Tears of a clown
Hillary finally used her ultimate weapon yesterday. Acting like a big sissy girl, she summoned up some crocodile tears during a talk in a small cafe in New Hampshire (Washington Post link);
The trigger: a friendly question from a voter about how she stays so put-together on the campaign trail.
“My question is very personal, how do you do it?” asked Marianne Pernold Young, a freelance photographer from Portsmouth, N.H. “How do you, how do you keep upbeat and so wonderful?”
“You know, I think, well luckily, on special days I do have help,” Clinton said, initially responding in an upbeat manner. “If you see me every day and if you look on some of the web sites and listen to some of the commentators they always find me on the day I didn’t have help. It’s not easy.”
But that rare moment of sympathy — in contrast to the beating she has taken in recent days — seemed to then get to her. “It’s not easy, and I couldn’t do it if I didn’t passionately believe it was the right thing to do,” Clinton said. Her voice broke, and her eyes appeared to well up with tears. “You know, this is very personal for me. It’s not just political. It’s not just public. I see what’s happening, and we have to reverse it.”
Does anyone believe that crap? She’s had plants in her audiences that posed well-rehearsed questions to her before she responded with well-rehearsed answers. Does anyone really think that this is any different?
In the Australian Herald Sun, the female reporter chalked it up to a grueling campaign;
AN exhausted Hillary Clinton fought back tears as the pace of US presidential campaigning took its toll on the former First Lady.
Now, oddly enough some guys hold up an “Iron my shirt” sign, which gives Hillary a chance to announce that sexism isn’t dead. Michele Malkin calls “BS!” and I tend to agree. SeeDubya at Junkyard Blog has the same guy holding up the same sign (almost) five years ago. It’s just way too convenient for this sign to show up while Clinton is plummeting in the primaries and she’s suddenly victimized by the He-Man Woman Haters Club.
She’s trying to drag out the old “victimized Hillary” mask that got her through her Senate campaign in 2000 when mean old Rick Lazio charged across the stage at her.
It’s the same “victimized Hillary” that declared a vast right wing conspiracy was out to get her husband, and the same victimized Hillary that stood by her man through impeachment. I guess she’s gonna go with what muttonheads who believe that stuff want. As Pam Meister at BlogmeisterUSA wrote;
She’ll be dealing with tough and often unscrupulous men (think Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez, for starters) who do not have time for tears and would interpret them as weakness. We cannot afford to have a weak occupant in the White House. Remember Jimmy Carter?
Not to be outdone, though, the AP stumps for Obama by running a picture of a woman crying at an Obama speech;
Photo from Associated Press
Is this what this campaign is coming down to? It’s been about issues that really don’t matter for more than a year – and now it’s about how many cryin’-ass women each candidate can drag out for the cameras.
Do we want a president who’ll cry when she’s tired? When times get a little rough? The campaign ain’t shit, Hillary – wait’ll you have to face a crisis thousands of miles away against REAL peckerhead misogynists. You, know, the guys that do this;
Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs has another post up about REAL misogynists won’t stop at holding up signs, too. I guess this latest bit of theater ties into my post this morning about Bret Stephens’ Great (American) Expectations.
Do you think the mullahs are going to cave to you, Hillary, because you’re a widdle sweepy and your voice gets a little weepy?
And as for you, cryin’-ass Obamafan, that’s called emotions. Emotions have nothing to do with common sense. If you vote for Obama because he made you snivel and snork snot, you’re a bigger dumbass than Barack.
Update: Gateway Pundit writes that “Bubba Comes Unglued“
Hey, I’d cry for FDT if he’d let me. I believe Hill was crying, after all this is HER presidency, and HER party and she’ll cry if she wants to. She’s READY!!! Haven’t you heard?
You don’t seriously believe democrats appeal to logic do you? If they used their brains their foreheads would crack. It has never been about what works, it’s always been about the moral highground of feeling good about your attitude rather than your actions. That way you don’t actually have to DO anything, you just have to think about it in the correct way.
Boo Hsu.
Actually, I was just talking about this today-I am glad, glad, GLAD that she cried. Because I view it like Howard Dean’s yell. She won’t get elected or nominated after this. Nobody’s going to vote for a Commander in Chief that cries. There is one time and one time only it is appropriate to cry: at funerals, on your way to, or on your way from. Or talking about the dead, or hearing taps, or something like that.
Crying because people are mean to her? NFW. I’m glad you posted about this, because I would probably have simply ranted incoherently about it. I’m sorry for all the women who were all ‘Oh, our first possible women president’, but seriously, ladies, I’m sure you’d rather have a woman president who DIDN’T CRY.
Argh.
Kathy: If you get a picture of yourself crying over a Thompson speech and I’ll get AP to run it, ‘k?
Totally agree with Army Sergeant, I don’t want a president –male or female– who cries when asked a question. If she were to become president, would she have a breakdown each time we heard a bin Laden tape which said, “Death to America?” More Clintonian theatrics, simply pathetic.
Apparently, the Hildabeast has never heard of the expression: “Put on your big girl panties and deal with it.”
Tears or no tears, I don’t want that POS within 10,000 klicks of the White House. Once was too much.
I read about the “peaceful religion” of Islam’s treatment of women as documented in the “Atlas Shrugs” site and have yet to hear a fuckin’ peep out of N.O.W. Matter of fact, I’ve e-mailed them countless times over issues like that, and they never respond. What a coink-ee-dink.
Hillary was blowing snot bubbles because her internal polling showed her it’s all over.
Funny, GI Jane. You should email that to her senatorial staff.
And I was against Clinton before the tears, sure, but this just cinches it. Now I have something I can point to.
Dear Hillary,
Hotel-Sierra.
For those of you who can’t figure it out, Horse S***
The woman crying at the Obama rally, are you sure this wasn’t after laughing very hard? Seriously…. if I cry because I am sad or upset, the tears come out the inner side of the eye, or spill over the front. If I cry because I’m laughing the tears come out the side like that. And….. what is there for a constituent to cry over anyway…. oooohhhhh, we need to help all these poor people… So get off your a$$ and do something for them yourself.