This report is coming from the Washington Post.
"NEW YORK -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton dropped out of a planned rally outside the United Nations next week after learning that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin would also be in the crowd protesting the appearance of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
"The rally - which includes prominent political and religious leaders, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel -- is being organized by a coalition of American Jewish organizations, under the umbrella group the National Coalition to Stop Iran Now."
Is this an attempt by the McCain campaign to increase Palin's notoriety by piggy backing on Senator Clinton's stature?
Does Governor Palin even know what's going on in Iran?
"Her attendance was news to us, and this was never billed to us as a partisan political event," Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines told the AP. "Senator Clinton will therefore not be attending."
Take it easy on me as this is my second real attempt at a diary. I do wonder what the absence of someone as skilled as Senator Clinton and the presence of someone so aloof as Governor Palin would help. It appears as though the Republicans don't care much about this rally though. As they attempted to turn this as partisan as possible.
"Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice president of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, said that Clinton accepted the invitation to the rally back in August, before Palin was part of the Republican presidential ticket. "We had approached Republican leaders because we wanted to have this event on a nonpartisan basis." The Republicans offered up Palin today, he said."
Reported by Meat Helmet's Diary of Daily Kos
