Posted on 01/07/2008 7:00:18 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Until the votes are counted Tuesday night in New Hampshire, you won't be able to turn on a news program without hearing about Hillary Clinton "crying" at a campaign event Monday in New Hampshire. Is this a cry? And the larger question: Who cares?
If you call that a cry, then you've got to say that Fred Thompson was crying, too, last week in Iowa. Hey, wouldn't you with his poll numbers? Even Rudy Giuliani is kicking some "Law and Order" booty in New Hampshire and Rudy's barely campaigning there.
But we digress. A cry -- or let's face it, any emotion that isn't a lacquered smile -- is big news for media with too much time to kill. Just ask that big crybaby Ed Muskie.
Or, yes, ask Howard Dean.
Within hours Monday -- and with a full 24 hours to fill until real results in New Hampshire -- the cable nets and the blogs went wild. It was a second Christmas for the The Fox News crew over at "Special Report with Brit Hume." ...
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Over at MSNBC's more genteel "Hardball" (excuse us while we bathe after writing that), Tom Brokaw said he asked a couple of his female friends what they thought and they weren't impressed. Thanks for the in-depth analysis, Tom. Aren't you retired? Tim Russert, who has been on TV for five straight days without showering, explained that the candidates -- all of them -- are running on fumes after days of nonstop campaigning. They're exhausted, he said.
And in a moment that p.r. flaks everywhere must love, a Clinton spokesperson defended his candidate's emotions Monday as "genuine": "It was a genuine moment that shows how passionately she feels about what is at stake for the country," said Clinton's spokesman, Jay Carson.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton campaigns in Dover, New Hampshire. Barack Obama Monday basked in a double-digit poll lead on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, as his onslaught forced a rare moment of raw emotion from rival Clinton. (AFP/Stan Honda)
I don’t want a president who starts crying the moment things get tough. I want a president who gets tough and make the other guys cry.
everyone tries to spend too much time trying to be clever by comparing one thing to another (hillary’s crying to dean’s scream) ... she’s just unlikeable and phony and, especially, old, the way the GHWBush looked to the clintons back in 92
Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator Hillary
Clinton listens to a question from an undecided voter
during a campaign stop at Cafe Espresso in Portsmouth,
New Hampshire January 7, 2008. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
It was an act. And not a very well played one either.
I almost puked when she started talking about rearranging drawers to relieve stress.
And I DID puke when I saw bill say "I love you dear!" over a cell phone. *retch*
So did she cry or not and what the hell was she crying/whining about now?
Will Clinton’s “Cry” be the new Dean “Scream?”
No.
Dean’s Scream was legit. Hillary’s Tears are fake.
The American people need to think about the implications of a cry-baby potentially having to face down the threat of a Chinese nuclear strike
Mrs. Clinton’s “crying” today isn’t analogous to the Muskie or Dean incidents of the past, IMO.
Everything the Clintons do is very calculated, I bet this was rehearsed in advanced with the idea that it can turn around her floundering campaign.
I don’t know if it will, and it might backfire, but it wasn’t spontaneous, although it was “genuine” in the sense that Mrs. Clinton and her advisors genuinely thought it was a good move. (and it just might be)
She’s a “woman”. It’s OK to have PMS.
"I have such great plans for you. Why don't you understand?"
she was close to blubbering for a couple seconds, I haven’t watched video of it, only heard the audio of it..
the pics I saw,
No tears,,
A great photo op tho, she needs to carry an onion patch like Bill did.
Nice coy ploy Hil....you may fool the sheeple morons with the crocodile tears but many of us ain’t buying it.
Genuine imitation ersatz phoney tears.
>> I almost puked when she started talking about rearranging drawers to relieve stress.
Rearranging your drawers to relieve stress is a Clintoon thing!
Slick Willie did it all the time. Just ask Monica how often he rearranged his drawers (they were boxers, if memory serves).
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