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Palin Addresses Hong Kong Forum

ORG XMIT: XKC803 In this photo released by brokerage and investment group CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, CLSA CEO Jonathan Slone, left, speaks as former U.S. vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin listens during the 16th annual CLSA Investors' Forum in Hong Kong Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009. Palin, criticized for her lack of foreign policy experience, was emerging in Asia on Wednesday to give a speech that could boost her credentials for a possible bid for the presidency in 2012. (AP Photo/CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, Jeff Topping) ** NO SALES NO ARCHIVES ** (Jeff Topping / The Spokesman-Review)
ORG XMIT: XKC803 In this photo released by brokerage and investment group CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, CLSA CEO Jonathan Slone, left, speaks as former U.S. vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin listens during the 16th annual CLSA Investors' Forum in Hong Kong Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009. Palin, criticized for her lack of foreign policy experience, was emerging in Asia on Wednesday to give a speech that could boost her credentials for a possible bid for the presidency in 2012. (AP Photo/CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, Jeff Topping) ** NO SALES NO ARCHIVES ** (Jeff Topping / The Spokesman-Review)

CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets CEO Jonathan Slone, left, speaks as former U.S. vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin listens during the 16th annual CLSA Investors' Forum in Hong Kong Wednesday. Palin, criticized for her lack of foreign policy experience, was emerging in Asia on Wednesday to give a speech that could boost her credentials for a possible bid for the presidency in 2012. In her first speech outside of North America, Palin slammed President Obama's spending here. (AP Photo/CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, Jeff Topping)

Question: Is Palin's speech in Hong Kong the best indication yet that she plans to seek the presidency in 2012?



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D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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