By Jennifer Parker

Jan 7, 2008 12:34pm

Clinton Gets Emotional on Campaign Trail

ABC News’ Kate Snow Reports: Campaigning in New Hampshire one day before the first-in-the-nation primary, Senator Hillary Clinton got emotional and had tears in her eyes as she spoke with voters about how hard it is to balance a busy campaign life and her passion for the country’s future.

The Senator from New York was sitting at a big table in Cafe Espresso in Portsmouth, New Hampshire with 16 undecided voters, mostly women, warmly and calmly taking questions.

Then she took an unexpected question from a woman standing in the back.

"My question is very personal, how do you do it?" asked Marianne Pernold Young, a freelance photographer from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She mentioned Clinton’s hair and appearance always looking perfectly coifed.  "How do you, how do you keep upbeat and so wonderful?"

Clinton began responding, jokingly.  First talking about her hair: "You know, I think, well luckily, on special days I do have help. If you see me every day and if you look on some of the websites and listen to some of the commentators they always find me on the day I didn’t have help. It’s not easy."

But then, Clinton began getting emotional: "It’s not easy, and I couldn’t do it if I didn’t passionately believe it was the right thing to do. You know, I have so many opportunities from this country just don’t want to see us fall backwards," she said.

Her voice breaking and tears in her eyes, she said, "You know, this is very personal for me. It’s not just political it’s not just public. I see what’s happening, and we have to reverse it."

Watch the video HERE.

"Some people think elections are a game, lot’s of who’s up or who’s down, [but] it’s about our country , it’s about our kids’ futures, and it’s really about all of us together," she said.

"You know, some of us put ourselves out there and do this against some pretty difficult odds, and we do it, each one of us because we care about our country but some of us are right and some of us are wrong, some of us are ready and some of us are not, some of us know what we will do on day one and some of us haven’t thought that through enough," she said in a veiled reference to her Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

"And so when we look at the array of problems we have and the potential for it really spinning out of control, this is one of the most important elections American has ever faced," Clinton said.

After the event, Pernold Young told ABC News that she was glad Clinton showed emotion.

"She allowed herself to feel," Pernold Young said.  " I was surprised and I said, ‘wow there’s someone there.’"

Another woman in the group, Alison Hamilton of Portsmouth, New Hampshire said she, like most of the people in the group, had been considering Obama.

But after seeing Clinton become emotional, she said she was going to vote for Clinton.

"Her whole thing today really convinced me but that really did clinch it for me," Hamilton said. "She’s very impressive."

During the event, Clinton also had an exchange with an Obama supporter asking whether she can bring change, and why the Democrats haven’t been able to affect change in Congress, despite taking power after the 2006 midterm elections.

"At the end of the day when the cameras are off what have you done?" asked the voter.

Clinton responded, arguing a politician’s record is important.

"I know that to some people it sounds like there’s a contradiction between change and experience… You can’t have one without the other."

Clinton said people aren’t aware of the small things the Democrats in Congress have accomplished because the war in Iraq is ongoing.

"You just keep going at it every single day," she said. 

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User Comments

Gimme a break. She’s crying because she is losing. Boo hoo.

Posted by: Madeleine Dunn | January 7, 2008, 12:43 pm 12:43 pm

Hillary cried? LOL Hillary cried…just like a woman.

Posted by: Catbird | January 7, 2008, 12:43 pm 12:43 pm

She’s crying because feels entitled to the nomination and isn’t going to get it. She acts like a spoiled brat who isn’t getting her way.

Posted by: Pamela, Brooklyn, NY | January 7, 2008, 12:43 pm 12:43 pm

Oh puh-leaze…did they poll whether she should release those tears?

Posted by: BILL G | January 7, 2008, 12:44 pm 12:44 pm

Croc. tears. Big saltwater croc.

Posted by: wade malloy | January 7, 2008, 12:45 pm 12:45 pm

Hillary is showing her emotional weakness when it comes to pressure. Do we really want someone like this having to face major challenges affecting our country and our freedom??? I think not!

Posted by: Vesta | January 7, 2008, 12:45 pm 12:45 pm

Can’t you just see Hillary in the White House sobbing on national t.v. as terrorists strike the country again? We don’t need whiny, criers defending us.

Posted by: John | January 7, 2008, 12:45 pm 12:45 pm

Hillary Clinton is so pathetic, and lying never stops. Hillary is noseating.
Every time Hillary opens her mouth, she swiftboats herself.
No more Clinton’s in the White House please.

Posted by: Rick Morrow | January 7, 2008, 12:45 pm 12:45 pm

We all have our moments..mostly honest..Hillary caculates every move and emotion…this was a planned moment..just ask James Carvile

Posted by: Doug Nelson | January 7, 2008, 12:46 pm 12:46 pm

Waaaaaaaaaaa. It’s over Hillary. LOL

Posted by: J. Richie | January 7, 2008, 12:46 pm 12:46 pm

“…her voice breaking and with tears in her eyes…”
I got tears of uncontrollable laughter filling my eyes!

Posted by: Defiant_Infidel | January 7, 2008, 12:46 pm 12:46 pm

Good grief, how overtly obvious is it that ABC news is pro-Hillary. Every article and photo is presented in Hillary’s favor while Obama’s headlines present a negative effect. What ever happened to un-biased reporting?

Posted by: BamaBoy | January 7, 2008, 12:47 pm 12:47 pm

It’s over for Hillary. Aside from the fact that she actually has LESS experience as an elected offocial tyhan Obama, no one LIKES her! No one is going to vote for someone they don’t even like. Remember Bob Dole? Remember Mike Dukakis? No one liked them! Obama, also, knows what poverty is, knows what suffering and hopelessness are! I’m voting for Obama!

Posted by: gwascher | January 7, 2008, 12:48 pm 12:48 pm

theres no crying in politics!!!

Posted by: dennis | January 7, 2008, 12:48 pm 12:48 pm

You think running for President is hard, try running the country.
Hillary has just proved that she is not qualified to be our next leader. Buh-bye, loser.
I’m not laughing with you. I’m laughing at you.

Posted by: Frak | January 7, 2008, 12:48 pm 12:48 pm

No one is truly impressed with the angry, self-pitying tears of a self-righteous, self-entitled elitist. This young Democrat, like a growing number of Americans, have a message for the Clintons and their sad, manipulated ‘legacy’: It’s over. The 1960′s and 1990′s are done, and so are you.

Posted by: Dr. B. Prince | January 7, 2008, 12:48 pm 12:48 pm

Is this really objective reporting? Why does Kate Snow make judgements on the other people at the table being “bored”? And WHO CARES if Hillary cried, anyway? Don’t you think running for office is stressful? This kind of nonobjective drivel really is alarming and not up to ABC standards.

Posted by: Anna M | January 7, 2008, 12:48 pm 12:48 pm

I think she is crying because she realizes she is not being taken seriously right now. I mean, how must she feel that someone asked her who does her hair? How did her message collapse to this?

Posted by: Alox | January 7, 2008, 12:48 pm 12:48 pm

remember:
..sincerity is the key to life; once you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Posted by: drew | January 7, 2008, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm

A tactic straight from the Clinton “War Room” no doubt. Just one more reason she cannot be President. This has gone on long enough… she should step down. ABC and the lib media are trying hard to prop her up and help the Dems. Even actively campaigning against Romney – unbelievable. That is why ABC failed to bring up illegal immigration during the Dem debates. The lib media is desperatly trying to steer the elections.

Posted by: Bill | January 7, 2008, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm

I wish all three Democratic candidates and Joe Biden too could be president. Clearly they are ALL stellar. There is no doubt Senator Clinton is genius and would be wonderful. It’s the passion behind the ideas I wonder about. I am ABSORBED with a Democrat finally getting into the oval office and HOPING maybe beyond hope that they even more securely retain the Congress and to at least TRY to turn over the HORRIFIC Republican agenda that has put out country so at risk. I am scared but good but the Republican way is a colossal failure. They do NOT care about the average American whether it’s north, south, east or west. To think they do is utter folly. We need prescient Democratic leadership and then some!

Posted by: nmrosen | January 7, 2008, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm

“Clinton … got emotional, her voice breaking and with tears in her eyes, she spoke about how she is passionate about this election and passionate about the country.”
I think I’m going to hurl – the Clinton’s are about ONE thing – power and promoting the Clinton’s. Good “intentions” are NOT enough. When it’s all said and done – the empress (and emperor) have no clothes. They should both move to one of the “stans” and live out their Communist dreams there.

Posted by: JB | January 7, 2008, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm

WoW… Mrs. Clinton … what experience; Arkansas … sitting in the white hous trying to be a Co-President… did she have security clearance. The rest should ask the question… Where’s the meat she says she has. not even the Kennedy’s mad teh dynasty factor… lets all deny this dysfunctional family that title.

Posted by: llew gar | January 7, 2008, 12:50 pm 12:50 pm

WoW… Mrs. Clinton … what experience; Arkansas … sitting in the white house trying to be a Co-President… did she have security clearance. The rest should ask the question… Where’s the meat she says she has. not even the Kennedy’s mad teh dynasty factor… lets all deny this dysfunctional family that title.

Posted by: llew gar | January 7, 2008, 12:50 pm 12:50 pm

Please. Now that I know Cafe Espresso let that witch eat there, I will never go there again. To think she was so close to my house makes me ill. I love it when she is losing how she pulls out the gender bashing card (they dont like me because I am a “woman”) or cries. What I find amusing, literally, is that you can tell that she thought she was just going to “breeze” through the process and automatically win tjhe nomination! Not so huh Hil?
Enough with the Clintons – get these corrupt sociopaths out of here already.

Posted by: Dan | January 7, 2008, 12:50 pm 12:50 pm

Those are the tears of corporatists, who feel the coming populist revolution. The days of the DINO are over. Good riddance, Hillary.

Posted by: J Brown | January 7, 2008, 12:50 pm 12:50 pm

She is SUCH an idiot!

Posted by: hugh jorgan | January 7, 2008, 12:50 pm 12:50 pm

Hillary’s emotional switch has two settings: heartless ##### and sniviling crybaby. We don’t need either anywhere near the White House.

Posted by: RogerBacon | January 7, 2008, 12:50 pm 12:50 pm

When all else fails, bring on the tears. Pleeeeeese!!!!!

Posted by: grams | January 7, 2008, 12:51 pm 12:51 pm

Rommney said it best yesterday- you can’t have change simply by moving the same old people around in different chairs. Washington’s broke- we need fresh ideas and people we can trust. Obama is the Democrat party’s best candidate.

Posted by: Richard DeLuca | January 7, 2008, 12:51 pm 12:51 pm

“…with tears in her eyes…”
You haven’t seen tears until you see someone like Hillary or Obama get elected…

Posted by: Frank | January 7, 2008, 12:51 pm 12:51 pm

Obama may be an articulate speaker, but so was Hitler.
Don’t be fooled by how he says what he says. LISTEN to WHAT he says — he’s no better than Hillary.
I’d vote for Satan before I’d vote for either of them.
Actually, my vote as it stands right now is write-in: NONE OF THE ABOVE.

Posted by: Frak | January 7, 2008, 12:51 pm 12:51 pm

the MAINSCREAM media hates a landslide and is doing all they can to avoid one. DEAR VOTERS…let us have a landslide so we can watch the MAINSCREAMS cry…

Posted by: daddyblue | January 7, 2008, 12:51 pm 12:51 pm

Have her get in touch with Pat Schroeder.

Posted by: jim brown | January 7, 2008, 12:52 pm 12:52 pm

Better for her to cry than for the rest of America to cry if she got elected.
She is a socialist and would take this Country down with increased taxes, soft on terrorism (as was Bill), big government spending, etc.
America is looking for a fresh start…not a re-hash of the 8 years we had with the Clinton’s before. She is devisive and would not work with both sides of the isle.

Posted by: Fred | January 7, 2008, 12:52 pm 12:52 pm

I have met Hillary Clinton two times and believe me, she is honest, intelligent and forthright. This country made a mistake voting for someone they “like” or want to have a beer with. Please do not make another mistake by voting for the wrong president. The world can not afford it. Hillary is by far the best choice of all. Don’t listen to what the pundants and other teams want you to hear and believe. She is the brightest and the best.

Posted by: Paul S. | January 7, 2008, 12:52 pm 12:52 pm

Boo-whoo!! Please go to the nearest mechanics workshop and ask them to weld you a back-bone. Desperate times call for desperate tears!! Hillary you are finished, please face the facts!!

Posted by: Ryan | January 7, 2008, 12:53 pm 12:53 pm

As a Barack Obama supporter, I’d say this could just be a ploy to get people to vote for her. Perhaps Clinton is simply exhausted from campaigning. Maybe she even is THAT passionate about the country. But as a person who got a degree in women’s studies, I find it offensive that anyone would say that Hilary was crying because she is a woman. I’d love for a woman to be the president. Just because we menstruate doesn’t mean that we’re more or less emotional than men. Anyone who says that is just foolish. Ignorant statements like that are the reason women were suppressed for so long. Is Hilary being honest? I have no idea, but making it seem as though men in politics have never cried, and furthermore, accepting the idea that crying is a sign of weakness, is one of the reasons that our society is the way it is.

Posted by: Amy | January 7, 2008, 12:53 pm 12:53 pm

Who didnt see this coming? She played the victim to win her senate seat. It’s all she has.

Posted by: Ray Robison | January 7, 2008, 12:53 pm 12:53 pm

A large number of undecided, open-minded voters took a fair, close and careful look at this woman over an extended time. And walked away. Look at your own comments for the roots of this turn of the tide. And for the genius of the designers of the political system that, more often than not, leaves candidates like Hillary Clinton (and Ron Paul, and Fred Thompson) wondering what happened.

Posted by: Ted | January 7, 2008, 12:53 pm 12:53 pm

Tears are not a sign of weakness, they are a sign of passion and committment.
However, Mr. Obama’s stuttering and stammering indicates a mind not thoroughly rehearsed in where it stands on the issues. There is a very obvious disconnect between what he believes and what he is “coached” to say. He lacks believability based on his inability to construct a complete sentence. Something is not ringing true here.
Hillary has my vote. Mr. Obama would not even be a close enough second to be her vice-president. Bill Richardson would make an excellent running mate.

Posted by: Mary Miles | January 7, 2008, 12:53 pm 12:53 pm

Hillary’s exit strategy:
Having meticulously planned their coveted return to the White House for several years now, the Clintons will certainly not exit the scene with grace or dignity. This is the political duo that honed “The Politics Of Personal Destruction” into an artform; and, most certainly will not tolerate, who is in their mind, the “upstart Obama” to derail Hillary’s pre-choreographed coronation.
Barrack and his supporters best be prepared for the “Political Lynching” that will rival anything previously witnessed in Presidential politics.
Slick and Hill have repeatedly demonstrated a vicious demeanor that is unprecedented whenever their political dynasty has been threatened in the past. Just ask anyone of their innumerable victims.
Greg

Posted by: Greg Neubeck | January 7, 2008, 12:54 pm 12:54 pm

The house of cards is collapsing.
I’m a proud moderate Republican voting Obama this spring and again this fall.

Posted by: Ryno | January 7, 2008, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm

When Ed Muskey cried on the campaign trail he was the first man to do so. It cost him the election. Since then we’ve seen Preident’s with tears in their eys and thought nothing about it. Bill Clinton got slammed for admiting (sort of) that he smoked pot. Now Obama talks about dioing coke and not many comment. So Hilary got tears in her eyes and people scoff at her. So what? She’s getting nailed because she is the first woman to do so. Give her a brake.

Posted by: Barbara | January 7, 2008, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm

I was about to say it’s all over but the cryin’. But that’s happened now too. Stick a fork in her, she is done.
All we need to do is find a fat lady to sing.

Posted by: rj | January 7, 2008, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm

The pity vote worked to get her into the Senate, and I’m sure tears would have been more effective earlier in the campaign when her staff wanted to show her human, softer side… but I now know the one thing that can make her cry genuine tears– that her bargain with Bill actually relied on John Q. Public and not on his “machine”.
Listening to my liberal female friends has brought forth this nugget, “He [Bill] has made a worldwide fool of her AGAIN!”

Posted by: 2centsworth | January 7, 2008, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm

Hillary is a LOT smarter than Obama. That Hillary had tears in her eyes at a time when people don’t take her seriously and REALLY evaluate what her contributions have been and could be is logical. Obama’s admitted drug use is worse than Hillary’s moist eyes. I, certainly, would NEVER vote for that druggie, degenerate Obama!!!

Posted by: Anna P | January 7, 2008, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm

With media present, I am skeptical. Even if it is legitimate, I am not too sympathetic. A woman in her position, her options to serve mankind were limitless, yet she chose to enter the political arena. Hubris, and shame on her if she plays the gender card…

Posted by: James Burnley | January 7, 2008, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm

She has no more experience than Obama and less than Edwards. I wouldn’t let a Surgeon’s wife remove my appendix just because she’s been married to a Doctor. Being First Lady is not Presidential experience. Would you elect Barbara or Laura Bush just because they were married to Presidents too?

Posted by: Bryan | January 7, 2008, 12:56 pm 12:56 pm

Riiiiiight….and she’ll be TOUGH on radical Islamic Jihadists.

Posted by: Randall | January 7, 2008, 12:56 pm 12:56 pm

You can think of a million negative obvious things about crying as a candidate, but did you think she might be human? Behind every popular face is a person you know nothing about.

Posted by: Dr. D. E. Minch | January 7, 2008, 12:57 pm 12:57 pm

Give me a break?
It’s a bout time we see her true side of weakness. What about the sympathy for all the families of the victums who were killed or committed suicide through the years who worked or was affiliated with the Clintons.Vince Foster, Ron Brown, ect. ect. ect.

Posted by: Bev McElroy | January 7, 2008, 12:57 pm 12:57 pm

You cannot create change by being someone who has been in the White House and has had their chance to bring change. We need someone who is not tainted by special interests and will do what is best for the people of this country and not for corporate America. It is time to take back America for the people! Obama O8

Posted by: Mark | January 7, 2008, 12:57 pm 12:57 pm

Hmm, she must have done a poll that concluded that tears would work in her favor. This woman should have a weather vane around her neck instead of a cross – she believes in going nay way that the wind blows. I hope that she has a humiliating defeat. She is phony and manipulative and cynical about this country.

Posted by: Jim | January 7, 2008, 12:58 pm 12:58 pm

We are electing a President that will face far more difficult decisions that what dress to wear or hair style. This is serious business. And if she is not up to it, then get out of the way because, the real test will be later this year when White Water, the FBI files and all of Bills problems will come home.

Posted by: LRutherford | January 7, 2008, 12:58 pm 12:58 pm

What an idiot talking about how Obama is going to legalize drugs and shut down the DEA. If you had been paying attention Ron Paul, a republican/libertarian would be way more likely to do that. Besides, it is actually intelligent to think of a better way to handle non-violent drug offenders rather than mandatory sentences locking them up with tax payers money. These comments must be driven out of fear of Obama’s success.

Posted by: Alex C. | January 7, 2008, 12:58 pm 12:58 pm

Hillary Clinton may be the establishment, but consider this, if elected on day 1 she will be able to effect change.
How long will it take Barak Obama simply to learn the ropes before he can even start to change things.
The American people have an important choice to make. Barak Obama is a good performer, he has the right slogans, but Hillary Clinton has the experience, and a former President of America to give advice on tap 24 hours a day.
In these times having Bill to go to places like Kenya, or Israel, or Afghanistan, or Pakistan with the full authority of the President of the United States will prove pivotal in the war against terror.
You have a choice to make, look past the lights and the slogans and think honestly who can make the changes required?

Posted by: Chris Linthwaite | January 7, 2008, 12:59 pm 12:59 pm

In the last NH debate, only Edwards was playing to win. Obama and Clinton played ‘not to lose.’
The realization of defeat and a good cry most likely will result in a Clinton who fights for her dream job. She’ll never get my vote, but I’d love to see Hillary’s fight.
And, I want Obama to earn the top job…not coast into it on his pretty smile and sweet nothings.

Posted by: Lorenzo | January 7, 2008, 12:59 pm 12:59 pm

Better she cries and loses…..BIG, than have the whole nation weep under another possible 8 years worth of Clintonian Socialsim.

Posted by: Rick | January 7, 2008, 12:59 pm 12:59 pm

She’s probably crying out of frustration that she’s losing the nomination. Obama will win and she KNOWS it. It’s killing her.

Posted by: greg | January 7, 2008, 12:59 pm 12:59 pm

Better she cries and loses…..BIG, than have the whole nation weep under another possible 8 years worth of Clintonian Socialsim.

Posted by: Rick | January 7, 2008, 12:59 pm 12:59 pm

Imagine the terrorists licking their chops at the possibility of this clown running the country? Think she’d cry after another attack? What a self centered moonbat.

Posted by: Troy | January 7, 2008, 12:59 pm 12:59 pm

Tears, not a sign of weakness, someone wrote here? You’re WRONG. There’s a time and place for everything. As leader of the United States, there is NO room for crocodile tears on the campaign trail. It is seen as a sign of weakness and emotional instability. Fast forward to a scenario in the future… World War is pending and Hillary starts boohooing in the face of Al Qaeda. They’ll laugh at her. There is NO way in the world Hillary can “lead” when she thinks she deserves to be president. I want a reluctant president. Boo-hoo. (Did that work for me, nawww, won’t work for her either).

Posted by: Art | January 7, 2008, 12:59 pm 12:59 pm

I run into smarter and stronger women than Hillary every day on the street- she’s only there because of her husband (sort of tells why she stayed with him after he cheated on her)- sort of a setback to women’s rights if you think about it.
I also run into smarter and more capable black men than Obama almost every day. He does give me a bit of “hope” though- perhaps the fact that he has no experience or capability will actually result in him being open-minded to learning how foolish his policies are- and he’ll change them if by some freakish chance he gets elected and actually gets a glimpse of the real world….

Posted by: Leroy | January 7, 2008, 1:00 pm 1:00 pm

Hillary is intelligent. Like my girlfriend said, if Hillary were a man then Hillary would not be picked on so much and taken seriously.

Posted by: Tom | January 7, 2008, 1:00 pm 1:00 pm

Let’s see . . . after her Iowa loss many political consultants said Mrs. Clinton needed to soften her image. And then she is in an intimate focus group with independent NH voters and . . . she tears up! She’s not that good of an actress — otherwise people would already like her — so there must be an onion around there somewhere . . .

Posted by: jeff | January 7, 2008, 1:00 pm 1:00 pm

Hillary is crying because she is a master politician.
She knows what to say and do to push people’s buttons and get them to support her.
She was cinch to get the nomination a short time ago. She was looking presidential. But then she gave that terrible performance in a debate where she would not give a concrete answer about driver’s licenses for illegals. And it has been downhill ever since. If she had just said, no, she opposes them. She would have been all right.
But ever sinc then and now with Obama winning Iowa and soon New Hampshire and he’s almost neck in neck in the national polls. When she was twenty points ahead only a couple weeks ago?
I like Hillary but she’s finished. People want someone new in the White House. Not another Clinton or Bush.
Looks like it is Obama’s year in 2008!

Posted by: Jacksman | January 7, 2008, 1:01 pm 1:01 pm

So far, Obama has never been asked TOUGH QUESTIONS… Republicans and FOXnews are quiet about it… for now…. Can we afford to put an INEXPERIENCED guy against the Republican Candidate….
So far, Polls show Obama fair better than Republican Candidate, but as we all know Polls can change…

Posted by: Tommy | January 7, 2008, 1:01 pm 1:01 pm

I can almost be sympathetic, but then I look back since 1992 and the endless stories of them since their college days and I think –Nah! Don’t fall for that!

Posted by: LongT | January 7, 2008, 1:01 pm 1:01 pm

I don’t like Hillary either and won’t vote for her under any circumstances (well, maybe if she’s against Romney), but give me a break! “then she got emotional, her voice breaking and with tears in her eyes, she spoke about how she is passionate about this election and passionate about the country” and you think that’s a BAD thing? I assume you favor soundbytes over emotion. You people have no souls. God help us.

Posted by: longshanks | January 7, 2008, 1:02 pm 1:02 pm

Why the ridicule of Hillary getting teary? When Romney took up one hour of air time to presumably explain his faith, which he never really did, on numerous occasions he teared up and no one denigrated him for doing that? The double standard is alive and well! And if anyone thinks an Obama presidency will be a change or an improvement, the myopic are nothing but fools.

Posted by: Terry | January 7, 2008, 1:02 pm 1:02 pm

That does it. This person is not emotionally ready to “rule” (this is what she and entourage want to do) this country. That North Korean dictator Kim L Jong would have her in tears, on her knees, begging for his mercy.
She needs medication to “take away her blues”. This country doesn’t need a mentally unstable person running it.

Posted by: Joe Goris | January 7, 2008, 1:02 pm 1:02 pm

Take a looooong look at Hillary! She is so smart. I mean who out there is even close to her in smarts out of women. Prob, no woman.

Posted by: LaShana | January 7, 2008, 1:03 pm 1:03 pm

The only reason why she got emotional is because of frustration. She now knows that the nomination that she thought was hers for the asking has pretty much slipped away from her grasp.

Posted by: Gerald R. | January 7, 2008, 1:03 pm 1:03 pm

I WOULD CRY TO IF YOU REALIZED THAT OBAMA IS AHEAD BECAUSE OF GOOD SPEECHES NOT EXPERIENCE! IM CRYING TO HILLARY BUT WE OUR NOT GIVING UP ON YOU WOMEN TRUST ME WE IN CALIFORNIA KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND HYPE!HILLARY 08!

Posted by: Christy | January 7, 2008, 1:03 pm 1:03 pm

Take a looooong look at Hillary! She is so smart. I mean who out there is even close to her in smarts out of women. Prob, no woman.

Posted by: LaShana | January 7, 2008, 1:03 pm 1:03 pm

Hillary haters unite! Elect a Republican to the White House again. Obama 2008 = Nader 2000!

Posted by: apresdeluge | January 7, 2008, 1:04 pm 1:04 pm

“I like Hillary but she’s finished. People want someone new in the White House. Not another Clinton or Bush.”
Yeah, it’s been 20 years since we last had a president who wasn’t a Bush or Clinton. I was 10. It’s time for something new.

Posted by: Ryno | January 7, 2008, 1:04 pm 1:04 pm

Hillary, cry baby, cry. Stick your fingers in your eyes and let the water FLY. Is this what we want, a crying president when the heat is on.
Fire Up! Ready to Go!
Obama 08!

Posted by: Shay | January 7, 2008, 1:04 pm 1:04 pm

Hillary gets emotional…that’s why I’ll never vote democrat, they run/operate on emotions,and not reason. Only trust a few republicans with the safety of your family (no one currently running)and don’t trust any democrat!

Posted by: GO | January 7, 2008, 1:04 pm 1:04 pm

Sadly, the people that are MOST behind Hillary are ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN and several newspapers and magazines. Oh yeah, and Bill. The rest of America, for the most part, sees through this Clinton crap and will do anything to keep us away from another 4 or 8 years of lies and scams and sleaze, and scandal. Remember Rose Law Firm anyone? The FBI papers? Come on… she’s an insane power hungry monster!

Posted by: ANONY | January 7, 2008, 1:04 pm 1:04 pm

“Hillary haters unite! Elect a Republican to the White House again. Obama 2008 = Nader 2000!”
lol… Nader is psychotic, Obama is not.

Posted by: Ryno | January 7, 2008, 1:05 pm 1:05 pm

how is buba going to spin this? He will make her a victim saying they don’t like her because she is a woman.

Posted by: dred | January 7, 2008, 1:05 pm 1:05 pm

“Can we afford to put an INEXPERIENCED guy against the Republican Candidate….”
Could we “afford” the taxes if a Democrat got elected? These people actually make up things like global warming so they can collect more taxes!

Posted by: Leroy | January 7, 2008, 1:05 pm 1:05 pm

Could we finally send the Clintons packing. Enough already. Its been like 20 years of them on center stage. And they can take Al “global warming” Gore with them
EVERYTHING they say is due to a poll and EVERYTHING they say is half truth or outright lie

Posted by: Larry | January 7, 2008, 1:06 pm 1:06 pm

“She bored the rest of the table answering for ten minutes one realtor’s question about real estate insurance.”
He asked she answered. What’s the issue?
Obama’s populism is dangerous.
Even more dangerous is the fact that the mainstream American press will give the man a pass on anything controversial.
His relationship to Islam, a racist Afro-Centric church and cocaine need to be explored. The BC’s A, C, and N, are trying to make those issues off limits.
Remember the Chicago Tribune handed Obama his Senate seat in the first place.

Posted by: John Romano | January 7, 2008, 1:06 pm 1:06 pm

Hillary crying? how did she manage to put the peeled onions under her eyes without anyone seeing?

Posted by: joes | January 7, 2008, 1:06 pm 1:06 pm

No doubt the questioner was planted and the whole answer rehearsed. Just like Bill, huh?? Did she bite her lower lip too. Gimme a break!

Posted by: John G | January 7, 2008, 1:07 pm 1:07 pm

The phrase CROCODILE TEARS was never so well used.

Posted by: Jedsil | January 7, 2008, 1:07 pm 1:07 pm

The fit of anger Saturday night, the crying jag today.. obviously she is having “female trouble”. Get her a box of Dove bars and she will be fine in a day or two.

Posted by: BGraham | January 7, 2008, 1:08 pm 1:08 pm

Reading the comments above I can only think how incredibly lucky we all are to live in a country where we can opening express such opinions. I’m grateful for that. However, we (as a nation) seem to keep making the same mistakes regarding how we view politicians. Sure, it’s easy to see how we have turned into a nation of distrusting and disillusioned voters. However, we keep thinking that those who run for office are perfect, without flaws. Regardless of whether it’s Clinton, Obama, Guiliani, Romney, Huckabee, etc, we expect perfection from them and that’s not realistic. I want a president who will make things happen. Less talk, more action. So far, Senator Obama, despite his charisma and charm and talent for speaking, has not shown me he is most qualified. As far as I’m concerned, we were much better off during the 90′s than we are now. We need someone tough who has the experience. Hillary, despite her flaws, is qualified. Remember, none of us is perfect. We all have flaws and we all make mistakes. We’re all human. Yes, even the politicians. God Bless America!

Posted by: Duane F | January 7, 2008, 1:08 pm 1:08 pm

Hey Hillary…what about crying for the millions of babies you wanted to be aborted and murdered? Isn’t it you support abortion? and Gay marriage…and all the disgraced immorality perversion this country has plunged into?

Posted by: nilofc | January 7, 2008, 1:08 pm 1:08 pm

Go Hillary! I’m voting for you. I see how people discriminate against you because you’re not just a woman, but a super smart one. What is wrong with people today, when they look past so much that is wrong with Obama (drugs, marital problems, Muslim, etc) to pick on imagined and/or trivial things about you. Obama is a MUSLIM people. Get a grip.

Posted by: Peter | January 7, 2008, 1:09 pm 1:09 pm

The Biggest Lesson for All (Including the Media) Dollars will no longer buy the Presidency. It has all the Media CEO’s trembling because the gravy train money will surely come to an end when themoney boys realize they’re throughing their money away !!!

Posted by: Buddy in Pa | January 7, 2008, 1:09 pm 1:09 pm

Oh, lighten up. Hillary’s famous husband used the exact same tactic on occasion, getting “choked up” with emotion while discussing some subject he felt “passionate” about. He would usually flip right over to attack his political opponents between teardrops.
Any good actor can turn on the tears at will. This episode does not prove anything. Maybe Hillary is sincere, maybe she is manipulative and cunning. Or maybe the “vast right wing conspiracy” has been making secret threats.
Question your candidates. Be critical. Tell them to pony up honest answers or quit wasting your time. Then decided based on who is best qualified, regardless of complexion or genitalia, spouses, children, or famous friends. How bizarre! To choose a president based on who would make the best president! If you have made a statement like “It’s about time we had a [blank] for president,” or “I will NEVER vote for a [blank] for president”, please, don’t vote. Kennedy showed that a catholic wouldn’t take orders from the Vatican.
Personally, I don’t give a rip about the state of Senator Clinton’s tear ducts. Her policies are the deciding factor for me. I’m voting my conscience and with my brain. I optimistically hope most of you will do the same.

Posted by: Vince | January 7, 2008, 1:09 pm 1:09 pm

Jesus wept.
If Jesus can cry, I guess Hillary is allowed to cry.
If any of you think you’re better than Jesus, go ahead and keep criticizing. Otherwise, please shut up.

Posted by: Mike Frazier | January 7, 2008, 1:09 pm 1:09 pm

Sounds like another planted question to me. What a bunch of non-sense. How anyone could cast a vote for any of the Dems, especially, Hillary is beyond me. She hasn’t done ANYTHING, except wear the ring Slick Willy bought her.

Posted by: Ping | January 7, 2008, 1:09 pm 1:09 pm

I can not believe all the hate that is being spued at the greatest hope that this country has at this time . I am a 59 year-old white male that has worked hard all my life, voted in every election, and remember the 90s . Vote for Hillary for safty,for health-care or for Bill, but vote for Hillary.

Posted by: charles risner | January 7, 2008, 1:09 pm 1:09 pm

I can not believe all the hate that is being spued at the greatest hope that this country has at this time . I am a 59 year-old white male that has worked hard all my life, voted in every election, and remember the 90s . Vote for Hillary for safty,for health-care or for Bill, but vote for Hillary.

Posted by: charles risner | January 7, 2008, 1:09 pm 1:09 pm

This is ridiculous. Spinning tears….

Posted by: Daniel | January 7, 2008, 1:09 pm 1:09 pm

The heartless attacks against Mrs. Clinton because of her maternal side are an abomination. The Obama machine should be ashamed of its attack on a woman who ought to become the Mother of our people just as President Bill Clinton was a Father to the American people. This is disgusting and unfair. The unions who have sided with John Edwards need to support Mrs. Clinton.

Posted by: J-Dub | January 7, 2008, 1:09 pm 1:09 pm

Typical of this woman . . . she has no problem dishing out the trash but she can’t take it . . . too bad Hillary, but that’s they way the cookie crumbles.

Posted by: Rplat | January 7, 2008, 1:10 pm 1:10 pm

Gerald R. – huh?? did you skip a few English classes at school. You’re making no sense just like old Hill.

Posted by: im4obama | January 7, 2008, 1:10 pm 1:10 pm

How fake can you get! It was most likely another planted question trying to get people to feel sorry for herQ

Posted by: Ned Phillps | January 7, 2008, 1:10 pm 1:10 pm

My God. The American people afeter 8 years of the Bush administration still don’t get it. Of course you need experience to run a Country and specially a Country that affects other countries. Its a shame that people have to be so poor educated to express themselves in the way of many comments above. I am very glad some body is crying, not talking about how change and change and change will take place.Change can be good or can be bad you already saw that with Bush and so did the rest of the world.
Please put your heads on the pillow tonight, and look back, you are a cournty at war, every extreme is bad right or left. If you people enter in a recesion you guys are not the only affected. Thing about the issues and really really think who has the experience.
I am not from your country and I dont live in your Country. But try to be wise this time it important for the Wolrd as for you. EXPERIENCE DOES MATTER AND IT MATTERS A LOT.

Posted by: angelfrankie | January 7, 2008, 1:10 pm 1:10 pm

Boohooo boohooo nobody loves me.
- Hulllllary (named for 5 Sir Edmond Hilarys)

Posted by: Dave | January 7, 2008, 1:11 pm 1:11 pm

Anyone trying to sell themselves as the “agent of change” and yet appear on a nationally televised stage flanked by Billie Jeff and Madelaine Halfbright is to dumb to get my vote … not that she ever would have anyway

Posted by: LeftCoastCurmudgeon | January 7, 2008, 1:11 pm 1:11 pm

True. I agree with above writer…People, wake up. OBAMA is a MUSLIM ! ! ! ! !

Posted by: Gary | January 7, 2008, 1:11 pm 1:11 pm

if this wasn’t so sad, it would be very funny!

Posted by: im4obama | January 7, 2008, 1:11 pm 1:11 pm

Such a superb acting job – is she going for an Oscar or the Precidency.
The latest polling group must have told her to act like the she’s just a hard-working, good-hearted, smeared, female victim.
And it was an answer to a question about who does her hair.
What a stinkin joke! This loser will do anything to grab POWER.
-the bum

Posted by: ken-the-bum | January 7, 2008, 1:11 pm 1:11 pm

It’s over! The American people see it all: fakeness, selfishness, pride, anger, greed, jealousy, self interest, unkindness, manipulative, lust (Bill), power hungry, desperate, meanspirited, lack of humility, weak, unclear, waffling, unconcerned, lack of clearity, strong-arming, defensive, unatractivness, socialist, respectfull, uncommitted, power hungry, emotional, untested, etc etc etc

Posted by: Obvious | January 7, 2008, 1:12 pm 1:12 pm

Obviously some feel this is biased reporting… something the republicans have had to deal with for several years now.
Listen, the truth is… As much as some of you hate Bush, Bush has done what he said, and have not been swayed to bow down to the Left wing “Lose the War” agenda the democrats have been proposing for 6 years now, which for some reason (yeah, we’re winning the war) have not been a huge part of these primaries.
Look, with the demoncrat party, free health care.. will not free.. someone will have to pay for it. We will have to change the way we live because of the global warming agenda and lies that have spewed out of the mouths of Al Gore and his conglomerates. Change your light bulbs, house repairs (insulation), can’t drive a gas guzzler (hey, it’s a right!). The democrats have a plan and that plan is to control every aspect of our lives.
America will deeply pay for electing the democrats into office.

Posted by: Jon | January 7, 2008, 1:12 pm 1:12 pm

Hmmm. Didn’t Ed Muskie cry once in New Hampshire??

Posted by: Jim in Avon | January 7, 2008, 1:12 pm 1:12 pm

This Obama hype is ALL media fueled. People need to look closely before voting. He is totally scripted. His performance in debates was without substance to say the least.
WAKE UP!

Posted by: mjn | January 7, 2008, 1:12 pm 1:12 pm

Wow. Look at the comments here. What a bunch of horrific hateful people. I bet more than a few of these are starch conservatives who think they are so ‘above’ the arab nations that treat their women like dirt…..yeah right. I see alot of dirt slinging here, and for hte guy who says ‘crying, just like a women…” yeah, crying releases tension so you can pick up and carry on and when it comes to crises and working through pain and hardship and continuing to work and care for people NOBODY has the tenacity that a women does, NOBODY has the strength and ability to carry on that a women does and that probably is because we release our tensions periodicly and don’t carry around festering pent up anger, that say, starts wars, or shows MASSIVE pains in judgements when your mind is too cluttered. It doesn’t matter that someone sheds some tears, it matters how she does her job. Some guy act like morons and punch a wall, or go cheat on their wives as their ‘ release”, a women cries for a minute or two, and then you carry on your way…what makes you think the way men works is better???? have you seen the mess we are in???? Men haven’t done such a bang up job, there folks.

Posted by: Dennis Manning | January 7, 2008, 1:12 pm 1:12 pm

Imagine what would happen if a Saudi Prince called her an infidel?

Posted by: The Storm | January 7, 2008, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm

Her speech when she lost Iowa was typical Clinton garbage. She was trying to sound like she won when she lost by 9 points in 3rd place. Neither Hillary or her husband the impeached former president would know the truth if it was staring them in the face
Did you see the others with her on stage ? a band of losers, Madilene halfwit, Wesley Clark, and oh yeah Monica Lewinsky’s boyfriend …..
It was a pathetic scene

Posted by: Ken | January 7, 2008, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm

Did she cry this much when she found out that billy had been serviced by monica as well as all the others? I would force myself to vote for john mccain before I’d not vote and allow her the win.

Posted by: AMALYNN | January 7, 2008, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm

We don’t discriminate against Hitlery, we just don’t like her. No law against disliking a person. Nobody likes Hillary, plain and simple, and she needs to get the hell out of politics because she’s NOT a leader. So, Buh-Bye Hillary! Buh-Bye!

Posted by: Charles Miller | January 7, 2008, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm

Must be that time of the month…

Posted by: Lib Hater | January 7, 2008, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm

I’ve almost lost my lunch over this one. She’s so completely transparent I can’t believe anyone with at least two functioning brain cells would fall for her act. Her and her husband belong in jail not the White House.

Posted by: Mark | January 7, 2008, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm

Hillary is going to lose, so it’s time to cry. Wah wah wah wah. Boo hoo. Sob. Waaaaaaaaah. “Look, I cried, I must be human. Don’t hate me.” Waaaaaaaaaah!

Posted by: Mr. Lucas Brice | January 7, 2008, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm

Hillary cried? LOL Hillary cried…just like a woman.
Posted by: Catbird | Jan 7, 2008 12:43:21 PM
you’re kidding right? Have you seen Republican minority leader John Boehner from Ohio? He cries ALL the time over his tanned, botox plumped face.

Posted by: Josh | January 7, 2008, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm

Please. Ned Phillips should keep his nose in his own country’s business and out of the USA. Hillary’s experience speaks for itself: she is WHOLLY UNQUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT! She is, however, qualified to lead Communist China. I’d endorse her there.

Posted by: Blubberer | January 7, 2008, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm

Hillary running a campaign on the “Change” theme. Then why are all same old, worn out Clinton people still hanging around. Please America, do NOT take us back to the 90′s, they were nauseating. Bill Clinton was a “do nothing” President that gave us the terroism of the 2000′s. No More Clintons!!!!

Posted by: Scott | January 7, 2008, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm

Hillary Crockadile Tears????
Quick the Academy Awards!!!
Was she wearing her FAKE BLUE EYES, TOO OR HER REAL BROWN ONES…
“It’s Not easy…” she says, YEAH HILLARY, it’s not easy and you are not up to it!!!! YOU ARE FAKE TO THE CORE. Buck up old woman… YOUR “TEARS” JUST ARE NOT WORKING… AND WITH ANY LUCK YOU ARE NOT WORKING EITHER…
Can you imagine the AlQuada getting all weepy????
Can you imagine the Jihad to stop because of your FEELINGS????
Can you imagine “Bill caring what the heck you are aboit… he’s just about HIMSELF… HE IS WITH YOU FOR POWER, TOO… YOU ARE A SORRY MESS.
“TEARS”…. ARE YOU KIDDING!!!!!
GO OBAMA!

Posted by: Jessica Jesek | January 7, 2008, 1:15 pm 1:15 pm

Playing the victim again…. grasping for the “Pity” vote.

Posted by: digit | January 7, 2008, 1:15 pm 1:15 pm

Half of you are attacking her for being insincere (croc tears) and half of you say she’s weak and this proves that she would be too emotional in the White House. Well, which one is it? I think all this really proves is that America still isn’t ready for a female president. Hillary gets criticized for being heartless and insincere when she isn’t “nurturing”, but if she tries to be more sympathetic and emotional she’s called weak. President Bush has cried when discussing the problems facing the US, President Clinton has cried at the funerals of American servicemen, Romney had tears in his eyes recently (don’t remember what regarding). In none of those cases was their competency called into question in this manner.
I’d bet every President has had moments where they go into the Oval Office, shut the room, and bawl. And then they wipe them away and solve the problem. You people are making mountains out of molehills, and it exposes your prejudice.

Posted by: Ellen | January 7, 2008, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm

blubberer…
Well, now…thought you’d send Bush to Communist China, seeing as how he’s using their money on loan against FUTURE tax payer’s money, to pay for a poorly planned war.
“communist” man that is so 60′s; why don’t you read up on the warning signs of FASCISM. FORGET “communism,” dummy.

Posted by: Josh | January 7, 2008, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm

I have to say: she is just sickening. Utterly nauseating.

Posted by: gard | January 7, 2008, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm

she is crying because a muslim is beating her.

Posted by: i h8 dems | January 7, 2008, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm

Hillary is NO JESUS. Don’t even have the nerve to equate her with The Lords compassion and divinity !!!
I remember well how both her and husband Bill blew of Mother Theresa as she tried to speak with them about the value of human life.
The only human lives those two value is their own.

Posted by: Buddy in Pa | January 7, 2008, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm

She is crying because she might not win, I can totally understand this…if she DID win, then I would be the one crying.

Posted by: Brian | January 7, 2008, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm

She is crying because she might not win, I can totally understand this…if she DID win, then I would be the one crying.

