Clinton has decided that the invitation to Sarah Palin made the event too "partisan". (Oddly, when she was the only politician of note to agree to attend the rally, it was not "partisan", but adding a Republican to the event made it so.) I would think that having both Clinton and Pally at an event, in fact, makes it bipartisan, not partisan. That Clinton would put petty political differences above the need to present a united front by Americans against Iran's genocidal threats against the state of Israel is unconscionable.
This comes at the heels of the SNL season-opening sketch where sitcom star of 30 Rock and Sarah Palin lookalike Tina Fey joined Amy Poehler, playing Hillary Clinton in a bipartisan spoof. The very opening exchange had Amy noting that she was told that she would be making a solo appearance. How ironic that Hillary would decide to put the skit, in particular the opening exchange, on its head in real life...
On a side note, I did not like the way that the skit was made to portray Sarah Palin look like an airhead based on the condescending, gotcha interview by ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson--in particular, a now infamous line of quizzing her on the "Bush Doctrine". When she asked a clarification of the question, Gibson curtly responded to the effect, "What do you think it is?" Several conservatives, including the respected columnist George Will, said they would have also asked for clarification. (There are several variations--one being fighting terrorism by establishing democracy, another being a state sponsoring terrorism (e.g., the Afghan Taliban protecting Osama bin Laden) is considered to be itself a terrorist state, and the one apparently Gibson was referring to, namely proactive self-defense by a preemptive strike against terrorists.) The skit has Poehler talking about diplomacy vs. the Bush doctrine, at which point Tina Fey interjects a nervous laugh saying she doesn't know what that is. This is essentially a liberal smear that conservatives do not believe in diplomacy, are ill-informed and will use military force hastily and unnecessarily.
