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Sarah Palin Snubbed for Obama Inaugural Dinner Honoring John McCain?

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The word is out that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will NOT be attending President-Elect Barack Obama’s dinner for GOP opponent John McCain this next week.

But, why?

On the night before Barack Obama is sworn in as the nation’s 44th President, his inaugural committee will host a series of dinners honoring public servants it deems champions of bipartisanship. To be feted are Vice President-elect Joe Biden, Colin Powell, and John McCain, whom Obama vanquished last November. At the McCain dinner, the GOP senator, who managed to suppress his bipartisan tendencies during the hard-fought 2008 campaign, will be introduced by one of his closest Senate confidants: Senator Lindsey Graham. But McCain’s No. 1 booster during the last year will not be among those hailing McCain. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, his controversial running-mate, will not attend the dinner, Bill McAllister, a Palin spokesman tells Mother Jones.

Here is the official Palin office explanation:

According to McAllister, Palin will spend next week in her home state preparing for the legislative session, which begins on Tuesday, and for her State of the State address on Thursday.

Was she even invited? “I don’t know if she was invited,” McCallister says. Don’t know? How could that be? It’s hard to miss an invitation from a presidential inauguration committee. For its part, Obama’s inaugural committee has declined to say whether an invitation was sent to Palin. Repeated phone calls to its press office produced no answer to this simple question.

So, is there still bad blood between the McCain and Palin camps of the Republican Party? Is McCain pissed off about Palin’s latest attack on her media handlers and the MSM in general. And, what about McCain’s daughter refusing to discuss Sarah Palin for the blogs?

Or is McCain just being “The Maverick,” deferring to “The One” and being politically correct while not having that bible thumper, “UNQUALIFIED” HICK around? Part of McCain’s political rehabilitation with the media and Washingtonians, perhaps?

If Palin was left off the guest list, it’s not clear whether the snub came from McCain or the Presidential Inaugural Committee. But it’s not terribly hard to imagine why she might not make the cut. There appears to be lingering bad blood between the McCain and Palin factions, over such issues as the profligate spending spree to attire the vice presidential candidate and her family (Silk boxers for the first dude?) and the McCain campaign’s botched media roll-out of Palin. The Alaska Governor still appears to be holding a grudge against the McCainiacs, as evidenced by recently released excerpts from her interview with conservative filmmaker John Ziegler, whose forthcoming documentary explores the “media malpractice” that supposedly paved the way for Obama’s election. In the interview, she lashed out at the media, but also criticized her McCain campaign handlers for allowing her to become a campaign punchline in multiple disastrous interviews with CBS News’ Katie Couric.

Flap bets it was McCain who deemed it unwise to invite Sarah Palin. After all, isn’t after “The One,” isn’t it all about McCain?


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66 Comments

  • Flap

    I am pretty much up on the news and I do not recall John McCain ever saying such a thing. I have heard him praise her on a number of occasions.

    Now anonymous McCain staffers that may be a different story.

    So, you keep looking.

  • Anna

    @ Flap I hope you dont think I’m making up a story bashing Sarah, In fact I dont believe she deserves all the crap shes been given.

  • Anna

    @ Flap I’m going to keep looking for another half and hour and I’m going to bed I will not stop until I find it. I don’t like the way he treated her and he lost and it had nothing to do with her and I really dont like the way he’s trying to make her a scapegoat.

  • Anna

    @ Flap I’m going to bed but as soon as I get home from work I’ll begin looking again, I just cant remember where I was on Youtube, just have a little faith in me I’m TRYING HARD. Good night.

  • carol ann sewepp

    What is all the flap about, anyone with half a brain can see that Sarah Palin is out of her league, can you imagine how few people would have been in Washington DC today to witness her being sworn in as VP. I cringe at the thought. We put up with George Bush, the moron for 8 looooonnnnng years. I would like to think that this new President will now have the respect of the other world leaders and help this great Nation get back on the path of truth and honesty!

  • martha white

    Your accusations are totally false about your presidetn and first lady mechelle obama.get over it like or love it who care about your slime an lies but you.you are not qualified to judge anyone but your self.the words from your mouthdefines you and only you hail to the chief president barack obama get over it

  • Zuzu

    I’m pretty sure the theme of the dinner was McCain’s history of bipartisanship in the Senate. Not his presidential campaign.

  • deb

    Sarah Palin has a great deal of work to do before she can ever be taken seriously by the “majority” of voters. Whether we admire Govenor Palin or not, it was quite clear that she was not prepared for the national spotlight. Her experience in Alaska simply did not meet the requirements for a “world” leader. I am NOT bashing Palin, I believe there is a place for her, but getting there will require determination and study on her part, not just scriped words and divisive and polarizing statements fed to her by indifferent handlers. I believe she can get there but I do not think it will be 2012. This would ultimately be a disservice to her. Best wishes to Govenor Palin and to President Obama, I pray we can all work together to make this world a kinder, gentler place.

  • el

    well of course she wasnt invited. she was filled with vitriol. even the pastor warren was more inclusive. his is a matter of his principal, as wrong as it may be, hers was filled with personal hate and malice.. she is a horrible person. filled with prejudice. .
    it is one thing to hate me for being gay.. it is quite another to hate me for being latin. one is what she can justify as choice another is what everyone will agree is my circumstance of birth.. ( both are to me but that can be left to debate. )
    what is not debatable is her hatred of non whites. and muslim americans..
    god bless our president for his inclusive nature. if you have a family of every color, and religion as he does you will know that love has no restrictions.
    shame on her for her using her faith to continue to hate.

  • bpower

    Who cares about a party??? At least someone was working this week. Way to go SARAH. SARAH is the maverick, all the rest are the same.

  • Ian Waples

    This party was a major event! I can’t think of another social event that would draw together so many important influential politicians together from both parties. Whether you be Democrat or Republican, I think we all know that if Sara Palin were invited she’d be there – she’d definitely be there. Saying that she was too busy being governor of Alaska is like saying you missed prom because you had too much homework.