Comments on: Hillary gets emotional while on the campaign trail

By: G-Monster

G-Monster — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:43:33 +0000

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. LINK

By: Tango

Tango — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:39:25 +0000

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)…

By: Tom TB

Tom TB — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:58:41 +0000

“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?

By: Baklava

Baklava — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:33:27 +0000

New respect for Bill Clinton.

So on the charts Bill isn’t a -10 but a -9.

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By: Steve Skubinna

Steve Skubinna — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:09:51 +0000

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.

By: Great White Rat

Great White Rat — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:59:07 +0000

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”.

By: UNCoRRELATED

UNCoRRELATED — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:13:05 +0000

Hillary Cries

This is precisely the kind of raw emotion that Hillary needs to show to the electorate, and that’s why I’m suspicious. I don’t want to be, really I don’t, but Hillary has for so long presented a mask that the…

By: camojack

camojack — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:39:01 +0000

“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.

By: TedintheShed

TedintheShed — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:00:54 +0000

I think Hillary Clinton scripts changing her tampons.

So yeah…croc tears…

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:49:39 +0000

Hill,

Will stay in until the end.

By: Proof

Proof — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:56:34 +0000

Just don’t call them “crocodile” tears! It’s insulting to the crocodile!