Hillary has had quite the newsworthy day, and I decided to roll it all into a giant Hillary Round Up.

First up is this protest that interrupted an appearance in California.  The anti war crowd continues to make her life interesting as she continues to try and have it both ways.

Coffin Delays Clinton Fundraiser

A fundraising event for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was delayed three hours while the Sacramento County bomb squad investigated a coffin brought to the area by anti-war protesters.

Anti-war activists Virginia and Stephen Pearcy, who made headlines in February 2005 for hanging an effigy of a soldier on their Land Park area home, brought a flag-draped coffin as a protest against United States involvement in Iraq.

Shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday, the Secret Service began to conduct a sweep of the area and asked to look inside the coffin. Pearcy refused, stating that they had no probable cause to do so. This prompted the Secret Service to call in local law enforcement and a bomb squad.

Ah the sweet smell of unhinged nutroots. 

This story details just why the war vote is such an issue.

Hillary's Political Horror Story

Slowly, very slowly, Hillary Clinton's vote to invade Iraq is turning into a political horror story. It is the moldering hand of a murder victim coming out of the grave to grab her by the ankle.

Bodies would not be jumping out at the candidate of the money wing of the Democratic Party if she had only said she made a mistake in voting for the war, but she has refused to do that so often that if she did it now she would open herself up to a chorus of catcalls.

Which as we saw she is already getting...from her own supporters.

She may be concerned that a retraction will make her look weak. So her line of defense has been, "My vote was a sincere vote based on the facts and assurances that I had at the time." She says it over and over again

Ironically, that is probably the honest truth, as politically unsound as it may be.  But there are lingering questions.

The facts she had and the facts she could have had before she cast her vote for the war are two different things. We learn that from an article in The New York Times Magazine by Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr.

These two, who have made a career out of investigating Hillary, have dug up a couple of facts  the Senator is going to have a hard time ignoring. The big fact is that she had access at the time to a highly classified report, the National Intelligence Estimate, which contained authoritative doubts that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

Well yes and no, but that is another blog.

Gerth and Van Natta have established that she did not read this report. Because it was classified, senators wishing to read it had to sign in, and Hillary did not. Although one of her Democratic colleagues, Bob Graham, then chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, urged Hillary and all the other Democratic senators to read it, few did.

That does make some interesting arguments about her and other representations about the war.

Next, another old problem has returned to haunt her, that being Iowa.

Iowa Presents Problems for Clinton

Memo to Hillary Rodham Clinton: Your deputy campaign manager was right.

An internal campaign memo late last month urged the Democratic front- runner to bypass first-up and momentum-generating Iowa because of Clinton's lackluster showing despite drawing large crowds—a memo she immediately disavowed.

Yet, the reality from Des Moines to Dubuque lends credence to deputy campaign manager Mike Henry's assessment that for Clinton, Iowa is "our consistently weakest state."

Presidential rival John Edwards has capitalized on the remnants of his 2004 presidential operation in the state, the freedom to visit in the absence of a day job and a fresh populist appeal to grab the lead in recent polls.

Clinton's other top rival, Barack Obama, has drawn large crowds and hired a team of experienced organizers with a deep knowledge of Iowa's arcane caucus system. Even lesser-known candidates Bill Richardson and Chris Dodd have gained some traction with ads on Iowa television.

"If the caucuses were held today, it's fair to say she would probably not win," former state Democratic Party Chairman Gordon Fischer said. "It's going to take a tremendous amount of work to catch up—it's doable, but it's going to be difficult."

Why does it matter?  History provides the answer:

The notion of the Democratic front-runner losing Iowa would jolt the presidential race. The state's last three winners captured the Democratic nomination as Al Gore beat back Bill Bradley's strong challenge in 2000 and John Kerry saw his moribund candidacy revived after his victory in 2004.

Iowa has presented a particularly vexing challenge to the New York senator and has complicated her effort to project herself as the inevitable Democratic nominee. She trails Edwards and sometimes Obama in polls here despite her strong showing nationally and in other states, and strategists question whether she can invest the amount of time needed to overtake Edwards, who has virtually lived in Iowa since the 2004 election.

Her advisers acknowledge she would not win Iowa if the vote happened anytime soon. And anything less than victory in Iowa would undermine her greatest asset: the hard-fought perception that she is the inevitable nominee

"There is no notion of inevitability—that's not what's being projected here," said Tom Vilsack, the former Iowa governor and national co-chair of Clinton's campaign. "We understand it's a tough fight, and that it's a very competitive situation."

