow boat to...

Way to go Sarah, show them how the voters missed out on your vice presidency bid.

Please, oh pretty please, will the good folks of Hong Kong promise to keep her? We're done with her over here, you betcha.

Sounds like a fun gig...how much are they paying her? I wanna run for VP and then even if I lose I can go on a speaking tour to cool places.

It is always very interesting to me to seen lots of medicore politicians (both Republicans or Democrats) with no business experience or success get invited to speak to business leaders. What a waste of shareholders money....I don't want to just pick on Palin here because I feel the same way everytime I hear Al Gore or Jimmy Carter speaks for big cash at a business event to.

If she is going to China this could be good for Alaskans and the US. They might keep her at least until they can figure out the content of the text of her speech after a 15 or 20 speech in short incomplete phrases. This could take years. THe Hong Kong brokerage firm of CLSA might want to check everyday with Palin and all her people to confirm and re-confirm that she is going to speak to them otherwise they may find themselves holding the "Green Tea Bag".

Go Sarah!

What's the significance of this?

Great photo of Sarah Palin. Lucky her if she is telling the truth about her husband.

Why? Why? Why? Keep her there!

I'll bet Sara will speak on "HOW TO SEE RUSSIA FROM HONG KONG"!!! And in the alternative - SARA WON'T SHOW UP!!!! One way or the other, it's plain and simple - MONEY WASTED!!!

Please stay there!

can she see Hong Kong from Alaska? If not that could be a problem

This is truly hard to believe. Sarah Palin speaking anywhere following the likes of Bill Clinton and Alan Greenspan.. Now I know she's nuts. This is a personality , good looking but with so little brain power as to make herself a joke. This person has NO intellectual curiosity, little real knowledge and makes up half of what she says. I resent her as a representative of the U.S. any time and any place.

"The former governor's spokesman was not immediately available to confirm the speaking engagment..."

What is the over / under at that she pulls out...again?

CLSA appeared firm in their plans Monday, telling reporters that Palin is making her first trip to Asia. "As the first female governor of Alaska and the youngest person ever elected governor of that state, Palin has broken new ground in U.S. politics and we are delighted that she will make her first visit to Asia to present at the CLSA Investors' Forum," CLSA chairman Jonathan Sloane said in a statement.

Hey, CLSA she is no longer the Governor of Alaska remember she is a quit.

Will all of the Palinistas who cried foul when she was accused by her ex-future-son-in-law of quitting her elected office in order to cash in please apologize now? Hmmmmm?

Maybe she's there to sell polar bear body parts to Chinese apothacaries...you betcha!

How do you say " you betcha!" in Mandarin Chinese?

Wonder if she will actually show up or will she have another scheduling conflict?

How do you say "Thanks, but no thanks" in Chinese?

I hope they open the floor up for questions so Sarah can fall flat on her face again.

Apparently they wanted a person who was equally qualified to advise prospective investors and to be vice-president.

She would be a perfect advisor on how to quit in the middle of ping pong games and Olympic events.She can invite the Chinese to come to Alaska to slaughter polar bears and harp seal pups...

Why would "financial heavy-hitters" have any interest in anything Sarah has to say? To begin with, no one can ever decipher what she is trying to say. And Hong Kong? She probably can't find H.K. on a map even if you spot her Southeast Asia. "Wasn't there a movie about the King of Hong Kong?" "No Sarah, King Kong was a big monkey".

Please, please CNN. Whether she is going to Hong Kong (for what, I wonder?) or Timbuktu on the CONTINENT of Africa, does the American population have to know? Odds are, she will screw up her calendar again and say she never agreed to go!

Her speech should consist of ALL the reasons why not to follow the GOP playbook.

Oh My Gosh!!!!! I "betcha" she will advise all of them to just quit!!!!

Okay fellow Americans now we should be scared. She has a speaking engagement in HONG KONG??? Does she know she will have to travel outside of the country?

Please stay there, Sarah.

I am SO lost for words, LOL

She will do fine (will a script). If they don't ask her any impromptu questions, she will be okay.

When she go to Hong Kong ,she needs to stay their . He is a women that her own party don't respect her.

Preston kathy i believe sara palin will speck all over the world to make money for the gop thats why she quit being governon of alaska

Hmmmm – will she be asked follow-up questions? Or just memorize a speech written by someone that did NOT leave their own home town in bankruptcy?

Palin can travel the world twenty times over and she stil would not be a viable presidential candidate

Another Rush Limbaugh making the big time.

Time for more publicity stunts now that she's bailed on her commitment to Alaska's voters? In future versions of the Thesaurus, under "Narcissism" it will say "see Palin".

She's going to Hong Kong to see Russia!

Amazing another Palin story. Thanks you CNN for following her EVERY move. Amazing journalism. NOT.

C'mon give the old girl a break would ya!

Why this obsession with a car-wreck? I understand we all rubberneck to get a view, but is it healthy?