Posted by: Brian | January 7, 2008, 1:17 pm 1:17 pm

Reading the majority of comments above I see clearly how so many people were fooled by George Bush’s rhetoric to become president. This country made a huge mistake by voting for him and we are paying for it with our young men and women’s lives in Iraq and Afganastan. You wanted a president you felt comfortable with over someone like Gore that was correct on every issue he brought up. Please, please listen to yourself. Don’t vote for someone just because you think they give good speeches or are good looking. Think this time. Don’t make another 8 year mistake. Give everyone a chance and quit being such cynical people. You are all being swayed by a larger political machines that wants you to think a certain way. Give all the candidates a chance. We need intelligence this time and not just another pretty slogan.

Posted by: Paul S. | January 7, 2008, 1:17 pm 1:17 pm

sounds like hillary ROTTEN clinton has it all figured out….she is just trying to get her female votes back from playa-playa Obama…

Posted by: duke nukem! | January 7, 2008, 1:17 pm 1:17 pm

Much of Obama is as fake as it comes. He puts on that sweet smile saying to himself okay suckers vote for me and they will. Many of this generation is sucked in by his speeches that he copied from former president’s and rehearsed over and over. I am not sucked in by any candidate. I listen to them very carefully and think my voting out before making a choice. You can’t just say oh he’s so nice and he talks so good without investigating more. And it is a known fact that Richardson made a deal to have his voters vote for Obama instead of himself because he was asked if he was looking for a VP spot. Well, he is and he’s wants the VP spot from whoever is the nomination winner but he might get fooled and Hillary could do what Bill Clinton did and win the majority of the bigger states. Honest candidates do not make deals. He should step down and so should Ron Paul and Kuchinich. And like Wolfe Blitzer stated, just because you win in Iowa and New Hampshire there still is a lot of work to do, it doesn’t make you the president or give you the nomination. Its too early to tell who will win the nomination. Didn’t Reagan lose in New Hampshire and Bill Clinton and both went on to becoming president’s? Start reading your history on president’s.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | January 7, 2008, 1:17 pm 1:17 pm

A crybaby running the most powerful nation the world has ever seen? I DON’T THINK SO!

Posted by: Ed | January 7, 2008, 1:18 pm 1:18 pm

Jessica, grow up…
Compare OBAMA and CLINTON’s voting record side by side…
THEY’RE THE SAME aside from 4 minor votes!!!
It’s PERSONAL, not because Hillary is worse…Obama is all light and no substance; yes, I’m an ex Chicagoan I know what I’m talking about.
LOOK THE VOTING RECORDS; and THEN educate yourself on Hillary’s roots, and background, not all of the media lies.

Posted by: Josh | January 7, 2008, 1:18 pm 1:18 pm

“Go Hillary! I’m voting for you. I see how people discriminate against you because you’re not just a woman, but a super smart one.”…
Yeah….I guess what I’m missing in this whole discussion is perspective….I’m sure from the perspective of a snail, a turtle seems pretty damn fast…

Posted by: Leroy | January 7, 2008, 1:18 pm 1:18 pm

She cares about nothing, not “the kids” not “the future” nothing other then power. She is obsessed with it and will stop at nothing to achieve it. Her tears mean nothing. Thank goodness the part of the country with functioning brains have caught on to her. Shes a liar, always has been, always will be.

Posted by: solorunner | January 7, 2008, 1:18 pm 1:18 pm

It’s o.k. Hill,Bill is there for you or his he? Your weak,pathalogical and you are as pathetic as the slickster himself, you enabler …you. You had a better chance if you would have stould up to the Great philander -and sent him packing. Oh yeah that’s rite you would have had to left/ cut the coat tails and your obsession with Power, your dreams would have ended then…was the pay off to stand by your man worth it? The jigs OVER!!! Mrs.Bill Clinton

Posted by: HeeHee | January 7, 2008, 1:19 pm 1:19 pm

It was a planted question, and she teared up, right on que.
Game on, Obama!

Posted by: Bill | January 7, 2008, 1:19 pm 1:19 pm

You people are ill informed.
And that’s shameful as research can be done from right where you’re sitting.

Posted by: Josh | January 7, 2008, 1:20 pm 1:20 pm

You can be a staunch conservative, and you can be an arch conservative, but I really don’t believe you can be a starch conservative…

Posted by: IowaConservative | January 7, 2008, 1:20 pm 1:20 pm

…. to paraphrase the immortal words from Tom Hanks in “A League of Their Own” …… there’s no crying in the White House ! How would this other airhead Clinton react under the ENORMOUS pressures of ACTUALLY being President… She can’t HANDLE the Campaigning!

Posted by: mike from MASSacheapsetts | January 7, 2008, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm

I hope Hilary wins da electshun. Her tears means she really a genious. She is queen and super woman. And I think her stealling of FBI files was right and proper. She was cheated out of her lawyer status in Arkasnans. Couldn;t they see she was just a crying womans. Americons – reunite behind Bill and Hillarie. SHe is our goddess and our master. ELECT Hillare.

Posted by: Osompra | January 7, 2008, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm

…. to paraphrase the immortal words from Tom Hanks in “A League of Their Own” …… there’s no crying in the White House ! How would this other airhead Clinton react under the ENORMOUS pressures of ACTUALLY being President… She can’t HANDLE the Campaigning!

Posted by: mike from MASSacheapsetts | January 7, 2008, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm

“You know, this is very personal for me. It’s not just political it’s not just public.”
ALL THE MORE REASON WHY YOU SHOULD NOT BE ANYWHERE NEAR THE PRESIDENCY!!!!!
The term “crocodile tears” has never been more appropriate than in this instance.

Posted by: FUAROCK | January 7, 2008, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm

Probably feels entitled to the presidency based on her “Feelings”..
Here’s to hoping she cries a lot more in november. Life’s a bitch dont vote for one.

Posted by: Fadedsun | January 7, 2008, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm

She’s a HUMAN BEING, everybody. Her tearing up is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign of her caring and exhaustion. I wish people would stop being so cynical. The vitriolic, sexist tone of so many of these comments is scary. Such hatred only makes the person bearing it look petty and pathetic, not Hillary.

Posted by: Angie | January 7, 2008, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm

You people knock her for everything she says and does. If she doesn’t show emotion they say she is a machine, if she does she is weak. It wouldn’t matter if she did everything exactly like everyone else you would say she didn’t have a thought or action of her own

Posted by: Halfnutzinnh | January 7, 2008, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm

Reading the comments confirms my initial thoughts. The Clintons are seen as so manipulative and polled that the first reaction will be that those were faked tears. More evidence that they will stop at nothing to get power. Its time to say good-bye to Bill and Hillary.
Youre done! get used to it.

Posted by: Bobarino | January 7, 2008, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm

The only candidate who cries better , and more believably- is John Edwards

Posted by: TMF | January 7, 2008, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm

Really, has Obama ever answered even one policy question the same way twice? Talk about spoiled! This movement reminds me of a new toy that every-one just has to have for Christmas, but guess what? If the public does’nt see thru the hype and are silly enough to put empty words over substance this country will go from very bad to unredeemable. Vote your head even if you do’nt like the person. Hillary is super smart and whether she wants to be President because of vanity,pride,LOVE OF HER COUNTRY, because she is a women,or whatever else, she will do a great job. VOTE HILLARY.

Posted by: charles risner | January 7, 2008, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm

Really, has Obama ever answered even one policy question the same way twice? Talk about spoiled! This movement reminds me of a new toy that every-one just has to have for Christmas, but guess what? If the public does’nt see thru the hype and are silly enough to put empty words over substance this country will go from very bad to unredeemable. Vote your head even if you do’nt like the person. Hillary is super smart and whether she wants to be President because of vanity,pride,LOVE OF HER COUNTRY, because she is a women,or whatever else, she will do a great job. VOTE HILLARY.

Posted by: charles risner | January 7, 2008, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm

Where is Newt Gingrich when we NEED him.

Posted by: george | January 7, 2008, 1:23 pm 1:23 pm

Vote for a real man:
Ron Paul! Freedom! Ron Paul! Freedom!

Posted by: Dr Ward Ciac II | January 7, 2008, 1:23 pm 1:23 pm

we need hillary in the white house because she has soooo much experience handling all of the scandals that will crop up when she takes office. she spent 8 solid years in the white house getting the needed scandal experience

Posted by: steff | January 7, 2008, 1:23 pm 1:23 pm

This is a classic Clinton move- I guarantee someone (an FOB) told her to to do this sometime today. This was all planned out and a calculated move

Posted by: Rob | January 7, 2008, 1:24 pm 1:24 pm

Hillary’s deep-seated belief is that she alone can ‘save’ America. Huh? She is also the saddest woman on earth. Even if she got to the White House she would still have a bleak heart. It makes me wonder if she really believes Jesus Christ will return, or is that optional in her particular brand of methodism? This woman is just a downer.

Posted by: sidonie | January 7, 2008, 1:24 pm 1:24 pm

to brian: Would you be crying in your drugs and booze along with Obama if Hillary won the nomination? I think Obama would get drunk for several days if that happened but on the otherhand he’s used to booze. And I am sure he drinks now and then but the public is not aware of it because he pretends to be a good christian. Give me a break. Christians drink too. At least Hillary can honestly say, I lived a clean life when I went to college, there were no drugs and booze in me. Can Obama say that? I would not vote for a candidate that was a former drugger and boozer. I am a democrat and am certainly not voting for him. I wouldn’t vote for him even if Hillary was not running. I detest druggers and he should have known better. How stupid were the people in Illinois to vote him in office. Are we catering to these kind of people. Are we going to put a former drugger in the white house?

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | January 7, 2008, 1:25 pm 1:25 pm

to brian: Would you be crying in your drugs and booze along with Obama if Hillary won the nomination? I think Obama would get drunk for several days if that happened but on the otherhand he’s used to booze. And I am sure he drinks now and then but the public is not aware of it because he pretends to be a good christian. Give me a break. Christians drink too. At least Hillary can honestly say, I lived a clean life when I went to college, there were no drugs and booze in me. Can Obama say that? I would not vote for a candidate that was a former drugger and boozer. I am a democrat and am certainly not voting for him. I wouldn’t vote for him even if Hillary was not running. I detest druggers and he should have known better. How stupid were the people in Illinois to vote him in office. Are we catering to these kind of people. Are we going to put a former drugger in the white house?

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | January 7, 2008, 1:25 pm 1:25 pm

What scares me is “Who is Barak Obama”? He was raised in Kenya, embraced the muslim faith and now that he’s running for President, he says he has embraced Christianity. At least the other candidates were born and raised in the U.S.A. I think we all should be afraid of what “changes” he will make, if elected. I think Hillary should go after his religion like the Republican’s did their own and let him have to explain like Romney.
Wake up people! I don’t want a “so called” rock star running our country!

Posted by: GLENDA GILES | January 7, 2008, 1:25 pm 1:25 pm

Hillary is a sad commentary on the human race. Again I remember when Mother Theresa tried to speak with her a Bill at a dinner. The two of them refused to even stop their chit chatting anongst themselves and treated Mother Theresa as some BAG WOMAN off the street. Hillary has no compassion for the down trodden, no compassion for the sacred…and no compassion or care for the USA..

Posted by: Buddy in Pa | January 7, 2008, 1:25 pm 1:25 pm

reading the comments also confirm my thoughts…..some of your minds are made up, even when it is reasonable to conclude that Senator Clinton is the best choice for our children’s futures…..I find that very sad

Posted by: chris | January 7, 2008, 1:25 pm 1:25 pm

Thank God. It looks like this evil woman will not be our president.

Posted by: DrJeff | January 7, 2008, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm

why the negativity towards hilary and bill ? i certainly be voting for her come the next election, finally some intelligence in the white house. after all these years of ineptitude ,arrogance and stupidity

Posted by: ed | January 7, 2008, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm

To “Angie” and “Halfnutzinnh” and theu liberal emotionally foolish ilk like you….. what would you have said months ago if Bush cried under attack fro Pelosi, or if Reagan Cried. Liberals canNOT stop being hypocrites or liars… it is in the fabric of being liberal.

Posted by: Mark Kenton - Massachusetts | January 7, 2008, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm

Reflecting on several posts… Yes, America WAS fooled by George Bush. But, look at the lying fruitcake alternative at the time. That would have been worse. So, really, it is a really SAD state of affairs in that NONE OF THE ABOVE is probably the best choice. Has it come to this? Maybe it doesn’t matter who is president – they ALL lie and are full of themselves. We just pray to God that Congress can counteract whoever it is that is elected.

Posted by: Jim | January 7, 2008, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm

These comments make me sick. Who are you heartless, ruthless people? It’s people like you who are making me HATE Obama!

Posted by: ray | January 7, 2008, 1:27 pm 1:27 pm

WOW! It’s sad to watch her break down.

Posted by: Chris George | January 7, 2008, 1:27 pm 1:27 pm

Is it me — oooooorrr….did she not get teary? Anyone watch the same video. I did not see tears. Anyone else make the same observation?

Posted by: Lenny | January 7, 2008, 1:27 pm 1:27 pm

Hillary, will be the next president of the United States.

Posted by: joe | January 7, 2008, 1:27 pm 1:27 pm

Hillary, will be the next president of the United States.

Posted by: joe | January 7, 2008, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm

“There’s a time and place for everything”……uhmm, yeah, and she’s sitting around a table talking to a small group of people just talking with no emergencies anywhere in sight. Uhhh…yeah, that is fine time to get a big emotional…during a conversation about something she’s passionate about. And she didn’t “cry” at all. She got choked up. I didn’t see one tear. She released some tension during a quiet conversation. that’s it. What abucnh of drama queens here, including the headline. It’s jsut inaccurate. she got emmotional, that’s all. Be careful you dont get sued. If she loosed becaues you said she cried and she didn’t, you may find yourself in big trouble ABC! you get relookat hte video a nd rethink your headlines. she didn’t cry, she got choked up. And she caughter herself and came right back. Big freakin deal. I want Romney as president, but if any other republican is the candidate, I’d rather have Hillary because she is smart a nd detailed oriented and on top of the issues. Did you Bush look like a d eer in the headlight when 9/11 happened, completely paralyzed, sitting there like a little boy waiting for someone to tell him to GET UP and DO SOMETHING!! Call the planes down, call out the national guard, GET UP! We are under attack! I don’t think hillary w ould be crying then and I don’t think she’d be sitting on her arse either. Bush never got emmotional on the campaign trail but he sure was emmotionally and intellectual not up to the job huh????

Posted by: Janise | January 7, 2008, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm

Just wait until the voters hear about Obama’s self-admitted extensive drug use.

Posted by: Bryan Shuy | January 7, 2008, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm

staged.

Posted by: Bob, DC/USA | January 7, 2008, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm

Mjn you are so rite on !!

Posted by: charles risner | January 7, 2008, 1:29 pm 1:29 pm

The left-wing loons are out in force yet again.

Posted by: DrJeff | January 7, 2008, 1:29 pm 1:29 pm

She should stop siding with Bush . . . her and Bill are entirely too chummy with the enemy (the Bush family).

Posted by: Mrs. Osipov | January 7, 2008, 1:30 pm 1:30 pm

Based on history of recent Clinton campaign rally’s …. odds are 9/10 that the question from the woman is another “plant”, to which Hillary had her researsed answer.

Posted by: jmanny | January 7, 2008, 1:30 pm 1:30 pm

I am actually starting to feel sorry for those of you who absolutely hate either Hillary or Bill or both of them…..its like hatred for them as defined or guides how you will go about making this most important decision, and it kind of blinds you to true consideration of what is really at stake in this upcoming election…..I realize the politics of the neo-conservative movement have made cynics out of even the most passionate of us, but to believe every spin or personal attack or distorted fact thrown out there, just because its easier to believe all politicians are corrupt rather than work a little to distinguish the good guys from the bad, is a great disservice not only to ourselves, but to our own children who depend upon us to make the right decisions for them……

Posted by: chris | January 7, 2008, 1:31 pm 1:31 pm

You people who dump on Hillary are just scared. She’s our next President, people. Get used to it. She’s going to be an AMAZING leader, with integrity, insight, passion, and compassion. She’ll lead the country through a MOTHER’S eyes, unlike that swashbuckling cocaine-snorting alcoholic “Yosemite Sam” idiot who’s in the White House now. What a breath of fresh air this next election will be. I, for one, cannot WAIT!!!

Posted by: Scott | January 7, 2008, 1:32 pm 1:32 pm

To all of those people who are making fun of Hillary crying because she is a woman or that they are “crocidile tears,” I have this to say: Hillary has the intelligence, the experience, and the fotitude to be president of the Unites States of America. All of the other candidates, Republic and Democrat, are running for their own selfish and vain reasons. Hillary is running because she actually give a d@mn and can make this country great again. Bush has brought us to teh brink of destruction and it will take Hillary Clinton to save us.
BTW: Hillary will be elected president this November!!!

Posted by: Bradley | January 7, 2008, 1:32 pm 1:32 pm

Just shows everyone how manipulative she is. She really is crying out of frustration in the fact that she thought she would walk right into the nomination.

Posted by: Joe | January 7, 2008, 1:32 pm 1:32 pm

Crocodile tears. Appratenly she can turn them on and off just like her husband. Did she also bite her lower lip?
This is what every manipulative woman does to win an argument or have a man back off when she is otherwise losing.
I hope she loses more votes because of it.

Posted by: SAM | January 7, 2008, 1:32 pm 1:32 pm

Hillary is great at playing the victim when it suits her.

Posted by: DrJeff | January 7, 2008, 1:33 pm 1:33 pm

When I read this, I threw up a little in my mouth. Wow, she’s pulling out all the stops now! Yeah, I’m going to change my vote cause the ice queen cries….give me a break! Go Obama!!!

Posted by: Abbey | January 7, 2008, 1:33 pm 1:33 pm

Hillary is SO FAKE!!!!!!!

Posted by: pete_ca | January 7, 2008, 1:33 pm 1:33 pm

I can’t believe all of the cynicism and hate on this board. You all need to take a chill-pill. A Clintonesque political strategy to gain sympathy among voters? Right. Did it ever occur to you that the issue may simply be that she is just being human?

Posted by: Tim | January 7, 2008, 1:33 pm 1:33 pm

Amazing how quickly the lib media and democrats will eat their own. They treat they’re own politicians like dirt. Booing Hillary in New Hampshire etc I’m not a fan of hers at all but I’m not a democrat either so how about a little respect for your candidate? This another reason I’m not part of the school yard mentality of the Left.
However, all that being said, suppose you do reap what you sow and the Clintons have sowed a lot of bad stuff so looks like the Karma is finally kicking in. The Clintons have stomped on and trampled so many people’s lives with utter disregard that’s it’s finally catching up with them. Just ask Dick Morris, Peter Paul, and the trail of broken women Bill and Hill have trashed and smeared because he couldn’t control his zipper!
Hillary was a willing accomplice in all of this of course as she was in charge of the bimbo eruption team that smeared and threatened these women to try and shut them up. She hired the private investigators to dig dirt up on them and they were well on their way with Monica Lewinsky painting her as a crazed, ditzy, slick willie groupie until the blue dress showed up and they had to shut their traps.
Yes indeed, it looks like it’s time to pay the piper and it couldn’t happen to a nicer couple. Just ask Juanita Brodderick.

Posted by: mike o'brien | January 7, 2008, 1:33 pm 1:33 pm

What a JOKE!!! You know what is even more nauseating and pathetic than this parasite (H. Clinton)? It’s the poor ignorant morons that buy into her BS!!!

Posted by: WT | January 7, 2008, 1:34 pm 1:34 pm

Where’s Donna Brazile to tell Hillary she needs to wear earth tones and be the ALPHA MALE
HILLARY you can’t repack yourself – America already knows you, Lady MacBeth !!!

Posted by: aaron | January 7, 2008, 1:34 pm 1:34 pm

i have a sincere request for those who hate Hillary Clinton…..state exactly why you hate her, and try to avoid abstractions…..

Posted by: chris | January 7, 2008, 1:34 pm 1:34 pm

This is a Bush tactic — have a plant ask a friendly question and use it to prod emotional response.
Bush’s campaign answer to “how come you’re so great?” is typically a religious one — designed to appeal to evangelical voters.

Posted by: RBS | January 7, 2008, 1:35 pm 1:35 pm

I remember Harry Truman saying: If you want to make a lot of money, stay away from politics. Or words to that effect ole give ‘em hell Harry did retire a poor citizen who served his country well. The CLinton’s did not own a home when they went into the White House eight years later they leave and are multi millionaires.
And how about the Chinese help given to both Clintons in their quest for the White House?

Posted by: Ray Tweedy | January 7, 2008, 1:35 pm 1:35 pm

I don’t doubt that the whole campaign process is hard and exacts a great emotional toll from anyone who’s doing it. But H E L L O ! ! This is the interview process for the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. It HAS to be hard. In this instance, however, I suspect that Hillary is fully aware of what she is doing and saying, and all of it is nothing more than political acting.

Posted by: Andrew | January 7, 2008, 1:35 pm 1:35 pm

I really love it when the lefties who are going to vote for this woman carry on about how she will change this country and make it great again. I have not heard her say onw thing about what she would actually do if elected president. She must communicate with the loons via ESP.

Posted by: DrJeff | January 7, 2008, 1:35 pm 1:35 pm

I don’t doubt that the whole campaign process is hard and exacts a great emotional toll from anyone who’s doing it. But H E L L O ! ! This is the interview process for the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. It HAS to be hard. In this instance, however, I suspect that Hillary is fully aware of what she is doing and saying, and all of it is nothing more than political acting.

Posted by: Andrew | January 7, 2008, 1:35 pm 1:35 pm

I read these message boards, and I see how hateful, how cynical, how unforgiving, and how angry people are in this country. It saddens me to see what this current administration has done to us. Just look around, people. This country is in BIG, BIG trouble. Stop being so sarcastic, and actually THINK before you write something. Please.

Posted by: Scott | January 7, 2008, 1:35 pm 1:35 pm

I read these message boards, and I see how hateful, how cynical, how unforgiving, and how angry people are in this country. It saddens me to see what this current administration has done to us. Just look around, people. This country is in BIG, BIG trouble. Stop being so sarcastic, and actually THINK before you write something. Please.

Posted by: Scott | January 7, 2008, 1:36 pm 1:36 pm

For Hillary haters, if she doesn’t show emotion she’s cold, if she does you mock. I don’t blame her for being frustrated. She is applying for a job for which she is the most qualified. Her competitors are talking CHANGE without any substance and she is losing. One of the truisms of life is that to make change, especially in Washington, you have to know the system. We are not electing an emperor or the Wizard of OZ we are electing a president of the strongest country in the world. We all found out what we got when we elected the good old boy from Texas with the accent who had no idea about the national stage but was a Christian. When somebody applies to me for a job, I try to pick the one with the best knowledge, skills and abilities…not the one who has only Hope to sell or not the one who has the same religious beliefs. Obama is an intelligent person, a wonderful orator and has star appeal. He is also too liberal, too naive and too inexperienced to be president right now—and that could make him unelectable next November. Vote for Hillary….you’ll get more than your money’s worth!

Posted by: JEANNE001 | January 7, 2008, 1:36 pm 1:36 pm

Scott | Jan 7, 2008 1:32:05 PM – Can you be more of an easily lead automotan? She is a miserable, self-righteous criminal, who has used her sex, as a means to over-come her many many shortcomings.
If she became president, at least everyone could stop calling Bush the worst president ever, she’d win that title the first year.

Posted by: Joe | January 7, 2008, 1:36 pm 1:36 pm

ROTFLMAO !!
A little Barry Manilow music playing in the background and this could win an Emmy !
She’s a liberal empty (pant)suit

Posted by: JB | January 7, 2008, 1:36 pm 1:36 pm

She´s all spin.

Posted by: jdc | January 7, 2008, 1:36 pm 1:36 pm

Sorry dumbells, Hillary is going to win. Barrack does not have the substance to pull out a victory. maybe in 8 years he’ll be ready.
all this talk about her losing is a joke. She owns CA, NY, PA, etc…laugh it up now, jokers. we’ll be laughing in the end–gaurenteed.

Posted by: Eddie | January 7, 2008, 1:37 pm 1:37 pm

Wow… Didn’t John Edwards just say that Saturday night? How personal it was to him. HRC is a chameleon… what ever is working for her opponents shee adopts. Obama and Edwards have been talking about change since day one. Just recently HRC has changed her tune and started hammering how she’s the real change agent. How, by going back to the future? Please! Now we get crocodile tears about how this is personal for her – well, Edwards just said that now he she is saying the same thing. She is a joke…

Posted by: CZL | January 7, 2008, 1:37 pm 1:37 pm

I think its interesting that Hillary usurps whatever works for her opponents.
Edwards rocked the debate when he said “it’s personal for me.”
Now all of a sudden – this election is personal for her.
buzz words and tactics copied by Hillary from Obama and Edwards
- “it’s personal for me”
- “fire it up”
- change, change, change, change
- “turn the page”
- going after the young voters.
The media is overhyping things and giving her a rawer deal than she deserves, but it’s clear that the dinosaurs running her campaign and her own ideas are stale and the worst crime to me is that she had no idea how to retool it and make it work. Clear sign that she may not be the best choice.

Posted by: john | January 7, 2008, 1:37 pm 1:37 pm

Is she going to cry when she doesn’t get her way with other world leaders?
Or when domestic issues are hard to resolve?
We don’t need a pouter who can’t get over the fact that she lost in Iowa four days ago.
How will she handle war or terrorism issues that last for years on end?
She doesn’t have the temperment to be president. Period.

Posted by: SAM | January 7, 2008, 1:37 pm 1:37 pm

Sniffle sniffle… you people, just STOP picking on Hillary sob sob sob… (weep weep) you’re SO mean (sob sob) and heartless and cruel you mean people (sniffle sniffle sob sob cry cry).
Nope, just kidding – Psych!!!
Bunch of crybaby liberals!!! LOL!

Posted by: Art A | January 7, 2008, 1:37 pm 1:37 pm

Remember Bill Clinton at the Ron Brown funeral? Go watch the video again. Clinton was yucking it up, then he saw the camera on him. He immediately went to fake crying. Same with Hillary…she will fake anything, say anything to get in power and implement her failed socialism and liberalism. We don’t need the “change” to failed liberalism, higher taxes, weakness and appeasement on radical Islamic extremism. We don’t need Hillary or Obama ruining this country with their so-called “change” to extreme liberalism.

Posted by: New Yorker | January 7, 2008, 1:37 pm 1:37 pm

The sentiment is good but is it genuine. I don’t believe so but I don’t personally know her.
http://www.paulmaywood.com

Posted by: paul maywood | January 7, 2008, 1:37 pm 1:37 pm

No. 1 non-abstract reason to hate Hillary: She panders to the far-left and they hate this country.

Posted by: DrJeff | January 7, 2008, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm

I`m sure the people making 40k a year in D.C. that were in the house travel office who were preseant when Hillary Clinton shouted “Fire all there fannys” after they would not comment illegal acts got emotional also….

Posted by: Joe | January 7, 2008, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm

To Mariann Pepitone:
It absolutely disgusts me to know there are people like you out there that think the way you do. I am appalled anout your description of the White House should Obamam be lected. That is the most UnAmerican Racist closed minded thing comment. I truly hope that some day something softens your heart and enlightens your mind.

Posted by: Tia | January 7, 2008, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm

I`m sure the people making 40k a year in D.C. that were in the house travel office who were preseant when Hillary Clinton shouted “Fire all there fannys” after they would not comment illegal acts got emotional also….

Posted by: Joe | January 7, 2008, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm

Sorry dumbells, Hillary is going to win. Barrack does not have the substance to pull out a victory. maybe in 8 years he’ll be ready.
all this talk about her losing is a joke. She owns CA, NY, PA, etc…laugh it up now, jokers. we’ll be laughing in the end–gaurenteed.

Posted by: Eddie | January 7, 2008, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm

by the way, if, God-willing, Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee, I hope your pride and hatred of her won’t take priority over the best interests of your children when its time to choose between her and the republican candidate….

Posted by: chris | January 7, 2008, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm

People have had it with the status quo and Hillary represents that same fear-mongering, small minded world view of the Bush/Cheney crowd. OK – maybe not that bad but close. Obama is embracing a working majority of Americans comprised of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans and that’s why he is walking the walk of change – not just talking the talk. I used to support Senator Clinton but I’m all for Obama now.

Posted by: EddyNewHope | January 7, 2008, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm

Crocodile tears. If not, plain and simle. No one who cries at a Q and A is qualified to be POTUS.

Posted by: bill | January 7, 2008, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm

Crocodile tears. If not, plain and simple. No one who cries at a Q and A is qualified to be POTUS.

Posted by: bill | January 7, 2008, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm

Women cry when they have quiet down time to release tension, but you threaten their kids and they’ll rip your head off! We will do just fine with a mother leading hte nation. she’s not my number one, but if she were elected, i’d be fine with it. Obama sound like Deval patrick (new mass governor after Romney) to me nad so far we HATE our new governor! We want Mitt back!!! All Deval talking aobut it how he’s going ot raise our taxes…just so tempting when Romney balanced our budgets w ithout raising taxes…so many ways to tax Deval is practically drooling….and who reminds me of him??? Obama. I don’t trust Obama at all. Too much like Deval Patric. Romney, if not Romney, Hillary..and I don’t care that she gets choked up during some quiet down time conversation. Look at Bush. He never got choked up about anything. How wonderful, huh???? he can sends HUnDREDS of thousands to their death a nd not bat an eye!!! how wonderful to have a president with no emmotional core what so ever, huh????!>!?! Isn’t it great!

Posted by: JessnBoston | January 7, 2008, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm

Hardly crying but its resorted to this… Those cold hearted Clinton’s will stoop to new lows in trying to make Hillary human… They worked so hard to make her a machine and now they work to break her down… Oh my. D.G.

Posted by: David G. | January 7, 2008, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm

Hitlery and her crying card runs in the family.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vDtcyVbPvC4

Posted by: bill | January 7, 2008, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm

Mark Kenton: Where have you been? Bush tears up ALL THE TIME. I don’t attack him for that. No matter your politics, these people are under tremendous pressure and scrutiny, especially Hillary. I guess it’s easier for you to call people you disagree with ignorant names than to make a reasoned point. For all you know, I’m more conservative than you are.

Posted by: Angie | January 7, 2008, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm

It is finally sinking in for her. She is done. She claims she has worked for change for 35 years…Well, what has she done????? Really, what has she done? She is a total Beeoothch! Ans no one wants a bitch for president. In fact, what has Obama or Edwards really done? They all talk in platitudes, no specifics. I can’t wait for the general election. The democrats are going to get their asses handed to them when reality sets in to what they are really offering. They offer up everything while wanting to tax us to death for their political paybacks.
Can you imagine Hillary, Barack or Edwards trying to flex American muscle when necessary agaist the likes of Al Queda, Akhmidenijad, etc? Their weakness will cause us more attacks!
Remember what Reagan said, “Peace through Strength”! And we all know he meant it! The democrats are lightweights! They can’t be trusted to address the problems we face.
Bring on novemebr,…..I can’t wait!

Posted by: Greg | January 7, 2008, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm

Hillary Clinton has the intelligence, strategies, experience and passion to change this great country to a great DIRECTION!!! She has the power, leadership and will achieve what she said! Not only an excellent speaker who promises anything only for cheating voters to support for him. Unfortunately, he never considered whether he can keep his promise or how to realize what’s he said, such as Obama! If a person says he can do anything, we should doubt his honesty. Change is good, but can change to a positive or NEGATIVE direction! We should reminder 8 years ago, Bush also said changes. Let’s support Hillary, because we love this country!

Posted by: davidvoter08 | January 7, 2008, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm

It is tough and she has reason to feel emotional but she ask for the opportunity…
That said…it was probably a plant. Tears always worked for Bill.

Posted by: docb | January 7, 2008, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm

Its probably the most “real” I’ve seen her and it shows why we need to keep her from the White House. She WILL try her hardest to turn this country into a communist state, she will surrender to the terrorists, she will allow illegal immigrants to stay she will take as much of your money and give it to people who don’t want to work for a living. This is why she needs to be defeated!!!

Posted by: Dennis | January 7, 2008, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm

If anyone doesn’t think that Marianne Pernold wasn’t a plant then I have a bridge for sale. This is so typicial Clinton.
Why is it that no one ever followed up with Hillary’s claim that Chesea was at risk in New York on 9-11?

Posted by: Mr. Lacal | January 7, 2008, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm

I love Hillary even more now. When i was i bussisness. It was hard for me to let my employees see the human side of me. I did’nt want them to think i was weak. And when i was able to let my guard down. And allow them to see the human side of me. Our work relationships became alot better and at the end they really respected me more. And I believe that Hillary is the same way. I respect her more than i ever did. And I did’nt think i could because i already have the most respect for her. So fight on Hillary fight on.. Greg

Posted by: greg | January 7, 2008, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm

I know a lady who cuts flowers for a living. She cries when she thinks about America’s problems. With all due respect, I don’t think that she is qualified to be President of the United States. This crying is just proof that the campaign is taking its toll on Hillary and she is starting to think about how to bow out. Hillary cannot take it. She does not have to take it. No one ever doubted that Hillary was a real person, despite all the harping of her condescending backers. Hillary’s ambition is unreal. It does not match her talents or her record. She is learning this the hard way. I just hope she learns the lesson.

Posted by: Sean O'Brien | January 7, 2008, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm

dr jeff….spoken like a true Anti-American

Posted by: chris | January 7, 2008, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm

All you are fools to think Obama will win against any of the Republican Nominees. You just don’t get it. You have to beat the Republican Machine, not the nominee. Dems always find a way to screw up an election. I am an independant and find Obama without any experience to handle any crisis. Hillary has beaten the Republican Machine and is the only true candidate who will beat the Republican Machine. If Obama wins the nomination you can guarantee 8 more years of Republican rule. Are we all forgetting the Gonzalez fiasco of firing Dem attorney generals in the swing states and replacing them with Republicans. The Republicans don’t know how to govern but know how to win elections.

Posted by: Bob Blay | January 7, 2008, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm

Ah, ha, ha! I love how the Dems are fractured yet again! It looks like 2000 and 2004 all over again! If it were possible, we could run GW at them again, and they would lose one more time. They can’t dig themselves out of a hole! For sure, no way is our country ready for a leader other than a white male. No disrespect, but a newbie congressman, a crybaby and a self-important hair ad are all the libs have to offer?!?!? This election is going to be too easy. I was worried about Sillary, but the other two dems are much easier to beat. Go GOP, 4 MORE YEARS, 4 MORE YEARS, 4 MORE YEARS…

Posted by: Jazzed | January 7, 2008, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm

Hillary Clinton is probably very tired and overwhelming perplexed that this process is much more difficult than she expected it to be. As for her crying, it wouldn’t surprise me if past Presidents have had a good cry in the privacy of the Oval Office. I recall that George Bush I got “teary” at the end of the 1st Gulf War when considering our armed forces’ casualties.This also brings to mind the scene in Saving Private Ryan when Tom Hanks (Captain Miller) breaks down and has a good cry in private. So, even strong men in very stressful situations are capable of emotional reactions producing tears.

Posted by: Stephen | January 7, 2008, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm

Hey! There’s no crying in politics!
A political low blow if I ever saw one.

Posted by: dansha01 | January 7, 2008, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm

Sorry dumbells, Hillary is going to win. Barrack does not have the substance to pull out a victory. maybe in 8 years he’ll be ready.
all this talk about her losing is a joke. She owns CA, NY, PA, etc…laugh it up now, jokers. we’ll be laughing in the end–gaurenteed.

Posted by: Eddie | January 7, 2008, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm

Hillary Clinton has the intelligence, strategies, experience and passion to change this great country to a great DIRECTION!!! She has the power, leadership and will achieve what she said! Not only an excellent speaker who promises anything only for cheating voters to support for him. Unfortunately, he never considered whether he can keep his promise or how to realize what’s he said, such as Obama! If a person says he can do anything, we should doubt his honesty. Change is good, but can change to a positive or NEGATIVE direction! We should reminder 8 years ago, Bush also said changes. Let’s support Hillary, because we love this country!

Posted by: davidvoter08 | January 7, 2008, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm

Sorry dumbells, Hillary is going to win. Barrack does not have the substance to pull out a victory. maybe in 8 years he’ll be ready.
all this talk about her losing is a joke. She owns CA, NY, PA, etc…laugh it up now, jokers. we’ll be laughing in the end–gaurenteed.

Posted by: Eddie | January 7, 2008, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm

You should ask Clinton if she has the rights to judge? Maybe her 35 years of experience tells her yes?”
Putin sends Christmas greetings, Clinton doubts he has soul
Agence France-Presse
First Posted 06:37pm (Mla time) 01/07/2008
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin sent greetings to Orthodox believers on the Russian Christmas Day on Monday, as in the United States presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton claimed Putin had no soul.
“This festival has for centuries brought the light of faith, hope and love,” Putin said in the Christmas message released by the Kremlin on the Orthodox Christmas day, January 7.
“It draws us towards primordial spiritual values uniting millions of people, values that play a special role in the history of Russia and nourish our national culture,” Putin said.
Putin has committed himself to the Orthodox faith despite his background in the KGB security service in the Soviet era, when Christianity was suppressed.
Dressed entirely in black, the Russian leader joined Christmas ceremonies overnight at a church in the snow-covered northern town of Veliky Ustyug, where the temperature was about minus 17 degrees Celsius (one degree Fahrenheit).
But as Russians and branches of the Orthodox faith in other countries celebrated Christmas, in the United States presidential candidate and former first lady Clinton made a cutting assessment of Putin’s spirituality while campaigning in the state of New Hampshire.
Her remark that Putin had no soul came as she savaged President George W. Bush for his tactic of trying to forge warm personal bonds with foreign leaders.
“This is the president that looked into the soul of Putin, I could have told him, he was a KGB agent, by definition he doesn’t have a soul, I mean this is a waste of time, right, this is nonsense,” Clinton said at a rally.
Her comment reflected tense relations between Russia and the United States and came after a series of jibes against Putin by Republican candidate John McCain.
On Monday Putin was expected to visit a theme park in honor of “Grandfather Frost,” the Russian equivalent of Father Christmas, who is considered to reside in Veliky Ustyug.
The man expected to succeed Putin after a presidential poll in March, Dmitry Medvedev, attended celebrations in the more formal surroundings of Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral.
Christian belief was formally anathema to the Soviet state in the last century, although the dictator Joseph Stalin came to an accommodation with the Church during the struggle to defeat Nazi Germany in World War II.

Posted by: Earl Williams | January 7, 2008, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm

A little emotion about something you passionately believe in isn’t a good thing?!
Haven’t any of you believed in something so passionately before!? Your family, your hopes and dreams!! It’s obvious to me that Hillary beleives in a dream that America can do better…much better.
I was undecided before…not anymore. She’s got my vote!!

Posted by: Greg Hall | January 7, 2008, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm

Hillary Clinton has the intelligence, strategies, experience and passion to change this great country to a great DIRECTION!!! She has the power, leadership and will achieve what she said! Not only an excellent speaker who promises anything only for cheating voters to support for him. Unfortunately, he never considered whether he can keep his promise or how to realize what’s he said, such as Obama! If a person says he can do anything, we should doubt his honesty. Change is good, but can change to a positive or NEGATIVE direction! We should reminder 8 years ago, Bush also said changes. Let’s support Hillary, because we love this country!

Posted by: davidvoter08 | January 7, 2008, 1:41 pm 1:41 pm

What an unmitigated fraud.

Posted by: BlueMax372 | January 7, 2008, 1:41 pm 1:41 pm

Hmmm…Hillary’s version of Bill biting his lip and saying ” I feeel your painnn”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Posted by: AFBlue | January 7, 2008, 1:41 pm 1:41 pm

Hilary is not an agent of change–never was, never will be. Tactics mirror what she did to her opponent when she first ran for her NY seat who is a true Ny’ker and was branded by the Clintons (yes, bill helped the wife bash him) insenstive to women issues. When a breast cancer legislation her opponent was passed, I don’t know how they did it, but nobody heard about and and clintons were campaigning around the state saying Hilary will champaion breast cancer legislation.
She is deceitful and dishonest. That is why people that go to both her rallies and Obama’s end up voting for Obama. He is honest and truthful than she is.

Posted by: roger | January 7, 2008, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm

“Warmly and calmly taking questions.”
And the “undecided” voter wants Hillary to respond to the charge that she is so “wonderful”.
What a bunch of bunk.

Posted by: Spangheimer | January 7, 2008, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm

I feel sorry for our country if all of you are the “new” generation. Your hearts are going to be so broken when you realize the Obama is just a man and can’t deliver on all he has promised you.

Posted by: MAB | January 7, 2008, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm

lol, boy oh boy ABC sure is in the tank for Hillary. Why don’t they just take the dirty money, officially handle all of her press relations from here on in (they’re basically doing it already) and give up any lingering pretense of professionalism?
This article is so disingenuous and contrived it was offensive – and any woman who would vote for another woman simply because she cries on cue is doing herself and the country a grave disservice.
Of course, we should all expect the gender card to be played with great enthusiasm by the Clintonites in the weeks ahead; they can’t run on substance, so they need the tear-jerking moments and all the rest of it to have any chance of securing the nomination.

Posted by: bk | January 7, 2008, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm

BUNK!, It’s all scripted. Phoney, phoney, phoney.
She is a power hungry egomaniac, just like Bill.
The sooner they fade out of sight the better for the USA.

Posted by: Rhett | January 7, 2008, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm

I almost bought it. Almost. And then she mentions how some will be prepared on day one and others haven’t even thought about it. That snapped me back. And then her tears came again. Give me a break, and give the nomination to Senator Clinton. The OSCAR nomination that is.

Posted by: whattheheck | January 7, 2008, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm

Now she’s playing the crying card. I can’t believe it… I take that back. Yes, I can. How long before they cart Bill in to bite his quivering lip for the cameras.
I’d say “Stick a fork in her; she’s done,” only I doubt there’s a fork out there willing to volunteer for the mission.

Posted by: Tony | January 7, 2008, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm

I can’t help it. Reading the posts from guys here in favor of Clinton, make me think of the fellow on the web that was so upset about the treatment of Britney. I think his name is Chris Crocker. Give it a try. Go back and read thier posts and see what I mean. Funny! Obama 2008.

Posted by: Mitch | January 7, 2008, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm

Chris – I will put my patriotism and what I have done for my country up against yours any day.

Posted by: drjeff21 | January 7, 2008, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm

Sincerity is the most important thing and if you can fake that you’ve got it made.Remember this is the person who fired the White House travel staff, had FBI files stolen, directed Sandy Berger to steal and destroy documents from the National Archives before they could embarass her and certainly helped Vince Foster get over his pain. Too bad for Nixon he did not learn to tear up on cue.

Posted by: David FeHill | January 7, 2008, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm

Her crying at a non-emotional campaign event shows that she is unqualified to have the most demanding, powerful job in the world. Ironically, however, her crying jag will probably help her, as people will feel sorry for her and vote for her. Heck, she became a U.S. Senator when the New York voters felt sorry for her because of Bill’s affairs. Sad to say, but the fact that she is a pitiable creature makes her more likely to win, which definately should not be the case in a time of terrorism, but many voters are stupid.

Posted by: FFG | January 7, 2008, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm

LOL!!!! Worth repeating:
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Posted by: Pamela, Brooklyn, NY | Jan 7, 2008 12:43:25 PM
Oh puh-leaze…did they poll whether she should release those tears?
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LOL!!!!!

Posted by: Darryl | January 7, 2008, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm

I’m sure it DOES feel personal to Hillary. She was a “shoe-in” for the Presidency until a few weeks ago. Or at least, that’s what everyone THOUGHT. Most of us could not have predicted the Obama landslide of support. But now that two states determine the future of America, we’d better get used to what’s about to happen. The rest of us (in the 48 states which no longer count) must just watch from the sidelines or go along for the ride.

Posted by: rmberryman | January 7, 2008, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm

John, Did you say Hillary is noseating? Does that mean that she lacks seating? Or did you intend to declare that the Senator is nauseating?

Posted by: Marjorie | January 7, 2008, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm

This reminds me of when Bill and Hill were walking down the beach..just behind his personal assistant…then, out of the clear blue, he finds some rocks, the only ones like these for miles…he bend down and makes a cross out of them….touching. well, i guess hillary is keeping up the same ole game…nice job.

