I’d cry too, if I had her poll numbers. Newsday on the moment:
“As a woman I know it’s hard to get out of the house and get ready,” said Maryann Young, a freelance photographer. “My question is very personal: ‘How do you do it?. How do you keep upbeat?’”
Clinton, voice breaking, tried to reply. “It’s not easy — it’s not,” she said. “And I couldn’t do it if I didn’t passionately believe…”
At this point she stopped, too choked up to continue, as the audience applauded.
This isn’t going to play well. Look for a smiling and confident Obama, the fresh-faced agent of change (groan), to capitalize. The spin from her spokesman:
The questioner, Pernold, said she’d come to the event “smitten” by Obama but that she’s now torn. “Showing that emotion, I really find it refreshing,” she said.
Clinton’s spokesman, Jay Carson, e-mailed after the event that “it was a genuine moment that shows how passionately she feels about what is at stake for the country.”
“As she said, some [people] think this is about who is up or down in the polls, but she knows this is about real people and the
enormous challenges they are facing every single day. That’s what this is all about for her,” he said.
Others Crying Blogging:
Michelle Malkin
Anyone who believes Hillary spontaneously teared up and got emotional on the campaign trail today has been in a coma the last three decades.
Libery Pundit
Crikey. Ask her about her hair and she almost loses it? I expect that from John Edwards, but not Hillary. Exit question: when did they give her the hardware/software upgrade that would allow her to cry at all?
The American Pundit
Of course. Hillary is attempting to show her human side, while simultaneously bringing her chief opponent down. That’s why I don’t believe the Drudge flash. The Clinton’s don’t give up that easily - ever. They calculate, strategise, increasing spending, and send in the cavalry.
Oliver Willis
Maybe I’m reading it wrong, but for someone who has been set up as the iron woman of politics and has run a campaign based on that theme, to cry on the campaign trail is kind of ridiculous.
Hot Air
…if only she hadn’t turned it into a not-so-oblique attack on Obama. Calculating to the last.
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January 7th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
I saw the video.
Not good, whatever happened, staged or not. Wrong message to send - getting teary-eyed - when claiming to be ready from “day one” to lead the nation.
January 7th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Edwards (in the last debate, in arguably his best moment): “And it matters whether it’s personal or not, because is if it’s either academic or political, when the tough fight comes, you’ll walk away from it. You’ll do what’s political. This fight is deeply personal to me.”
Hillary (the next day, while crying): “This is very personal for me. It’s not just political. It’s not just public.”
January 10th, 2008 at 1:38 am
Here’s my opinion:
It’s My “Party” and I’ll Cry if I Want to!
Dr BLT as Beverly Hillarybilly
http://www.drblt.net/music/MyParty.mp3