The campaign memo argues that winning Iowa would require a huge investment—as much as $15 million that could cripple the campaign later as it moved ahead to later states.

It may not sound like much, but that is a huge concession consider she has been considered to be the obvious candidate by many despite her whacked out beliefs, like socialism.

Speaking of that, considering how she constantly attacks rich people and is an active proponent of income redistribution, it is interesting to see that some rich people are still in her camp.  Either they are not paying attention to what she wants to do with their wealth, or they know she is just talking a good story to fool the poor masses, both of which are possible.

Buffett to host fundraiser for Hillary Clinton

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett will host a fundraising event for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in New York this month, helping her attract donors who can write four-figure checks and court fresh faces in the investing community.

An invitation for the June 26 cocktail party, whose location is still to be announced, says a limited number of tickets will go to "young Wall Street" at $500 each. Other attendees are asked to give between $1,000 and $4,600, the legal maximum.

Yes, who understands the needs of the common masses more then Hillary?  If she was really the down home girl she claims she would have this at an all you eat Buffet, not with Warren Buffett.

She has also increased her attempts to latch onto the money in the high tech industry.  Pity none of that money was spent in proof reading the decorations. 

Hillary Clinton's campaign might want to keep a dictionary handy when their candidate's out trolling for support.

The Democratic presidential hopeful pitched a technology plan to Silicon Valley executives in California Thursday, with the misspelled message, "New Jobs for Tommorrow," plastered in large white letters on a banner behind her podium.

Did the public relations goof hurt her message?

"We are clearly on common ground," said Adobe Systems Inc. CEO Bruce Chizen.

Is that an admission he cannot spell either?  Weird.

The often misspelled word didn't bother the more than 200 Silicon Valley campaign donors and voters like Chizen, who listened to Clinton's plan that would create more high-paying jobs and increase U.S. standing in technology.

Sure.  More high paying jobs she can siphon income from to give to the poor, assuming all the jobs are not sent off shore that is...I don't understand why more of these smart high tech people are not connecting dots.

Speaking of books:

Why Americans don't like Hillary Clinton

A wave of new books about Hillary Clinton casts tinder into the ongoing flames of discomfort with the New York Senator and Democratic presidential candidate.

You might suspect that damaging books about Hillary, right when the presidential campaign is getting underway, might be politically inspired. But Bay Buchanan's is the only one by a conservative author. Of the other two freshly out, one is by two New York Times reporters, and the other by Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame.

According to the reviews, we have here material to confirm a sense of this woman that already turns so many off. Cold, ruthless, manipulative, dishonest. And, for the more ideologically inclined, Buchanan's portrayal reveals a hard core left winger dressed up as a moderate for public consumption.

(cough) Socialist (cough)

The issue is who is a person -- a candidate -- today. And the fact is that candidate Clinton is quite forthcoming about who she is. It's what I see and hear today that turns me and so many others so profoundly off.

Abortion, for example, is by no means a black and white partisan issue. Current law, Roe V. Wade, that permits abortion, is supported by barely more than half the country. Seventy percent of those polled say that partial birth abortion, the late-term destruction of the infant, should be illegal.

Seventeen Democratic Senators voted for the Partial Birth Abortion Act, which bans this procedure, except when the mother's life is in danger.

However, Hillary voted against it, and she condemned the Supreme Court's recent decision upholding the constitutionality of the Act.

This despite ongoing rhetoric from candidate Hillary about the importance of family and her abhorrence about the destruction of life. Yeah, right.

Ouch.

If you want to know about how Senator Clinton feels about freedom and her confidence that Americans, when acting without government in their face, are a productive and charitable people you, again, just have to listen to her.

The Senator was in true form the other day, speaking at a vocational school in New Hampshire.

"Fairness doesn't just happen. It requires the right government policies."

(cough) Socialist (cough)

I don't think that Senator Clinton really got the message when the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union collapsed.

Ouch!

Other than making sure that women can destroy their unborn babies, including teenage girls doing so without permission from their parents, I don't think there is any part of our lives that Senator Clinton doesn't want to get government, her government, into.

Not only does she oppose freeing up those broken government systems that are failing Americans (our inner city public schools, our social security system, Medicare, Medicaid), but Senator Clinton's answer is more government.

The Clinton campaign is, not surprisingly, dismissing the new books about their candidate as ho-hum, and not bringing any new information to the table.

And I think they must be right. Americans are getting a pretty good sense of this woman just by listening to her.

(cough) Socialist!! (cough)

You get the point.  Behold Comrade Hillary, she who would be King.

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