posted on February 11, 2008 07:56:32 AM new
The third time is three times too many.
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When the campaign trail gets tough, Hillary turns on the public waterworks. She has recently cried three times to gain voter sympathy.
Is this emotional behavior acceptable for a potential leader? And is crying a tactic she plans to use as president in negotiations with foreign tyrants?
When freelance photographer Marianna Young asked Hillary how she deals with the stress of running for the presidency during the New Hampshire primaries, Hillary broke down.
"I just don't want to see us fall backwards," she said with a pathetically contrived tremble.
Attempting to shatter her ice-queen reputation and reveal a never-before-seen soft side, she said her heart was full and tried desperately to appeal to feminist proclivities of American women. "I found my own voice," she exclaimed triumphantly.
Maybe Hillary is simply exhausted from years of riding Bill's coattails and lurking in the shadows of his popularity. "Why won't the American public embrace me, too?" she wonders. Just the thought of being a political bridesmaid – and never a bride – brings the senator emotional distress.
Her teary-eyed frustration with American voters is glaringly obvious. Hillary can't fathom why so many hard-working citizens just won't buy into the idea that they need her "leadership" and socialistic health care, so she manipulates public sympathy and turns the tables by playing female victim of Obama and the media.
In an interview on "Access Hollywood," Hillary complained, "If you get too emotional, that undercuts you. A man can cry; we know that. Lots of our leaders have cried. But a woman, it's a different kind of dynamic."
Perhaps she nailed it when she said expectations are different for women. But rather than hinder her campaign, the media frenzied around her first tear-jerking performance and boosted her popularity.
Does anyone honestly think crying would have done the same for Barack Obama or any of the GOP candidates?
As for the freelance photographer who asked Hillary the empathetic question about her courage in dealing with campaign stress – she voted for Obama in the New Hampshire primary.
According to an ABC News report, Young explained her choice: "I went to see Hillary. I was undecided, and I was moved by her response to me. We saw 10 seconds of Hillary, the caring woman.
"But then when she turned away from me, I noticed that she stiffened up and took on that political posture again," she said. "And the woman that I noticed for 10 seconds was gone."
It was a brilliant strategy, though unconvincing performance, on Hillary's part.
Feb. 4, when political talking heads took focus off of her and Obama's popularity was surging, Hillary turned on the waterworks – again. In a third act, crocodile tears began flowing Saturday as well.
It is an all-too-familiar routine: Her lip shakes, her chin trembles, her eyes glisten with tears and the media responds favorably.
Even Miss Sunshine Breck himself, Sen. John Edwards, criticized her appeals for public sympathy by saying he believes we need someone slightly tougher in office (this coming from someone who used his wife's illness and son's death to cash in on voter compassion).
In an extraordinarily rare departure from the norm, Edwards is absolutely right. If Sen. Clinton wants to play with the big boys and be respected by foreign leaders, she had better drop the crying act.
Here's a better idea: Hillary, forget 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Your true calling lies in a starring role on a daytime soap opera.
By Chelsea Schilling It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.George S. Patton
posted on February 11, 2008 08:19:38 AM new
I wondered when the she got such an overwhelming response in NH if we would see more. Presidential politics requires so much more than being smart and experienced and being the best person for the job. You have to have a sense of what it is like to be the common man/woman and I don't think Hillary has a clue about being common. Bill was a master (and he was good at the tears welling up trick too). It seems one can't learn this trick by association - you either have it or you don't. Hopefully her new campaign manager can gauge the theatrics a little better.
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