New York, NY – The first political event to feature both Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sarah Palin will now have neither.
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Organizers of a rally next week in New York City against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced today that no politicians will appear at the event.
The collection of American Jewish groups putting the rally together angered Clinton aides by not telling them ahead of time that they also planned to have Palin, the Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate.
Clinton backed out Tuesday, as soon as she learned of the pairing.
Organizers said in a statement that they would have no “American political personalities” at the rally to keep the focus on Iranian threats.
This is disgraceful on the part of the organizers of the event. There is no reason to diminish the importance of the event with having high profile individuals because of the crying of one person. If Hillary Clinton or any other politician cannot come together with others from opposing parties in the name of national security, then they truly did not deserve to be our president. Thank g-d the voters got it right.
This is a shame. They have turned an event that potentially could have drawn 100,000 people to a non-event, from national news to barely worthy of MAD magazine.
YOU SHOULD BE VERY VERY VERY ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES!!!!!!!
I too will not be attending the rally, if we cant stand up to the bullying Hillary, then there is no way we can stand up to ahmadinejad!
I guess the liberal blackmailing worked this time.
they are stupid as stupid can be it would of been a hit now count on your fingers how many peaple will show up 25 loosers silly
Neturi Karta will be there
now i see its on fox that she was dis invited this will be abig chilel hashme and anger lots of peaple its a real stupidmove its called the jewish guilt we should not look like we rae taking a side no brains unfortunaly thats hwy sometimes we as jews cannot get a real big protest togther all is politics untill now it did not look like politicts everyboidy was invited and now that you disinvite a big popualr canditate that will make it look very not good
this had nothing to do with hillary. sotp blaming her. she didnt want it to be political so she chose to back out. she didnt dmeand that palin bakc out too. the rally organizers decided to make thid about iran not about the politicians speaking. good for them.
kudos to malcolm for doing the right thing.
why would anyone who was planning to go not go now because they are not going to speak? you want entertianment or you want to protest? plenty of ppl were still going wieh hilllary was to speak and palin was only coming since 2-3 days ago so who decided to go just cuz of her? whoever did is a loser. who ever chooses not to go now just because she isnt is a loser.
if yiddent want entertainment watch a movie. if you honestly care about protesting ahmedinjad then come to the rally on monday.
FOR crying out loud eli wiesel is going to speak there. ELI WIESEL he is not enough of a celebrity for you???
If Palin will be there so will I but no Palin no me
This smells so Clintonesque its sickening and I am sure there was a Clinton behind this. On the other hand this means that Bloomie & Chuckie S. Schumer wont be there either!
no palin, no Tina
If Obama and McCain can appear at the same event, why can’t Hillary do the same and be sensitive to the rally organizers. Granted that the organizers should have given her a heads-up, it’s no excuse to sabotage the rally.
Guy & Tina:
Were youp lannign to attend two days ago before they announced she was gonna be there?
This only proves that you dont care about protesting ahmedinejad. why would you not go just because she wont be speaking?
and yes what aobut the perosn who pointed out that ELI WIESEL a holocaust survivor nobel rpize winning writer shall be speaking there – who ebtter for us to hear form than he? he isnt good enough for you?
if thats your feelings then who the heck needs you therer anyways? you might as well stand with the neturei karta
the organizers are supposedly fighting against antisemitism but are creating more of their own. both democrats and republicans are mad about what they did
Some of you are act more like partisan Americans than as the concerned Yidden you should be – Iran is a life or death issue for Eretz Yisroel . . . not a campaign issue to be exploited in election season.
ESTHER AND MORDECHAI TREATED THE KING OF PERSIA
WITH GREAT RESPECT. HOW CAN ORTHODOX JEWISH GROUPS DEMOSTRATE AGAINST SUCH A POWERFUL MAN . IS THIS OUR MESORAH WHILST IN EXILE. DOES EVERYONE REALIZE THERE ARE 25000 JEWS LIVING IN IRAN ? ARE THESE GROUPS THERE TO PROTECT THEM ? WE ARE NOT JDL . WE ARE NOT IDF . WE ARE ONE LAMB AMOUGST 70 WOLVES AND OUR MESORA IS TO FOLLOW YAKOVS FOOTSTEPS . SEE RAMBAN IN VAYISLACH .
the organizers were fine having the local poltiicians and really screwed things up by calling a campaign and inviting palin. now they are paying the prices for their stupidity
shame shame hillary shame shame hillary
It is curious that all of you who do not think this is a big deal also do not know how to spell. Unfortunately, it is indicative of american voters, unintelligent and uninformed. The point of a rally is to get the biggest turnout possible, no matter why people come. People means influence. With palin, they would have gotten the people, guaranteed to make headlines across the world – and the wolrd would know it was an anti-iran nuke rally.
So go continue spewing your irrational and naïve opinions and when we really want an opinion, we will give it to you.
to alienate Palin and supporters from the jewish cause is to destroy the last hope of Ahamadinajad being stopped. who if not Palin and her party are we hoping will stand stong against iran? Obama?!?! I could cry.
What a disgusting shanda and chillul Hashem. I am writing the “Conference of Presidents” to let them know what a terrible, terrible mistake they have made.
What the hell have the Clintons ever done for Israel? Besides invite the worlds most known terrorist ARAFT into the white house.