And I gotta say, is she really in Hong Kong or is she looking at it from her backyard? You know I am an expert Hockey player – no I never played but I could see Madison Square Garden from my house. Yep.

Is CLSA sure? With all the mis-communication with her offices lately, she'll probably be a no-show, lol.

I see this sleaze-ball is working to sell us out to China along with her neocon scuz-bag buddies.

Hopefully she will trip herself up with her trademark stupidity.

can she stay there?

Well with any luck they'll have a translator who will hopefully avert an international incident when Flailin Quittin Palin inevitably inserts her foot in her mouth as is her custom. Hopefully she won't call anyone a "Red Commie". We can only pray.

I pray that she finds a good spot to relax and stays.

Cha-ching! Thanks for the money, Hong Kong!
Regards,
Sarah

Maybe she'll stay there.

Wonder how much money this group will be paying her to speak. Beaucoup de bucks, I bet.

We know she can !

God help us. It's hard to contain ignorance and greed!

The former governor's spokesman was not immediately available to confirm the speaking engagment, which was announced in a press release Monday by CLSA. Palin's team hasn't always been on the same page as event organizers who have billed her as as a headline speaker. Over the last four months, organizers at conservative events in Alaska and in Washington, D.C. have announced appearances by the GOP star, only to discover at the last minute she would not attend.

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Here we go again!

Who cares??????? Stop writing about, she is not important.

Can't really be mad at 'em – everyone loves comedy. Anyway, perhaps travel will expand that pea-brain.

I think it will be good for her to go! She needs to realize that Politics is not her calling in this lifetime. Maybe the Asian's will understand her incoherent ramblings better than the American's.

Sarah need to shoot for something differentely than speaking engagements. However, she will not go if the ghost writer is as clueless as she is on the subject matter.

...go Sarah.....love her!

Can she stay THERE ?

I think the article should be titled: Ding Dong to Hong Kong.

I guest on the day she is suppose to speak she is going to cancel and say she didn't it was not on her calendar.

Sorry, meant a governor who left her state in shambles.
Heaven forbid she would ever become a senator.

Again, the DEMOCRAT who is in charge of writing our nations tax laws yet again is caught CHEATING on his taxes, but yet we get NOTHING in the MSM on him, but Palin is going on a trip and giving a speech, BIG STORY.

Charley Rangel is under indictment and just the other day discovered a few million more dollars that he ooopsy, failed to report, like he forgot his condos, vacation rentals, etc, etc.

Maybe he should keep his cash in the freezer like Jefferson or hang around with the right people like Richardson who got away with it the other day as well as even the prosecuter said he was "pressured" to make the case go away and that doesn't mean Richardson was NOT guilty.

My bad they have a (D) next to their name and we NEED MORE PALIN STORIES.........................

Dear Sarah,

You don't have to go to Asia because you can already it on the map.Therefore you already know so much about the place.

Can we keep her there?

I'd hate to be that translator.

I wonder if she'll have scheduling conflicts for this one like she has for a lot of the others she's had to cancel out of?

Wow, awesome. And she won't even have to use an interpreter because everything she says makes about as much sense to most English-speaking people as the Chinese language does anyway!!

Hopefully she'll stay there.

Actually, Palin's first trip to Asia was when she's visited the Alaskan National Guard in Kuwait.

How are they going to understand her English, when Americans can't?

I'm sure there will be some kind of scheduling problem and she won't show up. If she does show up, those translators are going to earn their money translating her gibberish.

I bet that within a few days of the conference, Palin will claim she didn't know anything about it and didn't commit.

The Chinese Investors are definitely not interested in her business strategies....They want something pretty to look at and shes qualified for that....

Keep her.

Obviously she there for pure entertainment. No one can possibly take her seriously.

I hope that her idiot thinking and that schrill of a voice gets her in hot water with the chinese , then they could take her to the Great Wall of China and put her out of her devisive misery.......OMG , what could she possibly talk about with her fifth grade education !!

The CLSA hired her as a hostess, who they thought would bringing Salmon from Alaska for their dinners. Jonathon Sloane probably believes that he'll get some booty from with the invitation. What's that fishy smell.......

You have to be kidding???????

Sarah Palin has over one thousand speaking requests. It's highly doubtful she'll make them all though it proves one major point... she is immensely popular. Go Sarah 2012!!

Will she show up, or will there be another "scheduling conflict"?

OMG.
A senator who quit and left her state in shambles. An illiterate on economy, foreign affairs etc. What were they thinking of?
Just hope they realize this woman does not represent the United
States, the citizens or any intelligent view.

Milk these 15 minutes for all you can, Sarah. Since abandoning your office, it's probably all you are going to get.

Maybe, just maybe she'll have a crowd that can understand what the hell she's saying. I pity the poor translator.

The things we export!!

What would this ticker be without the daily Sarah Palin story to raise the ire of the left-wing hatemongers? Keep it up, CNN....you are making her a hero to mainstream America.