Posted by: greg | January 7, 2008, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm

how disgusting…the attacks on hillary.so she shed a few tears big deal.do you all forget her husband balanced the budget.do u want real change or someone who says their for change(obama) but doesnt have any real plans?do you think shes the only one who has taken pac money to finance her campaign?dig a little deeper into obama campaign finances.By the way to the morons who think hes muslim,excuse me hes baptist.

Posted by: fred | January 7, 2008, 1:44 pm 1:44 pm

how disgusting…the attacks on hillary.so she shed a few tears big deal.do you all forget her husband balanced the budget.do u want real change or someone who says their for change(obama) but doesnt have any real plans?do you think shes the only one who has taken pac money to finance her campaign?dig a little deeper into obama campaign finances.By the way to the morons who think hes muslim,excuse me hes baptist.

Posted by: fred | January 7, 2008, 1:44 pm 1:44 pm

Hurry up and drop out so the Independent voters don’t all feel they have to vote for Obama in the Dem primaries instead of Ron Paul in the Republican primaries.
The entire Ron Paul crowd is praying for a swift exit of Hillary from the scene to free up the Independents.
Heck…even Iowa Republicans were crossing lines to vote against Hillary in the Iowa Caucuses. With all the talk about which Republican to vote for, some smart people were not losing sight of the ball: keep that victim feminist out of the White House!

Posted by: Jim Peterson | January 7, 2008, 1:44 pm 1:44 pm

john, how has bush handled the war on terrorism??? he doesn’t get choked up, hell, the man has no emotions nad it’s worked so well while he sends scores of Americans to their death for nothing, while he’s killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis for nothing. An emmotional core is not a bad thing. She was in a quiet small conversation and got choked up. Big freakn deal. I’m sure she’ll handle terrorism the way she handles everything when she’s working, and when she’s sitting down to tea, I really dont’ care what she does. If she needs to shed some tears, so be it. But I didn’t see her do that. I saw her get choked up and catch herself. sometimes I cry, but you know you break into m y house a nd threaten my kids (as a terrorist would) I’d beat the living pulp out of you and I wouldn’t have a tear in site. Don’t underestimate the strenght of a women, particularly to protect those she is a responsible for.

Posted by: jboston | January 7, 2008, 1:44 pm 1:44 pm

how disgusting…the attacks on hillary.so she shed a few tears big deal.do you all forget her husband balanced the budget.do u want real change or someone who says their for change(obama) but doesnt have any real plans?do you think shes the only one who has taken pac money to finance her campaign?dig a little deeper into obama campaign finances.By the way to the morons who think hes muslim,excuse me hes baptist.

Posted by: fred | January 7, 2008, 1:44 pm 1:44 pm

I’ve got 5 bucks that says the questioner is another Clinton plant, and this whole thing was set up. I’ll read through the rest of these user comments now, and I suspect that I’m not the only one who thinks this.

Posted by: D. Austin | January 7, 2008, 1:45 pm 1:45 pm

” Hillary Clinton is having so much trouble drawing large crowds of New Hampshire voters to her rallies that she’s been busing in supporters from out of state.
That’s what NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell reported on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday.”
Those Teares are nothing more than manipulation or tears of frustration because she isn’t getting what she wants.

Posted by: Patriot2008 | January 7, 2008, 1:45 pm 1:45 pm

Senator Clinton, with the help of her husband, has the qualifications and the resources to unify the global community against terrorism, and that is the only way we will be able to defeat terrorists……thus, since I truly care about our soldiers and about the safety and security of our Nation and our children, there is really only one clear choice for me for the next President of the United States….Senator Hillary Clinton

Posted by: chris | January 7, 2008, 1:45 pm 1:45 pm

I guess she cannot believe that she is not the most likeable person in the world.
In a reversal of a Sally Fields quote,
“You DON’T like me, you really DON’T like me.”

Posted by: TiJon | January 7, 2008, 1:45 pm 1:45 pm

Meh. She’s probably just on her period.

Posted by: Chris | January 7, 2008, 1:46 pm 1:46 pm

When all else fails, cry.

Posted by: Bob, DC/USA | January 7, 2008, 1:46 pm 1:46 pm

Too Bad: there is no time to feel sorry for yourself if you want to be POTUS. This is an automatic disqualifier. Nice try though.

Posted by: The Historian | January 7, 2008, 1:46 pm 1:46 pm

So when Hillary cries on camera it is a vast left wing conspiracy to fool us into thinking she isn’t the devil… or at best she is just a typical weak and emotional woman…
but when GW Bush cries on camera it shows compassion, right?
Partisan hypocrasy or just plain stupidity?
“We report, you decide”

Posted by: Charles H | January 7, 2008, 1:46 pm 1:46 pm

So when Hillary cries on camera it is a vast left wing conspiracy to fool us into thinking she isn’t the devil… or at best she is just a typical weak and emotional woman…
but when GW Bush cries on camera it shows compassion, right?
Partisan hypocrasy or just plain stupidity?
“We report, you decide”

Posted by: Charles H | January 7, 2008, 1:46 pm 1:46 pm

For Hillary-haters, no matter what she does you mock. I am really proud of the fact that the Democrats have such an impressive slate of presidential candidates. Any one of them would be better than the Republican choices and certainly better than we have now. Of that impressive slate—Senator Clinton is the most knowledgable and can hit the ground running on the first day in office. She is more seasoned than she was in her more idealistic years but that is what makes her better than Edwards or Obama. While she still has ideals, she won’t make the mistakes of an idealist…and she therefore is more likely to get things done in Washington. Anyone who says they can change Washington is either lying or is too inexperienced for the job.

Posted by: jeanne001 | January 7, 2008, 1:46 pm 1:46 pm

Hillary Clinton has the intelligence, strategies, experience and passion to change this great country to a great DIRECTION!!! She has the power, leadership and will achieve what she said! Not only an excellent speaker who promises anything only for cheating voters to support for him. Unfortunately, he never considered whether he can keep his promise or how to realize what’s he said, such as Obama! If a person says he can do anything, we should doubt his honesty. Change is good, but can change to a positive or NEGATIVE direction! We should reminder 8 years ago, Bush also said changes. Let’s support Hillary, because we love this country!

Posted by: davidvoter08 | January 7, 2008, 1:46 pm 1:46 pm

They are voting for Shrillary now because she cried!!!What kind of mind-numbing goats are registered to vote in NH???When she stands to whiz,I’ll change my vote to her as well…

Posted by: Charlie | January 7, 2008, 1:46 pm 1:46 pm

For Hillary-haters, no matter what she does you mock. I am really proud of the fact that the Democrats have such an impressive slate of presidential candidates. Any one of them would be better than the Republican choices and certainly better than we have now. Of that impressive slate—Senator Clinton is the most knowledgable and can hit the ground running on the first day in office. She is more seasoned than she was in her more idealistic years but that is what makes her better than Edwards or Obama. While she still has ideals, she won’t make the mistakes of an idealist…and she therefore is more likely to get things done in Washington. Anyone who says they can change Washington is either lying or is too inexperienced for the job.

Posted by: jeanne001 | January 7, 2008, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm

Greg, you are an example of a real man: someone who isn’t threatened by a strong, highly intelligent woman. And the fact you admire her more now for showing her humanity is admirable. After reading so much vitriol, you’ve redeemed my faith that most people aren’t cynical extremists!

Posted by: Angie | January 7, 2008, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm

You all are sexists. This obviously proves that Hillary Clinton is ready to lead on Day One. A President who can cry is a President who can end the War in Iraq and stop nuclear proliferation. You should be calling for Edwards to cry. But he can’t, because he has to be macho. Well, being President isn’t a macho competition. It’s about who can cry the most. And Hillary wins.

Posted by: Hillary just won my vote | January 7, 2008, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm

And this question will turn out to be a plant, like so many other lay down stupid soft ball questions she gets.
When is the lazy media going to stop simply being the Clinton family echo chamber?

Posted by: hunter | January 7, 2008, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm

As a woman, I am more than angry with Hillary. Her mailing sent to NH women on Friday re Obama’s pro-choice “present” votes in the Illinois Senate is one of the lowest points YET in this campaign. Hillary certainly knows–since she has researched this topic– that the Illinois Planned Parenthood Assoc. has given Senator Obama a 100% approval rating and has in fact made a public statement that they “coordinated” his “present” votes with him and feel terrible that his cooperation with them has led to these attacks.

Posted by: Carol Wandrey | January 7, 2008, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm

PRIVILEGE to VOTE is the POWER of CHANGE. For almost 130 times Obama did NOT use his POWER of VOTING. Instead, of saying, “YES or NO,” he said, “PRESENT.” Why was He afraid to say, “YES or NO. What exactly does Obama mean about CHANGE? His view of CHANGE is still NOT clear. I really believe that CHANGE is not only CHANGING the image of the WHITEHOUSE from WHITE to BLACK. Change is having a Government that is truly about the PEOPLE. For too long Government has been operating separate from the PEOPLE. GOVERNMENT is not a separate entity. The PEOPLE’ are the GOVERNMENT. Representing the PEOPLE is OLD School politics; whereas, NEW School Politics is a J—O—B that pays the BILLS and RENT. PEOPLE should be FIRST. For me, a President that says, “PRESENT” is NOT going to fight for the People’s best interest. Why is he afraid to say, ‘YES or NO’? There is NOTHING wrong with CHANGING your views about a specific topic. For example, supposing during a Congressional meeting, you VOTE, “NO” to GAY marriages. But then, after making Gay friends, reading Gay literature, and watching a REALLY good GAY movie like, ‘Connie and Carla’, you decide to CHANGE your VOTE to ‘YES’ for Gay marriages. This is OKAY! At least in the beginning you stood for something. There is NOTHING wrong with CHANGING your MIND. Remember, Animals and Humans BOTH have SPIRIT, BLOOD, WATER, AND FLESH. The ONLY difference is that HUMANS are giving the natural ability to THINK or REASON. After THINKING, it’s okay to CHANGE your MIND. And then, CHANGE your VOTE.

Posted by: Sandy Obu | January 7, 2008, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm

FFG….i agree that many voters are stupid…..just not for the reasons you gave…

Posted by: chris | January 7, 2008, 1:48 pm 1:48 pm

PRIVILEGE to VOTE is the POWER of CHANGE. For almost 130 times Obama did NOT use his POWER of VOTING. Instead, of saying, “YES or NO,” he said, “PRESENT.” Why was He afraid to say, “YES or NO. What exactly does Obama mean about CHANGE? His view of CHANGE is still NOT clear. I really believe that CHANGE is not only CHANGING the image of the WHITEHOUSE from WHITE to BLACK. Change is having a Government that is truly about the PEOPLE. For too long Government has been operating separate from the PEOPLE. GOVERNMENT is not a separate entity. The PEOPLE’ are the GOVERNMENT. Representing the PEOPLE is OLD School politics; whereas, NEW School Politics is a J—O—B that pays the BILLS and RENT. PEOPLE should be FIRST. For me, a President that says, “PRESENT” is NOT going to fight for the People’s best interest. Why is he afraid to say, ‘YES or NO’? There is NOTHING wrong with CHANGING your views about a specific topic. For example, supposing during a Congressional meeting, you VOTE, “NO” to GAY marriages. But then, after making Gay friends, reading Gay literature, and watching a REALLY good GAY movie like, ‘Connie and Carla’, you decide to CHANGE your VOTE to ‘YES’ for Gay marriages. This is OKAY! At least in the beginning you stood for something. There is NOTHING wrong with CHANGING your MIND. Remember, Animals and Humans BOTH have SPIRIT, BLOOD, WATER, AND FLESH. The ONLY difference is that HUMANS are giving the natural ability to THINK or REASON. After THINKING, it’s okay to CHANGE your MIND. And then, CHANGE your VOTE.

Posted by: Sandy Obu | January 7, 2008, 1:48 pm 1:48 pm

Bottom line… America is not a republic but is an Empire (since Wilson’s presidency). This is WHY we need someone fresh and new. This is WHY we DO NOT DARE elect a Clinton or a Bush again. And we dare NOT elect Obama Saddam Hussein bin Laden Barrack. This is a knee-jerk reaction by the liberals out of fear, appeasement, and cowardice. We need an individual that is ANTI-EMPIRE, a Constitutionalist. Someone to help steer us back towards what the Founding Fathers had in mind. I know of only one person running that fits that description. It ain’t Hillary or Obama and it isn’t Rudy or (Give Them Amnesty) McCain… or Mit… or the Huckster… think about it and read your history (if you are able to read).

Posted by: Anti-chris | January 7, 2008, 1:48 pm 1:48 pm

“Meh. She’s probably just on her period.”
You are truly stupid..

Posted by: Charles H | January 7, 2008, 1:48 pm 1:48 pm

Someone just typed that the current admin. is to blame for all the so called US and world problems. How dumb can you be??? The split in this country came about when Nixon was kicked out of office. And who do you think played a small part in that??? Ya, that’s right, the parasite herself (H. Clinton). She was a low level boot licker on the Left’s legal team. This country has never been the same since the late 60′s and early 70′s. The left still to this day wear the Nixon thing as a Medal. Well, guess what all you Leftwingers, we almsot got B. Clinton and should have. There is a War in this country, just of wills and words at the moment, and it ain’t going to get any better anytime soon. I’m not going to knuckle under for no one. You want to bring this country together? You people on the Left had better stop sending Socialists to DC. End of story!!!!

Posted by: WT | January 7, 2008, 1:48 pm 1:48 pm

“Hillary (contrary to what Bill says)… you’re no Mandela”
Hilary 2008 is Edmund Muskie 1968 in a pant suit!

Posted by: dan | January 7, 2008, 1:49 pm 1:49 pm

Hillary Clinton has the intelligence, strategies, experience and passion to change this great country to a great DIRECTION!!! She has the power, leadership and will achieve what she said! Not only an excellent speaker who promises anything only for cheating voters to support for him. Unfortunately, he never considered whether he can keep his promise or how to realize what’s he said, such as Obama! If a person says he can do anything, we should doubt his honesty. Change is good, but can change to a positive or NEGATIVE direction! We should reminder 8 years ago, Bush also said changes. Let’s support Hillary, because we love this country!

Posted by: davidvoter08 | January 7, 2008, 1:49 pm 1:49 pm

“Obama’s admitted drug use is worse than Hillary’s moist eyes.”
Obama never inhaled.

Posted by: Tony | January 7, 2008, 1:49 pm 1:49 pm

And, I did not take steroids, either. I mean it!! If someone doesn’t give me credit again, soon, I may have to …. BWAHHHH! You gotta believe me! See how passionate I am about it?!?!? BWAHHHH!!!! (sniff). See?!? (sniff).

Posted by: Roger Clemens | January 7, 2008, 1:49 pm 1:49 pm

Well Jeanne01, it’s pretty clear your nose deep.

Posted by: Anon | January 7, 2008, 1:49 pm 1:49 pm

12:59:59 post by Troy — you “want a reluctant president.” Oh, okay. Hillary is definitely the only candidate who really wants to be President, so you should keep on criticizing her.
Which one of the candidates is reluctant again, just so I know?
And please don’t say Bloomberg or some other potential 3rd party candidate.

Posted by: mdmdc | January 7, 2008, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm

how about this for a change? dubya probably spent most of his time as President either at his ranch or on vacation……do you think a workaholic like the Clintons would do the same? I think having President Hillary Clinton would be great for a change….

Posted by: chris | January 7, 2008, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm

Good grief, people! Were the tears authentic? Who knows? Who cares? I’m a Republican, with no love for Hillary, but why say she’s not up to the job because she has emotions?
If we eliminated people from presidential eligibility for TEARS, Mr. Bush wouldn’t have ever stood a chance of being elected. How many times has he gotten choked up in public? Would you call him a cry-baby?

Posted by: gb8898 | January 7, 2008, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm

What a phoney!! The only amazing thing is she has gotten as far as she has!! I will have new faith in the I.Q. of America when she is knocked out of the race!!

Posted by: Ryan | January 7, 2008, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm

What a phoney!! The only amazing thing is she has gotten as far as she has!! I will have new faith in the I.Q. of America when she is knocked out of the race!!

Posted by: Ryan | January 7, 2008, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm

Posted by Bradley: BTW: Hillary will be elected president this November!!!
Yeah right Brad. Karl Rove and Dick Cheney already have the software ready to hack into those electronic voting machines. (again) I don’t care if Hillary gets 150 million votes our candidate will get 150 million + 1. Just hope no one catches us this time or we’re going to have to blow up a couple more of our own buildings as a distraction. Well, that and so GW and DC can line their pockets with some more Halliburton cash. LOL
Funny isn’t how all the conspiracy quacks on the Left are screaming about Bush and Cheney profiting from Iraq and ooohhhhh “Big Oil” when their bank accounts are exactly the same as when they were elected (it’s public record btw) While their dimwitted narcissistic savior of the planet Al Gore went from a net worth of 1 million in 2000 to over 100 million six years later! So who’s paying off who you liberal morons! “Big Green” is the biggest scam on the planet and Al Gore and his pals are laughing all the way to the bank! What a joke. Your really need to get your heads out of your rears on the Left.
Hillary is going to be president? I have a feeling the Clinton smear machine will kick into high gear any day now. My guess is either Barak is going to become very depressed and take a little trip to a park Vince Foster style or the cops are going to find a couple kilos of blow with his finger prints on it in the trunk of his Cadillac. The Clintons are back! LOL

Posted by: mike o'brien | January 7, 2008, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm

Well, here come the Hillary supporters. In force too. LOL…

Posted by: Art | January 7, 2008, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm

ANY republican over ANY democrat

Posted by: mike | January 7, 2008, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm

Changing direction? Why don’t the Democrats ever change direction from the perpetual left-turns they are always trying to force upon America?
Good God, Hillary – grow up!

Posted by: One_American | January 7, 2008, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm

Staged crying goes with the staged questions…very weak and wimpy….she is not a leader, she is a witch. Didn;t Bill fake cry also for the cameras? Ron Brown’s funeral?

Posted by: No to Hillary in 2008 | January 7, 2008, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm

I was so moved by Hillary’s descent to tears…almost as much as I was upon seeing the famous picture of “Hitler with the children…..”

Posted by: Pete | January 7, 2008, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm

A politician has three possible occasions where he/she can cry in public in front of a camera and look good.
(1) if there is a natural disaster or a mass murder. The politician comes to visit and sees wounded or dead children. (2) at a funeral to honor those who served in a foreign war. (3) if economic times are hard and the politician witnesses families suffering.
If the issue is himself/herself and especially if it is about getting votes, it just dosen’t come across and leadership.

Posted by: jfm125 | January 7, 2008, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm

Was this a plant?

Posted by: David | January 7, 2008, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm

Great show, now all we need is Oprah crying for Obomba! They just want to take us back, back to when getting a BJ in the white house is not sex and drugs are ok and paying $400 bucks for a haircut is the kinder gentler thing to do! Dems all suck big time!

Posted by: Jack Right | January 7, 2008, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm

Yes, she has tears because the focus group and the likes of Carville said she should. Notice the pattern: when attacked, play the victim card. She doesn’t care about the country. If anything, if she were truly sincere, she would say that she had worked all her life to be the dictator that Alinsky had motivated her to be. She’s seeing the “inevitability” slip away and she is entitled to the presidency!! It’s not fair that a black man is taking it away from her and she can’t really pull the trigger to really go after him for fears she will be called a racist. If this were any other person, she would work to unite the party and urge the frontrunner to hear her side of the argument and press for him to adopt those things. She would rather go for the scorch earth move rather than to lose gracefully to someone else. It is just like Lenin: he would rather have Russia go to the dogs than to help her so that he could be there to pick up the pieces. May the Lord save our nation!

Posted by: Getalife | January 7, 2008, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm

Was this a plant?

Posted by: David | January 7, 2008, 1:52 pm 1:52 pm

Another important question: What are all of you people suffering from severe “Bush-derangement” going to do if there is in fact a democrat in the White House? Who will you hate?

Posted by: Drjeff | January 7, 2008, 1:52 pm 1:52 pm

She cried?? Are they sure? I would talk to her campaign and tell them their robot is leaking.

Posted by: Erich | January 7, 2008, 1:52 pm 1:52 pm

Hillarious is crying because she can’t hardly believe that some half-breed black wannabee “junior” senator with no experince and big ears is kicking her big butt!

Posted by: Pedro Gomez | January 7, 2008, 1:53 pm 1:53 pm

You want emotional weakness? Obama doesn’t even have the emotional fortitude to stop smoking cigarettes. How strong can this con man possibly be?

Posted by: John | January 7, 2008, 1:53 pm 1:53 pm

I think it’s SOOOOO awful for all you chauvinists to say that a great woman like Hillary is crying just to get votes. You all don’t understand the pain of being a woman who has power. Every man wants Hillary brought down, instead of accepting her, and our gender, as the superior. Your all sickos and need psichologikal help.

Posted by: Jill Smits | January 7, 2008, 1:54 pm 1:54 pm

“She needs medication to “take away her blues”. This country doesn’t need a mentally unstable person running it.”
The republicans have certainly enjoyed having Mr. Bush – a mentally unstable person – in charge!!!
Obama is NOT a Muslim. And so what if he were?? You people need to learn the difference between fundamentalist and secular Muslims.
And quit knocking communism! Communism is in the Bible – Acts 2. I wish we were a communist nation!
John Edwards is my first choice. HOWEVER, I will vote for Donald Duck against any republican.

Posted by: Mrs. Osipov | January 7, 2008, 1:54 pm 1:54 pm

Come on… those tears intentional or not is not Presidential. Yeah, she’s ready to start from day-one! Crying like a sniveling baby that didn’t win at tidily-winks. She has become a joke, even as a senator.

Posted by: CZL | January 7, 2008, 1:54 pm 1:54 pm

Hillary Clinton has the intelligence, strategies, experience and passion to change this great country to a great DIRECTION!!! She has the power, leadership and will achieve what she said! Not only an excellent speaker who promises anything only for cheating voters to support for him. Unfortunately, he never considered whether he can keep his promise or how to realize what’s he said, such as Obama! If a person says he can do anything, we should doubt his honesty. Change is good, but can change to a positive or NEGATIVE direction! We should reminder 8 years ago, Bush also said changes. Let’s support Hillary, because we love this country!

Posted by: davidvoter08 | January 7, 2008, 1:55 pm 1:55 pm

~Another woman in the group, Alison Hamilton of Portsmouth, New Hampshire said she, like most of the people in the room, had been leaning toward voting for Obama before the event.
But after seeing Clinton become emotional, she said she was going to change her vote to Clinton.
“That was the clincher,” Hamilton said.~
IMO, this is the most disturbing thing about the article. I could care less if Hillary cries, laughs, or farts when she sneezes, but the idea that her tears would actually cause someone to change their vote blows my mind! So much for strength of conviction…wow!

Posted by: SevenOver | January 7, 2008, 1:55 pm 1:55 pm

For Hillary-haters, no matter what she does you mock. I am really proud of the fact that the Democrats have such an impressive slate of presidential candidates.”
Really like what? Please list them. I’d love to see it.
That is other than her stealing retirees money, (Whitewater) gutting the military and the fact that she wants to start HUGE social welfare programs more than we have ever had by spending tax dollars. Sorry I give enough of my money away to these programs already. She is as corrupt and as big of a liar as they come.
Oh and ask her again what she is doing about CRIMINAL ILLEGAL Aliens please. That is my concern, shutting off the sewer pipe from Mexico, something Bush should be impeached over.

Posted by: Dan | January 7, 2008, 1:55 pm 1:55 pm

I Think I would vote for a Clinton before I would vote for someone who will not even put his hand on his heart when the pledge of alliegience is being recited or the National Anthem is being played. Why vote for someone who will use the Koran instead of the Bible?
No, I will vote for a true American, whether it be Hilliary or not.

Posted by: Pam Davis | January 7, 2008, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm

“laugh it up now, jokers. we’ll be laughing in the end–gaurenteed.” <–The Republicans will be having the last laugh if Chillary ever becomes the nominee. I don't recall the precise percentage of poll respondents who said they wouldn't vote for her under any circumstances, ever, but I do recall that it was quite high. Chillary as the Democratic nominee would be have the Republican nominee dancing in the streets.

Posted by: Tony | January 7, 2008, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm

In a news conference, Deanna Favre announced she will be the starting QB for the Packers this coming Sunday. Deanna asserts that she is qualified to be starting QB because she has spent the past 16 years married to Brett while he played QB for the Packers. During this period of time she became familiar with the definition of a corner blitz, and is now completely comfortable with other terminology of the Packers offense. She has also been to a great number of away games, giving her the experience to QB on other teams turf.

Posted by: Paul Hunter | January 7, 2008, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm

I’d like to know exactly what question was asked. According to the Politico, the question asked was as follows: “As a woman I know it’s hard to get out of the house and get ready,” asked Marianne Pernold, a local freelance photographer. “Who does your hair?” If the question was about her hair, this seems like an odd (read: contrived) response.

Posted by: Mike | January 7, 2008, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm

Then she took an “unexpected” question…
Sure it was “unexpected” wink, wink, wink…

Posted by: Al | January 7, 2008, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm

This was obviously staged and rehearsed. My gosh, how can ABC News run this for Hillary? It’s a joke and made-up. It’s an utter fabrication and media manipulation.

Posted by: Teddy | January 7, 2008, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm

Nice incoherent rant davidvoter.

Posted by: DrJeff | January 7, 2008, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm

It was staged. Watch the video. Notice how she turns right before she starts the melodrama. She turns in the direction of the camera, looks into it for a second, and then the acting starts. Just like Clinton at the funeral a few years back.
These two corrupt liars will say and do anything for power. Scandal after scandal (plants, Hsu, Chinese dishwahser w/fake addresses, Peter Paul, Stan Lee, Vespa, SEC, FCC investigations). Lie after lie. Changing positions, as Edwards observed, within minutes (illegal aliens and licenses).
Hillary and her husband are manipulative frauds. This is part of the make her human meme. Thankfully because of Obama, America has woken up and chosen hope.

Posted by: John Malcolm Samarco | January 7, 2008, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm

how about this? I respect Senator Obama and I believe he would make a decent President and perhaps a great President someday….but Senator Clinton is the best candidate right now, and our situation in iraq is at a critical point….if Senator Obama is the nominee than I will vote for him because I prefer him to any of the republican nominees….but I will definitely be voting for Senator Clinton because I trust her more with my son’s future than I do Senator Obama, who I reasonably believe will need some time to settle into the job…….now, instead of vitriol from some of you b*st*rds who only see red everytime you hear the name “Clinton” and can’t control yourselves which is probably the reason why your poor children are often crying in the middle of night, perhaps you can become a g*dd*mn adult and act like a decent human being with that thing in your head you call a brain…..disagree with what she brings to the table, but if you don’t show some civility through this process, don’t expect anything less than to have your a55 handed to you

Posted by: chris | January 7, 2008, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm

What is the point? Why do you people even waste your time voting ? do you really know what these people stand for? To me these people are coached and prepared for everything they are going to recite to you. How do you know what they really think? It is a popularity contest!! I am 28 years old and have never voted. I want a candidate and their running mate to come out with out their “people” and campaign on their own tell me what they think, no coached statments,…why am i wasting my time this wont work and we will never have a real person as president just people who are good at winning popularity contests…this year after the candidates are narrowed down I am going to listen to their “I am gonna do this and that” statements and write down what they guarantee and when the winner is done serving their term I am going to mail their letter to them and find out what happened to their empty promises…this sounds stupid to all of you but am I the only one who thinks the process needs a new tone to it….
Tired of popularity Contests,
Chris

Posted by: Chris | January 7, 2008, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm

As a lifelong Democrat, I believe Hillary is precisely the wrong person at precisely the wrong time as a candidate for President. First, Hillary is not electable %u2013 more than half of potential voters would never vote for her under any circumstances. Second, Hillary has none of the experience she rails against Obama as not having. Other than her short time as a New York senator, she has no previous experience as an elected official, and no experience in the public or private sectors running or managing a large enterprise. Third, she is a highly polarizing force, who if elected President would be the Democratic equivalent of “W”: arrogant, unable to parlay or negotiate with those on the other side of the aisle (and therefore unable to get things done), and has a “my way or the highway” personality. While I consider Obama a complete lightweight, and Edwards little more than a cutie boy tort lawyer who can’t help trotting out his worn out class warfare message, either one of them would serve the country better than Hillary, who stands for nothing more than the proposition of getting herself elected to office. Finally, we are all quite tired of Bush- and Clinton-style shenanigans. It’s time to try something new and different. Our country is in big trouble, and it will take a real leader to extricate this nation from the deep, deep pit Bush has dug for us.

Posted by: Tom | January 7, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm

Changing their vote because Hillary cried?
Further proof that liberals put emotions ahead of logic, and why they are supremely unsuited for the office of President.

Posted by: One_American | January 7, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm

Do you want a bi-polar president?
Getting mad the at the debate and now crying at a campaign stop?
Wah wah

Posted by: Chris | January 7, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm

A liberal decides to change her vote to a candidate just because the candidate became emotional. You can’t script the stupidity of a liberal any better than this!

Posted by: Tom | January 7, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm

HAHHHAAAA HHHHAAAAHAAAA, yeah that was all so “unscripted”, specially the question on how she “stays so wonderful & upbeat” give me a break, these women changed their vote because she cried???????? are you kidding me????

Posted by: Pedro | January 7, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm

14 of the 16 bills billary has sponsored or co-sponsored have been to name buildings after people. if she wins the white house then senator schumer will have to waste his time on silly things like that instead of being the great senator that he is

Posted by: steff | January 7, 2008, 1:58 pm 1:58 pm

“I was an Obama supporter but since Hillary got emotional I’m switching”.
DO YOU CLINTON HANDLERS THINK EVERYONE IS A NITWIT? This little charade is insulting.

Posted by: ken | January 7, 2008, 1:58 pm 1:58 pm

To all you Hillary supporters: When will you realize that there is a huge base of voters out there who helped put G.W. in the White House because the Dems keep nominating pompous, arrogant, nanny-ish posers like Gore and Kerry? Maybe when you stop nominating Gores, Kerrys and Clintonesses, America will stop electing buffoons like G.W. If you want another Bush Junior like Guliani or (in your minds) worse, like Romney or (gasp!) Huckabee, then go ahead and nominate Billary. I haven’t made my mind up yet, but I am one who is embarrassed for voting for Bush (twice), and Obama is looking better and better to me every day…How do ya’ like them apples?

Posted by: D. Austin | January 7, 2008, 1:58 pm 1:58 pm

Hillary’s wanting so badly to run The Show the Right Way, the Only Way – her way – that she becomes emotional when it begins to appear that she may not get the nomination isn’t reason enough to support her candidacy. Burning desire alone isn’t enough. Don’t like her Putrid Past, her Prevaricating Philandering Partner, her Pre-fab Persona, her Patent Phoniness, her Plan to Pick my Pockets, or her Pinko Politics.
Change is good. Bring it on.

Posted by: P as in Pack your bags | January 7, 2008, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm

So Hillary cried and showed emotion and a female voter is now convinced that she should vote for Hillary. HOW CRAZY IS THAT WOMAN VOTER? You should vote on the issues and the integrity of the person running.
The future of our country shouldn’t be in the hands of someone that is so “emotional.”

Posted by: Milton | January 7, 2008, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm

I love the concern some hillarylibtards are expressing about the harshness of comments. This from the people who hoped Cheney would die of a heart attack or Bush would get shot. People who laughed when Justice Roberts had a seizure. Just like Hillary, a bunch of hypocritical phonies.

Posted by: Edwards_08 | January 7, 2008, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm

If you want your taxes raised.If you want to stay in Iraq. If you want the USA to be the world’s policeman. If you would like to see our dollar and economy crumble, do not vote for Ron Paul. If you want REAL solutions to our great nation’s problems, Vote Ron Paul in 2008.

Posted by: Mike B. | January 7, 2008, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm

HIllery…Why dont you quit?

Posted by: Walter | January 7, 2008, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm

I’m going to vote for Hillary because she has emotions. Believe me, I know what from emotions. Why, just last week, I was in a midwestern state, and my midwestern emotions just came naturally flowing out. I connected with Hillary then. I knew she felt the same way. And, now I’m in New Hampshire, home to me. I’m an independent who thinks change is necessary. In fact, I change about 16 times a day, so I’m all for it. So, this week I feel passionate about change. I think I’m going to South Carolina in a few weeks, and I might still be a little change-uppity, but mostly I’m going to probably feel passionate about the downtrodden. There are so many of them in the south, where I like to feel I’m from sometimes, just like Hillary does.

Posted by: Sybil | January 7, 2008, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm

George HW Bush cries!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_ZJvA1wi6o
George W Bush cries too!
“I’ve got God’s shoulder to cry on. And I cry a lot. I do a lot of crying in this job. I’ll bet I’ve shed more tears than you can count, as president.” –George W. Bush, as quoted by author Robert Draper in Dead Certain

Posted by: Charles H | January 7, 2008, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm

Like her, or don’t like her… but the quality of most of these posts would lead me to shut down this TrackBack feature if it were up to me.
Conservatives- don’t we treasure our ability to run for office- and get an “up or down vote,” without vile name-calling and character assassination?
Liberals- don’t we treasure a breadth of views and personalities, and then simply choose which candidate to support, without needing to dehumanize those we disagree with?
Those are real American values- ones that Dwight Eisenhower and JFK shared. “Change” is great, but I’d like to see us do a little bit of “Restoring” while we’re at it.

Posted by: bco | January 7, 2008, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm

This is not an attack on her as a candidate. It’s just an observation on the english language as she speaks it. You know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know . . . Nearly every sentence she speaks begins with those two words. It is very annoying to listen to her. Just speak. Leave off the “you know”. Maybe I would find it easier to listen – or not.

Posted by: Jerome Thomas | January 7, 2008, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm

She is more frustrated and hurt now because she is losing in the polls than sad over the 4,000 troops she helped kill by voting to send them into Iraq.

Posted by: Chris | January 7, 2008, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm

Hey Jill Smits why are you sticking up for this phony, calculated liar ?
You want more scandals, taxes and adultry ?
everything is excused becuase SHE IS a woman ?

Posted by: Mary | January 7, 2008, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm

Should we just laugh at this whole article. Kate Snow is a pro Hillary liberal media person. There is no way Hillary would sit down with 16 little people if it was not a set up. Please let us hear again how Hillary has worked 35 years for us little people. She took over the education in Ark. and it went from 49th to 50th. Just one of her major accomplishments.

Posted by: SR Williams | January 7, 2008, 2:02 pm 2:02 pm

tHE rEALLY sAD tHING hERE is ABC! They allow this whole thing to be scripted and conveyed to you, the viewer. HAHAHA…

Posted by: sAM | January 7, 2008, 2:02 pm 2:02 pm

Both in the story and the video, the ABC story omits one important detail that would affect the way this incident is perceived: the question. The question that caused her to answer in this emotional way was, “Who does your hair?” If this part was included in the story and and the video, the emotional response may seem more contrived than genuine and more trivial than emotional.

Posted by: Just a Point for ABC | January 7, 2008, 2:03 pm 2:03 pm

She is definitely crying because she is losing. If she’s so tough why is she a cry baby? You can’t be tough one minute and call the sex card the next. She is a fraud and I can’t wait until she and her sort of husband are taken out to pasture…..He said today he can’t make her taller or younger and he can’t make her a winner either.

Posted by: Skylark | January 7, 2008, 2:03 pm 2:03 pm

I wonder whether HC will finish out her Senate term if she drops out of the presidential race? That she ran for the Senate only to set up a presidential run is crystal clear. Will she follow through with her Senate duties if the pres dream goes up in smoke?

Posted by: Travis | January 7, 2008, 2:03 pm 2:03 pm

This from the lady who planted questions. This from the lady flying in people to attend her rallies and calling on people from MA to drive up to NH to make her numbers look good.
It’s over folks and all the lies in Clintonsville can’t save her.

Posted by: Jimmy Simrox | January 7, 2008, 2:03 pm 2:03 pm

Liberals like to pretend that they care about the troops, but the truth is that they hate any and all things having to do with the military.

Posted by: DrJeff | January 7, 2008, 2:03 pm 2:03 pm

Hillary’s fake tears aren’t as disturbing as the woman who’s changing her vote because of them. HRC is crying because campaigning is hard when the fur starts flying? I thought this was supposed to be the “fun” part. When she says “I see what’s happening and we have to reverse it” she’s referring to her polls, not the state of the nation. The Clintons are the poster children for what’s wrong with politics today.

Posted by: Prof M | January 7, 2008, 2:03 pm 2:03 pm

Gads this is odd! I almost pity her but not quite – she is reaping what she sowed. Of course other politicians have teared up but I don’t recall any doing so when asked how they keep up with the toils of running a campaign.
Hillary has ridden her husband’s coat tails as far as they can take her and it isn’t to Pennsylvania Avenue. To think she really thought she could sell the “changing the face of DC and working with both sides of the aisles” nonsense when she is one of the most devisive politicians this country has ever seen. Either she is disconnected with reality or thought the public was ignorant enough to buy that line – which I guess is disconnected as well. Obama is media hype from what I can tell – lots of symbolism, little or no substance (rather typical under the DFL tent). Romney seems the most presidential – educated, successful in the private sector, moral, tough.

Posted by: Trish Zeinert | January 7, 2008, 2:03 pm 2:03 pm

You people are all idiots. Get back to work.

Posted by: lee | January 7, 2008, 2:04 pm 2:04 pm

hillary’s adam’s apple is abc and the woman’s comment that, “that was so real”. talk about a plant. excuse me while i go barf!!

Posted by: phil | January 7, 2008, 2:04 pm 2:04 pm

i can’t imagine liberals being any less qualified to be President than a neo-conservative who sends American soldiers to die based on lies and changing goals, after which he signs a bill into law which would severely affect many one-income families whose one-income is serving the Reserves or National Guard in iraq, and then working to prevent the broadcast of the names of fallen soldiers, ignoring their sacrifice, all the while further dishonoring the memories of thousands more killed on 9/11 by practially abandoning the search for the mastermind behind their deaths……yeah, liberals are not qualified to be evil like that

Posted by: chris | January 7, 2008, 2:04 pm 2:04 pm

She didn’t even realize that she exposed her true agenda when at the end of her performance she replied “some of us know what we will do on day one and some of us haven’t thought that through enough,” The Clinton Machine “attack Obama’s inexperiance at every opportunity” They both couldn’t run a Laundrymat

Posted by: No_Wool_Over_My_Eyes | January 7, 2008, 2:04 pm 2:04 pm

Brilliant. I don’t care what you think about her, but it’s damn refreshing to see someone care about how mismanaged this nation has been under the GOP’s thumb.
Are we all so cynical to believe 35 years of service means nothing to her? It has to mean something.

Posted by: mojopo | January 7, 2008, 2:05 pm 2:05 pm

You can’t truthfully NOR reasonably say Hillary cried because she was loosing. (“She cried because she’s loosing,”) “she cried because she’s weak,” “she cried because she’s upset she can’t have the white house as she likes,” all these negative comments are biased – you can’t prove NONE of them. Moved by their HATRED (and thus irrationality), many commentatators pounce on Hillary every chance they get. That vile emotion is dripping from their comments.
“She cried becuase she’s a woman:” Men cry too; and it doesn’t shrink their size or physique a grain when they do either.
Since she has no justified haters around here, vote for Hillary!!!!!!

Posted by: GT | January 7, 2008, 2:05 pm 2:05 pm

Let’s not forget that good ol’ Billy Boy cried in New Hampshire too!
Everybody needs to watch Primary Colors again, and also pull some historic tape. It was a planned ploy to grab at women’s hearts.
She’s way too confrontational.. “some are right and some are wrong”. Aren’t we through pointing fingers? Shouldn’t we just realize that enough is enough with the Clintons?

Posted by: Kevin | January 7, 2008, 2:05 pm 2:05 pm

hillary’s adam’s apple is abc and the woman’s comment that, “that was so real”. talk about a plant. excuse me while i go barf!!

Posted by: phil | January 7, 2008, 2:05 pm 2:05 pm

She’s already breaking emotionally only two state caucuses in.
Getting mad at the debate, crying while campaigning?
THIS ISNT EVEN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YET or the REPUBLICAN ATTACK DOGS.
Obama isn’t even throwing daggers at her.
What a joke.

Posted by: Kevin | January 7, 2008, 2:05 pm 2:05 pm

Run Frodo Run!
Don’t let hildabeast get the ring!

Posted by: Al | January 7, 2008, 2:06 pm 2:06 pm

Hillary is going to be president!
I have a feeling the Clinton smear and death machine will kick into high gear any day now. My guess is either Barak is going to become very depressed and take a little trip to a park Vince Foster style or the cops in New Hampshire are going to find a couple kilos of blow with Obama’s finger prints on it in the trunk of his Cadillac. The Clintons are back! LOL

Posted by: mike o'brien | January 7, 2008, 2:06 pm 2:06 pm

LOL – I haven’t seen anything as touching since I saw Bill squeezing out a tear at Ron Brown’s funeral!
This is classic Hillary – when cornered portray yourself as a victim or go for the sympathy vote! If that doesn’t work – get nasty and call in a few favors from the MSM.

Posted by: Dan Bray | January 7, 2008, 2:06 pm 2:06 pm

LOL – I haven’t seen anything as touching since I saw Bill squeezing out a tear at Ron Brown’s funeral!
This is classic Hillary – when cornered portray yourself as a victim or go for the sympathy vote! If that doesn’t work – get nasty and call in a few favors from the MSM.

Posted by: Dan Bray | January 7, 2008, 2:07 pm 2:07 pm

Jill Smits, in addition to needing to learn how to spell, you need to learn about Hillary and her fabrications and manipulations. Search hillary clinton + plant + questions and stop the victim card loser.

Posted by: Hillary Edwards | January 7, 2008, 2:07 pm 2:07 pm

Her tears are the defining moment, she knows she’s done. Of course she will blame everyone, but she has defeated herself.

Posted by: Dick Sicario | January 7, 2008, 2:07 pm 2:07 pm

I saw her on the New Hampshire debate and she looked like a 1950′s Packard automobile and Sen Obama looked like a 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Seville. People who know cars understand what I mean.

Posted by: James Varela | January 7, 2008, 2:07 pm 2:07 pm

I have never seen the left and right so united before!
We all owe Hillary a big Thank you for that!

Posted by: lles | January 7, 2008, 2:07 pm 2:07 pm

Who cares? She’ll still kick the republican in the balls and get the job done. Has everyone forgotten about the crybaby republicans who cannot seem to win an election to save their lives?????????

Posted by: Kyle | January 7, 2008, 2:08 pm 2:08 pm

Pathetic desperation. The media is eating it up.

Posted by: Jack | January 7, 2008, 2:08 pm 2:08 pm

Croc Tears.
And it’s almost time to sing…
Ding Dong the Witch it dead :)

Posted by: Kimo | January 7, 2008, 2:08 pm 2:08 pm

That’s some of the best acting ever done by a clinton – still not very good though. Anyone who can’t see thru this ploy is really suspending the disbelief. I saw no tears, she simply spoke in a phony sad voice.

Posted by: squeenter squillo | January 7, 2008, 2:08 pm 2:08 pm

Liberals also like to pretend that there is no war on terror, and that sometimes sending troops to various parts of the world is necessary as a pre-emptive strategy; forgetting of course that there has not been another single attack on our soil since 9/11.

Posted by: DrJeff | January 7, 2008, 2:08 pm 2:08 pm

“Putin has committed himself to the Orthodox faith despite his background in the KGB security service in the Soviet era, when Christianity was suppressed.”
Christianity has NEVER been suppressed in the Soviet Union!! HELLO?? Has anyone noticed all the churches located in Russia? Including Red Square?? Look at St. Vascily’s (U.S. refers to it as St. Basil’s). My husband was raised in the Orthodox church in Russia and knows more Bible than anyone I know here.

