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Just hours after getting caught with their hands in the cookie jar for planting questions and swearing they’d never do it again, Hillary Clinton’s campaign did it again.

This time they tried to claim it was just an innocent conversation between old acquaintences. Problem is, they weren’t. And it wasn’t. It was the same old sleazy underhanded Clinton tactics: they just figured that lightning couldn’t possibly strike twice. Who would think to even check so soon after such an embarrassing incident after all?

This brazen huckstering shows that for Hillary there is no such thing as spontaneity: if it’s not in her script, it doesn’t happen. And we thought Al Gore was stiff and robotic in 2000? He’s looking like a freewheeling firebrand by comparison to the rigidity of Hillary Clinton and her handlers. Not that I’m complaining, mind you…The more the American public sees of who and what she really is, the less likely we’ll have to hear from her after November 2008.

Popularity: 17%

In what has to be one of the saddest displays yet of Hillary Clinton’s inability to deal with challenging situations, her campaign just got busted planting questions at a “town hall”-type meeting in Iowa. Fearing that she would make yet another mistake by going off her pre-scripted evasive answers, she has resorted to both pre-selecting who would ask the questions, but the questions they will ask as well.

This is clearly a person completely incapable of thinking on her feet. If it’s not completely rehearsed and the message previously screened, she obviously can’t handle it. How in the world would she manage the unpredictable world affairs if she can’t even handle a small town in Iowa?

Popularity: 14%

How low can you go? It’s one thing to accuse your political opponents of lying to/about you - it’s still a low blow, but often par for the course. But now the campaign is calling the woman Hillary cited as an example of the kind of person she was going to help a liar. Not a political opponent. Just a working mom that Hillary stiffed on a tip.

Rather than acknowledge that the campaign screwed up by not leaving a tip at the restaurant, the campaign tried to lie to her by first saying the tip was left on a credit card. But when faced with the fact that the credit card machine doesn’t allow for tips to be added, the story quickly changed to “Well then, they left a $100 bill there.” A magical $100 which no employee at the restaurant could find and which was claimed only after the first lie was thoroughly discredited. Yeah right.

Just like so many before her who have dared contradict Queen Hillary, this poor woman is being called a liar to cover up Hillary’s failures. The politics of personal destruction: thy name is Hillary….

Popularity: 13%

Oh how the mighty have fallen…Once the darling of the Democratic Party, it appears that Bill and Hilary Clinton completely overreached in trying to book his 60th birthday party which was scheduled to include a private concert by the Rolling Stones. Originally planned to be a major fundraiser for the foundation set up to paper over his presidential record, it turned our to be a major embarrassment instead.

They sent out 10,000 invitations to the liberal elite offering them a wide range of options from the perk-packed “Birthday Chair Package” at $500,000 to the lowly cheap seat price of $60,000. But even fervent Clintonistas balked at these price tags and sent their regrets instead. So the fire sale began…

Final prices for the cheap seats dropped as low as $1700 - a staggering 97% discount to the original asking price. OUCH!

Popularity: 54%