Who is this woman and why is she relevant?

She can speak on how much she loves Chinese take out and how the Chinese own America as she does here....and make sure she quits in the middle of the speech....

Democrats and the MSM don't like her because she so effectively insulted the One during her Republican convention speach. They can't believe she had the gaul to call Obama out on the carpet like she did. She of little experience, had far more experience than Obama, and therefore had the credibility to call him out on his lack of experience and rightfully pointed out the MSM's complicity in the whole deal.

And low and behold, she was right on both counts. That's why you hate her.

Did CLSA do any research before asking Palin to speak????
They must be really desperate for a speaker.

Gee I didn't know that the Hong Kong Group would be interested in gutting a moose.

But who knows maybe she's gonna tell the group about carving up Whale Blubber.

One thing for sure it will be all Blubbering from Ms Blubber-Mouth herself !!!

"Palin's joining some esteemed company: past speakers at the conference have included Bill Clinton, Alan Greenspan, Al Gore and Desmond Tutu."
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I guess they want to know what NOT to do. Look at the other names, people that didn't quit their cause or job. People that stayed through the length of their terms and THEN went into public speaking. People that raised families, dealt with media...but still found the ability to go to work with out quiting.

Obviously they want to know how the other half lives for a change. Hence, here comes Sarah. Hope she makes it actually...that would be a big thing...for her to actually show up once in her lifetime.

Here is a person who does ot like socialism speaking i a communist nation. She is a liar and loser. I guess it is okay to pal around with communist.

Thank god for a Palin story on the ticker, I was about to start thinking about the failures of the Obama administration and his plumeting approval ratings. Now, thankfully, I can focus on a non-elected public citizen instead of all the problems our country faces.

Thanks CNN, I don't know where we'd be without you!

ps. and ifin we had palin as our comandeer in chef we wud be glory to god almoghty in the highest!

We all eagerly await the forthcoming cancellation announcement.

Guess Palin has been laughed out,uninvited to speak for, any further engagements in the US and now takes the only thing left–speaking out of country.....Maybe there will be someone in attendace who she plans on teaching her "fuzzy math" to.

Sure hope the CLSA does't hold their collective breath waiting for her to "show"!

Love this woman. Go, Sarah – show them your business and foreign policy chops (so they stop falling back on stupid jokes based on Tina Fey's impersonations of you.)

Palin 2012.

...you are joking right? who gives a rat's donkey's rear end!

Let her go – her speech writer better make sure she doesn't give an interview afterwards b/c she will definitely go off script and ramble the jibberish that we have gotten accustomed to hearing with a belly laugh.

She definitely has an ego problem and doesn't seem to understand we are laughing at her stupidity. They can have the beauty queen but please keep the mic from her b/c she will need an out of space speech interrupter

CLSA must really be paying her the big bucks for her team not to announce of a mix up in scheduling.

Sarah, when you return could you let us know if you can see Russia from Hong Kong?

Please stop covering this woman. I so tired of hearing about her.

Odds are flakey Sarah Palin will be a no-show once again. She's a nut.

Her father knew she was wrtitng her book when she asked him to send her a new box of crayons...................

Can they keep her? Sure would be nice.

CNN your kidding

Palin is no longer a candidate and is no longer a governor. Why does the media insist on this type of coverage rather than really analyze the Obamacare proposals, or Holders political use of the Justice Department, or Rangel's latest ethical lapse?

She probably won't show up. Or maybe she'll quit right in the middle of the speech. You never know.

Ugh, could she STAY in Hong Kong?

Hong Kong please remember not to ask her any difficult questions – we know she can't answer them. Ok having said that please also remember she does not represent America or Americans so do not base your assumptions about us by listenning to this pathetic woman.

CLSA is smart for getting Sarah booked now. She's going to be very busy and impossible to schedule between 2012 and 2020! You will have to contact her then in Washington DC.

First, very glad she is not coming to New Hampshire anytime soon. Our state likes to stay clean. Secondly, I think the CLSA is desperate for a speaker to try to get her! What a joke to have Sarah Palin go to a coference where she'll have to talk about investments. Frankly, we know she'll be talking about the only investment she cares about: herself.

Hope they learn something or something new from this idiot. Now we know where her heart is and they in not the USA.

Looks likes she wants to become the leader of the "Global Corporate Fascist Party".I think they just want some eyecandy to give some Rush Limbaugh talking points.

Isn't China a communist country? If she's so tough on so-called 'socialism', then what's she doing there?

In honor of our military, I hope for once she will tell the truth, and not make anything up.

Country first!

Please, send her "on a sloooooooooooooooooooow boat to China !"

THIS IS A LAUGH! i can't believe she's brazen enough to make such a laughing fool of herself at something like this.i sure hope it is played on CNN. what a laugh this will be.

Is she gonna rail against them for being communists?

This is a joke, right?