Posted by: Mrs. Osipov | January 7, 2008, 2:08 pm 2:08 pm

Here we go again with the defensive libs attacking George Bush… Look, losers, your weeping candidates ARE NOT running against George Bush. All we’ve seen from Hitlery is that she plays to the camera, she obeys her pollsters… When they said “laugh everything off,” Hitlery was bursting out in maniacal laughter at press conferences and debates. That didn’t last long, did it? Now they’re telling her to “act more feminine,” so she’s shedding a tear for the camera. This is EXACTLY the SAME WAY her husband behaved, relying on pollsters and playing to the camera. Remember that classic Clinton moment when Bill was caught on camera LAUGHING at a funeral, until he saw the cameras and bowed his head in grief and anguish? SAME EXACT behavior that Hitlery exhibits. Kids, if you want “real change,” then kick the Clintons OUT of American politics, and purge Congress of its deadwood. These aging hippies are keeping us in the 1960s with their flower-power socialism and anti-American agenda.

Posted by: Charles Miller | January 7, 2008, 2:09 pm 2:09 pm

It’s all an act. This woman will do anything to get elected.

Posted by: melvin | January 7, 2008, 2:09 pm 2:09 pm

If I could say one thing to Hillary I would say: “Thank you Sen. Clinton for everything you’re doing for this country. It’s true you will not be the next president, Sen. Obama will, but please remember the you don’t need to be president to do great things for this country.” Sen. Obama is the right person at the right time to lead this country and I’ve thought since he announced last Feb that he would breeze to the presidency in the end. Hillary would have been an excellent president, but I wasn’t willing to take a chance on her because I fear she would have lost the general election. The republicans wanted her to win badly. They like their chances against her. They’re running scared of Obama, and that makes me happy. It’s great to be a democrat and great to feel proud of this country again!!

Posted by: Joe Anon, Chicago | January 7, 2008, 2:10 pm 2:10 pm

The rumors of the Clinton campaign whispering that it could be over soon must be true, because they must know that it is huge gamble to pull a scripted stunt like this. Surely they must know that if they are caught (and trust me, even though there is a lot of friendly media, like ABC, there are enough journalists out there who will actually do their job and chase this Marianne Pernold Young person down)…if they are caught, then it is over. Immediately. No New Hampshire, no Super Tuesday. No 2012. Over. And good riddance, I say. America is tired of the Phony Megalomaniac 1st Family.

Posted by: D. Austin | January 7, 2008, 2:10 pm 2:10 pm

Sounds like she took a page out of Bill Clinton’s Book. Do you recall when Bill Clinton was caught on video laughing as he was leaving the funeral of US Commerce Secretary Ron Brown? When he saw the camera, Bill went in a flash from laughter to tears. This is just another Clinton stunt designed to convince New Hamshire voters that Hillary has a heart.

Posted by: Ron | January 7, 2008, 2:11 pm 2:11 pm

Bill Clinton looks more and more like W.C. Fields

Posted by: xman | January 7, 2008, 2:11 pm 2:11 pm

I’m glad the dem’s are finally wakeing
up and realizing what total frauds the Clinton’s are and were.
Now their going to nominate a political novice in Obama who will try to “learn on the job” during these internationally tough times and run the most powerful country the word has ever seen…Jeez..
He talks of “change” which means the usual leftist rants of higher taxes, more governmental controls pushing us to a nanny state.
Wake up and get an adult to run this country…Fred Thompsoon!!

Posted by: Dr Smooth | January 7, 2008, 2:11 pm 2:11 pm

Her tears are the defining moment, she knows she’s done. She will blame everyone else, but she defeated herself. She should of lied instead of cried and stayed in the clinton tradition of deceit, might have survived.
Buy Buy Hillary

Posted by: Dick Sicario | January 7, 2008, 2:11 pm 2:11 pm

Good Lord! Where did all this come from? You would think Hilary was someone like… Well, someone like Bush! Where is this irrational hatred coming from? Socialist? Do you even know what that word means? There are a lot of socialists in this world, and they are a scary lot, but they wouldn’t give Hilary the time of day, because she ain’t anywhere near being one of them. Stick to reality please.

Posted by: Wilkins | January 7, 2008, 2:11 pm 2:11 pm

Obama is pretty, but he’s pretty unelectable too!

Posted by: GT | January 7, 2008, 2:12 pm 2:12 pm

Who the Hell cares if Pernold Young, whoever that is, was motivated to vote for Madam Hillary? This kind of claptrap from the MSM is typical. If Ms. Clinton is going to get teary during a primary campaign, how will she react when the next attack on the US occurs? What a baby.

Posted by: Jeff | January 7, 2008, 2:12 pm 2:12 pm

I cannot believe some of the idiotic comments on here. Hillary knows Wshington and she can get things done. She shows up to vote yet Obama has missed over 80 percent of the votes in the Senate….. So who is working and voting and who is off elsewhere with Oprah and friends ?? Wake up America….Hillary has what it takes to turn around the mess the Republicans and Bush have left us with !!

Posted by: jimbo | January 7, 2008, 2:12 pm 2:12 pm

“But after seeing Clinton become emotional, she said she was going to vote for Clinton”
I beg this woman to not vote if a phony, staged performance coming from what was likely a phony, planted question to give Hillary a chance to pretend to cry is a reason for this twit to vote for someone. This woman is what’s wrong with the country today–we vote based on feelings and visceral response rather than on a thoughtful, considered evaluation of the candidates and their positions. This is sad and pathetic.

Posted by: MikeA | January 7, 2008, 2:12 pm 2:12 pm

LEAVE HILLARY ALONE!!!
How FRIGGIN DARE anyone out there make fun of Hillary after all she has been through!! She lost Iowa, she went through a bad debate. She had one friggin kid. Her husband turned out to be a user, a cheater, and now shes going through a primary battle. All you people care about is… change and making fun of her. SHE’S A HUMAN! What you don’t realize is that Hillary is In to Win and all you do is write a bunch of crap about her. She hasn’t been in the White House in years. Her slogan is called “more experience” for a reason because all you people want is MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE. LEAVE HER ALONE! You are lucky she even spoke to you BASTARDS! LEEEAVE HILLLARRRY ALLLLLONE!

Posted by: Apolex | January 7, 2008, 2:12 pm 2:12 pm

Do you need a mike for an intimate group of 16 undecided voters at a roundtable? She handled the mike professionally and turned into the camera at exactly the right point in her “personal” moment. Great camerawork too, perfect framing. And she looked wonderful for a woman her age. I guess this happened to be one of those days when she got a little help. Of course it was practiced and staged.

Posted by: Rabel | January 7, 2008, 2:13 pm 2:13 pm

I can respect her feelings and reactions… it’s respectable to feel passionate about your beliefs and passionate about your country. But to the voters using this to sway their minds to vote for her… don’t give her the “pity” vote. If you were unsure before her tears, then feeling bad or sorry for her “struggles” shouldn’t sway your position. Obama has equal hardships when faced with his convictions and goals vs. his skin color and religous beliefs. We’ve questioned his entire upbringing in attempts to discredit him. How many have questioned Hilary on her life “pre-Clinton in the white house era”? If Obama cried, would you feel more inclined to vote for him? Probably not, because “men don’t cry”. That’s a sign of weakness for men but it’s endearing if women do it? Is she going to cry every time another country or the UN disagrees with her? Allowing tears to change your vote is the kind of poor decision making that got us into the mess we’ve had the past 8 years with Bush. Don’t hand the fate of our country and government over to someone for the price of a few shaky words and witheld salty tears.

Posted by: Roscoe | January 7, 2008, 2:13 pm 2:13 pm

To mojopo: Thirty-five years of service doing what? Being a first lady? Hiding her law firm’s conflicts of interest? Speculating in shady land deals? Giving her pals White House travel contracts? If her service means so much to her, why have she and her husband specifically locked up any records of it until well after the election? The only thing she has done consistently for the last thirty-five years is look the other way while her husband chases skirts.

Posted by: Prof M | January 7, 2008, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm

It’s difficult to watch this clip. It just boils me inside to know that Hillary believes her husbands tricks will work again. Remember Bill’s pursed lips and squinting eyes? “I didn’t have sex with Ms. Lewinsky”. Hillary is acting and is clearly desperate at this point.
It’s been a LONG time coming but….
Buh bye Hillary.

Posted by: Mary Bailey | January 7, 2008, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm

We are only 7 days into 2008, and I am disheartened by the anti Hilary sentiment coming from the bogglers, in a time when democrats should be uniting. The most frightful thing about all the anti- Hilary posts here are how deeply they echo Republican/Evangelical rhetoric and tone, our Dems new cry for change seems like the exact same blinded passion that gave us 8 years of Bush and indisputably the greatest fall from grace this country has ever known. Any and all anti-Hilary votes or dispatches seem to be coming from a deeply subconscious Freudian fear and anger. Stop voting personality first. 3 undeniable pts she made at the debate on saturday night, in the face of severe gang attacks and pressure were these-
1)you voted for personality for the last 8 yrs, for someone you wanted to have a beer with or made you feel warmly in his compassionate talk
2)Americans must have AMNESIA to have forgotten (or pretended to out of a personal dislike) about the balancing of the budget and the real prosperity and standing Americans enjoyed during CLINTON 1.
3)Many of Obama’s proposed policies are based on ones Hilary Clinton help initiate over 10 YEARS AGO
Beware, beware- remember Gore’s loss to Bush bc he wasnt charismatic enough, beware a Clinton loss because of YOUR HUBRIS.

Posted by: LauraCA | January 7, 2008, 2:15 pm 2:15 pm

I am in my late 50′s and a republican and I agree with the younger generation. Do not vote for the same old crap. We have had 12 years of the Bushes and 8 years of the Clinton’s. We have had enough of their BS. Hillary is a vindictive hateful person and she will NEVER change her ways. Keep Bill and Hillary out of the White House. Vote for real change!!!

Posted by: Joe | January 7, 2008, 2:16 pm 2:16 pm

for those of you who are absoutely defined by your hatred of Hillary Clinton, I can’t possibly imagine what it must be like to be your child

Posted by: chris | January 7, 2008, 2:17 pm 2:17 pm

its like you poor saps can’t control yourselves and have no memories whatsoever of the good things the Clinton Administration did

Posted by: chris | January 7, 2008, 2:17 pm 2:17 pm

If she’s crying now “because it’s hard,” how does she think she’s going to handle the times when there are hundreds of decisions to be made? Decisions affecting millions of lives not only her own. Will she retreat into her room, cry and let Bill handle it?

Posted by: Steve | January 7, 2008, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm

i feel sorry for you, i truly do, but i feel worse for those you are supposed to teach and inform and I hope that when you get mad at them, your rage is somewhat restrained..

Posted by: chris | January 7, 2008, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm

Wake up America….Hillary has what it takes to turn around the mess the Republicans and Bush have left us with !!
To JIMBO: Yeah, what a “mess” America is in. We’ve got full employment, an economy that grew at over 3% in 2007 through the 3rd quarter (4th quarter data hasn’t been released yet), record home ownership even with the uptick in foreclosures, a record stock market, wages outpacing inflation. On national security we’ve been protected from further Al Qaeda attacks on our soil since 911 which most experts said would never happen. We’ve had fewer Al Qaeda attacks on Americans overseas (outside of Iraq), 80% of Al Qaeda’s leaders including the mastermind of 911, Khalid Sheik Mohammed are dead or in prison, and Al Qaeda effectiveness, especially in Iraq, has been severely diminished. If this is a “mess” Jimbo, then give me more “mess” because that’s a pretty damned good record. Bush having prevented further terrorist assaults on our territory alone is enough to secure him a lasting legacy.
As for Hillary’s ability to deal with “messes,” why has she used New York’s Senate seat as a stepstool into the White House rather than using it to help some of New York’s messes, like a 15 year old recession in upstate New York she’s done nothing to solve? Hillary doesn’t care about solving problems. She only makes bigger messes like we saw with the 1993 healthcare fiasco she totally botched. She can’t point to any problems she’s solved. She only cares about serving her ego and her unbelievable lust for power.

Posted by: MikeA | January 7, 2008, 2:19 pm 2:19 pm

If she was tearing up, then why aren’t any of the physiological signs of crying present in this video? No red eyes, no puffiness around the eyes, no other sign of crying than her voice.
Nope, just a performance. More BS from Hillary.

Posted by: Yeah... Right | January 7, 2008, 2:19 pm 2:19 pm

Hey Chris why would you ever want to imagine to be anyones child, …..
kind of a sick thought process
don’t ya think ?

Posted by: xman | January 7, 2008, 2:19 pm 2:19 pm

She is crying cause she knows few people really like Her. She knows that people know she is evil, lies like Bill, is a Fake. Did’t she say at one time she wanted to join the Marines???
Only the Media loves Her. Even my mean
mother-in-law hates her.

Posted by: Francisco Pinon | January 7, 2008, 2:20 pm 2:20 pm

Hillary is just one of the reasons.
http://www.americanwomensuck.com/

Posted by: JDR | January 7, 2008, 2:20 pm 2:20 pm

i dont remember hillary crying when the clinton attack dogs were calling 10 different women trailer trash because bill couldn’t control his urges any more than a dog can control his urges. im sure bill feels hillary’s pain right now. his divorce lawyer had planned to wait until hillary lost the national election before he filed but now he may file in 2 weeks when she officially drops out of the presidential race.

Posted by: steff | January 7, 2008, 2:20 pm 2:20 pm

Hmmm…
I guess she forgot about those pesky voters on the way to her coronation.
“Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow!”
by Fleetwood Mac was their theme song in the 90′s
or maybe it should be now…
“Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” by the Fontanas
Har Har!!!

Posted by: Lord Har Har | January 7, 2008, 2:21 pm 2:21 pm

and as for the neo-conservatives, you guys would easily crucify jesus again in a heartbeat because he would be a threat to your church, at least the one that has been manipulated by your anti-Christian theology to b*st*rdize the name and message of God and Jesus Christ…..if you can do that to the deity you claim to praise, what do you think you’re doing to the country you claim to love?……almost 4000 soldiers dead and many more thousands maimed and suffering from mental trauma….that’s the neo-conservative legacy….and its ultimate destruction

Posted by: chris | January 7, 2008, 2:21 pm 2:21 pm

Unexpected question? I’m sure she was expoecting it – after all the other plants her campaign made, this one should be believed? How dumb do the Clintons think we are — never mind, they have made that patently clear.
Sure, and that was a sincere tear, just as the tears that Mr. Bill shed over Ron Brown were sincere. He was laughing until he spotted the camera, and then he suddenly had to brush away a tear.
There isn’t anything honest or sincere about these two. Every move, every breath is calculated.

Posted by: Emma | January 7, 2008, 2:21 pm 2:21 pm

Oddly enough, can anyone rememeber her crying BEFORE? I think NOT. That’s just because THIS is yet another ploy to show
her HUMAN SIDE. I’m NOT buying it. This
woman is tough as nails, and she would NEVER show this side of herself. It is
ANOTHER move, just as her message of change(copying Obama)to try to fool those who are at these meetings. Bill is still out there “pandering” for votes
and if SHE can’t do it alone, HOW the hell will she handle the likes of Hugo,
Ahmadenijad, Assan, etc.? SHE CAN’T.
It’s not HER records that she discloses
yet, in the claims of being a “Co-Pres.”
w/Bill, so this 35 yr.experience, is b.s
and does NOT make her qualified. I do predict, that after she is OUT, she and
ole Slick Willy, will GO SEPARATE WAYS,
FINALLY. This, is because she has been an enabler to him for yrs.of his morally
loose lifestyle, and she hung on to him,
as a means of seeking high office. He is
also seen for what their ineptness during their ‘reign of power/money’ was,
and people are opening their eyes to what these two criminally active people were all about: “Money/Power/Mongers” and VAST EGOES.

Posted by: Jo | January 7, 2008, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm

evil is what evil does, and evil has no regard for the lives of others……sounds a little familiar, doesn’t it George Walker Bush?

Posted by: chris | January 7, 2008, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm

and Dick Cheney…

Posted by: chris | January 7, 2008, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm

Dems, you think Obama is our savior, just wait. I love how Obama supporters can support a candidate who preens at the word “hope” and the crowd goes wild!! What has this country come to that this is the best the Dem Party can offer? OMG, horrors, let’s pull out of Iraq now even though most of the country hasn’t done a damn thing to sacrifice for it or get involved (on both sides). Yeah, he’ll be much better than that meany, George W. Bush! How much of the phenomenon of Obama has more to do with this country’s absolute hatred for the war and all things military? Makes you wonder if Obama’s message is one of “hope” or “hatred.”
As to Hillary’s tears…wahhhh!!! When nothing else works, break out the tears. As to Obama, when nothing else works (you know like ideas?) break out the hope parade. Gimme a break.
I’m not much impressed with Republicans either. It’s time to look behind the masks of these candidates. To Obama voters: do you agree with his stance on illegal immigration? Do you agree that illegals should be legalized? Do you think we should federally “mandate” health care a la Great Britain? Position papers are one thing…real
“change” is quite another.
I’m sorry but when this guy rides on the coattails of JFK or Martin Luther King it just shows you 60′s flower children and me generation socialists (of both echoboomer, X, and Y generations of which I’m a part of) what you really are: suckers.

Posted by: Erin | January 7, 2008, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm

She’s a fake and a phoney. People can see right through that.

Posted by: Karen | January 7, 2008, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm

Please visit Drudgereport.com and click on WASH POST HILLARY VIDEO: ‘FIRED UP AND READY TO BORE’…
It says it all regarding HELLary!
GO OBAMA! (the real First Black President)

Posted by: maria4america | January 7, 2008, 2:24 pm 2:24 pm

Please visit Drudgereport.com and click on WASH POST HILLARY VIDEO: ‘FIRED UP AND READY TO BORE’…
It says it all regarding HELLary!
GO OBAMA! (the real First Black President)

Posted by: maria4america | January 7, 2008, 2:24 pm 2:24 pm

OK- Sure she is crying…her nomination is not as “inevitable” as she once thought….all those years of priming Bill…..strong arming people….and what does she get in her first primary races – loss to a newcomer,.,… sure she’s crying – - crocidile tears.
NOTE TO HILLARY: Mayeb you should not have been so arrogant about baking chocolate chip cookies or trying to find out how to willingly suspend your disbelief……doyou believe now…..

Posted by: few | January 7, 2008, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm

Kneel all of you, and prepare to bask in the glow of Giuliani! THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND!

Posted by: Drilling | January 7, 2008, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm

i’m abit bothered that a seemingly hard core feminist like hillary would try and use her tears to influence people. it makes me angry in fact. she’s smarter than that. for pete sake’s, she’s been a member of congress long enough and in the white house for eight. i’m very disappointed!!! as a feminist myself this really bothers me.

Posted by: lo-tauqua | January 7, 2008, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm

Hmmmm….these questions couldn’t have come from plants???…isn’t it sad when I can’t even trust that someone is really crying and that it wasn’t focused grouped. She is crying because her “coronation” is failing. She could care less about us.

Posted by: Benjamin Harrison | January 7, 2008, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm

Thank You Iowa
Maybe we can finally get rid of these corrupt liars the Clintons
They have been playing the entire country as fools for a long time
Enough already

Posted by: Jeff | January 7, 2008, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm

Be careful, that phony tearing smirking non-leader no core value question planting furniture stealing crook will sick the irs on your laughing azz!

Posted by: dn | January 7, 2008, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm

The fact that she made this qoute listed at end of my e-mail, says she’s never read his books. Barack, has given much more thought to the issues than she has. He even wrote 40 plus pages about his beliefs on faith. That’s more candid and personal than she has ever been. I’m sorry I don’t buy her tears, everthing seem contrived with her.
“You know, some of us put ourselves out there and do this against some pretty difficult odds, and we do it, each one of us because we care about our country but some of us are right and some of us are wrong, some of us are ready and some of us are not, some of us know what we will do on day one and some of us haven’t thought that through enough,”

Posted by: Concerned About America | January 7, 2008, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm

So now we’re cynical for not buying into this obvious attempt at manipulation? Hillary is, at root, worse than Bill. He is a born sociopath (no conscience) so one can almost forgive him for being manipulative and uncaring.

Posted by: gard | January 7, 2008, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm

JIMBO writes: “Wake up America….Hillary has what it takes to turn around the mess the Republicans and Bush have left us with !!”
To JIMBO: Yeah, what a “mess” America is in. We’ve got full employment, an economy that grew at over 3% in 2007 through the 3rd quarter (4th quarter data hasn’t been released yet), record home ownership even with the uptick in foreclosures, a record stock market, wages outpacing inflation. On national security we’ve been protected from further Al Qaeda attacks on our soil since 911 which most experts said would never happen. We’ve had fewer Al Qaeda attacks on Americans overseas (outside of Iraq), 80% of Al Qaeda’s leaders including the mastermind of 911, Khalid Sheik Mohammed are dead or in prison, and Al Qaeda effectiveness, especially in Iraq, has been severely diminished. If this is a “mess” Jimbo, then give me more “mess” because that’s a pretty damned good record. Bush having prevented further terrorist assaults on our territory alone is enough to secure him a lasting legacy.
As for Hillary’s ability to deal with “messes,” why has she used New York’s Senate seat as a stepstool into the White House rather than using it to help some of New York’s messes, like a 15 year old recession in upstate New York she’s done nothing to solve? Hillary doesn’t care about solving problems. She only makes bigger messes like we saw with the 1993 healthcare fiasco she totally botched. She can’t point to any problems she’s solved. She only cares about serving her ego and her unbelievable lust for power.

Posted by: MikeA | January 7, 2008, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm

She is HUMAN.

Posted by: Women cry, men drop bombs | January 7, 2008, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm

Just don’t trust any questions given to Hillary, from so-called audience, after all the plants and set ups. It seems Hillary is incapable of answering a unrehearsed question.

Posted by: Tobias2012 | January 7, 2008, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm

Did she cry when all of those soldiers are brought back from iraq in body bags?

Posted by: nate | January 7, 2008, 2:27 pm 2:27 pm

Bill Clinton use to cry all the time when he needed to his poll numbers to go up. I’ve been waiting for her to do this.

Posted by: amy | January 7, 2008, 2:27 pm 2:27 pm

“Jesus wept.
If Jesus can cry, I guess Hillary is allowed to cry.
If any of you think you’re better than Jesus, go ahead and keep criticizing. Otherwise, please shut up.”
- – -
The citation is John 11:35 – and the King of Kings expressed emotion for a much different reason than having to respond to a planted question.

Posted by: jrg | January 7, 2008, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm

Damn! She sounded almost likeable, but then after all I’ve seen of her ther last 15+ years, I still don’t think I can believe what she says. Let me be skeptical and suggest the question was a plant. Maybe not, but maybe it’s that she’s just so frustrated that after all this work and all of her hopes and asperations, she knows it may have all been for nothing and that’s where the emotion really comes from. And as far her saying that “this is what some of us CHOSE to do”, (there is that choice thing again), Hillary, you are a politician. It’s what you’ve always done.

Posted by: LongT | January 7, 2008, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm

And the oscar goes to … HRC.
A planted question and a planned response – that is just disgraceful.
AND she’s stealing the “it’s personal” from Edwards.
How low can she go?
All of this to get some white women in NH to vote for her.
I hope it won’t work – for all our sakes.

Posted by: mary | January 7, 2008, 2:29 pm 2:29 pm

“Beware, beware- remember Gore’s loss to Bush bc he wasnt charismatic enough, beware a Clinton loss because of YOUR HUBRIS.”
If I remember correctly…Gore WON that election. Florida and the Bush clan messed that one up for the rest of us thanks.

Posted by: Azra | January 7, 2008, 2:29 pm 2:29 pm

Cue up the crying strategy. How much you want to bet that the questioner was a PLANT so that Chillary could act emotional. Don’t put anything past the Clinton’s sense of entitlement. They will pull out ALL stops. Fasten your seatbelts.. this will only get worse as she falls deeper into the hole.

Posted by: Casey | January 7, 2008, 2:29 pm 2:29 pm

“Beware, beware- remember Gore’s loss to Bush bc he wasnt charismatic enough, beware a Clinton loss because of YOUR HUBRIS.”
If I remember correctly…Gore WON that election. Florida and the Bush clan messed that one up for the rest of us thanks.

Posted by: Azra | January 7, 2008, 2:29 pm 2:29 pm

it always takes such tragedy to shock people into seeing what is taking place before their eyes….thus it is with iraq, thus it is with laws made AFTER THE FACT…..if you can’t anticipate the solution, you won’t prevent the problem, and right now, the problem is neo-conservatism, the problem is iraq, the problem is terrorist attacks, the problem is a increasingly worse economy, the problem is a increasingly worse environment, the problem is increasingly expensive gas, the problem is increasingly worse health care, the problem is increasingly unaffordable education, the problem is a lot of things…….but there are candidates out there right now, seeking to solve those problems, some more telegenic than others, others more experienced than some, but one with the experience, the passion and the resources to get it done right from day one, and day one is when it needs to get started, because every day that passes is a day the problems get worse, not better, and it will take that much longer to achieve the solution

Posted by: chris | January 7, 2008, 2:29 pm 2:29 pm

She remembers what her priapic husband told her: “If you can fake sincerity, you got it made!” May Hillary go down in flames.

Posted by: Vince Benedict | January 7, 2008, 2:29 pm 2:29 pm

Obama is one of America’s great con men, nothing more.
Obama might inspire, but he inspires in the model of Jimmy Carter, who accomplished nothing and left the country in far worse shape after four years.
Obama simply pontificates too much in generalities. Where is the meat in his words? The country has problems that need specific, practical solutions, not puffy rhetoric. I can get that in a church.
We need someone in the White House who is shrewd enough to actually get something done in Washington.
As our senator in Illinois, he has proven that he is much more interested in personal gain than public service. Nobama. No way.

Posted by: Derrick | January 7, 2008, 2:29 pm 2:29 pm

You people act like she was sobbng. Her eyes got a little watery and her voice quivered for a moment. She is passionate about she believes in and it is refreshing to seem emotion instead of rote response to every question. Is is so bad to be slightly emotion about our COUNTRY that is in the worst shape ever of my 32 years of life?

Posted by: oklahomadem | January 7, 2008, 2:29 pm 2:29 pm

Hillary is exactly what this country needs. Someone that actually cares, who is smart and intelligent! And yes emotional. So freaking what she shed some tears. Let see how many tears you shed when your husband, father, or brother dies in Iraq because of this stupid War. Who the hell are we fighting in Iraq anyway. They do not even have a military in Iraq. Hillary can do the job and she should get the job. A WOMAN CAN RUN THIS COUNTRY!

Posted by: lbonds | January 7, 2008, 2:29 pm 2:29 pm

Hillary is exactly what this country needs. Someone that actually cares, who is smart and intelligent! And yes emotional. So freaking what she shed some tears. Let see how many tears you shed when your husband, father, or brother dies in Iraq because of this stupid War. Who the hell are we fighting in Iraq anyway. They do not even have a military in Iraq. Hillary can do the job and she should get the job. A WOMAN CAN RUN THIS COUNTRY!

Posted by: lbonds | January 7, 2008, 2:30 pm 2:30 pm

You feely-touchy libs are hilarious. “Oh, Hitlery would make a wonderful president, but America’s not ready for a woman in the White House.” Hey, pinheads, we’ve already HAD a woman in the White House…and it was Hillary Clinton, to be specific. What did she do as First Lady? Hmm, well, she tried to place 7% of the American economy under government control with her SOCIALIST health care plan, which failed miserably. She used the FBI to ILLEGALLY obtain files on over a thousand political opponents. She used the IRS as a weapon to punish people working in the White House Travel Office. She got up in front of the American people and defended that scumbag husband of hers when she knew FULL WELL that he was a cheating sack of sh¡t. So, we’ve ALREADY had a woman in the White House, you idiots, and we WON’T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE TWICE.

Posted by: Charles Miller | January 7, 2008, 2:30 pm 2:30 pm

“How do you keep upbeat and so wonderful?” This is a question from an undecided voter? Give me a break!

Posted by: thotho | January 7, 2008, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm

Grow some Hillary!

Posted by: cbeargal | January 7, 2008, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm

Waa, waa, waa. “It’s so hard…” What the heck would she do if the really hard stuff started flying? This woman will do anything. She’s lied so many times about so many things. Just one more tactic. Too late, too many people are on to her now. Thank goodness.

Posted by: jack allen | January 7, 2008, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm

for all of our sakes, especially our soldiers and our children, some of whom are already soldiers and some of whom will one day soon be soldiers, I wish Senator Clinton good luck……not only does America need her in the White House, but so does the rest of the world

Posted by: chris | January 7, 2008, 2:32 pm 2:32 pm

“But after seeing Clinton become emotional, she said she was going to vote for Clinton”
I beg this woman to not vote if a phony, staged performance coming from what was likely a phony, planted question to give Hillary a chance to pretend to cry is a reason for this twit to vote for someone. This woman is what’s wrong with the country today–we vote based on feelings and visceral response rather than on a thoughtful, considered evaluation of the candidates and their positions. It is just sad and pathetic what’s happening to our democracy as voters put less and less thought and research into their votes and just allow themselves to be manipulated by the media and lying hacks like the Clintons.
What kind of simpleton would allow their vote to be influenced by Hillary’s latest insult to our intelligence with this ludicrous acting job? Why do fools continue to be manipulated by the Clintons and why are they unable to see that when the chips are down is when you can count on Bill and Hillary to create the most delusion and deceit to pull the wool over the voters’ eyes? Hillary is desperate and will stoop to any level to fool voters and drones like this woman in the article fall prey to it. The Clintons love to play idiots like that for fools. But then you’d have to be a bit of a dupe to believe in these 2 corrupt creeps the Clintons anyway.

Posted by: MikeA | January 7, 2008, 2:32 pm 2:32 pm

How can Hillary get tears in her eyes over the election. Did she get tears in her eyes by Voting to send our Soldiers to Iraq? No!How many Soldiers have we lost over there; to many.

Posted by: Listen Up | January 7, 2008, 2:34 pm 2:34 pm

Grow some Hillary!
Posted by: cbeargal
___________________
Obama doesn’t even have the jewels to be able to stop smoking. Now that’s emotional weakness.

Posted by: Robert | January 7, 2008, 2:34 pm 2:34 pm

She had to cry… Bill already has the lip biting trademarked.
If ABC were doing the actual job of journalism, they’d be asking Marianne Pernold Young whether someone suggested that question to her beforehand.

Posted by: James | January 7, 2008, 2:34 pm 2:34 pm

The question is, why did anyone think that this lady EVER had a chance at winning the presidency? No one outside the beltway could’ve made that mistake.

Posted by: Brady | January 7, 2008, 2:34 pm 2:34 pm

Only Billary could possibly make it through a Senate camplaign, a Senate term, and presidential campaign with never having an open question press conference. Her arrogance is beyond belief and the press is finally starting to hold her accountable.

Posted by: TN | January 7, 2008, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm

People like to talk about BDS, but the folks posting on this thread need some heavy therapy or perhaps a few anger management courses. John Boehner cries on a bi-monthly basis, but his tears are tears of a patriot, right? This sad part about most of your comments – they lead me to believe that your intellectual curiosity is about level with those idiotic 9/11 conspiracy theorists. Your infatuation with the Clintions is great comedy; it will be interesting to see how restrained these same folks will be once Obama is nominated as the Dem candidate.

Posted by: liloI | January 7, 2008, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm

Oklahomadem, you were born before 1979, therefore, you comment is entirely false.
She’s a fraud. Right before she welled up, she turned to face the camera. Her husband, honest Bill did the exact same thing at the Ron Brown funeral. You and the morons like you who think people are bashing the poor old victim, that anyone cares about showing some emotion, need to wake up. The problem is, like the questions at her Q&A sessions and the MA people at her NH rallies, it’s fake. BS. Manipulation. Remove your head.
She’s a proven liar. Corrupt. Obama 08.

Posted by: Andrea Taverna | January 7, 2008, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm

She probably just read the recent polls before sitting down to talk. Panic is starting to set in as her “inevitability” is crumbling. That is what happens when you feel entitled to being the President and are working for your own personal goals instead of the needs of the voters. She has not connected and is having a problem connecting. Yes, she is scared and is getting emotional. But it was not tears for the voters but tears for herself. To describe it as for anything other than self-serving is as phony as a 3 dollar bill. It simply is not her time.

Posted by: amy R | January 7, 2008, 2:36 pm 2:36 pm

I am an independent voter, 32 years professional guy. I believe this is one of the most important elections in our life time and will define the future of our country. What I have noticed is a little alarming I would say and remains me a lot of corporate marketing, on one side is the new product that noone really knows; but they are pushing in with an incredible marketing campaign including a gifted voice, the media can’t see anything wrong about that product or just don’t want to look at it -maybe because the media is owned by the same corporations that are pushing the product and pay for they advertisement!- In the other side, is a completely meticulous campaign to ridicule, demonize, crate hatred against the rival product, hatred that can easily become part of their own destruction. The media and the machines keep focusing in this fight without giving any change to the other products in this case candidates. Is ironic that the new product and the “old” product are both getting almost the same amount of money from the corporations or groups that hold the real power. Those powers are playing safe…either one of then is what they want. The process itself become a farce and unfortunately some of the people feed that marketing frenzy to the delight of the BIG POWERS. What a pity that our own party is destructing itself for short victories, how sad is that you have to torn down a person to almost crashed like the Obama campaign is doing with Clinton (and I am not a Clinton supporter yet); but I don’t like to see how the Obama campaign is practically following and recycling some of the same material used by the Republicans against the Clinton.
We’ll see how far they go with that strategy. I am sure the “wave or change” without clear agenda is going to hit shore real soon. At this moment the “wave” of people don’t want to listen to anything wrong or scrutinize the ‘rider of the wave” and corporate America and the news media are showing again that they don’t care at all all they care is about money; just as they were silent to scrutinize the bush government after 9/11 and Iraq. Shame!

Posted by: Mark | January 7, 2008, 2:36 pm 2:36 pm

Hillary’s interest is in Hillary. So was Bill’s. She never cared about this country just herself and power.

Posted by: Karen | January 7, 2008, 2:36 pm 2:36 pm

for some of you, I don’t think its possible to insult your intelligence

Posted by: chris | January 7, 2008, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm

It’s very difficult with questions as hard-hitting as “How do you keep so upbeat and wonderful?” Hmmm. I might feel badly if she didn’t have a history of (i) planting questions to calculate responses, and (ii) playing up her role as a victim. Truthfully, I don’t want to see any candidate welling up with tears, unless he or she is watching the ending of It’s a Wonderful Life or Field of Dreams.

Posted by: daypass | January 7, 2008, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm

I agree with MikeA
“But after seeing Clinton become emotional, she said she was going to vote for Clinton”
Its this kind of stupid thinking by voters that allow us to have so many lousy elected officals ruining this country
People treat these elections like its a game or a popularity contest
To vote for some to be president becuase they became emotional is a disgusting waste of a vote

Posted by: Tim | January 7, 2008, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm

communist china is reeling after hillary’s demise in the polls. they were counting on her to continue to sell out her country the same way her soon to be ex husband did.

Posted by: steff | January 7, 2008, 2:38 pm 2:38 pm

Hillary tears up when asked who does her hair? Heaven help us when she is confronted with the enemy.
Obviously she had heard how shrill and strident her voice has been in the past and is trying to soften up a la Pelosi.

Posted by: Sloaneranger | January 7, 2008, 2:38 pm 2:38 pm

She wasn’t even crying! Just got a little choked up. Who cares?

Posted by: allison | January 7, 2008, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm

OK, she cried. Calculated. We all know that. But what keeps getting missed is how much she talks about her RECORD and EXPERIENCE but has no more than Obama. She’s been a Senator only slighly longer than him (and has no stellar record there)and other that that? Uh…First Lady? No. “Working for families for 35 years”. How? As a lawyer?
Enough is enough. Who cares about her croc tears – let’s go after her RECORD of ZILCH.

Posted by: ModRep | January 7, 2008, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm

Gasping for breath now… Finally
Ron Paul ’08
The only person who can really turn OUR country around.

Posted by: Ben | January 7, 2008, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm

She cries over some interspective question of “how she does it”??? She claims she is ready to lead the United States of America??? She must of skipped Leadership class 101, leaders don’t lead by trying to make us feel sorry for them.

Posted by: drac55 | January 7, 2008, 2:42 pm 2:42 pm

Here’s the writing on the wall:
Hillary will lose in NH and Obama will de facto become the favorite in the eye of the media. Wolffe’s piece in Newsweek reflects the increasingly naive posture of some Americans towards Obama. He may win the first two primaries, but he is far from ready to even face off with the republican nominee, be it Mc Cain, Mitt or Huck. He will be eaten alive by the credibility of any republican nominee.
His message of hope is more so a naive message of utopia and idealism. He is a rookie, even by the Senate standards.
Best illustration is for those that watched the ABC debate on Saturday. Hillary was the only one to address the difficult issue of leaving Iraq. She outlined the most disciplined, responsible way to get out of Iraq. She also was very articulate at explaining how the next American president would need to make sure that foreign leaders of troubled countries understand that there is no safe heaven, that stateless entity that attack America will be hit in any geographic area with the full might of the US military. Heck, I did not even hear a republican say that so clearly and loudly.
Experience does matter, and hillary has plenty of it. She will need to stick around for Super Tuesday and then the big states will hand her the nomination. Nyers, Californians, and FLoridians are more seasoned and responsible voters than looney Iowans, or ultra liberal NHites. They know what is at stakes.
And for God’s sake, the economy was performing on all cylinders during the Clinton era and our standing in the world was of an America that was respected not only for its might but most importantly for its principles.
I myself was waiting to for the NH debate to see who the democratic nominee should be. I was intrigued by Obama, but realized that the guy is a rookie that looks good only on paper.

Posted by: The Goos | January 7, 2008, 2:42 pm 2:42 pm

The Presidential Race, My Take
By Alexander P. De Filippi
Monday, January 07, 2008
Mainstream republicans have reasons to celebrate and to worry, from the news coming from the Iowa caucus this past Thursday January 3. In effect, Mike Huckabee, the mainstream candidate and future presidential republican nominee, won easily the election. The media calls Mitt Romney “the establishment candidate” because he has money, the true is; the real establishment candidate is Huckabee, who represents the George W. Bush line in all matters, from free trade, to immigration in addition to his pro-life stance.
The mainstream or establishment candidate in the Republican Party is not determined by the amount of money or name recognition of the candidate, but by the base of support within the Republican Party that the candidate has. Governor Mike Huckabee has on his favor the two main factions of the Republican Party, the Christian right and the business community, no one of the other republicans in the race count with those two elements of support. Giuliani, McCain, Ron Paul, have to divide among themselves the fiscally conservative, non religious right, which is located mostly in the east and west coast, and that does not surpass more than twenty percent of the republican electorate across the country.
The second good news for republicans came from the democrats results, the establishment candidate, Senator Hillary Clinton, came on a third place. I call her the establishment candidate because she counts with the media support and the money coming from the business community located mostly in California and New York. It is very difficult to foresee that Barack Obama could win a presidential contest against Mike Huckabee, therefore if the democrats nominate Senator Obama they would be loosing the presidential election, a presidential election that based on the results coming from the 2006 congressional election is up to the democrats to loose.
The sobering or sour note for republicans came from the Iowans participation in the caucus, Iowa isn’t New York, Iowa is a conservative state that went for George W. Bush in 2004 and slightly for Al Gore in 2000. Therefore, the fact that the people participating in the democrat’s caucus was two and a half greater than those participating in the Republican caucus is a bad news for republicans. Iowa has only seen benefits for the last seven years from the George W. Bush administration, Iowans should be grateful of republicans, also, in that state, the grass root republican machine is almost as good as the one they have in the south, in fact the Christian republican grass root machine runs well even in New York City. The Iowan local press isn’t liberal either, therefore that massive participation of people, including independents, in the democrat’s caucus, is impressive and should put the republicans on notice that something as unusual as the awful results of the congressional and gubernatorial race of 2006 could happen again this year.
The democrats conundrum. The democrats have the momentum with the American electorate this year as they had it on 2006, therefore wining the presidential race should not be a problem for them. Nevertheless, in spite of the favorable winds, the democrats find themselves unable to nominate a good candidate; any of the three main contenders, Obama, Edwards and Clinton is an easy target for republicans. Any of those three should loose in a race against Huckabee, any of those three democrats will have to name a vice-president that can propel them, maybe Al Gore? Vice-president again? I do not know. I believe the democrat establishment will be able to save Hillary Clinton becoming her the democrat nominee, unfortunately for democrats, she is a poor candidate, as any of the three just mentioned. Therefore, the democrats’ faith depends of two factors, the vice-president they name, and a repetition of the 2006 phenomena where independents and moderates, nationwide, broke for the democrats. The democrats could make easier for them to get the independent and moderate votes if they play the “minister card” against Huckabee. Independents and moderates that make up easily twenty percent of the electorate, tend to be non religious, the reason they tend to be moderate or independents is become they do not take any position to the extreme, whether we talk about politics, environment or religion. In addition, in this occasion, the republicans, apparently, won’t have the Hispanic support as they did in 2000 and 2004, the media has manipulated the immigration subject in such way that Hispanics, unfairly though, perceive republicans as anti-immigrants.

Posted by: Alexander De Filippi | January 7, 2008, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm

Did anyone else notice the necklace she was wearing? Tears, Christ on the cross, a broken and soft voice… She’s a cooked goose. Thank the Lord.

Posted by: Brian | January 7, 2008, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm

Boo Hoo my foot. Clinton trick #101. Fake crying on TV for the female vote. I’ll be glad when she is ran out of New York, her and Slick!

Posted by: Willy. | January 7, 2008, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm

If one of the male candidates running for president had sat at the same round table and teared up, most of this country would have lost respect for him. How backward that it helps Hillary to become emotional. It amazes me. She’s running for President. Not your best friend.

Posted by: Haley | January 7, 2008, 2:45 pm 2:45 pm

Are you all guys Republicans? I can’t believe you are really Obama followers and attacking another Democrat like that. This is insane. If the kind of change he will bring to the country is based on hate and destroying other candidates I definitely hope he lost. That constant personal attacks on Clinton or Edwards or anyone that disagree or ask Obama something is crazy.
Again, can’t believe the amount of personal hate toward Hillary most people write here. Thats insane!!!!

Posted by: Mary | January 7, 2008, 2:45 pm 2:45 pm

ABC baby….Anybody,But Clinton. I’m going to go have a beer. She’s going down like Monica Lewinsky.

Posted by: John | January 7, 2008, 2:45 pm 2:45 pm

Anyone who thinks he is better off under Bush the Idiot than he was under Bill Clinton, raise his hand. Bill Clinton was the finest President this country has ever had. Loved and cherished around the world, fought for the little people of this country, handed us a beautiful economy and money to grow on. Why, oh why, would you not want to return to that? Because he got a blow job in his office? C’mon. Don’t you know a lot of powerful men in history were getting blow jobs from several women in their lives?
So many criticisms of Hillary Clinton, and yet, we would be best off with her as our President. She is tired from campaigning and cried. That does not make her less tough. It means she is human.
Obama is pretending to be part of the American black experience when in fact he is not. I do not think he will get the nomination and I do not think he will become president. America will not elect a black president. If he is the Democrat nominee, Democrats will lose, and we will have four more years of our young people dying in Iraq, or worse, a world war. Do you want that? Do you honestly want more Republican lies and going without while they hike the price of gas and prescriptions?
America could elect Mrs. Clinton, and would be wise to do so.

Posted by: Pat Gresham | January 7, 2008, 2:46 pm 2:46 pm

Are you all guys Republicans? I can’t believe you are really Obama followers and attacking another Democrat like that. This is insane. If the kind of change he will bring to the country is based on hate and destroying other candidates I definitely hope he will lose. That constant personal attacks on Clinton or Edwards or anyone that disagree or ask Obama something is crazy.
Again, can’t believe the amount of personal hate toward Hillary most people write here. Thats insane!!!!

Posted by: Mary | January 7, 2008, 2:46 pm 2:46 pm

Give me a break. What a great performance by Hillary. She has my nomination for an Oscar for best leading actress. The Clintons, both of them, will do anything to get elected but this takes the cake.

Posted by: Craig | January 7, 2008, 2:47 pm 2:47 pm

If you change your vote to Hillary because she “got emotional”…you need to have your right to vote revoked.

Posted by: Skerdog | January 7, 2008, 2:47 pm 2:47 pm

Best line of the debate was Hillary saying “I want to make change, but I’ve already made change”. There you go, we’re done. No need to run for president….

