Palin disinvited from Iran rally

[cali]

The organizers of an anti-Iran rally Monday rescinded their invitation to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin after Democrats protested that her presence would turn the event into a political rally, McCain campaign and Jewish community sources said.

The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations created a political tempest by inviting Palin to speak without clearing her invitation with another speaker, Senator Hillary Clinton. Clinton promptly dropped out of the event, saying it would be seen as unduly political. The McCain campaign then pressed Senator Barack Obama to join Palin on the stage in a show of unity against Iran.

The Obama campaign in turn offered to send Congressman Robert Wexler of Florida -- who had harshly attacked Palin for slender ties to Pat Buchanan-- to the event.

But the appearance that the non-partisan group was aligning with the Republican ticket put the group and its president, Malcolm Hoenlein, under heavy pressure from Jewish Democrats, including members of the conference, members of Congress, and the liberal group J Street, not to give Palin a platform, sources said. Hoenlein told the McCain campaign that he would have to rescind Palin's invitation or cancel the rally.

The organizers, I'm told, have formally disinvited all elected and political officials, but the move was about Palin.

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Palin_disinvited_from_Iran_rally.html

[anonymous171]

1. lol Palin ruined everything

:rofl:

[cali]

6. even funnier is the freeper thread on it

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085303/posts

[Psst_Im_Not_Here]

15. Bwahahaha! It's all the damned liberals fault!

Um hello? This is a conservative Jewish group, right?

Eeewww, now I have to clear my history, temp. internet files, run a virus scan and my anti-spyware to get the slime off my hard drive from that place. My poor, poor, laptop!

[polichick]

2. Lol - nobody wants to be in her presence.

[yourguide]

3. bwaaaaaaaahahahahaha!

lolz cats

[Thrill]

4. Thats hillarious

[RagAss]

5. This says a lot.

The Democrats voice was respected here.

[1corona4u]

7. Ooohhh...she is so loved...

NOT. :-) I wonder if it also had anything to do with the push polling the Jewish have been getting lately too? I heard Debbi Wasserman Schultz saying they weren't buying it, and were very angry about it.

[David Zephyr]

8. Hillary knew exactly what to do and did it. Good for her.

And good for Obama's campaign follow up.

[ljm2002]

9. The way I see it...

...neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama was going to play into the notion that Sarah Palin is somehow on an equal footing with them. And they are both so, so right to take that position.

It was a slimy trick by McCain to try and give her a little "stature" that would rub off from being at at event where she was positioned on a par with her betters.

Ha ha, Sarah, you lose again.

[ljm2002]

10. Self delete / Dup... n/t

[nc4bo]

11. Priceless. nt

[JuniperLea]

12. No cat fight!

Nothing to see here... move along.

:rofl:

[butterfly77]

13. These people are really desperate..

to get Hillary or Barack on stage with palin and what do they expect from it?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. So it's got nothing to do with her anti-semitism?

Can we confirm that?

[theothersnippywshrub]

16. She could have explained about God punishing the Jews for not accepting Jesus as the Son of God.

I'm not sure whether Palin believes in Supply Side Jesus or just the regular vengeful and hateful republican Jesus, but I don't think it affects her explanation of God's current punishment of the Jews.

[Cha]

17. Yea Jewish Democrats!

put that in your pipe mccain.