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Audacity of Truth
Hillary gets emotional while on the campaign trail
Scripted or genuine? Here’s the story, via Ben Smith at The Politico:
Exhausted and facing the prospect of losing the second test of her primary campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton fought back tears as her voice broke at the close of a sedate event in a Portsmouth coffee shop.
She expressed the sheer difficulty of heading out to the trail each day — “It’s not easy,” she said — and suggested she faced “pretty difficult odds.”
And with audible frustration and disbelief, she drew the contrast between her experience and Sen. Barack Obama’s that suggests that her campaign’s current message — the question of who is ready — matches her profound sense that she alone is ready for the job.
“Some of us know what we are going to do on day one, and some of us haven’t thought that through enough,” she said.
The question was innocuous:
“As a woman, I know it’s hard to get out of the house and get ready,” said Marianne Pernold, a local freelance photographer. “Who does your hair?”
Clinton began by talking about her hair — she has some help — but moved to talk more generally about the campaign.
“It’s not easy, it’s not easy, and I couldn’t do it if I just didn’t passionately believe it was the right thing to do,” she said.
“I have so many opportunities for this country. I don’t want to see us all fall back,” she said, her voice breaking in the last phrase.
“This is very personal for me,” she said to supportive applause from the small gathering, at which she’d been discussing policy around a table for an hour. “It’s not just political, it’s not just public — I see what’s happening. We have to reverse it.”
“Some people think elections are a game — it’s about who’s up and who’s down,” she said. “It’s about our country’s future, it’s about our kids’ future — it’s really about all of us together.”
Here’s the video:
A commenter at Ann Althouse’s pointed out that the Anchoress predicted a few days ago that this would happen, so a tip of the hat to Anchoress for forecasting Hillary’s emotional moment.
If you scroll throgh some links here, you’ll find The Usual Suspects on the left screaming “misogyny” at how the media is portraying this and how John Edwards responded to it. A couple of things to point out to them:
1) This is the first time you’re realizing that John Edwards is a self-centered loser? Newsflash.
2) On the supposed crying “double standard” I’ve got two words for you: Ed Muskie.
I think the only sympathy we’ll see for Senator Clinton is from those predisposed to spout “woman hater!!” on cue. Me? I feel no schadenfreude, and no compassion. I personally think the tears are real, but not because she’s “passionate” about the issues, but instead is passionate about power, and has felt the last few days that it’s slipping from her grasp as the O-mentum continues. In effect, I think she realizes that there’s a strong possibility that the era of Clinton domination is in its twilight phase. This is what you call making your bed and then having to lie in it. And yes, I meant the double entendre.
The big question is: If Clinton loses in NH tomorrow, will she drop out of the race? Or will she hold out til Super Tuesday?
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Just don’t call them “crocodile” tears! It’s insulting to the crocodile!
Hill,
Will stay in until the end.
I think Hillary Clinton scripts changing her tampons.
So yeah…croc tears…
“The big question is: If Clinton loses in NH tomorrow, will she drop out of the race? Or will she hold out til Super Tuesday?”
That power-hungry harpy will stay in as long as she thinks she has the slightest chance of being nominated.
I agree with the previous commenters. She’s got enough cash and organization to stay in through Super Tuesday, so she will. She’s counting on states where (unlike IA and NH) a tightly controlled Dem organization can dictate the primary results.
As for the tears, they’re scripted. The Clintons don’t decide what to have for breakfast in the morning until they take a poll to see whether oatmeal or pancakes will help them politically. So you can bet one of her advisors told her to show emotion and be more “real”.
First of all, Iowa should be a joke. As others have pointed out elsewhere, the caucus format was chosen to provide undue influence to political operatives, and bears the same relation to Democracy as a Stalinist political rally does. As previous elections have shown, it doesn’t mean much in the long term – with one very important caveat: it can encourage a candidate to panic. If Hillary isn’t panicking right now, she’s very close to it, as displayed by her increasinly erratic behavior while she desperately casts about for the right tactic, the magic turn of phrase that will make it all come back to her.
Her husband, for all his manifest flaws as a human being, was a superb political animal. He would have taken an Iowa defeat in stride, and while graciously congratulating the victor he would have upstaged him and turned the spotlight back onto himself. He lives for the attention and draws it to himself so naturally that is seems as if the topic, whatever it had started as, had always been him. Bill perfectly illustrates the old joke about the Hollywood egotist who says “But enough about me, let’s talk about you. What did you think of my last film?” With Bill, though, he makes it seem as if he really is talking about you as he sucks all the oxygen from the room.
Hillary, for all her icy self discipline, does not have Bill’s poise onstage. Her sense of her own destiny, while no less monomaniacal than her husband’s, drives her towards the Lady MacBeth in her personality. This frightens her supporters and gratifies her foes, and no doubt secretly feeds Bill’s own narcissism. He can use Hillary’s stumbles to leap back into the debate, gnaw on his lower lip, passionately defend her, and at the same time gradually slip himself back onto center stage. Hillary’s unease in getting up close and personal is reminiscent of Nixon’s obvious discomfort with the hustle and bustle of getting down amongst ordinary people and trying to connect with them.
This is fascinating to watch, it’s Shakespeare updated and played out 24/7 in modern media. Unfortunately when it’s done we will have chosen our new President, so the stakes are much higher than the price of a ticket for Kenneth Branaugh’s latest adaptation of the Bard. I can watch Henry V again and again, and when it’s done I am back to my own life – Clintons, like herpes, are forever.
New respect for Bill Clinton.
So on the charts Bill isn’t a -10 but a -9.
“Vote for Me! I am the only one who can save our Country!!” Power must be far more addictive than any drug, can we imagine a has-been almost maybe sitting in a park while the next generation passes by and says “She/He was famous once for something…whatever.” Hillary will stay in the race; what else does she have to do?
Hillary will stay in regardless of the NH outcome. She has a lot of cash, and her advisors don’t want to be kicked to the curb this early. Bad for their resumes. (Hearing the theme from “The Empire Strikes BACK” playing in the background)…
The video at the link below shows Bill Clinton switching from laughing to crying at Ron Brown’s funeral once he realizes he’s on camera. I feel bad for saying this about anyone, but the video is pretty self explanatory. I’m inclined to believe that if Bill can cry on cue, so can Hillary.
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