Posted by: WB | January 7, 2008, 2:47 pm 2:47 pm

It is all about Hillary in her mind. She is sad because the people don’t seem to want her controlling every aspect of their lives. Just go away Hillary.

Posted by: Tobias2012 | January 7, 2008, 2:47 pm 2:47 pm

Jeez, if she’s gonna cry over this at such an early stage of the “game”, it makes one wonder just prepared she is to lead this country. The answer: she isn’t ready, capable, or experienced to lead. Period.

Posted by: MAinPsych | January 7, 2008, 2:48 pm 2:48 pm

Wow, I have never seen so much hateful speech directed at one person who I bet none of these people have ever met. Get a life, both Hilary and Bill are smart, successful and hard working people, yeah they may be power hungry but maybe that’s b/c they want power to try and improve this country and the lives of people who live here. Oh yeah Obama’s not hungry, he gave a nice speech one day and the next day he wants to be president, come on. You have to be power hungry to want to be the leader of the free world you idiots. One post I saw got it right, clinton haters unite, Obama in 08 = Nader in 00 and thats exactly right. Why do you think all the Republicans are so quiet about Obama, they want him to get the nomination b/c they know his far left politics and limited accomplishments make him the EASIEST Democrat to beat. Unlike the Clintons who have beaten the Republicans every time they met, Obama doesnt know how to play hardball with the big boys yeah the Clintons play hardball and use cheap tricks and thats why the beat the Republicans at their own game evertime fools. So the lady cried, big deal, I bet those same @$$holes who criticized her for crying were calling her a heartless, emotionless b!$@% in their post on the NYT site before they came here to berate her for being a “typical woman who cant take the pressure”

Posted by: AN | January 7, 2008, 2:48 pm 2:48 pm

Did Hillary cry when she Voted to send our Soldiers off to Iraq? NO

Posted by: Listen Up | January 7, 2008, 2:48 pm 2:48 pm

And one more thing… You spineless bastids who keep conjuring up images of our children fighting in wars, you all need to SHUT UP, because you’re not speaking for the proud parents out here. I seriously doubt that any lib in this thread has a child in Iraq or Afghanistan or anywhere else in the military. You see, the people who are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are American adults who VOLUNTEERED to serve. They don’t need your permission or my permission to serve in the military, and they KNEW they were signing up for everything the military entails — including War. And let’s not forget that your flower-child president, Bill Clinton, during his 8 years in office deployed MORE American troops on MORE USELESS military operations around the globe than ANY president in history, including George Bush. Bill Clinton USED UP our cruise missile arsenal. Bill Clinton launched missiles on Iraq WITHOUT consulting the United Nations. In fact, you liberal jellyfish are p¡ssing and moaning about the EXACT same sh¡t that Bill Clinton was doing “to our kids” back in the 1990s. And NONE of you crybaby sh¡t-heads were protesting Bill Clinton, were you? Hell no, you weren’t. So just SHUT YOUR STUPID MOUTHS. You GAVE UP the right to protest.

Posted by: Charles Miller | January 7, 2008, 2:48 pm 2:48 pm

as much as I dislike the fact that another Clinton could be in the White House. I would much rather her than a Muslim running the country

Posted by: boo---hooo | January 7, 2008, 2:49 pm 2:49 pm

C’mon people, get over it. I’m sure that all of you who post have had some sort of anguish and breakdown when you were campaigning for presidentof the United States…wait, most of you haven’t probably done that in your life…Well, I’m sure you’re all qualified to judge the kind of pressure Hillary is under because you all have done things quite similar to running for president of the United States…then again, most of you probably HAVEN’T done anything similar to running for president of the United States…
Cut here some slack, people. If you can’t get choked up about one of the biggest events in your life, then you are probably a pretty cold person. Emotions completely humanize us as creatures, and they are what keep us connected to eachother as a people. Let’s not forget that…

Posted by: Jim | January 7, 2008, 2:49 pm 2:49 pm

“My question is very personal, how do you do it?” asked Marianne Pernold Young, a freelance photographer from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. “How do you, how do you keep upbeat and so wonderful?”
For one thing, the incredibly biased nature of the question shows this is no “undecided” voter. I doubt any of them were. These were plants meant to manipulate real undecided voters. Hillary has a history of planting questions, and now that she’s in a moment of deseperation this is clearly no different. She’s so transparent. The Clintons just see us voters as such simpletons who can be manipulated by

Posted by: MikeA | January 7, 2008, 2:49 pm 2:49 pm

I don’t want Hillary or Obama as president but I hate Hillary more. I agree that a Muslim as president’s just wrong for this country!

Posted by: Karen | January 7, 2008, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm

There is a positive nostalgic feeling I get when I see images of the Clinton/Gore campaign. They reflected the boomers going up against ‘the adults’. Youthful. “Don’t forget thinking about tomorrow!” The audacity then! I was a fan. Fast forward to Bill’s philandering, his scandals, his good ol’ boy favors, all you had left was a squandered presidency. As first lady, she had scandals of her own in addition to the public humiliation of her dog of a husband. She stuck around because we all know it’s a marriage of convenience. Educated women with options don’t do that.
Hillary is a poor choice for president. Crying is an act to win over sentimental suckers. The lust to be crowned will have her doing whatever to win you over. … Will she bake cookies tomorrow?

Posted by: david | January 7, 2008, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm

Remember Muskie crying in New Hampshire?
Hey Hillary, you have your husband and daughter with you. Obama’s children are at home.
Give it up.

Posted by: Dick West | January 7, 2008, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm

The Clintons have done so much damage to this country
They have shown every other politican how to cheat and lie your way to power
The main lesson is deny deny deny until the public tires of the scandal and you out last it
What has happened to this country ? Bill Clinton has had 4 or 5 KNOWN affairs, and he is still regarded highly by many americans ?
Hilary comes on TV one day baking cookies to look like a house wife to help Bill’s image and latter portrays herself as a powerful lawyer politican
and people buy all these fake stunts
what about all those pardons on Bill’s way out ?
what about all the furniture they had to retuern to the white house when they left office ?
The Clintons need to be sent home to the trailer park that they belong in

Posted by: had enough | January 7, 2008, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm

Just what we need…a President who cries when the going gets tough. I’m sure Russia and Iran would feel sorry for her and give in to her demands because they don’t like to see women cry. Or would they just stone her?

Posted by: el gato | January 7, 2008, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm

I think that Senator Clinton is an amazing person and a great role model. I support her 100%. The comments on this ABC site I find despicable and very offensive. In spite of all this poison Hillary Clinton will be elected president in 2008!

Posted by: Ann Light | January 7, 2008, 2:54 pm 2:54 pm

I think that Senator Clinton is an amazing person and a great role model. I support her 100%. The comments on this ABC site I find despicable and very offensive. In spite of all this poison Hillary Clinton will be elected president in 2008!

Posted by: Ann Light | January 7, 2008, 2:54 pm 2:54 pm

Nice performance by HRC today, almost makes one believe she is the only soul alive to care about this country.
And here I thought the Writers Guild was on strike.

Posted by: tankfixers | January 7, 2008, 2:54 pm 2:54 pm

PENNY – the Clinton prosperity was off of the back of Reagan’s tax cuts and economic skills, a fact.
Umm, ok, sure. And you probably also believe the current mortgage crisis, the imploding employment figures, the trillions of dollars wasted on the pet war to be paid for by my kids and grandkids, corporate consolidation (hold on a moment, John McCain is on the teebee not telling the truth about pork again), and the complete breakdown of checks and balances ensured by our founders.
Not to worry though, you’ve got Huckster who is going to bring us back to 1600′s era rule and make sure NCLB will be changed to AJAD. All Jesus All Day.

Posted by: Borat | January 7, 2008, 2:54 pm 2:54 pm

How mean spirit of many of you are! At least that it shows that she is a human and you are NOT!. You just can’t stand it that this is the first time in history that a woman getting close to lead this country and to clean up the mass that men made. Unfortunately Bush made such a huge mass that People are searching for some magical quick fix and setting some unrealistic hope based solely on what to hear and what they would like to hear. So many young people, even the 17s got excited by it. They have no life experience. They are making immature decision without knowing or thinking about the consequences and to understand what takes to lead a country.
Experience is the most important asset to lead this country, for any job as we all know. Clintons’ experience in foreign policy and the great relationship with the world leaders will lead us out this messy war. Hillary’s hard working, determination and experience will help us to rebuild our economy and reform our healthcare & education system. Hillary will make it happen.
Please do yourself a favor and think again with your brain. Make a wise and mature decision for our next generation.

Posted by: vb from CA | January 7, 2008, 2:54 pm 2:54 pm

What a phoney

Posted by: cribble | January 7, 2008, 2:55 pm 2:55 pm

Hillary is so untrustworthy that even the comments defending her seem like plants. Don’t doubt that her people are working these comment boards.

Posted by: tobias2012 | January 7, 2008, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm

The Clintons have done so much damage to this country
They have shown every other politican how to cheat and lie your way to power
The main lesson is deny deny deny until the public tires of the scandal and you out last it
What has happened to this country ? Bill Clinton has had 4 or 5 KNOWN affairs, and he is still regarded highly by many americans ?
Hilary comes on TV one day baking cookies to look like a house wife to help Bill’s image and latter portrays herself as a powerful lawyer politican
and people buy all these fake stunts
what about all those pardons on Bill’s way out ?
what about all the furniture they had to retuern to the white house when they left office ?
The Clintons need to be sent home to the trailer park that they belong in

Posted by: had enough | January 7, 2008, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm

I think we should all vote for Huckabee so he can get rid of the IRS!!!

Posted by: boo---hoooo | January 7, 2008, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm

This is rich. So very many Obama supporters and so filled with vile hatred for another human being. Obama’s message must not be reaching his own supporters.
Is his message getting through to you?
He is going to be the unit-er, so you’d better start showing a little love for Senator Clinton, because after he wins the Presidency, we’re all going to get along. He is going to rip that hatred right out of your minds and you will all then love Hillary.
I am so glad that he is going to do that for the country, because we really need to do away with all this hatred toward Senator Clinton. Once he is in office, it will be gone, and all these people with hate in their hearts will turn it into love. Am I right Obama supporters? You will follow your leader and do as his message, right? No more division, hatred, wedging. He is going to unite America and rid us of all Clinton haters forever. Yaaaaaay!!!
Woo Hoo!!!!! Now, I have one question for the haters: you will follow the message, right????

Posted by: junebug | January 7, 2008, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm

FROM PAT GRESHAM’S POST “Anyone who thinks he is better off under Bush the Idiot than he was under Bill Clinton, raise his hand.”
I’m raising my hand. I was laid off 3 times under the “Clinton economy.” I’ve been steadily, and happily, employed for nearly 6 years under Bush. Clinton did ZILCH to create the economy of the 90s. You Clinton drones who think this do nothing who left us vulnerable to Al Qaeda attack by letting Bin Laden go 12 times and never doing anything to strike back at Al Qaeda somehow created a great economy out of nothing, i.e. he had no economic policy, are totally clueless about economics and the facts of the 90s. If Clinton was such an economic wizard, why was he unable to do anything about a declining economy and stock market in 2000 culminating in the beginning of a recession in his last quarter in office? Did Clinton’s magic economic wand lose all its power by that point?
Clinton’s only economic policy was tax hiking which did little to create balanced budgets, something Clinton denied over and over again could even be achieved when the GOP CONGRESS worked to balance the budget (they’re the ones who did this, not Clinton). And the economy of the 90s was growing again 16 months before Clinton was even elected including an astonishing 5.8% GNP growth spurt in Bush 41′s last quarter. The economy actually slowed when the grand phony do-nothing Clinton took office.
The country is clearly better off under Bush and without the scandal of the month club presidency of Bill Clinton, especially by measures outside of pure materialism including especially with our national security.
And give the “Bush is an idiot” nonsense a rest. Let’s compare Bush’s educational credentials and career resume to yours. I’m guessing you come out on the short end of that stick sweetie.

Posted by: MikeA | January 7, 2008, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm

Remember Muskie crying in New Hampshire?
Hey Hillary, you have your husband and daughter with you. Obama’s children are at home.
Give it up.

Posted by: Dick West | January 7, 2008, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm

Run Frodo Run!!!!
Don’t let Hillary get the ring!

Posted by: Al | January 7, 2008, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm

“How do you do it”? From the back? Was this question staged? Also, what kind of empty question is that? “How do you do it”? What does that have to do with tax policy? Defense? Or even “the children”? What a stupid question.

Posted by: jackieaxe | January 7, 2008, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm

There is not one tear of truth and sincerity in that witch’s whole body. She is an actress and a fake, and a liar and a vicious terrible person, who will do anything or anyone that stands in her way to power.
She is flat out despicable.

Posted by: joel goodman | January 7, 2008, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm

You got it right Pat Gresham!!!! And that is only a couple of things Bill took credit for….God help us all if the Clinton’s get back in office…

Posted by: Joe | January 7, 2008, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm

You got it right Pat Gresham!!!! And that is only a couple of things Bill took credit for….God help us all if the Clinton’s get back in office…

Posted by: Joe | January 7, 2008, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm

“she is HUMAN”… of course. But not an admirable one.

Posted by: gard | January 7, 2008, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm

Gag me … How calculated and conniving is this woman? I would surmise that when the going REALLY gets tough, and someone actually asks her some hard, tough questions she’ll have a complete mental meltdown.

Posted by: DRH | January 7, 2008, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm

Just wondering…Did ABC or Hillary plant the woman who asked the “tear inducing question?” Too late for tears, Hillary. And how pathetic that she can drudge up a few crocodile tears when her political future is at stake, but you never saw a trace of a tear while Bubba was boinking anything that walked during his term. Oh right, I forgot, that was a a “vast right-wing conspiracy!” Say goodnite, Hillary

Posted by: Jo | January 7, 2008, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm

Let’s see … played the girl card, the woman card, the change card, and now the crying game card.
Is she for real? Guess that depends on what the meaning of “is” is.

Posted by: DCortez | January 7, 2008, 3:00 pm 3:00 pm

Remember Muskie crying in New Hampshire?
Hey Hillary, you have your husband and daughter with you. Obama’s children are at home.
Give it up.

Posted by: Dick West | January 7, 2008, 3:00 pm 3:00 pm

I wonder how long it’ll be before we find out that the whole thing was scripted and the person who asked the question was a plant? It’s too much of a coincidence that on the day that rumors start circulating that she may have to drop out of the race this happens. And the quote from the woman who said the fact that Clinton cried “clinched it” for her..this is nothing more than a big PR thing. She is a cold, calculating woman who does NOTHING without checking out the political winds…her campaign people are probably doing high fives over this one.

Posted by: Mx Power | January 7, 2008, 3:01 pm 3:01 pm

This is not going to help Hillary’s cause. She is more than likely tearing up due to her wealthy industrial friends from the defense and pharmaceutical industries, and others, abandoning ship. If she were truly gracious and willing to see a real change take place, she would abandon her campaign after N.H. and throw her experience dealing with health, children,s, and women’s issues behind the Obama campaign. She could better serve the nation as a leader in the Senate on such issues if she would learn to work on a bi-partisan basis and not polarize her colleagues. The same goes for Bill Richardson, even though he is a really nice guy and has some good slants on tackling the nation’s issues, he simply doesn’t have the quality that Obama has in bringing people together, something he has been able to do not only in the Illinois Senate, but the U.S. Senate as well and be able to achieve results on good legislation. I have spent a good part of this day reading blogs and newspapers from around the world and everyone reflects the same thinking that Mr. Obama is the one most capable of returning good governance to America. It is truly amazing reading some of the political blogs and editorials from other world sources, and see just how concerned people around the globe are, with the restructuring of the American Government.

Posted by: gc | January 7, 2008, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm

Was she crying with a southern accent? I could’nt tell………

Posted by: Jim | January 7, 2008, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm

I wonder whether she cried over Vince Foster’s suicide? Did she cry over the Arkansas woman–an upper middle class professional–who committed suicide a day or so before she was to be questioned about whether she was raped by Bill, or the adultery was consensual? Did she cry after she stared coldly into the eyes of another of Bill’s victims and delivered the all-too-common Clinton threat that made the victim recoil in fear? Did she cry for any of Bill’s victims privately, while she was claiming in public to fight for women’s rights? And, most importantly for the country, will she cry when she drops out of the race?

Posted by: SteveW | January 7, 2008, 3:04 pm 3:04 pm

I am actually emboldened and hopeful by all this hatred and vitriol directed at Hillary Clinton……were she irrelevant or a non-threat to those whose pride gets in the way of what is best for America, such a news item would hardly get a mention and receive little or no commentary from anyone…..the fact that there is such passion against her is strong evidence of how formidable she is and what she is really up against: the status quo. So, thank you for your unintended support of Senator Clinton. I can only remember such disgust for a Clinton when 2 million jobs were being created, the economy was booming and America enjoyed cooperative relationships with foreign governments. Thank you again for reminding us all of how difficult the path is to place the most capable person, Senator Clinton, in the White House, because the job itself will also be difficult. So given this animosity towards her, we know she is the right choice for America. Thank you.

Posted by: chris | January 7, 2008, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm

The question was “who does your hair”.
and anybody who decided to vote for her because she started blubbering is pathetic and shouldn’t be allowed to vote. That means you two Pernold Yound and Alison Hamilton. Get a grip on yourselves, what happens when she’s faced with real problems.

Posted by: Buttercup | January 7, 2008, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm

If this isn’t pathetic then cover me with brown sauce, again we see a self absorbed person telling us how important they are and how they can run our lives. Please just go away.

Posted by: Al Jones | January 7, 2008, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm

This article was pathetic.

Posted by: Bjorn | January 7, 2008, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm

Do you remember who ran against Joe Lieberman? Do you remember President Mc Govern, Kerry, Mike or Walter? Do you remember President to much to the left of the democratic center?
Do you remember how happy you were under President Reagan, Bush I, Bush 2, & Nixon…..
If you believe in the tooth fairy, I’m sure that you think that Joe Lieberman lost, that Mc Govern became president, and that we currently are enjoying President Kerry’s first term.
Is Obama smart? Yes! Is Obama a nice guy? Yes! Wouldn’t you just love to have a beer or a glass of port with Barack? Yes!!! How about a beer with George? …..!
Don’t you just love the US under President little-experience Bush? Bush I was much better – he had some experience. It’s really going great here – isn’t it?
Lets be honest – who is going to win from a John Mc Cain or a Romney? An Obama, an Edwards or a Clinton? Many republicans would gladly vote for Hill – if only Bill would be her one of her top advisors (and Rubin).
Let us elect someone who really can win and bring about as much change as a president possibly can (very little). Let’s elect a Clinton. If not Bill, lets make it Hill.

Posted by: frank francis | January 7, 2008, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm

My god this is not going to work, she forgot to bite her lower lip.
I sure hope the pain is real. She deserves every bit of it as a punishment for disrespecting American people and running for president after all the trouble she and her lowlife husband put the country through.
Did they really thing that we are THAT stupid?!!

Posted by: Beau Philips | January 7, 2008, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm

Obama cult people are a bunch of losers. If they will have brains they would be asking the hard questions to their idol; like what is the change he will bring, how, when? by whom?; they are to busy running around like chickens following the chicken farmer to feed them with food or HOPE, LOL. All are idolizing a person that they don’t even know at all. LOL. Hope that those losers making the wave now are the minority. Same for some of the people posting such negative things about President Clinton, they are the bunch of Republicans here trashing Bill Clinton! Is like asking a real Republican to trash Ronald Reagan. They will never do that.

Posted by: Nick | January 7, 2008, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm

Hey Chris we get it already,
you like Hillary
now put down your crayons and do your homework

Posted by: Joe in NY | January 7, 2008, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm

Hillary cried? Did she start melting?

Posted by: Cyberdog | January 7, 2008, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm

I predict her and Bill will divorce when she doesn’t get the nomination. Being together was for their own political aspirations only anyway.

Posted by: Karen | January 7, 2008, 3:09 pm 3:09 pm

As a female voter, Hillary crying is exactly what I was afraid of–a woman in the highest office of our great land crying! Hillary will not be able to stand the pressures of being President! If she cries over a “how do you do it…your hair always looks great…,” what is Hillary going to do when it truly is an important crisis regarding our safety, etc.?
Sorry Hillary, you just lost my vote.

Posted by: Geri | January 7, 2008, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm

George W. Bush said that the President’s job is hard. Didn’t the media, liberals and Hillary believe him then? If Hillary is crying over the primaries, what’s she gonna do if she gets the White House?

Posted by: Awkins | January 7, 2008, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm

Wait till she gets to South Carolina – She’ll bring back the tears along with her Southern accent. She is probably in rehersals with Meryl Streep for that performance.

Posted by: BillNM | January 7, 2008, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm

READ THE HEADLINE PEOPLE: Teary on the Campaign Trail: A Side of Hillary Never Seen Before
That’s because before today it didn’t exist.. someone said TV and HOLLYWOOD are for beautiful people and POLITICS AND WASHINGTON are for the not so beautiful.. GOOD ACTING HILLARY

Posted by: MICHEALPOST | January 7, 2008, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm

“You cur-sed brat!, look what you’ve done!, I’m melting!” “What a world! “Who would’ve thought a good little Obama like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness!”

Posted by: cyberdog | January 7, 2008, 3:12 pm 3:12 pm

Anyone but Hillary
no more Clintons
We can do better
He has cheated on her multiple times ( AND WHILE IN OFFICE)
He and she have been involved in a dozen scandals
He has been impeached
She has been in the senate 8 years and has done nothing
They are liars
Ther frauds
Reject them once and for all

Posted by: Time for a change | January 7, 2008, 3:13 pm 3:13 pm

Well…she may lose the nomination but this performance should get her an Emmy nomination for Best Actress.

Posted by: Bernbuzz | January 7, 2008, 3:13 pm 3:13 pm

There will never be a twat in office

Posted by: Father Murphy | January 7, 2008, 3:13 pm 3:13 pm

I don’t believe the tears for a minute, unless she’s the reincarnation of Ed Muskie and there’s some Republican Dirty Tricks Squad she’s fixing to blame.

Posted by: Bosco | January 7, 2008, 3:14 pm 3:14 pm

“The rest should ask the question… Where’s the meat she says she has.”
50% is clinging to her thighs. The other 50% is pure balonie.

Posted by: Tony | January 7, 2008, 3:15 pm 3:15 pm

Do you remember who ran against Joe Lieberman? Do you remember President Mc Govern, Kerry, Mike or Walter? Do you remember President to much to the left of the democratic center?
Do you remember how happy you were under President Reagan, Bush I, Bush 2, & Nixon…..
If you believe in the tooth fairy, I’m sure that you think that Joe Lieberman lost, that Mc Govern became president, and that we currently are enjoying President Kerry’s first term.
Is Obama smart? Yes! Is Obama a nice guy? Yes! Wouldn’t you just love to have a beer or a glass of port with Barack? Yes!!! How about a beer with George? …..!
Don’t you just love the US under President little-experience Bush? Bush I was much better – he had some experience. It’s really going great here – isn’t it?
Lets be honest – who is going to win from a John Mc Cain or a Romney? An Obama, an Edwards or a Clinton? Many republicans would gladly vote for Hill – if only Bill would be her one of her top advisors (and Rubin).
Let us elect someone who really can win and bring about as much change as a president possibly can (very little). Let’s elect a Clinton. If not Bill, lets make it Hill.

Posted by: frank | January 7, 2008, 3:16 pm 3:16 pm

“The rest should ask the question… Where’s the meat she says she has.”
50% is clinging to her thighs. The other 50% is pure balonie. ”
This one is an awesome post!!!!

Posted by: Oscar | January 7, 2008, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm

“Some of us are right and some of us are wrong.”
Cynical much?
I guess we’re either with her or against her.

Posted by: Mark Kraft | January 7, 2008, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm

I was born in Canada but am proud to call myself American because of my heritage.
What are you thinking regarding this election?
The US is in a bigger mess than most Americans realize. President Bush has sullied the White House and America to a point where it will take an experianced, intelligant individual the first four years of their presidency to bring the US back to a point that all Americans can be proud to call the “Best Nation in the World.
You need someone who “knows where the bathrooms are” in the White House, who can call any national leader in the world and can negotiate important world issues without “learning the ropes”. You cannot take the chance of electing a neophyte on presidential issues.
Hillary Clinton can take you through the first four years with a knowledge that Obama has not yet acquired. He needs time to pick up these lessons learned and I am sure he will but at this time you need a strong individual with international knowledge and a keen insite into national problems. I would rather see a strong opiniated passinate woman than a young neophyte only able to say that he is the “change” agent. You need a president who can work within the establishment for the first few years. You cannot burst onto the national scene and push change when the country needs an even keel of change within the establishment. Just ask the “Clintons” They moved into the White House with “change” in their eyes and learned very fast that you need to work the establishment in order bring about the changes they wanted.
Hillary Clinton knows the establishment very well and can work with them for change. You cannot bulldoze your way into Washington. Nothing will get done.
A lot needs to be done very quickly and the only way it can be done is working within the confines of what is there at the moment. Establishment change will come later when the nation is strong and back on track as the “Greatist Nation in the World.”

Posted by: cheri | January 7, 2008, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm

“she said in a veiled reference to her Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.” She couldn’t even pass a tear without getting political.
Sadly, I don’t believe her because of this kind of ‘veiled’ comment and then to say before all the media, the cameras, “You know, this is very personal for me. It’s not just political it’s not just public.”
“I see what’s happening, and we have to reverse it.” What taking stabs at Sen. Obama to score a few or saying we (Bill) are vilified and then blaming dying children in Sudan on Cheney, deplorable relations with Slovakia on Bush, etc….

Posted by: Michael Kurtyka | January 7, 2008, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm

This is a calculated move by her campaign. They want you to look at her as “Hillary” the woman and not Senator Clinton with zero accomplishments for the state of New York let alone for America. No 35 years of coat tail riding don’t make anymore qualified SENATOR CLINTON!

Posted by: Willt Brown | January 7, 2008, 3:18 pm 3:18 pm

how does someone have less experience then obama? please tell what he has done. same with edwards, same with hill,what organizations have they managed. what have they produced in the past. pretty please let me in on the secret.

Posted by: jason | January 7, 2008, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm

Just like a woman, Pull Yourself Together! Is that some show of strength or what? haha This is the run for presidency moron, and the one reason you should NOT be elected. Margret Thatcher would shame you! boohoo Just what we need, a woman president that cries , a double show of weakness to the world. Don’t think female emotion is the “change” anyone is looking for. A clinton back in the whiteHouse is Certainly not change anyway

Posted by: Mr. Glimm | January 7, 2008, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm

Dear Amy (the graduate of a “Women’s studies” program):
Your comment: “Just because we menstruate doesn’t mean that we’re more or less emotional than men. Anyone who says that is just foolish. Ignorant statements like that are the reason women were suppressed for so long”…is pure and 100% erroneous feminist ideology.
The facts of the matter are these: First, women during menstruation are clinically subject mood swings, some more than others. It is your statements that are the igorant ones.
And second, HRC is most probably post-menopausal, so menstruation has nothing to do with her blubbering.
It has to do with her being either a craven manipulator or emotionally frail when fatigued. I have never heard so much as rumor that she is emotionally frail, but the primaries reveal a lot.

Posted by: Sensible adult | January 7, 2008, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm

It is always difficult to witness any candidate’s run for anything implode, regardless if they’re Democrat or Republican. However, hearing about Hillary’s implosion isn’t that bad!
Not even a sniffle or teary eye.

Posted by: Pete | January 7, 2008, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm

It’s not about experience. It’s about extreme hatred for Hillary. She thought she could coast through easily and automatically get the nomination. She doesn’t like competition. She’s in BIG trouble!

Posted by: Karen | January 7, 2008, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm

“when the going gets tough..out come the tears in a vain attempt to try and fool us into believing she is not the cold, hard, calculating Nurse Rathched that she is.”<–How soon before Bill clutches his chest and fakes a heart attack in the hopes of picking up some pity votes. I'm so frickin' sick of these two utter frauds, I could ralph.

Posted by: Tony | January 7, 2008, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm

Those are tears of frustration: frustration at not being handed the nomination on a (purloined?) silver platter. Just imagine what would happen in a tense summit with various Middle Eastern Sheiks, all of whom would be looking at her as some sort of a joke needing a burka.

Posted by: tw111 | January 7, 2008, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm

Wow! This is one hateful bunch here. Let’s talk about the issues facing our country, not get mired in caddy BS that accomplishes nothing at all. This country is falling apart because we’re so busy tearing eachother apart–way to go, America!

Posted by: Scott | January 7, 2008, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm

Drop out Hillary, then resign your Senate seat and get your sorry ass and pervert husband out of my NY.

Posted by: Poster Child | January 7, 2008, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm

Obama has is very smart but has little experience. If you take calculus befor algebra you will fail and fall. Better for him to go back to the senate for a while and author a few bills that actually become law. Air castles do not exist.

Posted by: frank | January 7, 2008, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm

Obama is as Christian as Hillary is insincere- through in through. Good guys should finish first! Honest guys should finish first! Inspirational guys should finish first! We can all help Obama change Washington (when was the last time you booted a congressman or recalled your local representative for being ineffective). Change starts with us.
A president sets the tone- anyone but Hillary, Mitt, Rudy or Bloomberg. The presidency is about no one else but them.

Posted by: david | January 7, 2008, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm

It’s never pretty watching a witch die! Good riddens Hill!

Posted by: Jerry from Tampa | January 7, 2008, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm

Frankie Vallie said it best, “Big girls don’t cry-yi-yi (they don’t cry);
Big girls don’t cry (that’s just an alibi).”

Posted by: Clayton | January 7, 2008, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm

Um yeah, I really dont think the United States needs its President breaking down into tears. Great show of strength Hillary. I was on the fence with this one, thanks for swaying me over the Obama camp.

Posted by: jej18 | January 7, 2008, 3:25 pm 3:25 pm

And one last thing–this thread has garnered so many, many posts–but not more than one or two of them are criticizing Hillary for crying–IF THEY WERE REAL TEARS. People get it about Hillary now. The criticism of her crying, including my post above, is that it was an obvious stunt, it was calculated, it was laughable, it was fake, it was self-centered, it cheapened the travails of those who really have something to cry about. I hope she drops out gracefully. The ominous thing I read today is that she is vowing to stay in it no matter what happens. Now that’s worth crying about.

Posted by: SteveW | January 7, 2008, 3:25 pm 3:25 pm

Fred at 1:44. Better check your facts sir. The only way Clinton balanced the budget was because the Republicans in the legislature dragged him kicking and screaming to the table and forced him. I love how facts can be distorted so easily. Rewriting history is quite a lucrative vocation these days.

Posted by: Mark | January 7, 2008, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm

Hillary is a LOT smarter than Obama. That Hillary had tears in her eyes at a time when people don’t take her seriously and REALLY evaluate what her contributions have been and could be is logical. Obama’s admitted drug use is worse than Hillary’s moist eyes. I, certainly, would NEVER vote for that druggie, degenerate Obama!!!
At least Obama never had anyone snuffed out. Sorry Vince.

Posted by: gunter | January 7, 2008, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm

I am in total agreement with “vb from CA” comments.

Posted by: Ann Light | January 7, 2008, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm

I have great wife, but any married man will tell you that when their wife is under a bit of pressure, you can even ask a simple question without an emotional agitated response.
The US would appear to be weak if Clinton was elected.

Posted by: Tony | January 7, 2008, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm

Is the campaign taking its toll on Hillary?

Usually I am a pretty compassionate person. At least that is the way I have always attempted to live life.
Maybe I am just to cynical where the Clintons are concerned but I have a very difficult time finding the following to be believeable:
The…

Posted by: J's Cafe Nette | January 7, 2008, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm

One last word regarding the probability that the tearing-up was staged in order to improve HRC’s “likeability”…HRC held the mike in her left hand in order to show off her wedding ring. And earlier today Bill took a cell phone call from her (uh huh. Bill really, really did. Really) at a rally, and he told HRC that he loved her…(Uh huh. Show ‘em the wedding ring Hillary)
Craven Grifters.

Posted by: Sensible adult | January 7, 2008, 3:28 pm 3:28 pm

I am tired of all this nonsense
we trying to choose the next president,
we need detailed answers to important questions and issues
all this staged garbage is a waste of our time
The Clinton war machine etc
I have had enough of these people
If Hillary was going to change the country she already had her chance, she claims to have been a co -president for 8 years and has been in the senate 8 years and she HAS DOME NOTHING
any of you supports out there, name a single bill she authored in the senate in her 8 years there
She is just a poer hungry loud mouth and a socialist to boot.
Lets get some new faces in office

Posted by: Joe Voter | January 7, 2008, 3:28 pm 3:28 pm

To Mariann Pepitone. The comment you made about Obama inviting Muslims, Pakistiani’s and South Africans to the White House and having their children run around screaming and maybe having to spray all the rooms….how racist of you to say such things. It’s people like you that totally disgust me. I’m very blessed to have had the opportunity to work in Southwest Asia and have met many Muslims, Pakistiani’s and a wonder couple from South Africa. Those same group of people you’re talking about, have the most respectable and well mannered children I have met in some time. Oh, and they’re clean and smell good….Until you know what you’re talking about, keep you’re dumb-a– comments to yourself. There’s enough hate in the world, grow up, get educated and move on with your life.

Posted by: lovinglife | January 7, 2008, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm

Perhaps more than anything else, the collective postings here say volumes. Democrats (understandably) want to win more than anything; a non-trivial pct of Hillary’s support has been based on this. But most folks also know that means returning to power individuals that have been as manipulative, dishonest, selfish, and divisive as any in memory. But there hasn’t been another viable choice. That so many have swung to Obama so fast and so hungrily, knowing full well he lacks specifics, is more than anything an indication of how shallow Hillary’s support is, how much people yearn for an end to the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton nightmare. The zealots among you don’t see this, but of course, you also despise us Independents, let alone the GOP bogeyman. Thank god most of the country is asking for a hard-reset and to be given at least a chance at working together again.

Posted by: Mingus | January 7, 2008, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm

Hillary is the best option we have for president. All you hateful people here who posted stereotypical conservative rhetoric are the exact reason we need a woman to be president. I am a man and I know that more jockularity and testosterone is not what our world needs right now. We need nurturing and we need to apologize to the rest of the world for the way George W has behaved for the last 8 years. I hope with everything I have that Hillary wins. We need her – badly.

Posted by: Robin | January 7, 2008, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm

Some focus group told hill@r to cry… in front of a gang of female reporters, that it would be good for her Career, lol

Posted by: erik | January 7, 2008, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm

Who is Barack Obama?
Probable U. S. presidential candidate, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a black MUSLIM from Nyangoma-Kogel, Kenya and Ann Dunham, a white ATHEIST from Wichita, Kansas. Obama’s parents met at the University of Hawaii. When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced. Hi s father returned to Kenya. His mother then married Lolo Soetoro, a RADICAL Muslim from Indonesia.? When Obama was 6 years old, the family relo! cate to Indonesia. Obama
attended a MUSLIM school in Jakarta. He also spent two years in a Catholic school. Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim. He is quick to point out that, “He was once a Muslim, but that he also attended Catholic school.” Obama’s political handlers are attempting to make it appear that that he is not a radical. Obama’s introduction to Islam came via his father, and that this influence was temporary at best. In reality, the senior Obama returned to Kenya soon after the divorce, and never again had any direct influence over his son’s education. Lolo Soetoro, the second husband of Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, introduced his stepson to Islam. Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta. Wahabism is the RADICAL teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world. Since it is politically e! xpedien t to be a CH RISTIAN when seeking major public office in the United States, Barack Hussein Obama has joined the United Church of Christ in an attempt to downplay his Muslim background. ALSO, keep in mind that when he was sworn into office he DID NOT use the Holy Bible, but instead the Koran. Barack Hussein Obama will NOT recite the Pledge of Allegiance nor will he show any reverence for our flag. While others place their
hands over their hearts, Obama turns his back to the flag and slouches.
Let us all remain alert concerning Obama’s expected presidential candidacy. The Muslims have said they plan on destroying the US from the inside out, what better way to start than at the highest level – through the President of the United States, one of their own!!!!

Posted by: Got this Email Today | January 7, 2008, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm

Mother! A witch? A girl? a devil? All mentioned here today.
How about a Senator, a wife and a mother?
She is smart, thoughtful and kind. She is strong of character, loyal and true (ask Bill).
She is a good mother – I wish she was my mother. So do most of you.
Obama? Edwards? Mitt? and Fred? Obama can not stop smoking, Edwards is a trial attorney, Mitt should let his hair stay gray, Fred belongs on Law and Order.
John Mc Cain is my number 2, Bill Richardson my number 3.
Why? Because I LOVE the USA

Posted by: frank francis | January 7, 2008, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm

Amy I’m a man, and you are so right about people critiicizing Hillary because she is a woman, that is wrong. I would vote for a woman president if she is qualified just like a qualified man. Doesn’t matter we are all people, black, white, whatever, so to you Amy I salute, but to all of the negative stuff, the reaon Obama is leading, has nothing to do with him being a man, being black, it’s just that the younger generation is ready for change. Having a two party system is like having one cable company, the market has been cornered by Democrats and Republicans, and oh I didn’t say I’m voting for Obama I just wanted to point out why he is leading, time for change not musical chairs.

Posted by: Chris | January 7, 2008, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm

C’mon ABC, are you kidding? Pernold-Young is a plant.
This is from Marianne Pernold-Young’s professional website: ” . . . For our fifth Photo Gallery we proudly present a previously unpublished collection of scenes by Marianne Pernold-Young of Portsmouth. Born in Vienna, Marianne came to the USA at the age of ten. She began her professional photo career in 1972 as a Washington, DC freelancer and chronicled the campaign of President Jimmy Carter . . . “

Posted by: scott burton | January 7, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm

Amy I’m a man, and you are so right about people critiicizing Hillary because she is a woman, that is wrong. I would vote for a woman president if she is qualified just like a qualified man. Doesn’t matter we are all people, black, white, whatever, so to you Amy I salute, but to all of the negative stuff, the reaon Obama is leading, has nothing to do with him being a man, being black, it’s just that the younger generation is ready for change. Having a two party system is like having one cable company, the market has been cornered by Democrats and Republicans, and oh I didn’t say I’m voting for Obama I just wanted to point out why he is leading, time for change not musical chairs.

Posted by: Chris | January 7, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm

She’s tough. She’s soft. Still trying to be all things to all people. How about be yourself?

Posted by: Pamela, Brooklyn, NY | January 7, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm

Just what i want from my president, when the going gets tough you break down in tears. the you have her hubby, telling crowds hes sorry he cant make her an young attractive male. And to all you that say she is a genius, if she were she wouldn’t be losing the way she is. This campaign has imploded

Posted by: Jim | January 7, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm

She thinks running for president is hard? What does she think it would take to be president? It’s hard to have your hair and makeup the way she wants it? Give me a break!
She has absolutely no depth of character. Her “35 years of experience” is non-existent.
It’s more than obvious she could never handle the stress of the presidency.

Posted by: DZ | January 7, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm

Cry me a frickin’ river! This woman has no shame. She is the most conniving, egotistical, woman I have ever heard of.
She gets emotional (for the first time I might add) when she’s losing and is trying to come across as a person with a heart. We ain’t buying it Mrs. Bill Clinton.
What are you going to do when a world leader starts trashing you… run home to Mommy?

Posted by: JR | January 7, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm

Such judgemental people! I bet very few people in this group would be able to withstand the trials of a presidential campaign. ALL the candidates are exhausted–that was clear from Saturday’s debate.
And why is this making the news? Edwards and Obama both get very passionate when they speak about the direction of the country. I wouldn’t want a leader who wasn’t passionate about a vision for the country. She got choked up when she spoke about the direction the country is going in, not when she spoke about being tired — her concern lies with the course the country is on, not for her own wellbeing.
It seems a lot of folks judge Hillary more harshly than they would anyone else…not a very American ideal.

Posted by: aj | January 7, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm

Tears today
next week she will start the black preacher southern drawl
Class A phony
Its fun watching her sink in the polls

Posted by: harry o | January 7, 2008, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm

Pernold Young is obviously cadging for a shot at some of Hillary’s campaign millions with that “so wonderful” remark.
This did in Ed Muskie’s campaign when he cried in public, but the double-standard says it’s okay when women do it.
Pace Pat Schroeder, who disgusted everybody anyway all the time & whose sobbing showed her emotional imbalance.

Posted by: daveinboca | January 7, 2008, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm

Hillary a good mom?? That’s why Chelsea’s so close to her dad! A dog’s a better mom than Hillary. She doesn’t even like to bake cookies!

Posted by: Karen | January 7, 2008, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm

In 1991, when I was a segment producer for the NBC Nightly News, I was sent to Little Rock, Arkansas to interview Hillary Clinton at the time when Bill Clinton was governor of the state.
The subject of the interview was a program called the Home Instruction Program for Pre-School Youngsters or HIPPY for short. This was a program which Hillary had seen working in Israel and which she imported to Arkansas. The basis of the program was to teach the parents of children in underprivileged families how to do homework with their children before the children started school. The program was a huge success and is now in more than 30 states in the U.S.
Throughout my interview with Hillary, which lasted more than an hour, she came across as a concerned, compassionate person whose only motivation was to help those less fortunate than herself. There was nothing abrasive or divisive about her. Later I have had several occasions to briefly speak with her again. What strikes me is that the media mantra that Hillary is “divisive” is a fabrication that has now become an accepted part of the national dialogue. Who started it? Likely the same group or type of group that “swift-boated” John Kerry.
Clearly, mine is a small vignette–but sometimes those are the most telling. I just felt that with all the Hillary bashing in the media I should share this small story with anyone who will listen.

Posted by: Rich Berman | January 7, 2008, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm

Hillary talks about her 35 years of experience and says she is prepared to be President from “day one” but fails to make her case as to where she derives that experience. Bill’s experience is not Hillary’s experience. It’s not some ‘communal property’ or benefit that is accrued by osmosis or right of marriage. On the other hand, if Hillary is inferring that Bill will be guiding and mentoring her, then we must accept the premise that Bill will be the defacto President again. John Edwards’ claim that she represents a return to the Washington establishment is therefore a valid argument. While Bill did have some successes in his Presidency, I don’t want to face four years of Clinton reruns. Hillary sat on the Board for several corporations including Wal Mart. It’s hard for me to believe she’s going to get the Corporate interests under control with that kind of background. Obama was a Constitutional attorney, not a Corporate attorney. I think he’s probably in a better position to fight off special interests and strengthen the Constitution. Lastly, we don’t need a President that tears up or gets emotional when negotiating with the likes of Vladimir Putin or Caesar Chavez. I believe that some women are qualified to lead, but this lady is not the right lady to lead.

Posted by: Nadaspin | January 7, 2008, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm

Hillary has experience in poll-driven decision making. I don’t want that kind of experience – even if she cries about it. And that this election should be “all about her” and her needs is just ridiculous.

Posted by: sfam | January 7, 2008, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm

Deceit! Deceit! Deceit!
That cry is not real and its just a trick. It totally out of the ply book, probably encouraged by the emotional debate moment when she was asked about the fact that people do not like her, and emotional response that was truely touching. But todays crying is just a follow up to manufacture affection, emotion, media sympathy and avoid to make a good case for a vote for her. Lies and deceit will not get her the votes.

Posted by: Joe | January 7, 2008, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm

ABC continues a mess. Now you are trying to prop up Hillary Clinton. She is sitting there and ‘warmly’ taking questions. Give me a break. If there is one thing shis clearly is not it is WARM.

Posted by: El fraley | January 7, 2008, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm

Why can the democratic party only find someone who cries under pressure or Obama bin Laden for president?

Posted by: Read Ezekiel 38-39 | January 7, 2008, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm

Why’s Hillary always saying she’s ready to be president on day one? WTH? Sooo…no one else who wins will be ready??? She doesn’t make sense.

Posted by: Karen | January 7, 2008, 3:39 pm 3:39 pm

Other articles mention that the participants for this discussion were hand picked by the capaign. The questioner was most certainly planted to trigger this fine piece of acting. The person interviewed that said they are switching from Obama to Hillary because of her emotions was also planted I’m sure. The Clinton’s calculate everything. They have polling somewhere that suggests this would be helpful.

