Petty Palin's Pity Party (or) No Soup For You!!!

Obama seems to be developing quite the dinner-party circuit these days.

Next week, he's hosting some big names - including John McCain - but guess who isn't coming to dinner:

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.

More here at Mother Jones.


To me, this isn't suprising in the least.

Palin doesn't play well with other unless she is the center of attention. But, that is also a double-edged sword. the attention has to be the attention that she craves.
And, the folks at HotAir are happy to offer extra-value-meal portions of that with a side of "we're not sure we like McCain anymore" for dessert:

Palin not invited to Obama dinner for McCain?

Her spokesman claims he doesn’t know if she was or not, but come on.

While the predictable hue and cry from the far-right that this is another in a line of moments that somehow prove that people are "afraid" of Palin is beyond laughable, I find even more hilarity in the fact that they honestly believe that she should be invited to, well, "everything".

That moment election night when Palin was asked who she voted for and said that it was her "right to keep it a secret" keeps coming back to me. Within the context of this dinner, the damning effect of that statement still rings true.

I'm not sure what's worse, Palin not realizing that she was nothing more than political set-dressing, or the people on the far-right that actually believe that she isn't.