Posted on 09/18/2009 3:53:54 PM PDT by Publius772000
In January of 2008, Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president was beginning to show the first real signs of strain. The Democratic primary in Iowa had not simply been a coronation, and she was facing stiff competition from the inexperienced newcomer Barack Obama. In a well publicized Q & A session, Clinton took a question about the difficulties of the campaign trail. The result was a rare moment of emotion from the former First Lady.
Clinton’s emotional outburst may have helped her in the short term, as she used her display to connect with women in New Hampshire. Criticism abounded, however, as her rivals claimed the tears were simply a political ploy. That criticism seemed well founded a month later when, in Connecticut before the Super Tuesday vote, Clinton again resorted to tears at a campaign stop. Clinton, of course, had a dismal showing on that Tuesday, and Obama began his meteoric rise to the White House. The tears, it seems, were not enough to pull victory from the jaws of defeat.
Now, as if channeling Mrs. Clinton, both Nancy Pelosi and Michelle Obama have mustered tears in public appearances this week.
Pelosi, speaking in a press conference, compared the criticism of Obama’s policies as president to actual violence. The “rhetoric” of those in opposition to the president’s ideas for nationalized energy in the form of the cap-and-trade bill and nationalized health care in the form of whatever bill ends up surviving the Democrat debate are equal, in Pelosi’s opinion, to riotous violence. To emphasize her point, Pelosi’s voice quivered as she evoked memories of San Francisco in the late 1970s, when two city officials were assassinated in anti-gay violence...
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I love these feminists that advocated that women were tough and strong. They protested against the image that women were more emotional than men. All the stereotypic views of women are now seen in these emotional, illogical, bitchy, crying women. It only goes to prove that biology is destiny. There is more truth to stereotypes than many people care to admit.
Someone else on this site had the comment of the week, noting that it was a revelation that Pelosi’s tear ducts still work.
I agree... I’m betting it’s been a while since she’s really cried. If you watch the video, you can almost see her facial muscles struggling to press out a tear... it’s comical :)
Now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time... a long time. :)
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