Posted by: Mark | January 7, 2008, 3:39 pm 3:39 pm

I’m voting for Hill – also because of Bill. Obama has promise – but stil lacks judgement & wisdom.
Hillary is a woman. So was your mother. Who raised you? Who cared for you when you were sick? Who cheered you up when you were sad? Who cheered when others were mad? Who stood up to the mean kid on the block? YOUR MOTHER – Strong as iron – BECAUSE SHE CARED -
GO Hillary
You see – I’m a real man – I can admit the truth

Posted by: frank francis | January 7, 2008, 3:40 pm 3:40 pm

What a lightweight….makes me wish she had married O.J.
This is the best thing that could happen right now – let the libs eat their young (well, not so young in the Hildebeast’s case)and then see how the youngster does in the real world. Remember, Obie was sucking hind tit until Ryan fessed up to nailing some other dirtyleg and had to pull out of the race – he’s the accidental canidate there simply some idiot thought with the wrong head.

Posted by: T. Hammac | January 7, 2008, 3:40 pm 3:40 pm

What a lightweight….makes me wish she had married O.J.
This is the best thing that could happen right now – let the libs eat their young (well, not so young in the Hildebeast’s case)and then see how the youngster does in the real world. Remember, Obie was sucking hind tit until Ryan fessed up to nailing some other dirtyleg and had to pull out of the race – he’s the accidental canidate there simply some idiot thought with the wrong head.

Posted by: T. Hammac | January 7, 2008, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm

Another ‘poor’Hillary campaign …if anyone believes those FAKE tears, move to France. I have to say she is incredible how much of a phoney she really is ….and to all, don’t EVER, EVER believe she will quit this Presidential race. This is all for the liberal media to ‘play up’ to get the sympathy vote from Americans. Not this American …not over my ‘dead body’. HILLARY CLINTON REPRESENTS ‘WHAT IS WRONG WITH AMERICA’ and she would be the absolutely the ‘LAST’ person on earth that I would vote for.(

Posted by: Big Jim | January 7, 2008, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm

As a NYS resident, I can tell you she has done nothing. Every promise she made including her bringing CHANGE to upper NYS has been totally bogus. About all I really remember her for is whining about the 911 environmental after effects and constant complaining about the Bush administration. Congress and the Senate are filled with complainers, but very few do’ers. She has never managed a budget or has any real practical experience in charge of anything. It will be a happy day when she drops out. Because yes we fear the even the remote prospect of this great nation being foolish enough to elect such an incompetent person to lead this great nation. Say what you want about Bush, but he is 1000 times more competent than Hillary.

Posted by: ty | January 7, 2008, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm

Crying! About the pressures of the campaign trail? Cry about your votes on the Iraq war. Cry about the fact that you don’t have one ounces of experience greater than Obama. Cry about the fact that you’re old school and just more of the same old, tired politics of the past. But don’t cry like a baby because campaigning for Prez is hard and lots of work. It’s supposed to be hard and lots of work.

Posted by: Jerry | January 7, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm

Here’s HRC’s biggest problem: If she fell over dead (literally), everyone would assume that she’s faking it. The world would wait for weeks expecting her to get up as soon as the polls changed.
She’s the new Richard Nixon.

Posted by: Sensible adult | January 7, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm

All I have to say is, Boo freaking hoo… All that is missing are the lines from “A Christmas Story” when the bully asks “So are you going to cry baby? Go on cry…” LOL

Posted by: gregjmiller | January 7, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm

When will Alqaeda the North Koreans, Russia, and every nation that hates the US along with the Democratic machine (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN etc.) step in and save Hillary. Most of you ass wipes forget who our ememies want for president. If you just based your vote on that a Republican would win everytime. For those who are learning impared, vote against your ememies.

Posted by: Scotty | January 7, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm

Hillary is one of the mosr vile people I have ever met. She lies with such ease. If she sees that crying will help now we’ll see her crying full time on national TV and at every event. There is not a real bone in her body. She has hurt so many people and lies so much she does not even know who she is but that she wants power and money.
Who could support a person like this man or woman to run the United States? If America was dumb enough to vote for this lying fraud they deserve her. But as the polls show America is smarter and as more people see who she is they are not walking away they are running away.

Posted by: Tommi Melsner | January 7, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm

You are voting for her because she cried? That was your clincher? Not, war, the crisis in Africa, China, etc.
This is why women making decisions frightens many males. Things get tough so she starts to cry? If she were president and another world leader really took her to task, would she cry? Boo-hoo, I’m a girl, don’t pick on me or I’ll cry…. Boo Hoo. This is the all-knowing, all-powerful Hillary? Wow, talk about a glass jaw…She’s toast

Posted by: kelly | January 7, 2008, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm

You are voting for her because she cried? That was your clincher? Not, war, the crisis in Africa, China, etc.
This is why women making decisions frightens many males. Things get tough so she starts to cry? If she were president and another world leader really took her to task, would she cry? Boo-hoo, I’m a girl, don’t pick on me or I’ll cry…. Boo Hoo. This is the all-knowing, all-powerful Hillary? Wow, talk about a glass jaw…She’s toast

Posted by: kelly | January 7, 2008, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm

So, let me get this straight, the pressure from campaigning against two lightweights like Obama and Edwards is too much for her emotionally? Geez, how the heck can we expect her to be strong against Iran, when Ahmadinejad, who will already disrespect her because she is a woman, will be much harsher and “meaner” to her? Maybe she should start cackeling again.

Posted by: Paul | January 7, 2008, 3:44 pm 3:44 pm

reagan cried at rekjvic – not !!!

Posted by: tom powell | January 7, 2008, 3:44 pm 3:44 pm

reagan cried at rekjvic – not !!!

Posted by: tom powell | January 7, 2008, 3:44 pm 3:44 pm

35 years of experience? She has 1.5 US Senate terms of experience. That’s it. Does Hillary really expect people to buy this nonsense of how she’s got 35 years of experience? Experience doing what? Covering up her husband’s lies and cheating and baking cookies for Chelsea?

Posted by: Mary | January 7, 2008, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm

Anyone democrat, independent or otherwise that still wants the Clintons in power again should think again
all of these fake stunts
the scandals and the lies
There has to be a better choice
Adultry, impeachment, bogus pardons, name calling, war machines to attack the competition when does it stop ?
are we all that gulable ?

Posted by: Casual Observer | January 7, 2008, 3:49 pm 3:49 pm

Brought to tears over having to get up and do her hair to campaign each day!!!! Can you imagine the wreck she would be if required to stare down an international threat? A woman president is fine, but can we get an emotionally stable one?

Posted by: indy voter | January 7, 2008, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm

Ding dong the wicked witch is dead..

Posted by: hillaryhasafatass | January 7, 2008, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm

She appears to simply not believe voters are rejecting her. Frankly, I don’t want my President getting weepy when things aren’t going her way.
By the way, how would a Clinton Presidency be markedly different than an Obama or Edwards Presidency? They’re just three different flavors of Socialism….

Posted by: Robin Bullock | January 7, 2008, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm

I recall the day of Nixon’s resignation when for the first time in my life I felt compassion for him. This is precisely my reaction to Clinton’s emotional outburts. Now that she is removed from a position of power, I can see her as a human being — but just as with Nixon — I am relieved she will not be President.

Posted by: John Adkisson | January 7, 2008, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm

I recall the day of Nixon’s resignation when for the first time in my life I felt compassion for him. This is precisely my reaction to Clinton’s emotional outburts. Now that she is removed from a position of power, I can see her as a human being — but just as with Nixon — I am relieved she will not be President.

Posted by: John Adkisson | January 7, 2008, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm

Awwww… poor Hillary. Maybe in four more years we can hear her Stalinist message again.

Posted by: scott | January 7, 2008, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm

Hillary Clinton is having so much trouble drawing large crowds of New Hampshire voters to her rallies that she’s been busing in supporters from out of state.
That’s what NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell reported on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday.
Mitchell said she was surprised to find at a recent Hillary Clinton rally in New Hampshire many attendees who were from Long Island and Upstate New York.
NBC Washington bureau chief, Tim Russert, also appeared on the show and offered more confirming details.
Russert said he was attending a Clinton rally at Nashua High School this weekend and was tipped off by the school’s maintenance man to check out the license plates in the parking lot. Russert said he was stunned to find the school’s lot filled with cars bearing Massachusetts plates.
Word from New Hampshire is that Hillary is simply not drawing strong grass-roots supports and has to rely on union activists from outside New Hampshire to fill out the crowds at her events.
Obama now holds a double-digit lead in several New Hampshire polls, and it’s becoming clear that Hillary can’t compete with Obama’s appeal when it comes to attracting crowds at campaign events.

Posted by: JL | January 7, 2008, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm

Hillary Clinton is having so much trouble drawing large crowds of New Hampshire voters to her rallies that she’s been busing in supporters from out of state.
That’s what NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell reported on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday.
Mitchell said she was surprised to find at a recent Hillary Clinton rally in New Hampshire many attendees who were from Long Island and Upstate New York.
NBC Washington bureau chief, Tim Russert, also appeared on the show and offered more confirming details.
Russert said he was attending a Clinton rally at Nashua High School this weekend and was tipped off by the school’s maintenance man to check out the license plates in the parking lot. Russert said he was stunned to find the school’s lot filled with cars bearing Massachusetts plates.
Word from New Hampshire is that Hillary is simply not drawing strong grass-roots supports and has to rely on union activists from outside New Hampshire to fill out the crowds at her events.
Obama now holds a double-digit lead in several New Hampshire polls, and it’s becoming clear that Hillary can’t compete with Obama’s appeal when it comes to attracting crowds at campaign events.

Posted by: JL | January 7, 2008, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm

Give us a break will you. If Hillary had tears in her eyes it was from lack of sleep and nothing else. Hillary doesn’t give a hoot about people, or America as a country. All she cares about is herself gaining an immense amount of power, being the first woman President and the trappings of the office. Even Democrats can see that which is why they are jumping overboard from the “Good Ship Lollypop” and changing their allegiance to Obama and Edwards.

Posted by: Patrick Rodgers | January 7, 2008, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm

Crying !!! there’s no crying in Presidential politics, !!! Stop crying.

Posted by: copykatnj | January 7, 2008, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm

PIAPS, AMERICA IS READING AMERICAPHILE AND IS ON TO YOU AND YOUR MACHINATIONS!!!!
GOOGLE: AMERICAPHILE !!!!
BWAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Posted by: RALPH | January 7, 2008, 3:55 pm 3:55 pm

reading the comments is frieghtning, you all seem to want a feel good president, or someone pretty and friendly. How about policy, and proven record, you will get what you deserve.

Posted by: jim heath | January 7, 2008, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm

Isn’t it time to have a president that isn’t named Clinton or Bush? It’s been what, almost 20 years of this crap. I’m a Reagan Republican and I just might have to vote for Obama as the best of very limited choices. At least he’s young enough to do the job differently!

Posted by: mkane | January 7, 2008, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm

As I read these comments I continue to think less and less about Americans. We are so artifical. We care about looks and slick messages and nothing else. We deserved George Bush, we will deserve Obama. He will go in, be ineffective and for the next twenty years we’ll get another Republican dynasty of big government. The founding fathers were right, the electoral college was set up so the average Joe didn’t decide elections, now we have the stupid American masses. Americans – you should be embarrassed, you’re stupid.

Posted by: Mark | January 7, 2008, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm

Unbelievable – not that she is shedding tears. No, I don’t believe they are real. She is unbelievable. If she IS crying it could be because she realized that she has ZERO EXPERIENCE with anything remotely associated with being the Presdient of the Unidted States. ZERO. NONE. DO NOT APPLY.

Posted by: Chas | January 7, 2008, 3:59 pm 3:59 pm

Does anyone remeber then last Democrat who cried in NH??? Ed Muskie, and he wasn’t in some little yuppie coffee shop. His wife was attacked. The Clinton’s are self absorbed whiny elitist who think only they know what is best for America.
I wish I had know she was at that place, because I wok=rk about three blocks from there.
Stop your psiing and moaning, accept that you are getting your ass kicked.
Maybe the Clinton’s will go away NOW!!!

Posted by: shoals | January 7, 2008, 3:59 pm 3:59 pm

Does anyone remeber then last Democrat who cried in NH??? Ed Muskie, and he wasn’t in some little yuppie coffee shop. His wife was attacked. The Clinton’s are self absorbed whiny elitist who think only they know what is best for America.
I wish I had know she was at that place, because I wok=rk about three blocks from there.
Stop your psiing and moaning, accept that you are getting your ass kicked.
Maybe the Clinton’s will go away NOW!!!

Posted by: shoals | January 7, 2008, 3:59 pm 3:59 pm

If there were tears they were the fast-drying kind, which is to say that there were no tears but a fairly good imitation of tear-ing with no actual tears. Not that Hillary is fake nor that Bill is fake, but they sure give a remarkable imitation of sincerity and sentiment and they will be able to count on the assistance of much of the consolidationist media in their striking of a pose…

Posted by: J-Dub | January 7, 2008, 3:59 pm 3:59 pm

Well, again we see the Hillary bag
have some one handy to write about
her so wonderful caring.
I feel sick to think someone would
actually not see what she is and change
her vote. Heavens, when she has some
real pressure we can have her
keepers tell her what to say and how
to emote. Yes, cry this time, Hillary,
yell over this, Hillary, laugh over
this, Hillary. And some people
believe her.
Bill does not really want her in the
WH. She knows where the bodies are
buried is the only reason he helps and
ends up doing more harm than good,
because some Americans have not even had
the intelligence to see what he really
is over many years of seeing his games.
They prepared me to read this by saying
be ready to feel ill and they were
right. What will the ladies do if
Obama starts to cry? Him having small
tears will be next and he will do it
better than her!
Yikes, how to pick the best crier?
That is the first characteristic
we look for in a president I guess.

Posted by: carole | January 7, 2008, 3:59 pm 3:59 pm

To the idiot that claims Obama is a Muslim plant, trained by terrorists: he was raised from the age of 10 by his Maternal Grandparents in Hawaii and never attended radical Muslim schools. Get a clue, maybe even do some research.

Posted by: NadaSpin | January 7, 2008, 3:59 pm 3:59 pm

It takes a Kleenex…

Posted by: DrDenny | January 7, 2008, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm

BARAK HUSSEIN OSAMA

Posted by: A. Newman | January 7, 2008, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm

What we don’t need is uneducated lazy voters picking our next president of the USA. It appears to me too many of you have spent little time on really educating yourselves on the candidates.
If you allow sound bites or other peoples rhetoric to sway your decision you should not vote. This is a very important decision .
It has taken me 4 years to decide that I believe on the info I have watched listen to and read that Hillery Clinton is the most intellectual, experienced and has shown the most strength.
Those that believe Oboma is the change we need are or would be the same people that voted in Jessie Ventura as MN Governor

Posted by: CHuge | January 7, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm

Sounds like either a soap opera or a porn flick rather than a presidential campaign… first she was “SOOOOOOO ready”, then her hubby (the adulterer) mused about how “daunting” it is to run as a female candidate, and now the water works have come on already. Gee… this gives us so much confidence!

Posted by: Show Me | January 7, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm

“Working for families for 35 years”. How? As a lawyer?<–The only thing she's done for 35 years is run incriminating documents through a paper shredder.

Posted by: Tony | January 7, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm

How Presidential! What’s next, her period? Everyone join me in waving goodbye.

Posted by: Vince, Sparks NV | January 7, 2008, 4:03 pm 4:03 pm

Hilliary’s crying is just another example of the Clinton method of getting elected. Check the focus groups, act how they need you to act, and do what ever you need to get elected.
Everybody says Hilliary has experience to run this nation. Lets see: she’s only been in the Senate for what, little over 1 term. She can’t run a company based upon a resume that says she was first lady for 8 years and the governers wife.
Take a look at her Senate record and what has she done….Nothing!!
Obama and Edwards are just as bad, all fluff and no real experience.
On the Republican side Rudy has experience, Mitt does, Huckaby also. Fred has senate experience as does McCain. Although Huck, Mitt, and Rudy have the better resumes.
Remember you are voting for someone to RUN this nation not someone to “adimt nothing, deny everything, and make counter acquasations”. (Clinton matra)
Bye bye hildabeast.

Posted by: tb1254 | January 7, 2008, 4:03 pm 4:03 pm

WELL ONE THING IS FOR SURE…WE DONT NEED A SNIVILING HILLARY CLINTO RUNNING THIS COUNTRY.

Posted by: steve | January 7, 2008, 4:03 pm 4:03 pm

hrg – about Jesus weeping…
Jesus spent His whole ministry preaching and caring for people. I think that is the difference in tone here.
If Mother Theresa (sp?) wept, I’m sure she would elicit more sympathy than Ms. Clinton.
The trouble with people feeling empathy for her is that we have a person who is calculated (for better or worse), and has had people planted in her audience to ask her questions, and, as one person pointed out, her husband was laughing as he left his friend’s funeral (Ron Brown) until he saw the camera, and then wiped a tear away.
I watched the video and thought that she looked tired, and when I get tired, I get emotional. I’m pretty sure that is what it is.
However, I am not a Hillary supporter, but I hope to not come across as a Hillary Hater.
One last bit of advice for her:
Stop using your name as a replacement for the syllable, “Hell”. Terms as “Hill-Raisers” and the “Hill-o-copter” make me wonder about your handlers and intentions.

Posted by: Jeff in Sherwood | January 7, 2008, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm

I know bad acting when I see it…in fact my livelihood depends on it. This is acting that would not even make it to a B-Movie. She is Fake Fake Fake

Posted by: Greg | January 7, 2008, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm

Can you think of any time, EVER, going back to 1992 when this woman cried in public, or lost control in any way? I can’t. And there were several times when she had good reason to. My guess is that her little outburst of righteous indignation during the Dem debate on ABC Sat. night on the subject of “change” , also likely planned, tracked well with certain key groups, and now they’re trying to see if a little more emotion can help– especially among women, where Obama has pulled even with her. I don’t think there are any accidents, any slips with her. For better, or worse, it’s all according to script…

Posted by: Call me Sceptical | January 7, 2008, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm

The smartest person in America – who really cares, except that B.O. may be more readily electible….

Posted by: Hondo | January 7, 2008, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm

If an Obama voter actually changed their vote because she had that emotional statement, that oughta tell you everything that’s wrong with the Democratic party base today and how easily persuaded they are.
That being said, Hillary finally figured out the day before the NH primary what she needed to do from Day One: Speak from the damn heart. No, you don’t have to go on a crying tour, but you do need to speak from your heart. Make people realise it’s not all about your seeking of power. (While we’re on that point, resign your Senate seat and put Obama on the spot. Let the public know you’ll lay it all on the line for this. I guarantee you Mr. Red-White-and-Blue Obama wouldn’t.) Make people realise it’s not all about focus-group testing every word that comes out of your mouth. Take some chances and speak from the damn heart.

Posted by: Tom | January 7, 2008, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm

“Hillary is a LOT smarter than Obama.”
Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law, was the Harvard Law Review’s president. Hillary graduted law school with no honors whatsoever, and flunked the bar in D.C.
You know what is worse than teenage drug use (something Hillary’s husband knows a bit about…) Being a corrupt politician. She failed to turn over subpoenaed records, which were later found in her White House offices. She got the state of Arkansas to provide a free private nanny for Chelsea by claiming that they were a security guard. She got the entire White House travel office fired, so that she could give the jobs to political contributors.
Any of those acts as a fully grown adult, supposedly working on the behalf of the public is a thousand times worse than doing drugs as a teenager.

Posted by: Mark Kraft | January 7, 2008, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm

the hardest part of watching this is after watching a hard unemotional Hillary for nearly 16 years i cannot trust this soft emotional one — where was she when her husband was being impeached? where was this softened humble woman when 9/11 happened? knowing the power and desire of her machine i’m afraid this is just another tactic…buyer beware

Posted by: CR | January 7, 2008, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm

Hillary is such a corrupt b*&^h just like her fake husband. I am in the military and had to live through the clintons once. I hope that never happens again. I remember almost not getting paid a couple of times because of slick willy and his democrat cronies. Everyone says how bad PRESIDENT Bush is but he is 100 times better than any democrat will ever be!!!!

Posted by: RG | January 7, 2008, 4:05 pm 4:05 pm

She’s a loser baby……..
The wheels have come off.
Which proves Huckabee is right, there is a God.

Posted by: Killary | January 7, 2008, 4:06 pm 4:06 pm

The only CHANGE experience Hillary has is switching out the White House Travel Office.
Hey, Pantsuit: The country remembers pardoning wanted fugitives and bomb throwing terrorists. We remember Rose Law Firm billing records and bimbo eruptions. We remember knee pads, cigars and masturbating into White House sinks. We didn’t forget that audio recording of your husband urging Gennifer Flowers to lie about their affair. Vince Foster, Janet Reno, Waco, Hasidic Jews pardons, I DON’T RECALL, impeachment, lying under oath, your illegal secret healthcare meetings, legal defense funds, all the Clinton friends and supporters who took the Fifth or fled the country to avoid testifying….
The nightmare ended January 2001.
That twirling sensation you’re experiencing? Someone flushed the political toilet, and the Clinton turds are headed for the drain.

Posted by: Robin Bullock | January 7, 2008, 4:07 pm 4:07 pm

She is crying becuase her run for the presidency, which was more inspired by a decades long, blood lust for power than actually wanting to help anyone other than her and bill, is at an end.
When Obama talks about change it is because he wants to change the way the gov’t works, when she talks about change it is because someone took an opinion poll, and the word “Change” ranked favorably.

Posted by: Bobby | January 7, 2008, 4:07 pm 4:07 pm

What’s really sick is that we’ve only gotten past the Iowa caucus and the Democratic race may well be over after N.H. — the 1st freakin primary. I am by no means a Democratic supporter but to have a nominee pretty much chosen after N.H. speaks of the sickness of our election process. Something has got to change. At least the Republican race is still a toss up.

Posted by: Gerald R. | January 7, 2008, 4:07 pm 4:07 pm

By her comments, Hillary thinks she is the saviour of America — only she can save us. What a bunch of arrogant B.S. this shows:
“I have so many opportunities from this country . . . just don’t want to see us fall backwards” blah blah blah
Watch how fast she divorces Bill after she looses all of this. ha.

Posted by: George | January 7, 2008, 4:08 pm 4:08 pm

I don’t know – I think I’m going to go over and change my rating for her over at fittobepres.com. I’m not a big a big fan of my president crying, and if you haven’t done so you might want to think about that in your rating too.

Posted by: Steve | January 7, 2008, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm

So Hillary the feminist has one bad week in her entire political life and she breaks down in tears?
This is proof positive she can’t handle the presidency.

Posted by: Mary Beth | January 7, 2008, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm

Kate Snow is a ridiculous parody of a ‘journalist’. I don’t know if she’s angling to be President Hillary’s press secretary or what, but her fawning is groan-inducing.
Even found a guy to say that seeing her cry was the “clincher” in getting his vote, and another to verify that “that was real”.
Get the watering can… these plants sound a little dry.

Posted by: Dollerhide | January 7, 2008, 4:10 pm 4:10 pm

Why would she divorce Bill? She doesn’t love him THAT much, and divorcing him would be an act of LOVE!
Har Har!

Posted by: Lord Har Har | January 7, 2008, 4:11 pm 4:11 pm

Why is it that she’s worried? Corporate America is going to do great! The American people who are awake to what is going on are the ones who are really crying. We have lost liberty, wealth, and our humanity as a nation all for Empire.
The only two Pro-American real candidates are sidelined by the Corporate Media and they are Mike Gravel and Ron Paul.
Let’s look at an accomplishment of a real Democrat: Mike Gravel did a 1 man filibuster against the draft for 5 months. 1 man! Mike Gravel is the only true Democrat in the race. He spent 5 months filibustering for us, the American people. What did these Democrats do since brought into power in 2006? They gave Bush money to continue wars of aggression, bankrupting this country in every way. They make excuses but war hurts the Republicans and they are licking their chops at continuing the war. Does anyone really think Hillary, Obama or Edwards is actually going to vacate the Vatican size American Embassy, the American City in the heart of Iraq or the military bases we have built inside Iraq?
That is the problem. It is all about POWER. Power and Empire. The Hubris of Democrats for not supporting Mike Gravel will result in Nemesis destroying the Democrat Party. It is time for Democrats to cast away their inner Bush and pick a candidate that will do more than lip service to civil libertarians and the antiwar movement. Do we really want to go into November with two soulless Party nominees fighting over who gets to play Emperor/Empress?

Posted by: I See | January 7, 2008, 4:11 pm 4:11 pm

I didn’t see any tears. Why werent they falling. There were NOT tears in her eyes. Hillary is FRUSTRATED. FRUSTRATED that someone new came into the game and totally messed up her coronation. Nothing more.

Posted by: Whitney | January 7, 2008, 4:11 pm 4:11 pm

How in the world did Kate Snow come to the conclusion that this was “an unexpected question from a woman standing in the back?” Ms. Snow should do some deep investigative journalism before making these assumptions. She would likely find this was a planted question – a complete setup. Now THAT would be a story after she’s been busted on plants several times already!

Posted by: Fred | January 7, 2008, 4:13 pm 4:13 pm

This video seems contrived and planned and, frankly, the last ditch 11th hour act of a desperate person who sees the Love Boat (Exciting and New!) sailing off without her. It seems that Sen Clinton wants to win this election for her own personal aspirations whereas Sen Obama impresses me that he really wants to unite the country and bring about change.

Posted by: mdelaney | January 7, 2008, 4:13 pm 4:13 pm

This should be the first clue that Mrs. Clinton is not ready for the White House. Do you honestly think that she could face up to our foreign enemies and be bolden enough to state our case to the world? Come on, let’s get real about her candidacy.

Posted by: Harold Hough | January 7, 2008, 4:15 pm 4:15 pm

I am going to cut her some slack on this one

Posted by: OJ Simpson | January 7, 2008, 4:15 pm 4:15 pm

Everything Hillary has done up to now has been cold and calculated. Why should we believe that this is any different.
One of her handlers told her that you need to show your sensitive side to prove that you aren’t cold and calculated and thats exactly what she did. The only people who believe her crocidile tears are the same people who believe Hillary’s lies about her “35 years of service”. Was she elected first lady of Arkansas or the United States?
In actuality the women only has eight years of service, in a position where whe was actually elected and in that time she has voted to take more from Americans in the form of taxes, expand government control, and promote her “its takes a village” form of collectivist central planning.

Posted by: JReid | January 7, 2008, 4:17 pm 4:17 pm

Hillary has my vote!

Posted by: Cindy | January 7, 2008, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm

Hillary is human? Hardly. She is a politician first, always ready to play “the game” and support whatever happens to be politically convenient for here at any given time. This is just more “acting” on her part. A real woman–i.e., a real human being–certainly would not have stayed with a husband such as hers. Where were her tears and outrage then? She’ll do anything to stay close to power.

Posted by: Dessad | January 7, 2008, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm

Great. Now we’ll have BOTH Hillary and Gore with a vendetta against the US for not handing them their tiaras. I wonder what they’ll blame us for next.

Posted by: Marcie | January 7, 2008, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm

Hillarys run for the nomination summarized:
close but no cigar
Right Monica ?

Posted by: Blue Dress | January 7, 2008, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm

Hillary Clinton comes across as a head case. How many more years does the world need of Clinton-Bush?

Posted by: Tim | January 7, 2008, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm

It’s over Johnny……

Posted by: Jim | January 7, 2008, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm

I do not wish HRC any bad will and as a 50ish woman can somewhat feel what she is feeling only in a much smaller way of course. But The Country is screaming for change and she is NOT a change. She must have known that going into this. She felt her ‘exerience’ could hold her but the fact remains, she is the same old-same old. Best Wish Hillary. After this is over, take a nice long vacation without Bill and you’ll figure out what to do.

Posted by: Jenna | January 7, 2008, 4:21 pm 4:21 pm

Those who are wondering if Obama has the ability to build coalitions to get things done should check out this article: http://www.dailypress.com/news/opinion/dp-ed_obama_0105jan05,0,3962092.story. In contrast, Hillary’s legislation has been focused on keeping inappropriate material out of video games for children. That may be worthwhile, but it doesn’t rise to the level of person we need to build coalitions and get difficult issues resolved.

Posted by: NadaSpin | January 7, 2008, 4:21 pm 4:21 pm

She is crying because it looks like some other democrat is going to have the
chance to use our money to help the free-loading class!

Posted by: ivan r vernon | January 7, 2008, 4:21 pm 4:21 pm

This cold fish couldn’t have cried. The tears would have frozen!

Posted by: rhonda | January 7, 2008, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm

Aw, poor Hillary, she wants to do things for the country (like turn it completely socialist). Actually, she is crying because she was supposed to win this without a fight. Her and the Rapist in Chief want back in the White House so bad they can taste it – my only question is – will they bring back the silverware, paintings and furniture? Maybe we should elect her just to get our stuff back.

Posted by: K. West | January 7, 2008, 4:23 pm 4:23 pm

“Wow! This is one hateful bunch here. Let’s talk about the issues facing our country, not get mired in caddy BS that accomplishes nothing at all. This country is falling apart because we’re so busy tearing eachother apart–way to go, America!”
Yes! Yes! Yes! In the effort of full disclosure, I am a Dem and have always liked the Clintons (although still not entirely convinced I am voting for Hil), do not like most Republican policy (although don’t actually hate Republicans!), and truly dislike the Bush Admin. That said, I do not respond to Bush or any other Repub with knee-jerk animosity and cynicism. Can’t you see how closed minded most of you people are? Don’t you realize that you have blinded yourself with hatred? This is not good for our country! Educate yourselves (based on the numerous grammar and spelling errors above many of you really need some work in this area) and try to see the world outside of your own bias that is largely fueled by the right- and left- wing media sources that you frequent. If you took a long hard look at yourself in the mirror you’d realize that you are not better than the politicians,on either side of the aisle, that you vilify.

Posted by: Nat | January 7, 2008, 4:25 pm 4:25 pm

LOL, you all will be crying when Obama gets the nomination and lose after the Republicans and Karl Rove destroy him like they did to John Kerry in 04.
you all are fools, don’t you see him getting the nomination is playing into Karl Rove’s plan defeating an easy candidate.lol
Long live the Republicans, b/c you Democrats just love losing. If you lose this election, you will be wishing you were’nt so inept to pick OBama based on Idealism. Yea, he got white votes, but the Independents were directed by the RNC to vote for Obama as oppose to Hillary, but sorry you all so Inept to thinK Obama can win.
Wow, we Republicans are so smarter than all of you Hallmark Harmony democrats, lol

Posted by: Mike Barnes | January 7, 2008, 4:25 pm 4:25 pm

Why is it that she’s worried? Corporate America is going to do great! The American people who are awake to what is going on are the ones who are really crying. We have lost liberty, wealth, and our humanity as a nation all for Empire.
The only two Pro-American real candidates are sidelined by the Corporate Media and they are Mike Gravel and Ron Paul.
Let’s look at an accomplishment of a real Democrat: Mike Gravel did a 1 man filibuster against the draft for 5 months. 1 man! Mike Gravel is the only true Democrat in the race. He spent 5 months filibustering for us, the American people. What did these Democrats do since brought into power in 2006? They gave Bush money to continue wars of aggression, bankrupting this country in every way. They make excuses but war hurts the Republicans and they are licking their chops at continuing the war. Does anyone really think Hillary, Obama or Edwards is actually going to vacate the Vatican size American Embassy, the American City in the heart of Iraq or the military bases we have built inside Iraq?
That is the problem. It is all about POWER. Power and Empire. The Hubris of Democrats for not supporting Mike Gravel will result in Nemesis destroying the Democrat Party. It is time for Democrats to cast away their inner Bush and pick a candidate that will do more than lip service to civil libertarians and the antiwar movement. Do we really want to go into November with two soulless Party nominees fighting over who gets to play Emperor/Empress?

Posted by: I See | January 7, 2008, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm

Sigh. She almost had me but then, right in the middle of her tearful soul baring, she goes right into her talking points:
“…some of us are ready and some of us are not, some of us know what we will do on day one and some of us haven’t thought that through enough…”
What a hypocrite.
(And yes, Kate Snow is obviously pro-Hill, but that can serve as a good coutnerbalance to Fox.)

Posted by: VBEN | January 7, 2008, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm

It is really funny reading some of these comments from former Clinton supporters dissing Hillary. What they are now saying, is what many of us were saying back in ’92 about bad billy.

Posted by: p | January 7, 2008, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm

Lets face it, The Clintons
are white trash
They have no shame, are corrupt and are all about thmselves
Why the American people allowed this bunch to disgarce this country all these years baffles me.
At least Bill Clinton doesn’t reinvent himself on a daily basis as Hillary and Al Gore do
He remains the same skirt chsing, lying adultrus all the time

Posted by: Max | January 7, 2008, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm

The internet at its best ! Keeping quarrelous haters off the streets and home railing at the reflections in their monitors.

Posted by: craig | January 7, 2008, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm

Man that had to be another plant in the audience, Mark Penn set that up so she could show her human side. FAKE!

Posted by: mikeb | January 7, 2008, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm

The whole argument that Hillary is offering specifics and all Obama is offering is inpirational rhetoric is just as much spin as everything else Hillary says. If anyone has any doubts about Obama’s plan on any issue, just visit his website. It is all laid out in black and white. The fact that he uses his 30 minute stump speech to get people fired up doesn’t make him any less of a man of action. Health care reform, campaign finance reform, etc. Obama has been an agent of change during each of his terms in elected office. (And he has something like six more years in office than Hillary).
What people want is someone who can bring the country together so that we don’t miss out on this unique time in history; there is considerable momentum for change on so many issues.
Obama in ’08.

Posted by: David B. | January 7, 2008, 4:27 pm 4:27 pm

More like crocodile tears, bud.
These two must think they can dupe the American public again…for shame.
And for those of you who buy this load….shame on you as well.

Posted by: Don | January 7, 2008, 4:27 pm 4:27 pm

When a woman is strong, she’s labeled a “bitch.” When a woman gets emotional, she is labeled “weak.” Gender discrimination — nothing more, nothing less. But I guess Obama’s cocaine use is just plain “cool”. After all, he’s a man. George Bush was a drunk driver — that was okay, too. You anti-Hillary people make me sick. The woman is smart, saavy and has answers for the blooming, bloody mess of a country we now have thanks to 8 years of Bush. Boo hoo is right when we get some inexperienced idealist in the White House who doesn’t know his left foot from his right. Obama has my admiration for making a great run out of a shaky start to his campaign. But his inexperience scares me much more than a passionate individual showing some emotion on the campaign trail.

Posted by: Laura Young | January 7, 2008, 4:28 pm 4:28 pm

Looks Like Hillary needs a surge

Posted by: George W Bush | January 7, 2008, 4:30 pm 4:30 pm

Hillary is blessed with more money and power than 99% of the people on this earth and the one tear she sheds is for herself? How much more self-serving can she get?
She should just quit and end her misery and ours.

Posted by: Ann B. | January 7, 2008, 4:31 pm 4:31 pm

I feel soooo sorry for her, it’s hard to be her!! The life she has to live, having to answer all thoes questions and not being able to remember anything!!! $$~A TEAR is Just a TEAR$$
She has been under a lot of pressure, because $$~Sheeee aaaa W O M E M $$~ She can cook the bacon in the pan… but a TEAR is Just a TEAR

Posted by: Joseph | January 7, 2008, 4:32 pm 4:32 pm

She “tears up” and in the same breath she obliquely slams Obama (without naming him), insinuating he is not ready to be President, doesn’t know what he’d do on Day One, etc.
What a bitch.
As a human being, I’m sorry that she’s tired, not eating right, and not getting enough exercise. The solution to that is to gracefully exit from the campaign and endorse Obama.

Posted by: of and for the people | January 7, 2008, 4:32 pm 4:32 pm

The FUNNIEST thing is: all those STUPID people who fall those those FAKE tears. Can’t they see that the whole thing was STAGED…give me a break!

Posted by: kitcat | January 7, 2008, 4:32 pm 4:32 pm

In Hillary’s own words just before the tears: “I have so many opportunities for this country” ! ! !
Like just for starters:
Socialized Health Care.
In fact, socialize everything.
Amnesty for millions of illegals.
Dismemberment of the military.
Make nice with the terrorists.
Confiscation of corporate profits.
Bye bye 2d Amendment.
Bankrupt America to save the planet.
Her tears were scripted as is every word and gesture from the campaign. However, the most disturbing element of this whole thing is she actually believes she, Hillary, had “so many opportunities for this country”!! No Hillary, it’s the other way around. YOU don’t give this country opportunities, this country gives you and all of us opportunities.

Posted by: billbrady | January 7, 2008, 4:33 pm 4:33 pm

In Hillary’s own words just before the tears: “I have so many opportunities for this country” ! ! !
Like just for starters:
Socialized Health Care.
In fact, socialize everything.
Amnesty for millions of illegals.
Dismemberment of the military.
Make nice with the terrorists.
Confiscation of corporate profits.
Bye bye 2d Amendment.
Bankrupt America to save the planet.
Her tears were scripted as is every word and gesture from the campaign. However, the most disturbing element of this whole thing is she actually believes she, Hillary, had “so many opportunities for this country”!! No Hillary, it’s the other way around. YOU don’t give this country opportunities, this country gives you and all of us opportunities.

Posted by: billbrady | January 7, 2008, 4:33 pm 4:33 pm

“STOP TEASING ME! YOU PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH PRESSURE I’M UNDER. I WANT MY CROWN AND I WANT IT NOW! I’M THE QUEEN, ER, PRESIDENT AND I’M SUPPOSED TO BE RUNNING THE COUNTRY! SURE, I VOTED TO SUPPORT THE WAR IN IRAQ BUT WHO CARES? I CAN DO WHATEVER I LIKE! I…(SIGH)…CARE…SO…MUCH (CHOKE)…ABOUT…AMERICA…(TEAR).”
“ISN’T THAT ENOUGH FOR YOU IDIOTS, UH, FELLOW AMERICANS?”
“CAN’T WE JUST ELEMINATE MIDDLE AMERICA AND ONLY HAVE PALM BEACH AND HOLLYWOOD VOTE? WHAT DOES A BUNCH OF STUPID FARMERS KNOW ANYWAY? GOD, I HATE THESE MORONS! BILL, YOU HAD TO GO AND SCREW THAT PUDGY CHICK AND RUIN MY LIFE, BILL! I SWEAR I WILL BRING HELL TO YOUR BREAKFAST TABLE IF I’M NOT CORONATED”
(stops…looks around…)
“IT’S ALL BACKWARDS…CAN’T YOU SEE IT? AMERICA IS BACKWARDS…CALIFORNIA IS NEW YORK AND LOS ANGELES IS PORTLAND, OREGON.”
(Mascera run…smeared lipstick..pulls out compact..looks at self in mirror…)
“YOU DON’T WANT A BLACK GUY FOR PRESIDENT, DO YOU? I’M A SOBBING WOMAN WHICH MAKES ME MORE OF A MINORITY.”
(Falls to her knees…begs)
“GOD, DON’T MAKE ME GO BACK TO NEW YORK! THEY HATE ME THERE. I SWEAR I HATE THE REDSOX. I LOVE THE YANKEES. DEREK ORTIZ IS MY FAVORITE PLAYER! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE MAKE ME PRESIDENT. BILL! YOU RAT BASTARD! I’M DYING UP HERE! GET YOUR FAT ASS UP HERE AND PROMISE STUFF! DO SOMETHING! HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAAAAHHH, WAHHHHH, WAAAHHH…….daddy!”

Posted by: crybabybubba | January 7, 2008, 4:34 pm 4:34 pm

Hillary is blessed with more money and power than 99% of the people on this earth and the one tear she sheds is for herself? How much more self-serving can she get?
QUIT ALREADY!

Posted by: Ann B. | January 7, 2008, 4:34 pm 4:34 pm

Seriously, what 35 years of experience?
Ask her a question about her experience and she gives you her husbands experience! She had one job in the first Clinton adm,,”healthcare” and she screwed it up royally! This woman has no “experience”, how did she get this far–being a woman, no more Clinton’s for this country PLEASE!Hillary is as devious as they come-slick Willie-Slick Hillary! They both just BS the public, it’s all about them, not about us! Wake up America–it’s about lying politicians,not the economy!I’m ready for a woman president, it’s time, BUT NOT HILLARY–there must be a real woman who could be honest & have integrity! I’m ok with a Black President, and not Obama, too little experience.So, H’abee
is a joke, thompson is too old, McCain has no fire in the belly, had his chance
in 2000 and too late now, and Edwards &
Obama vs Rudy & Romney–may the best person win!

Posted by: Dennis R. White | January 7, 2008, 4:35 pm 4:35 pm

Oh sure, “sarah”, Hillary is our saviour, the only one around who can pull us out of the mess. B.S. YOU need to get over idolizing her.

Posted by: George | January 7, 2008, 4:35 pm 4:35 pm

Hillary Clinton has jumped the shark.

Posted by: Katherine L. | January 7, 2008, 4:35 pm 4:35 pm

PULEEEZE..LOL
She is tearing up,because the end is near.
The voters,thanks to the internet,are on to the Clinton BS!
Hey…not easy being on the receiving end eh?
Give Al Gore hell for giving us the tool in which to check ,double check,every statement you ever made.
He did invent the internet,you know.

Posted by: Justin | January 7, 2008, 4:35 pm 4:35 pm

Good grief…….. this is just the second state in a long season. What happens in the general election. God forbid but what would she do with the pressure of the oval office?

Posted by: LL | January 7, 2008, 4:35 pm 4:35 pm

I have no vote in the USA – as an English guy in England ! However it is vital to me who does win because in WW1,WW2 the Cold war and now the War on Terrorism the USA has stood solid whilst most of Europe gave in. The EU/NATO is a busted flush now – pacifists all hiding under the duvet. In Afghanistan for example the Germans don’t fight after dark or at weekends.
I think Bush and Blair did right over Iraq. Whoever wins in 2008 is not going to invite Bin Laden for tea ! Islamofascists are determined to keep attacking the USA and Israel. So for me it is whoever is best likely to defend US interests through a strong military. Bring the troops home ? Well the US’s enemies will follow them into the USA. You’ll have more Twin Towers.
Perhaps the next US President has yet to appear. I am cautious about Obama but I find Hilary ( and Bill) utterly loathesome. The Islamic thing started on Bill’s watch – he was asleep or with Monica at the time. Good luck anyway in who you choose – but don’t think there is going to be a new Peace. There is a clash of Civilisations afoot as dangerous as Nazism and Communism.

Posted by: Mike | January 7, 2008, 4:37 pm 4:37 pm

Experience does matter and all the ” Experienced” Democrats have withdrawn. Biden and Dodd.

Posted by: Dennis D | January 7, 2008, 4:37 pm 4:37 pm

Laura Laura Laura… Obama’s cocaine use is NOT cool. Nor is Bush’s drunkeness. But the thing with Hillary is not that she has a human failing like Obama or George… it’s Hillary’s outright machinations, lies, manipulations, powerplays, and scripts with her finger in the air trying to read a poll. None of this is a human failing, it’s all devious attempts to grab power at any cost. THAT is why people find Hillary so despicable. She WANTS the power, she demands the power, she’s like a female Woodrow Wilson… she EXPECTS the coronation. And as far as you saying: “You anti-Hillary people make me sick.”, well, we feel sorry for your blindness and confusion. Someday, maybe, you’ll come to realize the truth.

Posted by: ANONY | January 7, 2008, 4:38 pm 4:38 pm

How cruel people can be. We live in this free country, men and women fighting in other countries, and people have such nasty things to say about each other. I have only seen Hilary Clinton in a crowd and was so impressed by her. Have all these other people ever met her? Come on people, get real – know your facts – don’t be so self-righteous – and have a heart!
Cathy Anderson, Fairport, NY

Posted by: Cathy Anderson | January 7, 2008, 4:39 pm 4:39 pm

How cruel people can be. We live in this free country, men and women fighting in other countries, and people have such nasty things to say about each other. I have only seen Hilary Clinton in a crowd and was so impressed by her. Have all these other people ever met her? Come on people, get real – know your facts – don’t be so self-righteous – and have a heart!
Cathy Anderson, Fairport, NY

Posted by: Cathy Anderson | January 7, 2008, 4:39 pm 4:39 pm

Dem Debates were sad. All claiming dipolmacy is the best way. All I could think of was when Clinton sent Bill Richardson to meet with the Taliban to ask them to hand over BinLaden. The rest is history.

