I Ain't

a betting person, but I think we can stick a fork in Hillary Clinton's Iowa campaign.

The so-called perfect campaign has had some major and minor screw-ups the past couple of weeks, all of which could have been prevented, all of them self-inflicted. I know about the latest Plantgate scandal, where a few people at town hall meetings were provided questions in advance so that Clinton could answer them with ease.

I know having attended her town hall meeting in Reno in April that the questions weren't planted. There were a few which simply were off the wall; the rest were questions Clinton or any other candidate would expect to be asked.

The same is true with John and Elizabeth Edwards' town hall meetings, Michelle Obama's meeting, John McCain's meeting, Joe Biden's Q-and-As, Bill Richardson's, and probably Barack Obama's recent town hall meeting (I wasn't there).

I don't know what the reasoning of the planting was with Hillary's campaign; she certainly didn't need to resort to Bush-style nonsense.