Posted on 02/04/2008 2:53:08 PM PST by NormsRevenge
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton had an emotional reunion Monday with a colleague from the early days of her legal career as a child advocate. The moment came as she revisited her law school days while hosting a campaign event at the Yale Child Study Center where she first pursued her interest in child advocacy.
Penn Rhodeen, a New Haven public interest lawyer who worked with Clinton as a student, recalled her showing up on his doorstep wearing purple bellbottoms.
"It was so 1972," he recalled, praising Clinton for her longtime interest in helping children.
"Here is the abiding truth we know — you have always been a champion for children. Welcome home, dear friend. We are so proud of you," he said.
Clinton responded emotionally to Rhodeen's praise, at one point wiping her eyes with her hand. But unlike her teary-eyed moment in Portsmouth, N.H., her voice never broke and she tried make light of her emotion.
"I said I would not tear up. Already we're not on that path," Clinton replied to laughs.
Some credited her New Hampshire display of emotion — during a discussion of how she is affected by campaigning for president — with aiding her comeback in that state from an earlier defeat by rival Barack Obama in Iowa.
Generally a stalwart campaigner, Clinton was showing signs of strain Monday — at one point starting to cough uncontrollably in the middle of an economic round-table with a dozen women voters.
"It comes and goes," she said, sipping water to get her cough under control.
It was the first event in a packed schedule the last campaign day before Super Tuesday, when voters in 22 states were headed to the polls. With polls showing the former first lady in a tight race with Obama across several states holding contests, Clinton was making stops later Monday in Massachusetts and in New York, where she was taping the Letterman show and hosting a 90-minute town hall meeting to be broadcast live on the Hallmark Channel.
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., coughs as she conducts a roundtable discussion at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Conn., Monday, Feb. 4, 2008. Generally a stalwart campaigner, Clinton showed signs of strain during the roundtable at one point coughing uncontrollably. 'It comes and goes,' she said, wiping her eye and sipping water to get her cough under control. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
And out of her vast 35 years of experience exactly how many years did she devote to her life long pursuit of saving the ciiiildreeen? Was that before or after she was working as the smartest lawyer in the world (well at least after passing the bar, before or after she was studying commodities trading, before or after she was attending all those Walmart board meetings and before or after her years at the Rose Law firm working on shady land deals?
Say Hello to your next commander in chief all of you McCain bashers!
Child advocate?
“Cut their little heads off, cackle, cackle! It’s a woman’s right to murder her kids!”
I think the liberals claim to be all concerned about the children once they are born, but the “right to choose” overrides everything else before birth.
What a complete phony! I also saw where a townhall meeting questioner referred to GWB as a ba@#$rd in a question and Billary! just smiled. She is one train wreck. She uses her gender to gain sympathy and support and cries when she needs more sympathy and support. And, reading the caption, the AP certainly is playing right along. Throw this complete grifter out of politics! Now!
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