According to Hillary Clinton's new book she was asked by the Obama campaign to weigh in on Sarah Palin in 2008 and she refused. Oh really? Update!

Courtesy of US News: 

Clinton also says she declined a request by the Obama campaign to attack Sarah Palin during the heat of the 2008 presidential contest, an anecdote that could resonate with women beyond Clinton’s Democratic base. 

“After Palin was selected to be John McCain's running mate in 2008, Clinton wrote, "[The Obama camp] immediately issued a dismissive statement and reached out to me in hopes I would follow suit. But I wouldn't. I was not going to attack Palin just for being a woman appealing for support from other women. I didn't think it made political sense, and it didn't feel right. So I said no..."

Okay look I remember that there was more than a little tension between Hillary and Obama in 2008, after he defeated her for the nomination, but that does not really excuse this in my opinion.

Sarah Palin went around the country inciting racism, spreading lies, and agitating the the most ignorant right wing fringes in the country. If Hillary could have put a stop to that back in 2008, it would have been her patriotic duty to do so.

And she would not have had to "attack" Palin, all she would have had to do is to state that the idea that those who supported her would support ANY candidate just because they were female demonstrates how little the Republican party understands, and respects the voters in this country.

After such a statement the press would have been all over it and it might have gone a long way to minimizing the long lasting damage that Palin and her puppet masters have managed to cause in this country since 2008.

You know I support Hillary for a presidential run in 2016, she is clearly the best candidate available, however sometimes I just wish she wasn't so coldly calculating in everything that she does.

Kind of disappointed by this.

Update:  For those who are uncertain that the Obama campaign asked Hillary to weigh in, or that she refused to do so, the story is given some more credibility by a New York Times article from September 4, 2008 entitled "Obama Camp Turns to Clinton to Counter Palin."

Here is the pertinent portion:  

Senator Barack Obama will increasingly lean on prominent Democratic women to undercut Gov. Sarah Palin and Senator John McCain, dispatching Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to Florida on Monday and bolstering his plan to deploy female surrogates to battleground states, Obama advisers said Thursday.

The article goes on to say that Clinton herself had some previous commitments and would not be available to act as a surrogate, which in her book she suggests might have simply been an excuse.

It must be remember that this was the day after Palin's speech at the Republican convention, which impressed almost everybody.

It makes sense that the Obama administration was taken a little off guard and searching for some way to interrupt the momentum that the McCain campaign enjoyed immediately following her introduction.

In fact it was this rush to figure out Palin's strengths ans weaknesses that drove people to the Alaska blogs in droves. Most people, including the Obama administration, had no fucking idea who this person was.

But we did.

And we knew she was a flash in the pan and would wither under increased scrutiny,

However Hillary did not know that, and I think she really should have provided more assistance to our future President. Besides if she had undermined Palin  back then it might have saved all of us a lot of headaches these past five and half years.