Posted by: Dennis D | January 7, 2008, 4:39 pm 4:39 pm

“How do you keep upbeat and so wonderful?” Now there is a genuine question from a genuine undecided voter.

Posted by: RandallB | January 7, 2008, 4:40 pm 4:40 pm

Posted by: Casey | Jan 7, 2008 2:29:10 PM
“If I remember correctly…Gore WON that election. Florida and the Bush clan messed that one up for the rest of us thanks.”
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Clinton and Gore lost the election for Gore REGARDLESS of the Florida vote. Here’s why.
If Clinton would have carried Arkansas for Gore, then Gore would have been President. If Gore would have carried Tennessee, Gore would have been President. Either state would have made Gore the Prez.
Gore and Clinton blew the 2000 election just like Monica blew Bill

Posted by: T Nick | January 7, 2008, 4:40 pm 4:40 pm

Don’t blame me…. I voted for two genuine war heroes: George H.W. Bush and Bob Dole.

Posted by: Robin Bullock | January 7, 2008, 4:41 pm 4:41 pm

Lets Examine MS Clinton’s History: Is She Fit for the Job?
One thing about MS Clinton is that she has quite a history. Lets examine some of the moments that define her character.
Before Bill Clinton ran for the highest office in the land MS Clinton got involved in a prearranged cattle future deal. She made 100k off of this deal and this deal was a much more serious crime than the one that Martha Stewart went to jail for.
Not long after Bill Clinton was elected president the entire white house travel staff (seven people) were fired for what turned out to be trumped up charges. MS Clinton’s cousin who also ran a travel office replaced the travel staff. An investigation into the matter determined that it was MS Clinton who initiated the firings. The people who were fired later successfully sued the government for a large amount of cash that came from both poor and rich people (US Taxpayers). I now know why she did a likeability tour in Iowa.
After her foray into the travel biz MS Clinton decided she needed to review some raw FBI files on her political opponents. Craig Livingston was the White House’s Director of the Office of Personnel Security. He obtained over 900 raw FBI files and stored them at the white house. These files were used to dig dirt on MS Clinton’s political opponents. Orrin Hatch (a very honorable senator from Utah) charged that the White House conducted what appears to be a “definite effort to find dirt on Republicans.” MR Livingston was a former bar bouncer and his mother is a close friend of MS Clinton.
When Vince Foster was killed MS Clinton illegally had all the contents of his office removed. These files were never recovered. Obviously there could have been charges of obstruction of justice associated with this action. It should also be noted that MS Clinton was known to have had a very close personnel relationship with MR Foster.
When the Clinton’s term in the White House expired it took six semi-trucks to remove all of their personnel effects. It was later determined that three of the semi-trucks actually contained government owned furniture and had to be returned in the dark of night. Without a doubt attempting to steal white house furniture is a serious crime.
During the Clinton White House years anyone who had any adversity with the first family could be assured that their income taxes would be audited. Some famous people who had their income taxes audited were Paula Jones, Billy Dale (head of white house travel office), Linda Tripp (last person to see Vince Foster alive), Juanita Broderick (accused Bill of rape), Gennifer Flowers and Elizabeth Gracen (former lover of Bill).
The Concord Monitor has endorsed MS Clinton as their preferred candidate. I find it amazing that any newspaper in the country would endorse MS Clinton for president because of her rich history in controversy. I also find it amazing that anyone would want an accused sex offender (Bill) returning to the white house. What could this newspaper possibly be thinking?
It should also be noted that items mentioned here are just the tip of the iceberg of problems associated with the Clinton’s

Posted by: Camere01 | January 7, 2008, 4:42 pm 4:42 pm

Hillary’s tears will be remembered as the Howard Dean “WHOOOOAAA!” of the 2008 presidental race.
At least Dean actually had emotion and wasn’t so pathetic and transparent.

Posted by: tigerbeat | January 7, 2008, 4:42 pm 4:42 pm

LL, you are right on the money! There is a clash of civilizations and there is no alternative to victory. Anyone who lies to the American people about the war, as Democrats do daily, are defeatists. Simply for power, these miscreates in the Democrat Party have put their money on defeat. It is shameful! Right when the American people need leadership, we get a child (Obama) and an old socialist (Clinton) as front-runners in the Democrat Party. It is refreshing to hear from someone like you, LL.

Posted by: p | January 7, 2008, 4:43 pm 4:43 pm

Everyone,
Regarding the “experience” canard:
The only two people that have the experience as president that can run are Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush.
So, if “experience” is such as great quality to have, let’s be real. The presidency changes people (Look at Reagan with the 86 amnesty bill and Bill Clinton with the Welfare Reform), and this is the job where you get on the job training.
Honestly, if you really want to change things in Washington, stop electing the same people to Congress. Look at where the laws are written and passed. The president just gets them and has to either sign them or veto them.
Change Congress and you change Washington. (especially the House of Represenatives – they’re up for election every two years)

Posted by: Jeff in Sherwood | January 7, 2008, 4:43 pm 4:43 pm

Cathy the Crybaby Anderson wrote:
“Have all these other people ever met her? Come on people, get real – know your facts – don’t be so self-righteous – and have a heart!”
Uhhhhh YEAH, Cathy, we met her before. For EIGHT LONG YEARS we LIVED WITH HER and her ridiculous husband, and it’s NOT time to go back and re-live that hell on earth. No more Clintons in the 21st Century, America! Tell Hitlery to her face: WE DON’T LIKE YOU!

Posted by: Charles Miller | January 7, 2008, 4:43 pm 4:43 pm

Cathy Anderson writes, “I have only seen Hilary Clinton in a crowd and was so impressed by her.”
That’s all it takes to select a President? Just see her face in a crowd?
A perfect example as to why women should never have been allowed to vote.

Posted by: T Nick | January 7, 2008, 4:44 pm 4:44 pm

Hey Laura,
Don’t forget about slick willy (I mean BJ) smoking dope when he was dodging the draft!!!! If you want to get into people with drug and alcohol problems (Ted “HICCUP!!” Kennedy).

Posted by: RG | January 7, 2008, 4:44 pm 4:44 pm

As far as bin Laden? Bill Clinton (and if we should now believe his wife since she now claims to have such vast foreign affairs experience) was OFFERED bin Laden almost a DOZEN times. Each time, he LET bin Laden go. Documented in the book “Losing Bin Laden” by Richard Miniter. 9-11 WOULD NEVER HAVE OCCURRED if Clinton and Hillary were NOT in the White House. That’s Hillary’s foreign affairs experience? My God, she’d hand us over to Satan if she could benefit from it personally.

Posted by: RichV | January 7, 2008, 4:45 pm 4:45 pm

Hillary is not representive of the hard working women in the US who have earned their positions ON THEIR OWN. She got were she is on the back of Bill all through her life. She even flunked the bar in DC. Please Im am so sick of hearing about her being the smartest woman in the county, if that were true we are in big trouble. Her life is driven by power and greed and if she is elected were are on the way down as a free nation. Now she using the tear factor which is probably just anger unmasked over the poor showings of late. I am delighted to see her coming unglued and fielding questions about her hair! Whoa that’s of national importance. Hil, Bill and the media just don’t get it WE ARE SICK OF YOU, PLEASE GO AWAY-BACK TO HOLES YOU HAVE CRAWLED OUT OFF.

Posted by: r sherry | January 7, 2008, 4:46 pm 4:46 pm

well now that Cathy Anderson has spoke lets all fall in line for Hillary
Hey Cathy the disgust that is display here with Hillary and cheating impeached husband has been well earned
Are you saying that they have done nothing wrong and should once again be given the honor to president of the United States ?
Bill Clinton LIED UNDER OATH while
being the president
What has she ever done. be specific
name the legislation etc
I do not need to see her in a crowd, we have tv, newspapers, radi and the internet
Their many troubles are well documented
Why her just because she longs for more power ?
can we not do better ?

Posted by: George | January 7, 2008, 4:46 pm 4:46 pm

Try picturing Margaret Thatcher brought to tears as a contrast in character and professionialism. Not possible.
Poor Hillary, ditched by both Oprah and the liberal lemmings in the MSM. Trust me, the tears(?) are fake. But, Kate Snow salvaged what she could by finding two vacuous dupes in the audience that will now vote for Hillary because “She allowed herself to feel”…..scary.

Posted by: amy | January 7, 2008, 4:47 pm 4:47 pm

Hillary is emotional because she is LOSING.

Posted by: vicki | January 7, 2008, 4:47 pm 4:47 pm

“When a woman is strong, she’s labeled a “bitch.” When a woman gets emotional, she is labeled “weak.”
There are millions of strong women in the world who project sincerity, confidence, intelligence, and conviction for what they believe in–without attitude. To be a ‘bitch’ is more about attitude than anything.
The problem with Hillary is that she has no sincerity. Everything she does is a political move; it’s like she has no individual opinion on anything, especially if it’s a dissenting opinion. In truth, she never takes a ‘stand’ on anything unless everyone else is already doing so (which makes it OK), or unless the item in question is a ‘no-brainer’. (Like calling for an investigation on behalf of an alleged rape victim. Are we supposed to be impressed by her … tact?)
I laugh at the people who call her a Master Politician. She is the farthest thing from a “master” anything (unless Master Fraud counts.) In politics, you have three types: The Game-players, the Doers and the Masters.
The Game-players play the political games, bide their time while they’re in office, but don’t really accomplish anything noteworthy. They’re empty suits most of the time, more concerned with maintaining their sinecure than actually being a voice of the people.
The Doers are the rare breed of politician who actually want to make a difference. They do the things most politicians couldn’t give a damn about, and they are usually either raised up high, or cut down immediately; it’s a gamble most would-be politicians don’t care to take. Most Doers don’t last long in office, and for good reason.
And the real Masters are the ones who start out as Game-players, playing the game and not caring too much, while also getting some things done (if you give them enough time). But the real power they have is that they can lie to you every day of their lives, and somehow, some portion of the public will still believe them.
No one believes what Hillary is shoveling these days; she’s been a low-level Game-player for far too long. All she cares about now is winning the election, and she’ll do anything to make that happen … even if it means shedding a few empty tears.

Posted by: Dessad | January 7, 2008, 4:48 pm 4:48 pm

Are you kidding??? A woman knows how to play a game… women know other women. Your saying Hillary doesn’t know how to put on an act to get more woman votes? What would have happened if she teared up in front of some guys??
If this is hard does the REALLY think she can handle the presure of the whitehouse?????? I am a woman, mother, wife and have been over legal voting age for awhile now and I strongly believe all women are too emotional to handle a job like this. NO WOMAN PRESIDENT!!!!

Posted by: Kristen | January 7, 2008, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm

If Hillary becomes president we will still have a bush in the white house

Posted by: Vinny G | January 7, 2008, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm

I assume the questioner was a plant. Who works for Hillary’s campaign. Correct?

Posted by: Darrel Hawley | January 7, 2008, 4:50 pm 4:50 pm

Hard to believe that ANYONE would give a
thought to the “campaign tactic of tears
as truthful”. These TWO Professional Politicos-The Clintons-would SAY and DO
ANYTHING TO RETURN TO THEIR ‘RIGHTFUL’
REIGN IN THE WHITEHOUSE’. Ask yourself
if you EVER saw her ‘tear up’, when the
news of her Friend? Vince Foster Was Killed—NO YOU DIDN’T-because she was too busy removing incriminating papers from his office and SANITIZING THE SCENE
THAT COULD COME BACK TO HAUNT HER. JUST
the same way, they had Sandy Berger remove incriminating papers from the N.A.- If the MSM is ‘buying this ploy to
humanize Hillary’ just HOW DUMB is that?
VERY DUMB- Every thing this woman does,
is calculated-scripted-rote. She DID NOT let reporters, etc.ask her questions
before, did she? NOW, all of a sudden,
she stays several hrs. to have questions
asked of Her Highness….geez how homey.
WHAT A FAKE–BOTH CLINTONS. AGAIN, THEY
WILL DO ANYTHING IT TAKES TO GET BACK TO
THE POWER/MONEY/PRESTIGE OF THE WH.HOUSE
and for those of you on this site, who are taken in by the croc tears-I have a
bridge(just like the ones she has thrown
her enemies under)I’d like to sell you.
WAKE UP PEOPLE, LIKE THE OTHERS’ WHO ARE FINALLY SEEING THESE TWO “POLITICAL
WHOR*S FOR WHAT THEY TRULY ARE”

Posted by: Jo | January 7, 2008, 4:51 pm 4:51 pm

Clinton is no longer the ‘benedictine candidate.’ This occurred when it became obvious she could lose. This title now goes to Huckabee.

Posted by: Jim | January 7, 2008, 4:51 pm 4:51 pm

IT IS SO SAD, THAT A COUNTRY LIKE USA HAS’NT GOT NOT ONE GOOD HUMAN BEING TO RUN FOR PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE! ALL CANIDATES RUNNING IN 2008 ARE ALL CROOKS, LIARS & NOT WORTH A DAMN VOTING FOR! NOT WAISTING MY TIME THIS ELECTION YEAR! Signed, ONE LESS VOTER

Posted by: John Doe | January 7, 2008, 4:51 pm 4:51 pm

Well said Dessad and Camere01. Superb!
And well, as long as we’re on the book topics… People, go out and read the book written by Gary Aldrich. He was the FBI officer assigned to the Clinton White House and was APPALLED at what he saw. The name of the book: Unlimited Access.
He writes of Hillary hanging SEX TOYS and RUBBERS on the White House Christmas Tree. He, and 6 other people were eye witnesses and actually made to help!
Hillary is one evil thing.

Posted by: Anti-chris | January 7, 2008, 4:52 pm 4:52 pm

Brrrraaaaaaahhhh haaaaahhhhaaaaahhhaaa
The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy strikes!!

Posted by: Pat | January 7, 2008, 4:52 pm 4:52 pm

If Hillary becomes president we will still have a bush in the white house

Posted by: Vinny G | January 7, 2008, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm

I have to chuckle when ANY candidate indicates that this is the most important election this country has ever faced.
What they really are saying is that they think they are the most important person to ever run for election.

Posted by: Mark | January 7, 2008, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm

Cathy:
I saw Robert Smith in a crowd. It was mesmerizing, and he held the crowd captive. The Cure concert was awesome!
oh Crap, since your little revolution, Englishmen such as Mr, Smith can’t become president.
Har Har!

Posted by: Lord Har Har | January 7, 2008, 4:55 pm 4:55 pm

Either Hilary is pretending because she belives it will get her sympathy votes or she really did get emotional and teary under pressure. Either way she loses.

Posted by: A.C.Guard | January 7, 2008, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm

“Hillary has my vote!”<–She has my vote, too. I'm dying to see her have a royal hissy fit and hurl an ashtray at the Republican nominee.

Posted by: Tony | January 7, 2008, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm

LOL LOL LOL ROTFLMAO
Moron peabrains still can’t get over the Gore loss in Florida – despite adults going through every childish gyration imaginable (so embarrassing that their grandchildren will rejoice when they pass away) to invalidate punch cards…
Dade County democrats became the national laughing stock for years. Get your mind out of 1st gear and look around, it’s 2008. LOL LOL LOL LOL… nobody stole the election, Clinton blew it for Gore.

Posted by: James J | January 7, 2008, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm

Weepy Weepy……… that’s leadership material alright!

Posted by: steve | January 7, 2008, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm

This, Bill’s lament that he can’t make Hillary “younger, taller, male,” and the recently leaked internal struggle over continuing her candidacy, all seem to point to a new campaign strategy–trying to get America to feel sorry for Mrs. Clinton and ashamed for putting the sweet old lady through such a rough time.
Knowing what we do about Hillary’s history and tactics, I wouldn’t even be surprised to find out that Miss Young’s question was planted.

Posted by: TB | January 7, 2008, 4:58 pm 4:58 pm

What an opportunity for us to clear the field and nominate the best possible candidates our country has to offer. How about a brokered convention for both parties. We are not co-dependant, self hating Americans. To the Bush and Clinton families – Thank you for your service, now it is time to step aside. There are over 350 million people in this country. Come on. Start Nominating.

Posted by: Average American | January 7, 2008, 4:58 pm 4:58 pm

“Christianity has NEVER been suppressed in the Soviet Union!!”….ever heard of google, wikipedia to fact check? Think no one ever uses it? Guess not or you wouldn’t look like such a fool. Lenin/Stalin persecuted, burned and dismantled the Orthodox church, for God’s sake.”
HELLO – did you notice my Russian name – Osipov?? You think you get more accurate information from an american website than someone that lived AND WORSHIPPED there from 1951 – 1999?? This kind of stupidness really really irritates me.

Posted by: Mrs. Osipov | January 7, 2008, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm

What an opportunity for us to clear the field and nominate the best possible candidates our country has to offer. How about a brokered convention for both parties. We are not co-dependant, self hating Americans. To the Bush and Clinton families – Thank you for your service, now it is time to step aside. There are over 350 million people in this country. Come on. Start Nominating.

Posted by: Average American | January 7, 2008, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm

Kristen, there are quite a few women I believe would make wonderful presidents. Just not this one!
What about Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi or Margret Thatcher, just to name a few who were world-class leaders.
Tansu Çiller, Prime minister of Turkey from 25 Jun 1993 to 7 Mar 1996. She belongs to the reduced but notable group of women rulers in muslim countries, along with Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto, Bangladesh’ Hasina Wajed and Khaleda Zia, and Indonesia’s Megawati Sukarnoputri.
Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, Luísa Dias Diogo, Prime minister of Mozambique are both currently serving their country as we speak.
Women are certainly qualified to be heads-of-state and leaders of their countries. The reason people distrust Hillary has nothing to do with her gender.

Posted by: p | January 7, 2008, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm

When all else fails, pretend to cry. What a PHONY!

Posted by: Monkey Johnson | January 7, 2008, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm

Bush…Clinton…Bush…another Clinton??? Forgeddaboutit! Vote Paul/Obama

Posted by: VitoD'Veto | January 7, 2008, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm

I can’t wait till she brings back out her fake black southern accent
how demeaning that is
you can’t make this stuff up,
she is so repulsive its fun watching her loose

Posted by: Leeny | January 7, 2008, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm

There’s no crying in baseball!…
…or politics, for that matter!

Posted by: negentropy | January 7, 2008, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm

My goodness, we are a sexist society who thinks it is weak for tears or emotion to surface. We ALL cry, men and women alike and we shouldn’t be ashamed to do so. I think that we should look at the problems facing this country and think how well we have faired during the “learning” periods of the inexperienced Presidents. For goodness sake, lets get someone in the White House that has a clue what to do! I will vote for Hillary and hope she keeps her sensitivity. Sure can’t hurt in relationship building.

Posted by: AnneP | January 7, 2008, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm

Since she is also a Senator – what kind of representation is her district getting while she is out on the trail?

Posted by: Wondering | January 7, 2008, 5:01 pm 5:01 pm

I’m looking back over this thread and I’m smiling broadly, because I know that by this time tomorrow all these pablum-puking, vitriol-spewing Lefties will be on their knees, sobbing real tears and beseeching whatever goddess they worship to somehow, miraculously put Hitlery back in the race.
By this time tomorrow, Hillary will be going down in flames in New Hampshire, and afterwards she will crawl snivelling back into whatever damp hole in the ground she calls home, never to threaten our freedom again.
It’s a GREAT DAY, America! Satan Rodham Clinton has been driven back to Hell!

Posted by: Charles Miller | January 7, 2008, 5:01 pm 5:01 pm

Wow. Tough crowd.
If any one of us had spent the last year under a media spotlight, running on little sleep and road food, my guess is we’d do more than well-up with tears.
I think Clinton’s response was genuine. I also think she’s strategic to the core. I believe she’ll loose in NH, not because of anything I know or intuit, but because she’s in the wrong place with the wrong message at the wrong time.
“Not fit to run the White House”? Gimme a break; look at the mess that’s running it today.

Posted by: Sion | January 7, 2008, 5:01 pm 5:01 pm

give me a break, this is exactly what bill would do, he probably told her last night, you’ve got to show emotion , start crying, that always worked for me, do we all not remember when his friend RON BROWN died, at the funeral he came out and was filmed laughing with someone as soon as he saw the camera he started crying, I remember how everyone thought that was so clinton, slick willie, sorry people we are sick of the clintons, and she was crying because she sees herself losing and the plan is not going the way it is suppose to, the question first of all was so softball, how do you feel?? right on cue she starts boo hooing. and just what she wants, all the news is about her crying and getting human. she is desperate!! I like obama, now he is real!!!!

Posted by: Sandra | January 7, 2008, 5:02 pm 5:02 pm

Entirely STAGED:
“Then she took an unexpected question from a woman standing in the back”
And especially when HH grabs the microphone as if on que… A class-ass act though… regards.

Posted by: Demobust | January 7, 2008, 5:03 pm 5:03 pm

tony, will she throw ashtrays at the Republican nominee while Bill hits on their wife?
Har Har!

Posted by: Lord Har Har | January 7, 2008, 5:03 pm 5:03 pm

In the debate she ripped on John Edwards for being passionate and calling it ‘personal’, saying a bunch of words and as an emotional little answer you want to give don’t lead to anything, now this, too funny

Posted by: Jon | January 7, 2008, 5:03 pm 5:03 pm

“Lenin/Stalin persecuted, burned and dismantled the Orthodox church, for God’s sake.”
I guess they must’ve did a rush job then on rebuilding all their churches huh? There are at least FOUR churches within Red Square.

Posted by: Mrs. Osipov | January 7, 2008, 5:04 pm 5:04 pm

OH NO!! Now John Edwards is going to have to cry on camera! Will the madness ever stop?

Posted by: rockycreek | January 7, 2008, 5:04 pm 5:04 pm

Interesting. The only time we have seen Bush cry is when discussing the hardships he knows are born by our troops in action.
Hill cries when reflecting on how reflecting the difficulties of campaigning. Two very big differences on what makes folks emotional.

Posted by: erik | January 7, 2008, 5:05 pm 5:05 pm

Dear Mitt and Hill,
Would you snivelers and snifflers please sit down. Give American voters an opportunity to listen to and compare the very best of both major parties: Senators McCain and Obama.

Posted by: Clif | January 7, 2008, 5:06 pm 5:06 pm

I can not work out where she hid the pepper that she applied in her eyes.

Posted by: kontinuum | January 7, 2008, 5:06 pm 5:06 pm

Yes, tomorrow night, Hillary again can give a speech claiming it a great day for Democrats as she finishes 2nd 12 points behind
and her husband the impeached president can stand behind her again smiling and day dreaming about his latest bimbo on the side
can’t wait, this is becoming alot of fun

Posted by: murray | January 7, 2008, 5:07 pm 5:07 pm

WHAT A PREFORMANCE DOC!!!! WHAT A PREFORMANCE!!!!

Posted by: Cap | January 7, 2008, 5:08 pm 5:08 pm

Howdy-Doody Hillary? It’s like the ole song goes… “And when I told Her, I did’nt love her anymore..She cried”

Posted by: Roger | January 7, 2008, 5:09 pm 5:09 pm

So much hatred for the Clintons from the lunatic fringe. I suppose peace and prosperity was too much for you to handle. My mind boggles to think that after the last seven years of unholy disaster after unholy disaster you still cling to your narrow blinkered view of the world. Fortunately middle America parted ways with you at around the same time as the bodies floated to the top of the flood waters in New Orleans. Clinton or Obama or Edwards, it doesn’t really matter to me. The next President will be a Democrat and Republican Party will be consigned to the trash heap of history. Many of you will hopefully be consigned to the loony bin where you belong.

Posted by: Patrick Smith | January 7, 2008, 5:09 pm 5:09 pm

Hillary is by far the best nominee for the democratic party. She is a strong person and has been around politics for decades. Although Obama is a great person and politician, he needs more time as a politician, I believe his domestic policy would be good for our country, but his foreign policy would take time to develop and be effective. But we don’t have time for the president’s foreign policy to develop at this point, as we saw today with the Iran and US navy stand-off. We need someone who is strong and who understands the gravity of their decisions. Senator Clinton doesn’t need time for her foreign policy to develop.
Most likely her emotional side will be turned into her being weak or soft, or if she becomes passionate they will term her ‘bitchy’. If she has neither of those she will be termed cold and calculating. She has a fantastic person and a strong, passionate leader. If one just shutups and listens to her speak and hear her ideas and policy plans they will see she would be an excellent, well rounded leader. Unlike people like Bush or Huckabee who are clearly bias towards religious and morale viewpoints. We must have a leader who is patient, experienced, and very reasoned in their decisions to deal with all the situations we now face in the 21st century. All of those things Senator Clinton possesses.
We cannot let all the sayings like ‘cold and calculating’ or ‘flip-flopper’ (basically a way of saying someone who is able to adapt and change with the ever-complicated national and global context. certainly Bush has shown his ability to not adapt to situations has been cataclysmic for our country.) We must pay attention to the actual person, their strength, their experience, and their reasoning, these things Senator Clinton holds.

Posted by: Tim M | January 7, 2008, 5:10 pm 5:10 pm

AMAZING: Edwards gives an impassioned lecture during the debate about how the issues are “personal” for him and two days later Hillary is saying how its ‘personal’ for her – Obama says he is for change – and Hillary says “im the change candidate” – is there anything she won’t say to get a vote

Posted by: truth-sayer | January 7, 2008, 5:12 pm 5:12 pm

Pat Smith with all deference – WE are paying attention to the “actual” person… and HH doesn’t measure up as a accomplished salesperson.

Posted by: Demobust | January 7, 2008, 5:13 pm 5:13 pm

such nonsense about the end of the republican party by Patrick Smith
is laughable and shows who is a lunatic fringe person
the democratic party and the republican party will each have there ups & downs through the years
What we are seeing here is the demise of the Clintons
America is tired of them, their day has come and past
Clinton did some good things as president but he also lied under oath and came off as very slimey with his iies and the Lewinsky matter

Posted by: max | January 7, 2008, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm

and much less as a STATESPERSON.

Posted by: Demobust | January 7, 2008, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm

We have already had one too many Clintons running the country!

Posted by: john albright | January 7, 2008, 5:15 pm 5:15 pm

Crying one minute, directing her attack dogs the next, insulting world leaders, and shrieking the rest of the time – go home your psychopath – you are very very scary !

Posted by: Hab10 | January 7, 2008, 5:19 pm 5:19 pm

The emotional woman card is the wrong one to play to be President of the USA. We don’t need a leader whose feelings get hurt when things are not going well for her. Face it…very little will go well for any President and an emotional woman is not what we want.

Posted by: Karen | January 7, 2008, 5:19 pm 5:19 pm

WANTED US PRESIDENCY CANDIDATE – PHONY BALONEYS NEED NOT APPLY. THAT’S YOU HH.

Posted by: Demo Bust | January 7, 2008, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm

Now, only Obama stands in my way. I will RULE THE WORLD!!!!! Oh yeah, and my wife is WAAAAY out of my league!
Kucinich ’08

Posted by: Dennis Kucinich | January 7, 2008, 5:21 pm 5:21 pm

Hey, folks these are REAL tears. We need to empathize with Hillary and get out their and make her dream for America come true. Think of it as a “Make a Wish Campaign” for Hillary. Come on now, we can make this happen. Let’s gitterdone.

Posted by: John A. Jauregui | January 7, 2008, 5:22 pm 5:22 pm

The difference between a liberal and conservative – if Margaret Thatcher had been asked the feel-good questions Hillary had been asked that made her cry, Thatcher would have slapped the person asking the question up side the head.

Posted by: Jon | January 7, 2008, 5:23 pm 5:23 pm

For those Hilary supporters who are shocked by the venomous hatred of the ad hominem rants against their candidate- you’d just as well get over it. These same folks have been spewing Bush hate speak since the Gore defeat.
They are for the most part young haters who will hate anything that competes against what they want. If they succeed in destroying the Clinton candidacy and then lose again to a Republican this November I’m afraid to think about whom they will turn on next. They are haters pure and simple- and I do mean simple.

Posted by: jayker | January 7, 2008, 5:23 pm 5:23 pm

Hey it takes a Village! And hopfully the New Hampshire resident Villa will send you and Bill packing for a Tibet vacation.

Posted by: Demobust | January 7, 2008, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm

Earlier today, in reference to Hillary and Obama, Frak said, “I’d vote for Satan before I’d vote for either of them.”
I don’t remember Revelation specifically identifying the Antichrist as being MALE. Oh, wait, the Antichrist is supposed to be charismatic. That might apply to BJ, but definately not to HRC, Her Thighness.

Posted by: Ron | January 7, 2008, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm

There are people who call her an “Ice Queen” when she is well-groomed and well-coiffed and logical, rational and articulate despite the grueling campaign. Then if she tears up when talking about why she is running, they say she is emotionally unstable. These people just can’t stand to see a woman as president, especially a Democrat. We need to ignore them.

Posted by: LMiklowitz | January 7, 2008, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm

Please, Hillary did not get “chocked up” let alone get “teary eyed.” What she did was finally let voters see the person behind the celebrity. She let her guard down. She shared some of her inner thoughts with a small group of voters and did her very best to convey to them WHY she wants this job so badly. She explained that she wants it because she cares deeply about our nation, about our children, and about all of our futures, and she knows she has what it takes to do the job right. What is so bad about that? She was intimate, personal, and sincere. But Hillary just can’t seem to please you haters – if she doesn’t open up, she’s stoic, and if she opens up about her feelings, she’s a cry baby. There is a double standard placed on Hillary that comes directly from ignorance and blind hatred. You say these so-called “tears” were calculated and rehearsed… and Obama’s rock star “change” toting charisma isn’t?? Please, they’re politicians, not community volunteers – everything they do or say on the campaign trail has been rehearsed. What truly matters here is experience, and Hillary’s is three-fold over Obama: double the time in US Senate, 8 years learning the ropes in the White House, and a respected former President as her spouse, advisor, and diplomat. Obama can talk the talk, but we know Hillary can walk the walk. Hillary 2008.

Posted by: Lizzy | January 7, 2008, 5:26 pm 5:26 pm

P, foreign investors aren’t going to prop up the US dollar forever. The National Debt is 9 Trillion and going up.
If you want to understand where part of my point of view was shaped Google the names: Michael Scheurer (former head of the CIA Bin Laden Unit), Andrew Napolitano (former Judge who works at Fox News), and Philip Giraldi (former CIA).
If you want to be truly horrified look up the latest interview Timesonline did with Sibel Edmonds.

Posted by: I See | January 7, 2008, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm

An “unexpected” question??? Give me a BREAK!!!!! Not only is Cankles wrong about what America needs, the entire Democrat party is wrong. Socialism is NOT what this country needs – EVER!!! 80%+ of Americans say they are happy with their lives. Exactly what do the Dems want to change???????? If you like your money in your wallet, DO NOT VOTE DEMOCRAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ed Stanowicz | January 7, 2008, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm

“I don’t what to see us fall backward” (snivel) – HH
Yea like instituting a socialist society in the US! Question how many socialist sign the Deceleration of Independence? And there were plenty socialist back then.

Posted by: Demobust | January 7, 2008, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm

To Patrick Smith: Obama has more experience in office than Hillary and has built more coalitions and passed more legislation than Hillary. Hillary’s qualifications are that she’s been “around politics”. One cannot put that on their political resume.

Posted by: Nadaspin | January 7, 2008, 5:31 pm 5:31 pm

You know what they say about “karma”… oh wait… karma’s characteristic has to ride in the Caboose when stacked up against Hillary.

Posted by: Tony | January 7, 2008, 5:35 pm 5:35 pm

AnneP: OBAMA IS A SENATOR, TOO. WHAT KIND OF REPRESENTATION IS HE GIVING HIS STATE WHILE HE’S OUT ON THE CAMPAAIGN TRAIL???? What a dumb comment you made.
negentropy: I agree with you completely. She showed her knowledge in the first debate when everyone had to answer if they’d meet with the “enemy” leaders the first year. OH YEA!! THEY ALL SAID (IN ESSENCE); But Hillary said NO. It takes time to work out how leaders will meet, what the agenda will be, and who brings what to the table…..SPOKEN LIKE SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN IN THE ARENA.
I’m glad she can feel – even if it brings tear to her eyes…..who said she “cried”, or “wept”, or “bawled”. No, she had tears in her eyes. Period. If a man can’t feel emotion I don’t want him in the White House. And, we definitely need the REPUBLICIANS OUT OUT OUT.

Posted by: Gloria | January 7, 2008, 5:36 pm 5:36 pm

Crying on the campaign trail when things are going badly is not what we want from a potential future president. She’s done.

Posted by: Chet | January 7, 2008, 5:37 pm 5:37 pm

People silly enough to think any reporter, news agency, paper, or tv channel is unbiased in any way need to get over it. It’s there. No one should get information from one source.
Anyway, I’m glad Hillary is seeing her comeuppance.
The sad part is if we lose this communist in this election, we’re stuck with two more: Obama, and Edwards.
And they don’t keep saying CHANGE because they want to make a difference. They keep saying CHANGE because that’s all they want leave in your pocket after you paycheck.

Posted by: Kyle Blank | January 7, 2008, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm

Disliking Hillary has nothing to do with the fact that she’s a woman and for her to be ANY kind of a model for women is sick. She married a man who became powerful. That’s her way to the top. She could have worked independently – both Nancy Pelosi and Condi Rice made their own careers. Hillary’s is based on her husband – she chose to stick with Bill because he was set to win and then it would be “her” turn. That’s a role model?
And then she needed somewhere to get elected from so she selected New York. What about Arkansas where he was gov? Oh right. Not cool enough.
But now that her agenda isn’t going to play out the way she wanted, she cries? Those were not tears of sorrow as much as the tears of a spoiled kid who gets told by someone that she isn’t going to get her way. Tough to learn that you’re not really as special as you thought.
Oh yeah. It’s probably a vast right wing conspiracy, this Obama thing.
Go Barak.

Posted by: GT | January 7, 2008, 5:40 pm 5:40 pm

two words: crocodile tears. And anyone who believes differently is foolish and/or naive. Gloria, you’ll vote for her because she can plan a party???

Posted by: mike hill | January 7, 2008, 5:41 pm 5:41 pm

Run toward the light, Hillary, run toward the light!

Posted by: Kathleen Willey's Cat | January 7, 2008, 5:42 pm 5:42 pm

Nat at 4:25 thinks all of us who have reacted with well-based guffaws or scorn to Hillary’s crying game should educate ourselves. He points to all our spelling and grammar mistakes. Then he writes this:
“Can’t you see how closed minded most of you people are? Don’t you realize that you have blinded yourself with hatred?”
To be gramatically correct, Nat, your tenses must agree in sentences following one another. You should have said, ‘…that you have blinded YOURSELVES….’. I don’t always check my posts for typos, and, try as I might, I make a grammar mistake now and then, as you do. Hillary’s mistake that most of us are commenting on is one of character, not grammar. And we all are entitled to our opinion of her, whether or not we majored in English.

Posted by: SteveW | January 7, 2008, 5:42 pm 5:42 pm

Hillary has demonstrated to America that she is emotionally unfit to be the first woman President. The “first woman President” cannot have a public emotional breakdown during a national crisis. He campaign is in a downward spiral and she can hardly believe the Clinton inevitability is in jeopardy. If she can’t handle the pressure of the campaign she’ll never be able to deal with our war with jihad. Go home and cry your eyes out that you stayed married to the most unfaithful man in America, Hillary.

Posted by: Lisa | January 7, 2008, 5:44 pm 5:44 pm

As I read all the posts, I am still amazed at one thing. It’s not that Hillary teared up (though I think that is a weakness we really don’t need in a president, what amazes me i s the fact that there are still folks out here talking about her 35 years of experience and how she is the change we need. – Folks, 35 years ago she was starting her teneur as the first lady of a small southern state. After that as first lady of teh US.. Neither provide the type of experience needed to be president. Barbara and Laura Bush are not qualified to be President. Roselyn Carter held no qualificataions for the position. So how exactly does Hillary? She tried to improve the public education system as first lady in Arkansas and fialed miserably. She tried to encat healthcare as first lady of the US and failed miserably.. As a senator – her record is unimpressive at best… Now she is trying to take credit for things that occurred both during her husband’s presidency and during her term as Senator that in reality she had NOTHING to do with. The only thing that she really has experience with for the past 35 years is being part of a vast political machine that lives on poll numbers and a liberal media that has been firmly in the Clinton’s back pocket for over three decades. Obama has no experience.. that is true, but Clinton’s experience is a farce.. her husband can NOT be co-president – its constitutionally illegal. The moment Bill takes over ANY of the normal functions of president is the same day that impeachement will begin… Anyone thinking they are getting two for one here is sadly mistaken. Edwards is a slogan looking for supporters – he talks about the two america’s but made his fortunes off the same folks he now champions. Face it … the dems have done it to themselves again… You have listened to rhetoric and liberal media bias and now you have three UNQUALIFIED folks to choose from. I crooked first lady, an inexperienced senator, and yet another who speaks in feel good sound bytes about the other America but reall has little to offer. While what the Dems have to offer sounds good, the reality is that it is a versoin of socialism..throwing breadcrumbs to the masses while they use their power money and influence to convince us that they are one of the masses themselves. The republicans are the party of big business, but at least they offer less government involvment in our lives.. They offer protection from those who would kill us and the chance for us to succed (or fail) based on our own ability. Not the best choice, but better than what the Democrats offer. And far better than who the democrats offer it with.

Posted by: givemeabreak | January 7, 2008, 5:44 pm 5:44 pm

Ted Kennedy says,”Come take a ride in my car baby.”

Posted by: Lawrence Talbot | January 7, 2008, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm

Lets all say it together…. “I feel your pain!”

Posted by: Tony | January 7, 2008, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm

I have said it all along: no matter how strong the female, she will ALWAYS be emotional—and that does not work with politics. There is NO place in government for an ‘outward’ display of emotions unless warranted (i.e. 9/11)
THAT IS NOT WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS. If that question upset her, or I should say moved her can you imagine what she’s presented with a real set of issues? Ee-gads!

Posted by: Barbara | January 7, 2008, 5:47 pm 5:47 pm

waaa waaa waaa, she makes me sick!! whats next?

Posted by: Barbara Frye | January 7, 2008, 5:47 pm 5:47 pm

Oh, yeah and her husband had 10 chances to kill Osama Bin Laden.

Posted by: I See | January 7, 2008, 5:48 pm 5:48 pm

Rick Lazio is wiping away a tear also – from laughter!

Posted by: la nouvelle yorker | January 7, 2008, 5:49 pm 5:49 pm

STEVE: WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH YOU?
Posted by: Steve | Jan 7, 2008 4:09:21 PM
So Hillary the feminist has one bad week in her entire political life and she breaks down in tears?
This is proof positive she can’t handle the presidency.
SHE AND BILL WERE HAMMERED AND HAMMERED OVER ANYTHING DURING HIS TWO TERMS…IF YOU THINK HILLARY HASN’T HAD BAD POLITICAL WEEKS, YOU’RE JUST IGNORANT, ADN WE CAN’T TAKE WHAT YOU SAY SERIOUSLY.
AND “WELLING UP WITH TEARS” HAS BEEN DONE BY ALMOST EVERY PRESIDENT I’VE SEEN AT A FUNERAL OR BIG OCCASSION OR 4TH OF JULY, ETC. WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL?
SO, SHE HAS EMOTIONS. SO SHE’S GRATEFUL FOR ALL THE OPPORTUNITIES SHE’S HAD….GOOD FOR HER.

Posted by: Gloria | January 7, 2008, 5:49 pm 5:49 pm

Is she going to throw a temper tantrum on the floor because she didnt get her way? she makes me SICK!

Posted by: Barbara Frye | January 7, 2008, 5:52 pm 5:52 pm

IF THIS IS SO PERSONAL TO HER WHY DIDN’T HER AND HER SORRY HUSBAND TAKE CARE OF THIS HEALTHCARE MESS WHEN THEY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO. PLEASE THIS WHOLE BUSINESS MAKES ME VERY MAD!

Posted by: Meme | January 7, 2008, 5:53 pm 5:53 pm

It’s time for voters to put Hillary out of her self-made misery AND put an end of the partisan politics of Clinton vs. Bush, Red vs Blue, Democrats vs. Republicans, etc. that results in nothing done.
Obama has the right message of CHANGE.
Besides, true leaders show strength when times are tough and challenging.
Only a desperate & pathetic politician like Hillary would pander for sympathy votes when she is losing to Obama. Are NH voters that gullible?

Posted by: Yankee Skeptic | January 7, 2008, 5:53 pm 5:53 pm

This woman is utterly shameless! She will do anything or say anything if she thinks it will get her what she wants. God help this nation if she actually gets what she wants!!! And talk about those who think politics is a game, she’s the one who wanted to play with the big boys. Now quit your whining and either MAN UP, Hillary, or GO HOME!

Posted by: Barbara | January 7, 2008, 5:54 pm 5:54 pm

Gloria,
Didn’t your mother ever tell you that it’s impolite to shout?

Posted by: Ron | January 7, 2008, 5:55 pm 5:55 pm

Gloria:
If this is her worst week, then maybe she forgot about Bill “not having sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinski”
Betty Lewinki?
Roberta Lewinski?
Billie-Jo Lewinski?
You cannot judge a person by the way they win, but by the way they lose.
That is why she is unfit to be president.

Posted by: Jeff in Sherwood | January 7, 2008, 5:56 pm 5:56 pm

Right on cue!!! She’s a much better actor than she is politician!

Posted by: Chukkal | January 7, 2008, 5:57 pm 5:57 pm

RON: WHAT DO YOU MEAN???

Posted by: Gloria | January 7, 2008, 5:58 pm 5:58 pm

It’s finally happened!!! Hillary is on the verge of a nervous breakdown….over her hair!! Shame on her!! 3,000 people died on September 11th….did she tear-up over it?? Not on my t.v.!

Posted by: Chukkal | January 7, 2008, 6:01 pm 6:01 pm

I’m a REPUBLICAN
from the Central Coast
of Calif.
I watched the Video and saw
no TEARS. Hard feelings is all!
To be fair, it seems Hillary
was feeling emotional about
the Iowa caucus results…and
she states that she wants the best
for our Country and believes she’s
that person.

Posted by: Roy | January 7, 2008, 6:01 pm 6:01 pm

I’m a REPUBLICAN
from the Central Coast
of Calif.
I watched the Video and saw
no TEARS. Hard feelings is all!
To be fair, it seems Hillary
was feeling emotional about
the Iowa caucus results…and
she states that she wants the best
for our Country and believes she’s
that person.

Posted by: Roy | January 7, 2008, 6:01 pm 6:01 pm

To any of you stupid moron woman that fall for Hillary’s crying act, you need your head examined, she is the biggest fake and liar and phony that ever walked the earth,and her hubsand is a bigger liar and fraud, I do not want this S.O.B.or his wife back in the White House again, this man is a born criminal, 81 people dissappeared or ment with accidental death during his eight year’s, I hope both of them go down in flame’s. And I am so sick and damm tired of you stupid women admiring him and worshiping the ground this pervert walk’s on, what if that had of been your hubsand that did that with Monica in the White House office. I don’t think you would be so forgiving!!! And any woman who stay’s married to a pervert like that, need’s to seek help. The problem with you woman today is your all brain washed by this hollywood crap. Hillary Go Away!!!

Posted by: frank | January 7, 2008, 6:02 pm 6:02 pm

She took an “unexpected question” from the back. Riiiiggghhhhtttt. What a set up.
Here come the tears…
And here come the barf bags in 3…2…1..

Posted by: S.A.M. | January 7, 2008, 6:02 pm 6:02 pm

I’m really appalled to read so many commenters who can’t seem to get past the gender of the candidate. As some have already commented, candidates and elected officials of both genders have teared up (and sometimes for political effect). But anyone could see that for Clinton to tear up as a strategy would be foolishly risky. We need no further evidence than the above comments to demonstrate that. I may or may not vote for her in the upcoming Michigan primary, but I guarantee you I will be voting on the basis of qualifications, not gender or what I think I can perceive of a candidate’s character from a few minutes of video. Your outdated gender biases are showing, people.

Posted by: Michiganian who hasn't decided | January 7, 2008, 6:02 pm 6:02 pm

“Don’t cry for me Argentina.”
Be strong, Hillary. Lurleen Wallace would have been proud of you — and Bill.
No more Bush/Clinton/Bush/Clinton.
No more candidates from Yale.

