This is a significant story, but of course the media won't make an issue out of it.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com:80/0908/hillary_backs_out.php3
Was SNL hilarity too much for Hillary?
By Craig Gordon
After learning Palin would be attending bi-partisan, anti-Iran rally, defeated presidential candidate quickly backs out
Dems dissing the Jews?
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | (MCT) Hillary Rodham Clinton dropped out of an anti-Iran rally at the United Nations Monday, but Sarah Palin will be there — meeting with overseas leaders.
Republican John McCain's campaign confirmed his running mate Palin will attend the rally — and chided Clinton for dropping out of an event designed to show U.S. opposition to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
"Governor Palin believes that the danger of a nuclear Iran is greater than party or politics," said spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt. "She hopes that all parties can rally together in opposition to this grave threat."
Clinton backed out of the Monday rally at the United Nations after her staff said she got sandbagged by the organizers, who never told her Palin was invited to attend the event as well.
"Her attendance was news to us, and this was never billed to us as a partisan political event. Senator Clinton will therefore not be attending," said Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines.
Even organizers admitted Wednesday they probably didn't think through the political implications of giving a platform to Palin or that Clinton's camp would see it as violating the nonpartisan spirit of the event.
"We did not see that coming, but that may be right, and that's our mistake," said Haina Just, a media adviser to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, one of several Jewish groups sponsoring the rally.
For her part, Clinton has avoided confronting Palin directly — in effect, aiming not to make real their fictional joint appearance on last week's "Saturday Night Live."
Instead, she'll keep her campaigning for Obama strictly focused on attacking McCain — a strategy agreed on by both the Obama and Clinton camps, as a way to avoid the distraction of a Clinton-Palin standoff, one Clinton source said.
McCain's campaign offered no details of Palin's activities Monday in New York, or which foreign leaders she would meet.
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