Clinton blindsided by scheduled event with Palin

[tannybogus]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has canceled an appearance at a New York rally next week after organizers blindsided her by inviting Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, aides to the senator said Tuesday.

Several American Jewish groups plan a major rally outside the United Nations on Sept. 22 to protest against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Organizers said Tuesday that both Clinton, who nearly won the Democratic nomination for president, and Palin, Republican candidate John McCain's running mate, are expected to attend.

That would have set up a closely scrutinized and potentially explosive pairing in the midst of a presidential campaign, one in which the New York senator is campaigning for Democratic nominee Barack Obama while Palin actively courts disappointed Clinton supporters.

Clinton aides were furious. They first learned of the plan to have both Clinton and Palin appear when informed by reporters.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jVDdTXyizJSZq-zJ6D2Az16gjBiQD9387F000

Oooops! She's mad now! Poke her some more, and see what happens.:popcorn:

[terrya]

1. Talk about an SNL skit made real.

Didn't I see something like this last Saturday night?

[meowomon]

2. Truth is stranger than fiction

[pnutbutr]

3. why cancel

the visit? Why would Clinton allow Palin's presence prevent her from attending something she obviously found important enough to schedule?

[cali]

4. because it'd become a political sideshow

and it would pit her and failin' palin against Obama. This is politics, you know.

[pnutbutr]

5. allow

only if she allowed it to degrade into that instead of staying on message related to venue topic.

[Minimus]

6. Since when does the media stay on topic?

[cali]

9. bzzzzt. wrong. you don't know much about the MSM, do you?

Aside from that, the protest is a foolish and sickening event. It simply strives to up the ante with Iran. Something we should not be doing. We should be talking with Iran. And Ahmadinejad, repulsive as he is, is simply a figurehead. I'm sick to death of the mindless rush toward war with Iran. Fuck all those enabling it.

[pnutbutr]

11. MSM

Has nothing to do with what Clinton says. The MSM can do whatever it wants to politicise the two at the same place but as long as Clinton stays on topic there is no real story there. It's important to address Iran and for Clinton to provide us her views and what she thinks needs to happen. To cancel over something as trivial as Palin being there is in my opinion pretty lame.

[cali]

13. codswallop.

and just how do you think we should address Iran? Go to war? What is the point of protesting Ahmadinejad going to the U.N.? Is Iran a member of that body? Why yes, it is. Now please tell us what you think we should do about Iran?

Oh, and with your suggestion that FEMA be privatized and your comments in this thread, I can't help but wonder if you have any liberal tenets at all.

[pnutbutr]

14. not my place

to say what we should do but dialogue is a good start. That is something Clinton could address if she attended.

I suggested privatization tongue in cheek because of the current government mismanagement. I'm sure it will improve under new management.

[cali]

15. the people sponsoring this shit don't want dialogue.

[pnutbutr]

16. all the more reason

for Clinton to get up and speak out for it at an event like this. A lone dissenting opinion at this event would be huge. Stand up and speak out.

[cali]

17. ridiculous. she can speak out- and be heard- without tacitly endorsing

a warmongering agenda. Good for her for stepping back on this- whatever her reasons for doing so.

[pnutbutr]

18. different opinions

:toast:

[Heather MC]

7. Clinton doesn't want to appear to have anything in common w/ little Ms. "In what respect Charlie?"

If Hillary wants to ever appear in public with palin, it should be on her terms. Not when she is tricked, and discovers it through Media coverage.

And Appearance like that, would get the idiot M$M's happily off focus and they would spend 3 or 4 days comparing Clinton's shoes to Palin's shoes, and what Palin wore vs what Clinton wore

IF this story is true, she made the right call
IMO

[blm]

21. Except the part where Clinton had earlier ACCEPTED when asked to appear. She would have shown up

for these war against Iran mongers because she believes in it, just like her Kyl-Lieberman vote.

The biggest part of the story that people are missing is that Hillary and Palin share the same views on Iraq and Iran, and if HRC hadn't been forced through the Dem primary vote system last year, she would be sounding more like Lieberman today - she's been putting on an act over Iraq since she began her primary race. Gullible Dems believed she actually did change.

[Heather MC]

22. "Gullible Dems believed she actually did change"

Not ME!

[yellowwood]

8. What was Hillary doing there?

Clinton and Palin aren't so different after all. It's all this "macho" bravado that made me so glad that Hillary did not become our candidate. This confrontational attitude is not what I want in a candidate. I'm embarrassed that she ever intended to go to such a rally in the first place.
Bush began his Presidency with his "axis of evil" speech, setting up a potential conflict. Look where it's gotten us.

[PVnRT]

10. Oh, shit. It's on now.

Hillary Clinton ain't nothin' to fuck with.

[jovi]

12. Is Palin attending so she can say she has foreign affairs

experience now? I am glad Hillary is not attending. If they are to meet it should be on different grounds under different circumstances.

[Generic Other]

19. Cutesy little trick on Palin's part

Clinton draws a crowd so Palin can try and sway them! Those people are sick.

[MiniMe]

20. Hillary should bring Tina Fey with her.