With NJ having the highest property taxes in the nation, it's best that Hillary Clinton not quit her day job and try out for last comic standing.

Trying to show solidarity with New Jersey, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton today unwittingly stumbled into an issue that Garden State Democrats would rather forget: sky-high property taxes.

Speaking to the state Democratic Party convention, the New York senator thanked New Jersey for moving its presidential primary up to Feb. 5.

"I feel like I'm pretty much an honorary resident of New Jersey,'' Clinton said. "I just don't want you to charge me any more property taxes on top of what I pay in New York.''

While most of the room laughed at the joke, several groans were heard in the ballroom of Bally's Atlantic City. New Jersey Republicans have long railed against the Garden State's highest-in-the-nation property taxes, where the average homeowner pays $6,300 a year in property taxes.

If this were the gong show, you would have heard some noise. Of course, there was no mention of the latest political corruption arrests in New Jersey, which occurred a day earlier when 10 Democrats were charged in a bribery scheme.

Instead she talked about how there was no way that the American military could win in Iraq.

"If we don't begin to withdraw our troops, we are going to be refereeing the Iraqi civil
war,'' she said. "There is no military solution to what we're facing in Iraq. If the Iraqis
themselves don't make up their minds that they're going to live together, there is nothing the American military can do for them.''

Clinton said President Bush has squandered the support that America enjoyed after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.

"That's a tough thing to see in New York and New Jersey,'' she said. "The whole world was behind us. All that is in the past. We have emboldened our adversaries and alienated our allies.''

Nice. Senator Clinton needs to do a reality check. It's the Senator and her allies on the left, who have continually emboldened our enemies by turning this war into a political football. It's just a huge disgrace.  read more »