Sarah Palin’s ”attendance was news to us, and this was never billed to us as a partisan political event. Senator Clinton will therefore not be attending.” This from Hillary Clinton’s spokesman Philippe Reines, as to why the New York senator suddenly cancelled her participation in an anti-Ahmadinejad rally planned in New York next week. According to reports, Clinton canceled after learning that Palin was invited to speak there as well.

Reines’ phrasing is a little weird. Given the fact that the majority of American Jews support the Democrats, and especially Hillary Clinton, over the McCain-Palin ticket, and given that the sponsoring organizations are central to the Jewish establishment–including the United Jewish Communities and the Council of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations –it is hard to imagine anything more “partisan” than a rally at which Clinton speaks but Palin does not, as was the original plan. Sounds like the organizers, if anything, were trying to balance the roster a bit by inviting Palin.

The result of her cancellation will, one imagines, be a much more partisan event–in favor of the Republican ticket. Am I missing something?

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