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Ever since Barack Obama beat her to become the Democratic nominee, Clinton said she will do what it takes to help him win in November. I don’t think for a second Hillary is going to allow Sarah Palin to become the first female Vice-President.

Vanquished primary candidates usually go home to rest and ponder the high points and lows of their failed effort. Clinton, in contrast, raised more than $4 million for the Obama campaign and repeatedly urged her supporters to campaign for Obama and contribute to his cause. She hosted a reception in Denver for 250 of her donors and is scheduled to be in Chicago tonight for another fund-raising event. She has another fund-raising event scheduled for Sept. 22 in New York City, with the goal of raising $500,000.

In fact, Hillary’s advisors told the New York Times she would do everything she can to contribute.

Mrs. Clinton’s friends said she was galled that Ms. Palin might try to capitalize on a movement that Mrs. Clinton built among women in the primaries. Guy Cecil, the former political director of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, said it was “insulting” for Republicans to compare Ms. Palin to Mrs. Clinton.

He was very outspoken about Sarah Palin’s inexperience for Vice-President.

Mr. Cecil said he believed that the McCain-Palin ticket might initially intrigue some Clinton supporters, but that they would ultimately choose Mr. Obama. “It is insulting to compare Hillary’s lifetime of service and her commitment to progressive causes with that of a novice, right-wing governor,” Mr. Cecil said.

Hillary Clinton is going to fulfill her role, by holding rallies in the major battleground states of Ohio, Florida and New Hampshire. She is going to let her supporters know in her “unique personal way” that the McCain-Palin ticket is wrong for them.

As she said in Denver, “I haven’t spent the past 35 years in the trenches advocating for children, campaigning for universal healthcare, helping parents balance work and family and fighting for women’s rights at home and around the world, to see another Republican in the White House squander the promise of our country and the hopes of our people.” This presidential campaign isn’t about the “Mommy Wars.” It’s about preemptive war. If Palin needs a refresher course on the “Bush Doctrine” and its consequences in Iraq and elsewhere around the world, Clinton has the benefit of hindsight to make it, woman-to-woman.

They need Hillary to point out that Palin is the wrong woman with the wrong agenda. She will not further the cause on the issues that the Hillary supporters want; Palin will undo all the progress we have made on social issues in this country. I’m really proud of Hillary going out there and letting them know that Obama’s policies are the change this country needs to move forward. Obama also needs her to repeat often what she said to her supporters in Denver: “I want you to ask yourselves: Were you in this campaign just for me?”