SHAME ON YOU HILLARY. SEEMS YOU CANT EVEN STAND UP TO PALIN LET ALONE Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO IT YOU PUT POLITICS BEFORE EVERYTHING. AS USUAL DEMOCRATS HAVE ZERO CORE VALUES
It is vital for the interests of the Jewish commu nity and Israel that “leaders” avoid politicizing activities that have historically been scrupulously non-partisan. It is far too easy to confuse one’s own personal selfish interests with the needs of the community.
we have lost our sense of right and wrong.
shame on us.
Stupid move by the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations (can they make their stupid name any longer?). Who do these people think they are? Shumer is a disgrace as is Clinton.
McCain and Obama can be together on 9/11, but Hillary cannot be with Sarah?? She is an embarassment.
No Palin No Me!!!
quick question,
if this has nothing to do with hillary and all to do with not having “American political personalities” why where they invited lchatchila??????????
stop blaming hillary foer hoenleins mistake
the moment they announced palin was coming it went from being an anti iranian nuke rally into a media circus about tina fey.
dont kid youselves. this development is better forthe cause. no politics is better than circus politics
6:52,
that just menas the rally isnt important to you. otherwise youd still go.
you might as well go dance with the neturei karta.
Unbelievable, I do not think that I will be going either now. This is a disgrace, if clinton cannot face up to Sarah Palin and her popularity, her problem, this was a big mistake for these organizations to make. Shame on them
malcolm honlien is a disgrace and should resign immedietly for not having the courage to stand up to the barack hussien obama and hillary kiss arafat clinton
finally you have a chance for a leading figure to speak who may actually bring worldwide publicity for the cause and focus attention oniran and honlien wimps out
jewish leadership is so far down the tubes its shameful
by the way are you aware honlien gets paid over 280 k
Israle Lover, it was the bush admin who has weakened israel the last 8 years no hillary clinton. it is condi rice who hugs abbas every month. leanr some history and current events before spewing your ignorance
Protest rallies are meaningless forum’s for political ads and empty promises.
That’s the truth in one sentence. The rally will effect nothing nor will palins appearance or the lack there of.
this had nothing to do with hillary “facing” palin this had to do with the organizers turning the rally intyo a poltiical circus adn a media frenzy over jewish votes a month before the election
It is better this way. A protest has no “power” — it can only project an image. Does anyone here really think it would have been productive to the cause of stopping Iran to have this event look like a Republican partisan show? … I didn’t think so. Unless your “cause” is just getting Republicans in the media rather than actual results.
Democrat politicians and political groups put a great deal of pressure on the organizers of the rally to dis-invite Gov. Palin.
It is disgusting for three reasons;
A. Democrats in New York have been successful in destroying our constitutional right to FREEDOM of SPEECH and EXPRESSION.
B. Democrats in NY have taken what could have been a strong national bipartisan statement and killed it DEAD
C. A group of so called community leaders have no spine and are more concerned with their photo-op than the issues confronting America and the Jewish people they claim to represent
This IS all about Hillary their Queen – if NY doesn’t start to vote Republican we will become a much poorest state – financially and morally.
no no no
you dont get it. you beleive wehat you want to beleive without seeing the bigger picture.
palin should never have been invited period.
i would have liked to go listen to palin. i suppose i now have different plans for that day.
What would Palin do the play stump the candidate?This woman is not ready to be on the world stage.
I was planning to go, well before Palin was invited. When I heard that she’d been invited, that was just a bonus to make sure that I’d carry through with my plan. But now I see that they’re willing to lose the people who would have come to hear Palin, I figure why do they need me there? They obviously don’t care about getting numbers, or about drawing attention to the danger from Iran, so why should I shlep there myself? I’m not going.
a bunch of idiots. palin would’ve attracted a HUGE crowd.
hillary wouldn’t of attracted anyone, especially in new york bec she’s old news & well known already there.
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Very bad PR for the Jews. Maybe the agudah knew what they were doing when they told us not to go to the Washington rally because the organizers were not to be trusted to do the right thing.
. I wonder how much funding Hillary and her Democratic cohorts threatened to take away from these organizations if Palin wasn’t disinvited.
To all these machers thats all that counts.
Many of you just don’t get it;
Palin and Clinton and other big names can get serious TV and Cable and Internet publicity – eg more than 10 seconds.
Elie Weisel is great but not going to get air time with the super liberal NY media.
Palin by herself could get the publicity generated but Conf of Pres is a chicken-s organization with no balls.
If it isn’t on world wide media it didn’t happen.
I hope this explains PR and World politics to you.
“Democrats in New York have been successful in destroying our constitutional right to FREEDOM of SPEECH and EXPRESSION. ”
That is nonsense, and you know it. You are perfectly free to organize your own rally and invite Gov. Palin to speak. (It does seem that hearing Gov. Palin rather than protesting the Iranian rasha was the main interest of many commenters here.)
It’s pretty apparent that the organizers of the event are partisan. Once Hillary jumped, they didn’t want to be associated with the Republicans. I assume Palin was a veiled attempt at show non-partisism. The organizers need a history lesson which will confirm that the Republicans are the staunchest supporters of the Jewish cause. They blew it! Let’s hope that if the Republicans get into the White House, they don’t hold a grudge. If the Democrats get in, and if Hillary is any example, I pity Israel since Hillary’s actions demonstrate a clear disinterest in the Jewish cause when it doesn’t cooincide with personal aspirations.
How come every time someone disagrees with the right-wing belligerent shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later approach, they trot out the holocaust accusations? I come from a family of survivors, and I find it completely disgusting.
Disgraceful… shame on the liberals.
Censorship is always ok when practiced by the left.
Why don’t you “Anonymous” folk have the minimal guts of posting at least with a nom de guerre? Fraidy Cat Big Mouths