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Sources: Intense Pressure Led To Palin UN Snub ["it could jeopardize their tax exempt status"]
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Posted on 09/19/2008 5:02:25 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Sources: Intense Pressure Led To Palin UN Snub CBS 2 HD Has Learned Democrats Threatened To Attack Jewish Groups' Tax Exempt Status Over VP Nominee Invite

Reporting Marcia Kramer NEW YORK (CBS) ― Hillary Clinton won't be speaking at Monday's anti-Iran rally at the United Nations -- and neither will Republican Sarah Palin or any other politicians for that matter.

The reason? A heated behind the scenes tug-of-war.

Sources tell CBS 2 HD that a decision to disinvite Palin from the high profile rally after Clinton pulled out in a huff came as the result of intense pressure from Democrats.

"This is insulting. This is embarrassing, especially to Gov. Palin, to me and I think it should be to every single New Yorker," Assemblyman Dov Hikind, D-Brooklyn, told CBS 2 HD.

Sources say the axes were out for Palin as soon as Sen. Clinton pulled out because she did not want to attend the same event as the Republican vice presidential candidate.

"I have never seen such raw emotion -- on both sides," said someone close to the situation.

(Excerpt) Read more at wcbstv.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: conference; hatinpalin; iran; of; palin; presidents; sarahnoia; snub; un
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To: teletech

Because they are masochists.


61 posted on 09/19/2008 6:00:40 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Drill HERE! Drill NOW! MORE refineries! Pay LESS!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Main Entry: ex·tort
Pronunciation: \ik-ˈstȯrt\
Function: transitive verb
Etymology: Latin extortus, past participle of
extorquēre to wrench out, extort, from ex- +
torquēre to twist — more at torture
Date: 15th century

: to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power
62 posted on 09/19/2008 6:01:56 PM PDT by Josh Painter ("I don't believe that people should be able to own guns." - Barack Obama)
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To: rbg81
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
63 posted on 09/19/2008 6:02:00 PM PDT by null and void (0bama: One year's experience. Biden: One year's experience, thirty times.)
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To: justkate
Doesn’t appear to be any Quakers, Mennonites, or Hindus on the list.

The list you have in your post refers to the organizations that are sponsoring the protest rally against Iran (to which Hillary and Sarah Palin were originally invited).

There is another event - an "interfaith" gathering, that will take place in the Grand Hyatt, to which Ahmadinejad has been invited (paid for by Obama's campaign finance chairman, Penny Pritzker). This is the event that is being sponsored by the Quakers, Mennonites, World Council of Churches, among others.

64 posted on 09/19/2008 6:03:38 PM PDT by BusterBear
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To: angelsonmyside

Just a note to everyone: remember that Malcolm is a good guy and is the one who invited Gov. Palin. He should have accepted the offer to have Wexler come in Hillary’s place and keep Palin.


65 posted on 09/19/2008 6:06:14 PM PDT by Cinnamon Girl (Welcome home, former McCain haters and rageaholics!)
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To: Sub-Driver

J-E-A-L-O-U-S. If YOU were hilllereee would you want to be on the same stage as the beautiful and distinguished Governor of Alaska...Sarah Palin????????


66 posted on 09/19/2008 6:10:30 PM PDT by cubreporter
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To: Sub-Driver

I think what we fail to realize and continually refuse to accept is that the Obama campaign will unify the nation around one enemy: Conservatives.

Obama and his most ardent supporters actually really do believe that Christian conservatives are Evil and a transcendent threat surpassing Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and Iran.

Conservatives think they are being hyperbolic but deep down accept us.

Juan Cole was being honest about Palin, He views her as worse than an Islamic radical killer. Obama would rather sit down with Ahmadinejad than Palin.

Hate is the Left’s new family value. Its what keeps them together.


67 posted on 09/19/2008 6:13:31 PM PDT by lonestar67 (Its time to withdraw from the War on Bush-- your side is hopelessly lost in a quagmire.)
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To: BusterBear

Fascinating...
so this is the “other” rally that Sarah might attend?

I have mixed feelings... World Council of Churches is way Liberal.

I hope they don’t end up ambushing her.

Or am I being too paranoid?


68 posted on 09/19/2008 6:20:00 PM PDT by justkate
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To: Woodman

No insult was intended. I was making a poor joke about Quaker Oats.


69 posted on 09/19/2008 6:52:19 PM PDT by billhilly (I was republican when republican wasn't cool. (With an apology to Barbara Mandrell.))
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To: Chaguito

He probably represents a very Orthodox Jewish district in Brooklyn.


70 posted on 09/19/2008 6:56:54 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: justkate
so this is the “other” rally that Sarah might attend?

No. There is a third rally (or protest) to take place in front of the Grand Hyatt - the object of which is to protest the Ahmadinejad dinner (the dinner sponsored by the World Council of Churches, Quakers, Mennonites, etc.). I don't know what protest rally Sarah Palin might attend - the latest I heard was that she and McCain would be attending some UN meetings (definitely not the Ahmadinejad dinner).

71 posted on 09/19/2008 7:15:52 PM PDT by BusterBear
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To: billhilly
Hey, it's not you. My modern brethren have a certain very vocal element that paint all of us in a bad light.

I can tell you a quaker story from the late 60’s that may put it in perspective. The meeting I used to attend in Eugene Oregon (a place that made Bezerkley look conservative) used to have a contingent of young men in uniform attend Sunday meetings. No one ever treated them any different than anyone else from the meeting, yet in town they were often spit upon and called baby killers.

Quakers are by nature a pacifist group, but there is no requirement to be so. If you break Quaker “doctrine”, you are generally not judged by the congregation, because we believe that is God's business in the afterlife. We very much live our lives by what our conscience tells us to do, and except that service to the country is a personal decision and not dictated by faith. Penn believed in pacifism, and the tradition has continued, but many of us accept that it may not be the only way.

72 posted on 09/19/2008 7:31:09 PM PDT by Woodman ("One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives." PW)
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To: EDINVA
I believe Dov is conservative, but not orthodox. For a liberal, he is more like Joe Lieberman than the usual foaming at the mouth leftists
73 posted on 09/19/2008 7:33:50 PM PDT by Woodman ("One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives." PW)
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To: BusterBear

Thanks so much for the info...
I’ll wait until I find out which rally she’ll be invited to & write a letter to the organizers thanking them for being
great Americans.
I’ll mail it at the same time I mail my letter to the Hyatt Corp., canceling our Hyatt Gold Passport card. :)


74 posted on 09/19/2008 7:53:14 PM PDT by justkate
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To: coalman

Especially coming from Charles Rangel. He knows about being Tax Exempt and NYC.


75 posted on 09/19/2008 8:34:43 PM PDT by ncfool (Obama --- "Jihad is the only true Muslim way")
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To: Woodman

“For a liberal, he is more like Joe Lieberman than the usual foaming at the mouth leftists.”

They are few and far between!


76 posted on 09/19/2008 9:01:45 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: hinckley buzzard

Ah, so the Quakers and the Mennonites are the ones who invited him and the Jewish groups are protesting. That makes things a lot clearer.

It is so strange to me to hear that the Mennonites have morphed into Quaker type liberals. The Mennonites that I knew in PA were plain people, dressed like the Amish, no buttons on their clothes, little white caps on the women and men wore the big black hats. The church that I grew up in was an off shoot of the Mennonites that just weren’t plain.


77 posted on 09/20/2008 9:19:54 AM PDT by Eva (CHANGE- the post modern euphemism for Marxist revolution.)
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