According to the News Agency Who Shall Not Be Named, Hillary Clinton was scheduled to take part in a protest organized by several American Jewish groups to decry a visit by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the UN.
According to her spokesperson, Clinton declined attending when she heard that Sarah Palin was also attending.
“Her attendance was news to us, and this was never billed to us as a partisan political event,” said Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines. “Sen. Clinton will therefore not be attending.”
What?
an adherent or supporter of a person, group, party, or cause, esp. a person who shows a biased, emotional allegiance.
Since when did an event become partisan simply because there are people of different political perspectives attending it?
I’m pretty sure there are Republicans, Democrats and Agnostics like myself at the Club when I run each day. Does that make my run a partisan event?
The only partisanship I could see in the protest is that the people there should be “emotionally biased” and be “supporters of a cause” that supports a non nuclear Iran or human rights in Iran or (and this is really going out on the partisan ledge) the right for Israel to exist!
In late October, 2002 Paul Wellstone, one of Minnesota’s Senators, was killed in a plane crash. His memorial service became a tasteless, partisan event. There is no doubt that the way some Democrats politicized that event allowed Norm Coleman to be elected to the Senate.
I don’t know that Hillary’s exit from this protest rises to the level of the Wellstone memorial. However, I’ve rarely seen a more partisanally calculated response than her refusal to participate and denounce the positions of someone who openly supports genocide.
I don’t disagree with you, but his eventual opponent was not much of a threat either.
By the way, and I’m sure this is not the first time, but having to type in gopackgo is sports coersion at it’s worst, I hope the Jets go to the Super Bowl!
It’s not like Sarah would have shown up wearing the same outfit as Hillary…