http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/28-06132006-669707.html

You don't know how much I love this story:

Activists Jeer Clinton Over Iraq Stance

By DEVLIN BARRETT
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Anti-war activists at a liberal gathering booed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday for opposing a set date for pulling U.S. troops from Iraq. Facing down the jeers, Clinton said Democrats need to have "a difficult conversation" about the war.

Another potential presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry, spoke to the group later in the day and offered an emphatically anti-war appeal.

Oh my god, is this good. Hillary's own support base is deserting her. Obviously, she can't be all things to all people, but when she starts driving away her own constituency, it can't be good for her. The thing that's odd is that she's still every bit as liberal as they are, but is trying to portray herself as more mainstream than she really is to get more votes than a fringe candidate would. The only people she seems to be fooling are her own voters.

As for Kerry, he's a mere blip on the radar. He can't even pretend to claim that he lost the last presidential election because of a constitutional technicality, like Gore did. Perhaps he's learned by now not to post pictures of himself sailboarding or doing a really insane job of learning how to flip a damn pancake, but I don't see how that would really help his chances.

Okay, this isn't as good as the West Milford ginger tabby cat named Jack that treed the black bear twice, but it's up there for sure on my list of "bizarrely interesting news items."