Oy, a Debate McCain Really Wants to Have? Posted by Adam Blickstein

The McCain campaign, via Michael Goldfarb, put out a statement today eviscerating Hilary Clinton's decision to pull out of next week's rally protesting Iran's nuclear program--meant to coincide with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech at the United Nation's General Assembly--because it basically became a partisan political event with the belated addition of Sarah Palin. According to the McCain campaign:

"Earlier this week Governor Palin accepted an invitation to join Hillary Clinton in speaking to a nonpartisan rally organized by groups dedicated to halting Iran's nuclear program. Senator Clinton has since withdrawn from the engagement, presumably at the behest of the Obama campaign, and according to news reports Senator Obama's campaign may be leaning on organizers to disinvite Governor Palin as well lest the rally appear partisan.

This issue is too important to fall victim to partisan politics. Instead of pressuring Senator Clinton to withdraw and pressuring the event's organizers to disinvite Governor Palin, we hope Senator Obama will consider lending his own voice to this cause. And if Senator subsequently wishes to clarify any remarks that might be misconstrued, he will have the opportunity to meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad without preconditions after he speaks at the UN the following day. After all, the last time Senator Obama took the stage to address a nonpartisan, pro-Israel audience, his call for Jerusalem to remain the "undivided" capital of a Jewish state was easily clarified the next day."

Besides the ridiculousness of trying to fit 80 hollow attacks into a single statement, and the fact that McCain is now to the right of Henry Kissinger and James Baker on the issue of diplomacy with Iran, is this really a fight the McCain camp wants to have?  Attacking Obama is one thing (even if the attacks display as much muscle as my Jewish grandma trying to single-handedly hoist my Bar Mitzvah chair during Hava Nagilah) but if they want to wade into pitting Hillary Clinton against Sarah Palin on the issue of Iran, amongst the New York Jewish community nonetheless, then this is a fight that Democrats should embrace.  Palin's non-existant experience and questionable rhetoric on the foreign policy front already puts her at a disadvantage, but couple that with an existential warriness of Palin in the Jewish community due to her connections to Jews for Jesus and Pat Buchanan, it really makes you question the logic of them wading into this territory. Oh, and apparently Palin's "first meeting with some key Jewish leaders in the US didn't go so well." The wisdom of McCain's campaign jumping on this on both the national security front and the Jewish constituent front are laughable at best. I, for one, think Hillary should challenge Palin to a debate, perhaps a town-hall discussion sponsored by various Jewish organizations, to discuss the current situation in Iran and how it will effect both America's and Israel's security. Of course, telemprompters and talking points excluded. And what is the perception of the Palin pick in Israel? Haaretz's Senior Editor Bradley Burston offered this astute observation:

"This would never have happened in Israel, ever" remarked a journalist friend, referring to the choice of Governor Palin, whose credentials in the realms of foreign policy, statecraft and the military are limited in the extreme.
 
With irony bordering on the painful, the journalist added, "Sarah Palin has restored my faith in Israel."

Comments

[John B.]

Bravo, Hillary! This was supposed to be a non-partisan protest. The McCain campaign deliberately turned it into a campaign event when it decided to send Palin. Hillary decided she wanted no part in that and I commend her for it.

McCain's tactics are, us usual, despicable.

[Peace]

Considering the poor state of the economy, and how unpopular the war in Iraq is right now, I really don't why McCain would think that a confrontation with Iran would be popular with the American people.

[David Tomlin]

"first meeting with some key Jewish leaders in the US didn't go so well."

How did it not go well? The linked article doesn't say.

[Joe McJew]

Hmmm, so you like Iran? How about we quit sending money to the Jew portion of Arabia? Hmmm, yeah how about that?

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