Different Visions

Sarah Palin's speech in Asia and Obama's speech to the U.N. could not have been more different.

Palin's speech was about the strength of our nation, and Obama's speech was about how he makes our country so much better.

Interesting commentary n Obama's speech:

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

Nile Gardiner: "Overall this was a staggeringly naïve speech by President Obama, with Woodstock-style utterances like “I will not waver in my pursuit of peace” or “the interests of peoples and nations are shared.” All that was missing was a conga of hippies dancing through the aisles with a rousing rendition of “Kumbaya."

Michael Barone: "But on foreign policy as his record emerges -- as he reverses himself on missile defense and perhaps on Afghanistan -- his motivating principle seems rooted in an analysis, common in his formative university years, that America has too often been on the side of the bad guys. The response has been to disrespect those who have been our friends and to bow to our enemies."

Here are some important excerpts from Sarah Palin's speech.

Some interesting commentary on Palin's speech:

Doug A. Coulter, head of private equity in the Asia-Pacific region for LGT Capital Partners: "The speech was wide-ranging, very balanced, and she beat all expectations,”

Rich Lowry: "Palin is an authentic, powerful voice of the populist right and in the speech she implicitly connects its call for limited government and sensible fiscal policy with America's role as a world power. Palin can play a very important role in channeling the inchoate populist anger out there in a responsible direction, which makes it all the more important that she engage on the issues in a serious way and avoid rhetorical over-kill. The speech, judging from what we've seen of it so far, is a big step in the right direction."