Posted by: The Doge of Dallas | January 7, 2008, 6:02 pm 6:02 pm

Roy:
“To be fair” is more than the Clintons would ever be!
Har Har!

Posted by: Lord Har Har | January 7, 2008, 6:03 pm 6:03 pm

This is the woman that’s ready to lead our country from Day One? This is the woman who claims she alone can handle the Republican attacks that are sure to come?
My God, she can’t even handle being down in the polls!
Get out now, Senator Clinton. You’re starting to look like Ed Muskie in a pants suit. Quit now before you embarass yourself and put a comically tragic ending on the Clinton legacy.

Posted by: Jerry O'Connor | January 7, 2008, 6:03 pm 6:03 pm

This is the woman that’s ready to lead our country from Day One? This is the woman who claims she alone can handle the Republican attacks that are sure to come?
My God, she can’t even handle being down in the polls!
Get out now, Senator Clinton. You’re starting to look like Ed Muskie in a pants suit. Quit now before you embarass yourself and put a comically tragic ending on the Clinton legacy.

Posted by: Jerry O'Connor | January 7, 2008, 6:03 pm 6:03 pm

Gloria,
Check any list of “Netiquette” (basically, online etiquette) and you will find that typing in all caps is considered to be shouting. You’ll be better received if you switch to mostly lower case, even with a left leaning agenda. :^)

Posted by: Ron | January 7, 2008, 6:04 pm 6:04 pm

Like a true Clinton, able to turn on emotion to manipulate peoples sympathy. What a joke she is, the absolute biggest phony the world has seen. I’m so glad the Iowans saw right through it and i hope New Hampshire voters do the same. Go Ron Paul!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Left Coast republican | January 7, 2008, 6:04 pm 6:04 pm

Once Hitlery is out of the way (that’ll be about this time tomorrow, as her profound FAILURE rises up like Godzilla from the New Hampshire primaries), the GOP machine can pull out all the stops and go after Obama in earnest.
Up until now, the GOP has just been sitting back, allowing the Demoncrats to rip one another to shreds — oh, WHAT A GOOD IDEA to start the Demoncrat campaigns/debates a year early! What an EXTRAORDINARILY GOOD IDEA! We see that it took only ONE YEAR of campaigning to reduce Hitlery to tears. That, my friends, is NOT presidential material. This woman would GET US ALL KILLED in a REAL crisis.
But, now that Hitlery’s campaign is a complete failure (look at the polls, morons), the GOP can open up the warchest and start spending the REAL MONEY to defeat Barak Obama. Which will be a cake-walk. Hate to disappoint you Lefty dipsh¡ts, but if America won’t elect the “smartest white woman in the country,” it sure as hell won’t elect a black man. A Muslim black man. A young Muslim black man. A young Muslim black man who did drugs. Oh, baby, his credentials sound worse by the second, don’t they?
Besides, it would play hell with our war on terror. “Obama vs. Osama”… No, we aren’t going to make that mistake. We CAN’T be so stupid as to allow a Muslim sympathizer to spearhead our war against Muslim terrorists.
Like I said, defeating Obama will be easy pickin.

Posted by: Charles Miller | January 7, 2008, 6:05 pm 6:05 pm

Poor Hillary…the last time we saw a Clinton cry was at Ron Brown’s funeral when her husband, Peter Pan, laughing it up with a friend, saw he was being filmed and broke into his lip-biting, crocodile tear routine. What a phony. This is the woman with a backbone who can stand up to the country’s enemies ? I think not…

Posted by: MDWhite | January 7, 2008, 6:07 pm 6:07 pm

C’mon, Hitlary couldn’t even sniff out a chubby intern doing Bill in the Oval Office. If it’s right under her nose and she can’t figure it out, how in the world can she run a country?
Into the ground is how she’d run it. She feels you and I are too stupid to live our lives. Who better to tell you what to do and how to do it than the Klintonistas?
She’s as fake as fake comes. But beyond that, she’s dangerous. Very, very dangerous. All she can hope for is that we’re more stupid than we collectively are or show ourselves to be.

Posted by: blue_persuasion | January 7, 2008, 6:07 pm 6:07 pm

Give me a break. This was calculated. Notice how she “gets real” and yet manages to methodically hit each of her talking points. Bullshit.

Posted by: jason | January 7, 2008, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm

NO MORE CLINTONS (or Bushes) IN THE WHITE HOUSE PLEASE. THAT INCLUDES MALE AND FEMALE. Cry me a river Hillary and go back to New York (I heard from a New Yorker last week that they don’t like you there either.) It’s time for a real change of thought in Washington. The rest of the politicians better be paying attention. The younger generation is not loyal to brands and that includes political parties. Stop taking money from big shot corporations and start doing what is right for the average citizen.

Posted by: usandallthesekids | January 7, 2008, 6:13 pm 6:13 pm

Michiganian who hasn’t decided,
I will take my understanding of your comment at face value, and accept that you might not understand why she might have a motive for planting the question and reacting with tears. For most women, you would be correct, it would be counterproductive to tear up; however, Hillary has the opposite problem. She has shown herself to be so cold hearted and calculating for so long, that there have even been sympathetic articles in liberal newspapers advising her on how to appear human. Make no mistake about it, EVERYTHING BJ and Hillary Rotten Clinton, Her Thighness, do is thoroughly scripted.

Posted by: Ron | January 7, 2008, 6:13 pm 6:13 pm

Charles,
I know that beating a “muslim black man who did drugs” would be about as easy as beating a souther hick who routinely cheats on his wife. Easy pickin?
I think not.
Mr. Obama electrifies crowds, and when it comes to selling, emotion outweighs logical thought in most decisions. He is a powerful speaker. I was smitten by his speech on Thursday, and I am a Conservative. I heard it on the radio on my way home (I live on the west coast).
Please please please, whatever you do, never ever ever underestimate the opposition. We saw it in Iraq, and to do so is a fatal mistake.

Posted by: Jeff in Sherwood | January 7, 2008, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm

How would Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, Indirah Ghandi or Benazir Bhutto have handled such pressure? With pleas for pitty? Not b@$$%y likely!

Posted by: DrD | January 7, 2008, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm

This so called champion of women’s rights has set us back 25 years with her apparent resort to crying to respond to pressure.
How many years is this stunt going to be proof that we are still the weaker sex? Too weak to lead our Country. You traitor!
And, truth be known, it was probably just a scripted Clintonian Act.

Posted by: Donna | January 7, 2008, 6:16 pm 6:16 pm

all the cars in the parking lots have massachusetts plates coudtesy of ted kennedy at her and bills events

Posted by: cisconchipper | January 7, 2008, 6:17 pm 6:17 pm

The reason we have these candidates run the gaunlet of the primaries is to weed out the weak ones.
I don’t want some crybaby man or women having the keys to our nukes as CinC.
I spent half my life in the military and merchant marine, the thought of hillary clinton or any of those democrat fools as CinC makes me sick.
The clinton’s “abhor the military” [his words], we will be naked to our enemies if any dem gets elected, just listen to them, they have no clue.
The only man running qualified on day one is Mccain…Naval Acad, squadron leader, Naval War College and 20+ years fighting pork. A man who showed just how tough and honorable he was as a POW..for those who don’t know, he refused early release when the NVA found out his dad was CinPac and spent 5 1/2 years in the Hanoi Hilton because of it.
We are engaged with an enemy who wants us dead, I cannot look at my grandchildren and vote for any other man. If we don’t keep the country safe all the other programs the dems are buying votes with will mean nothing.

Posted by: Seawolf | January 7, 2008, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm

I hope Hillary stays in until every liberal dime in the country is spent, until the Clinton Brand is toast, until she damages her reputation so badly she loses the Senate seat. I hope she stays in until she is so humiliated she refuses to show her face in public ever again! Anybody BUT Hillary in 2008 PLEASE!

Posted by: GOP | January 7, 2008, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm

I’m assuming many here saw the follow-up interview when Hillary was asked about the ‘emotionsl’ moment?
Her reply was……”I wanted people to see..blah, blah, blah, that I was a real person……blah, blah, blah,.
“I wanted people to see”..operative words………..
Which might lead me to believe the entire episode was staged and scripted?
The venue was very small. The questioners were very small in number. The camera was very up close and personal for a very small venue. In the heat of a National campaign, would a candidate invest that kind of time and money to speak to a couple dozen “supporters” without an expected and staged outcome?? Not……….
Just a little suspicious……..

Posted by: billbrady | January 7, 2008, 6:20 pm 6:20 pm

OH, S.A.M., what does that stand for – Silly American Moron or Socialist And Machavelain? You are so smart. I will vote for Billery just because yo said you met her twice!

Posted by: Bub | January 7, 2008, 6:20 pm 6:20 pm

OH, S.A.M., what does that stand for – Silly American Moron or Socialist And Machavelain? You are so smart. I will vote for Billery just because yo said you met her twice!

Posted by: Bub | January 7, 2008, 6:20 pm 6:20 pm

I am in no way a lib or Clinton supporter. In fact I find Hillary to be unbearable. However, I want to draw your attention to 2 recent moments. First, at the NH debate on Saturday night when the local ABC affiliate’s political guy asked her why people don’t like her. Watch it again but don’t listen to her words. Instead pay attention to her demeanor and how it seemed to instantly change. It seems as though for the first time, and for what seemed to be a brief moment, we see another side to Hillary. It seems as though that question completely disarmed her. In that moment Hillary revealed an emotional side which I have never seen. Next, fast forward to today and who would believe that we would see Hillary not only showing emotion but wait —you guessed it—it’s Niagara Falls. In closing, this woman and her handlers have spent so much time and effort in manufacturing a candidate for the masses but in the end all the efforts to disguise this woman’s apparent weakness have served only to dilute and pollute the essence of an intelligent and passionate woman. But I still won’t vote for her.

Posted by: Jonathan | January 7, 2008, 6:20 pm 6:20 pm

Oh oh my!!! Hillary shows emotion? As reported on all national tv news reports, Hillary was greeted by a small group of supporters, and as reported, they could not find one person to “carry a vote for Hillary” sign. Her support has dwindled considerably. Only if you saw the debate hosted by ABC News last week, she was irrevocably disturbed and spoke rather “firmly and obnoxiously” in rebuttal to some of Edwards and Obamas dialogue. THAT WAS THE REAL HILLARY…she brings with her 35 years of experience…BAH HUMBUG!!! She supports change? (so do I)we all want change and we have to vote consciously. She said she pushed thru 7,000 childrens health care plan in NH? Convenient statement? WHY OF COURSE. She didn’t push thru anything. Check her records. Check her voting records. She has not been involved in national politics for 35 years…gimme a break. Do the math. Bill Clinton served 8 years, been out of office appx. 8 years that = 16 years. She’s been senator for almost 3 years…=’s 19 years. Where are the other 19 years? Perhaps Arkansas? Convenient statement however. Now back to the “emotional” aspect of this little note…and please see for yourself as it will be aired many times over the next week or so. Before the… “roll backwards” statement was made she lifted her head and looked for a camera, looked straight into the camera, tilted her head conveniently and then made the statement. Sigh… May the best candidate win…AMERICA NEEDS THE CHOSEN ONE based on facts, credentials, etc.!!!

Posted by: Jane Wheless | January 7, 2008, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm

Young haters – I am 70 and the thought of HILLARY sitting in the white house is frightnening and I am a Marine – on the retired list.

Posted by: george | January 7, 2008, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm

Young haters – I am 70 and the thought of HILLARY sitting in the white house is frightnening and I am a Marine – on the retired list.

Posted by: george | January 7, 2008, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm

What democrat reptile contributed those tears? All those years in the White House and Senate telling US
the politically correct things to do.. now we are telling YOU what to do….
S C R A M

Posted by: Dick Tuck | January 7, 2008, 6:22 pm 6:22 pm

to Gloria at 5:49 (and why all the shouting, btw?):
>>SHE AND BILL WERE HAMMERED AND HAMMERED OVER ANYTHING DURING HIS TWO TERMS
You have to be kidding. By whom? The MSM? They carried Slick n’ Hill’s water going back to the ’92 campaign. Let me ask you (and this has been researched and we know the answer), who, by far, had more negative mentions in TV and print media, Bill or George H.W.? Bill or Newt? Bill or Ken Starr? Bill or anyone who was identified as his nemesis of the moment? The Clintons received a free pass from the fawning media while in office, and have enjoyed an amount of anabashed historical revision since 2000 that must bring tears to Jimmy Carter’s eyes.
In contrast, there has never been a sitting President more vilified, insulted, lied about, and undeservedly attacked by “journalists” than George W. I challenge anyone to find two greater extremes in media treatment than the Clintons and Bushes. Clinton: the minimizing of significant scandals from the 900 FBI files to Slick’s contemporary cocaine use to Juanita Broaddrick to Sandy Berger’s theft and destruction of highly classified documents. These brought barely a yawn from the Dan Rather crowd. Bush: making scandals where their there were none — propagated lies about his military service, the non-crime against Valerie Plame, the perfectly reasonable and legal firing of US attorneys, etc., etc.
The real reason for the tears is that, despite all the Marianne Pernold Youngs in the media, the MSM seem to be weary of covering for the Clintons and may very well have decided to swith their cheerleading allegiances to Obama.
Watch how they handle the next round of dirt that is surely on the way from Hillary’s dirty tricks team.

Posted by: rockycreek | January 7, 2008, 6:24 pm 6:24 pm

welcome to the reality soap opera==hollywood couldnt write a better script. cant wait for tomarrows episode when they take her away in a straight jacket

Posted by: cisconchipper | January 7, 2008, 6:26 pm 6:26 pm

If it only takes 8 years in the whitehouse to qualify one to run for president, I must remind all that the WH pastry chef is also qualified

Posted by: wilson | January 7, 2008, 6:27 pm 6:27 pm

Jeff sez:
“Easy pickin? I think not. Mr. Obama electrifies crowds, and when it comes to selling, emotion outweighs logical thought in most decisions. He is a powerful speaker.”
Hate to burst your pseudo-conservative bubble, Jeff, but I can think of several black men who are far more intelligent and articulate than Obama, and some of them have even run for the presidency… Remember the VERY well-spoken and learned Alan Keyes? This guy could make you jump out of your chair and cheer, such was his intelligence and profundity.
But Keyes ran up against something that beats a black presidential candidate every time. Good old fashioned redneck ignorance. You’ll hate to hear it, but MOST Americans are white and under-educated. They DON’T WANT an uppity black egghead in the White House. They’d rather have a “good old boy” in there, regardless of his lack of stage presence, which explains the two terms of GWB.
Plus, all the GOP has to do is throw around terms such as “Muslim” and “drug use” — nevermind whether or not it’s true — and the redneck majority out there will do the rest. As I said, EASY pickin.

Posted by: Charles Miller | January 7, 2008, 6:30 pm 6:30 pm

Hillary crying? Those are crocodile tears intended to invoke an emotional response from voters and the press. Apparently this little ploy worked on some people.
Remember when Bill Clinton was leaving Ron Brown’s funeral talking and laughing? Then, when he realized that a TV camera was on him, he teared up!
Birds of a feather!!

Posted by: Joe Momma | January 7, 2008, 6:31 pm 6:31 pm

Just saw Hillary try to explain her “teary” moment by stating that many male leaders have been brought to tears…
Well Hillary, yes they have. Horrible tragedies have affected many leaders. But I’ve NEVER seen anyone brought to tears about THEMSELVES!
Hillary you either fake-cried for sympathy to imply that Yes Look At Me I’m Human, I Care (ha!) or because you’re on the verge of one of your tantrums!

Posted by: lo | January 7, 2008, 6:33 pm 6:33 pm

blue_persuasion,
Actually, PIAPS (Pig-in-a-pantsuit) DID sniff out Monica. Read Edward Kline’s book on Hillary (What she knew and when she knew it.) Hillary’s only concern was that Bill’s philandering didn’t cause too much of a problem for her when she made her own move on Pennsylvania Ave. She actually had a member of her staff assigned to follow BJ around. She had Monica banished from the White House (to the Pentagon if mamory serves me), but Monica was no angel herself, and found a way to get back with the Molester-in-Chief.
I still have no sympathy for PIAPS, as she will do literally ANYTHING to become POTUS. That is the scariest thing in my opinion. I know that BJ and Her Thighness: left behind a trail of dead bodies (including Vince Foster and Ron Brown), went through the FBI files for half of their enemies before being discovered, had Sandy Burglar steal classified documents from the National Archives, sold militarily significant missle guidance secrets to the CHICOMs, BJ perjured himself and subborned perjury, stole half the furniture from the White House before being discovered and returned it, etc. etc, etc.
However, the scariest thing in my mind is that PIAPS put up with and/or participated in all of this in order to eventually get the job herself. There is nothing I would put past her.
Of course, I really don’t think we have much to worry about. BJ’s ego will not allow it to happen. Just think, what was he all about? His legacy (the reason Sandy Burglar was sent to the archives to remove legacy damaging documents.) If PIAPS were to be elected POTUS, not only would she be the first Female POTUS, she would be a WARTIME POTUS. Instant higher significance than the big lug. It will never happen.

Posted by: Ron | January 7, 2008, 6:36 pm 6:36 pm

This woman doesn’t do anything that is not scripted, tears included.

Posted by: shanana | January 7, 2008, 6:36 pm 6:36 pm

Did she cry after visiting the site of 911? No, she wiped the dust of 3000 dead Americans off her shoes.
Go rule in HELL Hillary.

Posted by: Mickey | January 7, 2008, 6:38 pm 6:38 pm

with the furor about planted questions, how about this one. “How do you stay…so wonderful” Deep philosophical stuff. Wonder if Carville or Penn wrote it.

Posted by: Jim | January 7, 2008, 6:41 pm 6:41 pm

Cisconchipper: With the Hollywood writers on stricke, this is AWESOME!!!
Tomorrow’s lineup:
Obama: 42%
Clinton:29%
8pm: Clinton gives a victory speech, saying that she was the best candidate, and the people of a small New England state have no idea how to select a candiate.
8:45pm: Edwards begins his speech telling the crowd that corporate America in NH worked against him, but he will carry on.
9:22pm: Barack Obama lights up a room and inspires people to be more than themselves, and to carry the message forward.
9:45pm: Obama’s speech ends with the crowd leaving and feeding every homeless person they run into, including Bill Clinton (who we find out has been kicked out of the couple’s house)
10:02pm: Hillary’s speech ends with the message to carry this victory to her “Southern roots” in South Carolina. (she has a drawl as she says this) Also, she reminds them that Bill will be out and about campaigning for her, separately, to cover more ground.
11:55pm: Edwards concludes his speech with the rallying cry (to the 10 people left, including his wife and kids, who have not gone out with the Obama crowd feeding the homeless), “Kill a rich person tonight!”
…and on the Republican side:
Romney: 33%
McCain: 34%
Huck: 12%
8:00pm McCain calls for a recount, saying that the state isn’t 35% Mormon, and there are a lot of Mormons in Arizona that his mom likes.
9:00pm Romney (still decided the winner) Gratefully thanks his supporters, and for the clear-cut victory over the “agents of the status quo”. Halfway through the speech, the news coverage switches to Huckabee’s speech, slated to be at the same time.
9:12pm Huckabee thanks his supporters and questions the ones that voted for Romney, asking them (casually) if Mormons really don’t beleive in polygamy, because that’s what he’s heard. Later in the speech, he tells them (as commander of the Christian soldiers) that they need to go out and save all of the 88% that didn’t vote for him.
On to Michigan!!!
Har Har!

Posted by: Lord Har Har | January 7, 2008, 6:41 pm 6:41 pm

Obama is real, Hillary is just so fake. It’s time for a real person who can lead, Barack Obama, not a career political machine, HilBill, to lead America.

Posted by: Teddy | January 7, 2008, 6:45 pm 6:45 pm

Don’t cry for me, Hillaria. Save your tears for your husband, when he leaves you.

Posted by: Evita | January 7, 2008, 6:48 pm 6:48 pm

HRC: “I have so many opportunities from this country–I just don’t want to see us fall backwards.
Strange choice of unscripted words and syntax. So many “opportunities”? For what? Self-aggrandizement? And opportunities “from” this country–not “for”?
Sure, she’s tired and the Hillary defenders will say about anything to defend her sainted status as an elemental force of CHANGE.
But her quote is ironically accurate. She’s had a lot of opportunities from this country, many undeserved. Certainly, most self-serving.
But the idea that she is a major political figure capable of being president is finally being show for the sham that is has always been.
Don’t cry for me, Argentina.

Posted by: Adamzero | January 7, 2008, 6:50 pm 6:50 pm

Too much stress? Campaign too hard? That’s how she is going to handle President from day one? Get another job Hillary!

Posted by: Jay | January 7, 2008, 6:50 pm 6:50 pm

I just watched the video. HA HA HA. HOHOHO. OMG! She deserves and Oscar for that performance. She probably sat up all night with hubby practicing. I can hear it now…, “Now Hill, remember, when the tears come make sure you bite that bottom lip just like I used to do…. and then they’re putty in your hands.”
Pure unadulterated evil.
Vote for them and and it’s a vote for the Dark Side…. Just ask George Lucas.
LOL!

Posted by: Joe Beelen | January 7, 2008, 6:52 pm 6:52 pm

A few points. HRC teared up. I could care less. She’s a megalomaniac socialist with absolutely no core values, unless a person includes the abhorrent desire for ruling and power as a character value. Barack is a noob. Reminds me of Jimmy Carter, another great proponent of change. Huck is a bible thumping goon, so much said from a Conservative like myself. GW in the White House is a pinhead; I’ll give Hillary the fact she’s smarter than Bush by a long shot. Flat tax works well on the whiteboard, with some arithmetic- but nowhere else. What to do in such a sad state of affairs.

Posted by: FlRocky | January 7, 2008, 6:53 pm 6:53 pm

Charles,
I totally agree with you about Mr. Keyes. He electrified me as well.
But, he was not a nominee of the party, as Obama is on the way to being.
I wasn’t trying to make a case for Obama, but a case against underestimating the opponent. When I saw Laura Ingraham and Pat Buchanan after the speech (after I got home), they looked stunned, and that is a bad thing.
I also remember when George HW Bush said, “Look at these bozos!” about Clinton/Gore. He was beaten by the “bozos” because he “didn’t campaign until after Labor Day” and the lie of the “worst economy of the last 50 years”.
The MSM will forget about the primaries after the nominee is picked, and then defend him/her to the death. If you go after Hillary, you are “anti-woman” and if you go after Barack, you are “a racist”. they will then play whatever you said out of context to prove their point.
I’m not sure why you call me a pseudo-conservative, but here is my choice for president:
Paul McRomabeeliani
Ron Paul: The Constitution, it’s not just a good idea, it’s the law!
McCain: Doesn’t BS
Romney: Economically, he has done it
Huckabee: Fair tax is the way. Tinkering with a poorly designed machine is no way to fix it. Get a new one.
Guliani: Hell hath no fury like a mayor scorned, or at least one that was attacked by terrorists.
Charles, I agree with you more than I disagree. Actually, the disagreement comes from the tactic that should be used, and the assessment of the struggle. I think it will be more protracted, and by your comment of “easy pickin,” I understand that you don’t.

Posted by: Jeff in Sherwood | January 7, 2008, 6:54 pm 6:54 pm

Where’s the part where she chokes up and starts crying? ‘Cause I’ve seen this clip on the news twice now and I’m completely failing to see it. This is an example of the media making things up for their own amusement- barely weeks ago, Hillary was characterized as too cold, too calculating; and now she’s too emotional, in a clip where her voice doesn’t even break?
Cripes. I’m for Obama and I think this is entirely unwarranted picking on Clinton.

Posted by: Stacey | January 7, 2008, 6:56 pm 6:56 pm

Billary is crying about how TOUGH THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL IS??? What happens when a terrorist attacks us? What happens when the press actually asks a tough question instead of “What makes you so… wonderful?” Is that a real question or a Carville line?? She probably heard Bill whipped out his cigars again… Why doesn’t anyone realize that any of the top 5 Republicans would run circles around all 3 Dems??? Is it not plainly obvious to regular folks like me?? Good grief, these Clintons are weak, weak, weak!! Does America not know that the prosperity of the 90′s stem from having a REPUBLICAN CONGRESS??? As soon as the Dems get Congress back look what happens to the markets… just sayin’..

Posted by: TIDER1701 | January 7, 2008, 7:00 pm 7:00 pm

Wow, what is with the hate and the vile? I mean its not like Hilary has personally wronged you people. She wouldn’t be treated any worse if she stole food from the mouths of your children. Unbelievable…. Bill gave us some crap to deal with, but man we still won the White House… twice!
Ok, I’m gonna blow some people’s minds here, but give this a thought. What if (big IF here) we didn’t elect the person whom we thought we liked the most, and just elected the person who might actually be able to do the job. I know, I know, it scares you to have to actually think about the issues and the complications in this crazy world… its just so much easier to vote for the person you’d rather have a beer with. But please, I implore you, look at what this rational has lead us to!
I’m gonna give you some straight talk here from an obviously jaded Clinton supporter. I don’t like Hilary Clinton. There I said it. Everything people say about her is true. She is cold, calculating, and a lousy politician (we wouldn’t think she was cold and calculating if she was a good one!) Then why would I vote for her? Because I don’t care about any of those things. In fact, I want a cold, calculating President.
Lets face it, how many of you have really met your candidate of choice? Not a rope line thanks for your support, but you actually sat down and got to know the person? I’m guessing here, but probably about 99% of you have not. Yet this campaign is about likeability? Um, one question…. how? Do you like how they come across during their stump speeches? LOL, I’d bet 75% of Obama’s supporters have never even watched one of his speeches all the way through! They are going to vote in the next President of the United States based on 30 second snippets delivered to you by the bumble headed press?
Its time to get real folks! John Kerry was a decorated military hero. No they don’t sing songs about him or anything like that, but to me a guy that pulls one of his buds out of the water while getting shot at is a hero. But remember 2004? By the time the election was over the Republicans had turned him into this anti military traitor! My god, what do you think they will do with Obama? He’ll be a muslim terrorist here to kidnap your children by November!
We may not love Hilary (or we may be smarter than to think any of us can love any of these candidates, despite what they tell us) but we know her. We know every bad thing about her. There is no October surprise, no skeletons in the closet…. yes I know the Clinton’s harshest critics will think there is something else, but after 16 years of being investigated at the highest level, I think we can feel safe with her vetting process. The Republicans knew this, which is why they left Obama alone and attacked her! They are delighted to take on Mr Obama. Gee, I wonder who they will nominate against Obama…. lets see Mr no experience versus… hmmm, wait for it… maybe um, John McCain? Mr experience. (He’s 97 so he has probably experienced everything). Here come the adds… the twin towers falling, planes exploding, violent muslims chanting and shooting their rifles, and then fade to Barrak Obama’ face. The voice over telling us that the world is dangerous and we can’t take any chances….. if you don’t think this can work, then we are all in trouble.
One last point. All my life, during every election cycle, we hear the same things. My campaign is about change, together we can change the world, the forces of status quo are against us! People, every single politician uses these same lines. The fact that some are eloquent enough to give us goose bumps has nothing to do with an effective administration. Please remember that.

Posted by: DC | January 7, 2008, 7:01 pm 7:01 pm

I love you loser liberals who think this country is at risk because of BUSH. If it were not for Bush correcting the foriegn policies mistakes of Clinton, we would be much worse off. But for this thread. Bye Bye Hillary, you can float on back to whitewater on your tears, but Im sure Bill will not be there with you. Its lonely when you screw with people.

Posted by: Marcus | January 7, 2008, 7:02 pm 7:02 pm

Crocodile tears at their very best. She oughta be in pictures…..”B” Comedies.

Posted by: Ragu4u | January 7, 2008, 7:02 pm 7:02 pm

“Just wait until the voters hear about Obama’s self-admitted extensive drug use.”
Y’mean he’s not lying about it, like Bill did?

Posted by: Tony | January 7, 2008, 7:03 pm 7:03 pm

She once said if you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen. Wow! The onions really got to her. This was calculated. Don’t believe for one second it wasn’t. This is so unbelievable.

Posted by: Fp | January 7, 2008, 7:04 pm 7:04 pm

The Edmund Muskie of 2008!

Posted by: RRNMAN | January 7, 2008, 7:07 pm 7:07 pm

Thank goodness for the thread above referring to Bush. It gives me hope that the Democrats can actually get their fannies together and send these types of bloggers over to IRAQ

Posted by: James | January 7, 2008, 7:12 pm 7:12 pm

So Hillary cried, or teared up,…what’s the big idea. I am NOT a Hillary supporter, as I am a Republican leaning moderate, but all I saw was a person who believes very strongly in the fact that this country ia going in the wrong direction. She feels quite strongly that SHE is the most qualified and ready to take command candidate, and in a very personal setting, and intimate setting, she simply was overcome for a moment about how she feels that we must not go backwar, but move forward. I agree with her in this.
Now I have a different political view than Sen. Clinton, but I think this is much ado about Nothing.

Posted by: Jonathan | January 7, 2008, 7:14 pm 7:14 pm

Hilary, go home and bake cookies, its over.

Posted by: JebBushforPrez | January 7, 2008, 7:16 pm 7:16 pm

Whats the problem James? Are you one of those pathetic little blue dots in a RED state or just one of the masses that voted for Gore or Kerry from NewYork/California. Bush is a mans man, taking the fight to our enemies, while wimps like you simply sit back, vote Pelosi in and then stonewall Bush at every turn. You may wish for a democrat to win in 08, but the way the dem’s are going, it will be another banner year for the Republicans. The real change will be with the sweeping out of congress. Be a man.

Posted by: Marcus | January 7, 2008, 7:18 pm 7:18 pm

That was Hillary crying? I’ve seen more emotions from catatonic schizophrenics.

Posted by: jerryemt2001 | January 7, 2008, 7:18 pm 7:18 pm

I bet all those poor old elderly people that Hillary and her husband embezzled money from cried many a night when their lifetime’s earnings was stolen from them. Or how about all those victims of the terrorist organiztion FALN that Billy Bob pardonened inorder to garner some political votes (Hispanic) for his wife Hillary during her run for Senator

Posted by: Thomas | January 7, 2008, 7:21 pm 7:21 pm

Hillary’s crying because the plan her and Bill had in 1996 was for Bill to serve 2 terms, Al Gore was going to be president for 2 terms, and then Hillary was going to come in and sweep the 2008 election. We all know how that turned out. I don’t like her polices (mandatory healthcare is number one on my list), I don’t like the idea of replaying the same stories we’ve been replaying since the 60′s. I have listened to Obama. He is the only one who has addressed the real problem with healthcare, and he wants to actually change what has been going on since 1988.
OBAMA ’08!

Posted by: Shawn Williams | January 7, 2008, 7:23 pm 7:23 pm

Tears or no tears, Hillary is just plain unelectable. Too many people (including me – a lifelong Democrat) do not like her or downright hate her. I am unaware of any accomplishments of note for which Hillary has been responsible in the US Senate, where she never attained a position of leadership among her peers. Her highly touted “experience” is something short of a term and a half as a US Senator, which represents the totality of her lifetime experience as an elected official. No one knows what her views are on virtually any important topic, despite being well along the primary track. Is Hillary opposed to illegal immigration? Would Hillary withdraw from Iraq? Would Hillary bolster US forces in Afghanistan? Would Hillary save Social Security, and if so, how? What is Hillary’s universal health care plan or strategy? In short, the only thing we know Hillary stands for is getting elected to the highest office in the land. In view of her inexperience, shameless pandering to polls, the polarizing figure she presents, and the fact that her views on any of a number of important remain essentially unknown, I would never vote for her.

Posted by: Tom | January 7, 2008, 7:23 pm 7:23 pm

GIVE ME A BREAK! Great googley moogley what a self absorbed egomaniac! GO AWAY HILLARY!

Posted by: GARY | January 7, 2008, 7:25 pm 7:25 pm

Wrong, Edmund Muskie had principles.

Posted by: K. West | January 7, 2008, 7:25 pm 7:25 pm

Whaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!! ” I see what’s happening and we have to reverse it”. Trying to make people believe it’s that “Darn George Bush!” when it’s really Mr. Obama.

Posted by: Lenny | January 7, 2008, 7:25 pm 7:25 pm

Listen, nothing happens by coincidence with Hillary. This was all part of her campaign plan. It shows 1. Gee, she’s human, and not cold hearted. Gotta get that out of the minds of voters. 2. “It’s so unfair; have to show my feminine side.” 3. It’s all Bush’s fault!

Posted by: Rocco | January 7, 2008, 7:27 pm 7:27 pm

K.WEST. Your right on target. Its not Bush that is the problem, its Obama and she still is practicing the politics of division. The only thing that the democrats have to offer to stay in power.

Posted by: marcus | January 7, 2008, 7:28 pm 7:28 pm

I cried, too. I have family in Iraq and I teach special education students. It makes me very sad that the American culture is to continue to wallow in the bliss of ignorance. You are like a swarm of fruit flies sucking off the waste of a tossed banana peel. My fellow Americans, you might feel comfort in hearing consistancy in the messages from the candidates. It is tedious and untested. The media makes up your mind. Have you ever lifted a finger to research the history of the Mid East? They always fight among themselves. They have done that far longer than America has been a “democracy”. Fine. Let them. Get out of their business. Let us Americans show off by other ways.

Posted by: Phyllis Crews | January 7, 2008, 7:28 pm 7:28 pm

Pllllllllllease!!!!!!! This woman has never done anything that was not calculated to promote herself! “For the children, the country..” Plllease! She can’t understand that she is incapable of being a president, ask the voters upstate NY how this ‘senator’ did not manage to bring in jobs! It’s all about herself & that lousy husband. It is HE who is really running, she is just the front who unfortunately NEVER, EVER answers a diffucult question. Go away, take that ‘husband’ of yours with you. Stay out of public office, you never, ever gave a hoot!You are no Margaret Thatcher, you have no dignity!

Posted by: dka | January 7, 2008, 7:29 pm 7:29 pm

It’s too late for tears…the Obama train is rolling towars the White House.

Posted by: Marty | January 7, 2008, 7:31 pm 7:31 pm

hey DC thanks for writing a book here
we do not like Hillary AND SHE IS THE WORST CHOICE possible for president
she is a socialist and a liar

Posted by: Hank | January 7, 2008, 7:32 pm 7:32 pm

George bush has a secret “crying machine” he pulls it out like the mad scientist that he is and uses it to topple powerful leaders!

Posted by: chin | January 7, 2008, 7:32 pm 7:32 pm

DC,
>> its just so much easier to vote for the person you’d rather have a beer with
I absolutely agree, that’s exactly what gave us 2 terms of Bill Clinton And you are correct that Mrs. Clinton doesn’t enjoy the same advantage.
But, in the “can do the job” category, just what makes one think she fills this bill (pun intended)? Let’s see, 8 years as first lady. That makes her as qualified as Laura Bush, and twice as qualified as Roselyn and Barbara. 7 years in congress. That puts her on a par with Obama, ahead of ambulance-chaser Edwards (since he never actually performed as Senator, just as the people of N. Carolina), and way behind the Bidens and the Dodds and even the resident alien Kucinich.
Beyond that, I would love to hear some solid reasons to back up the vast experience claim.

Posted by: rockycreek | January 7, 2008, 7:33 pm 7:33 pm

I can see Hillary now when the bomb comes. “wahhhhhhh someone get me a tissue and give me a couple moments to regain my composure. What would George do?”

Posted by: todd | January 7, 2008, 7:36 pm 7:36 pm

I can see Hillary now when the bomb comes. “wahhhhhhh someone get me a tissue and give me a couple moments to regain my composure. What would George do?”

Posted by: todd | January 7, 2008, 7:37 pm 7:37 pm

Poor crying Hillary…it must have hurt to fall off her husband’s coattails.

Posted by: Joyce | January 7, 2008, 7:37 pm 7:37 pm

Every woman who ever challenged a glass ceiling learns that if she shows emotion, she is too weak to be taken seriously, while if she does not show emotion, she is a cast-iron. Usually the first is career suicide and the second is the only option.
I believe the tears were genuine, but that Hillary made a conscious decision not to suppress them as she normally would. Immediately, and so predictably, she is attacked for being “weak”… but those attackers wouldn’t have voted for her anyway.
Go Hillary! California Loves You!!!!

Posted by: Hillgrrl | January 7, 2008, 7:38 pm 7:38 pm

..and I thought I was the only crybaby!!! give me a break America! If I were running for President of this great country and only 16 WOMEN show up at my party I would cry too for the whole world to see !!! To one of those 16 ladies who showed up at the party and to believe she only cared about Hillary’s hair…what is this world coming to!!! Why not ask about the Healthcare program while Bill was in office that failed, She says she has 35 years of experience…NOT SO!!! She was in a law firm in Arkansas. She did not push through anything in NH for healthcare for 7,000 young people! Anybody remember anything about the Foster Law Firm? Something still is remiss in that scandal. Unfortunately, Mr. Foster is no longer available to really tell us what went on !! etc., etc., etc. One story after the other follows the Clinton administration. Not enough time or space to continue on with the scourges of the Clinton’s. She became infamous ONLY during her “stay” in the White House where her husband was directing the orchestra of our nation. REGISTERED VOTERS ONLY PLEASE go to the polls and vote consciously. My future and the future of AMERICA hangs in the balance. Before anyone tops my totem pole, I voted for and believed in Bill Clinton. I still believe I was only half wrong! or was that…half right? Something for me to ponder as I vote in the 2008 election.

Posted by: Jayne W | January 7, 2008, 7:41 pm 7:41 pm

OMG, if that was real then I am seriously worried. Do we really want someone as president who can break down so easily? The Presidency is very stressful. We need someone who can keep their emotions in control. We could find ourselves in more trouble if we elect someone who makes decisions that are based on emotion rather than logic. She said it’s hard for her when she doesn’t have help, and easier when she does? There are going to be a lot of times she will have to make decisions where she may not have a lot of help. What then? Seeing Hillary break down today is major a red flag to me.

Posted by: Worried | January 7, 2008, 7:42 pm 7:42 pm

It’s not the fact she was emotional and almost cried it’s the fact that she’s so transparent and many don’t believe she cares about anything but getting to the White House by any means! (She didn’t cry she ALMOST cried … not enough time to rehearse … Tick Tock!)

Posted by: Bella | January 7, 2008, 7:43 pm 7:43 pm

No more clintons. Put someone in office who is really for change. Vote Ron Paul. Can we please be a free nation again?

Posted by: lownr | January 7, 2008, 7:48 pm 7:48 pm

I read some posts that said Bill Clinton is looking more & more like W.C. Fields …. I agree its true !!!!!
Bye Hillary

Posted by: Mr H | January 7, 2008, 7:51 pm 7:51 pm

Next is South Carolina will she also start using that lame southern accent shes tried before ?
She changes her personallity more often than Al Gore
she wants to be & say whatever anyone who can votes wants
she has no core beliefs she is a fake

Posted by: Sara | January 7, 2008, 7:54 pm 7:54 pm

Boo hoo hoo in front of the camera, of course! Maybe she will end up on the next season’s “Dancing with the Stars!”

Posted by: capris | January 7, 2008, 7:56 pm 7:56 pm

The question about “How do you look so gorgeous and do all that you do????” was supposed to be UNPLANNED??????? Just how dang dumb are the people who believe this lying woman anyway??????

Posted by: Sharon | January 7, 2008, 7:58 pm 7:58 pm

What the hell is going on with the Men and Women in this Country? Since when did we turn in to such heartless brutes enjoying beating up a woman who has done nothing but try to make our lives better?? Has everyone fogotten the 1990s? Jobs, money, Peace-No dead children coming back from Iraq in a box?? Bill Clinton brought us out of debt- made us SuperStars in the eyes of the World! He also gave us a first lady who had some brains in her head and wanted to something more useful than buying dishes and drinking tea! She had a desire to find some way of getting affordable health care for every single person in the country and not just the wealthy! The Reps. saw to it that she would fail and they hoped to make a fool ou of Hillary, but what was so freakin bad about trying to help those in need??
Sen. Clinton is our only hope for what we once had! The only change Barack can bring is uncertainty! Whats going to happen when you put a Black man with a Muslim name up against Any White- Republican conservative?? Come on people! I know you all watch “Dogg the Bounty hunter”! Do you think a country of flag waving-gun -toting boys like him are going to let Barack in charge???? If we Democrats want to get the White House back we better get our rock- star out of Barack’s Bee-hind and back into what matters and who has the best chance of getting it for us!! Health care- Education,the Economy! We need jobs and more than all else a safe U.S again!!! So I say to every guy out there who is getting pleasure out of seeing this woman being beaten on so unfairly- I sure hope you don’t have a daughter of your own -who may someday herself try and shoot for the stars (or the presidency) In fact you may as well go on in to her room now and shatter her dreams straight away, before she gets too serious! Be sure to tell her she’s not good enough and is never going to be taken seriously by any of the boys she’ll one day be up against!

Posted by: Hanson | January 7, 2008, 7:59 pm 7:59 pm

I cannot believe the drivel I am reading on this website. You say far more about yourself and your contemtible low-class behavior than Sen. Clinton. Trashing people is a blood sport among uneducated, ill-informed people. Shame on you all. Its disgusting.

Posted by: Margaret Shannon | January 7, 2008, 8:05 pm 8:05 pm

All so carefully orchestrated. The Clinton political machine is brilliant. Reminiscent of the audience plant that she got caught with in New Hampshire a few months ago. It’s a shame that Obama can’t fake being an American patriot as well as she can feign a genuine interest in our country.

Posted by: Shane Merritt | January 7, 2008, 8:06 pm 8:06 pm

it doesnt matter that hillary is a woman, the point is that her tears served her interests….i want a president that crys for the 1 in 7 kids that dont have health insurance…for the dead and dying in all the wars across the globe…for the hungry and ignorant in our country and the world…..i want a president that “really” “…feels our pain…”…i want a president that cries that we kill each others children for one reason or another and that we are unable to STOP it….thats MY candidate

Posted by: incognito | January 7, 2008, 8:09 pm 8:09 pm

Mrs. Clinton is taking a page out of Ed Muskie’s playbook for Presidential campaigning in New Hampshire. I hope it works as well for her as it did for him. Oh, I am sorry, she is just a girl. And they have to play by different rules.
To the people of NH, send her home to New York where she belongs.

Posted by: Richard | January 7, 2008, 8:10 pm 8:10 pm

People are sick of the Clintons Antics
both of them.
The lies, the cover ups
the bimbo’s
She can’t answer a question honestly even if you asked her the time of day

Posted by: Jeff | January 7, 2008, 8:11 pm 8:11 pm

Never mind the tears of “self” for “self”; the pressure of losing just a little bit is ridiculously irrelevant. Hillary is not Presidential material, despite her tears.
Socialism is tyranny and we don’t need her Village idiocy.
As an independent, Obama has more on the ball.
However, I’m for Guiliani or McCain and Mitt ain’t bad although he (Mitt) is a bit tooo smooth for me.
Vote with your conscience; and the issues at stake, not your emotions or how one appears.
I want results. And bashing Bush is bad any way you look at it.
Go for it. But stop the bashing. Vote for the right person for the job and the JOB is a mighty big one.

Posted by: Lou | January 7, 2008, 8:15 pm 8:15 pm

Does anyone really believe this wasn’t a scripted event? The Clinton’s know that she’s got one last chance to turn things around so they come up with this bit of theater.
For goodness sake, this is the DEMOCRATIC primary, how much crying would we see if the big bad evil GOP starts beating her? What about Musharraf? Will she be crying on TV if he tells her she can’t have her way? Kim Jong Il will really turn her into a blubbering mess when he doesn’t do what he says he will.
The Academy Award goes to…

Posted by: taxedToDeath | January 7, 2008, 8:17 pm 8:17 pm

CC’d from Clinton/Obama Experience vs. Pizzazz (ABC): “I find the term “experienced” can actually be a double-edged sword. I recall quite well some of the Clinton era “experiences” such as the passing of NAFTA, but to be fair I must blame that on congress as well. There now being a long list of such Clinton era experiences that give me pause, and I am a life long Democrat. On the other hand, I can appreciate her point on experience; although I remain convinced that Obama is also onto something when he suggests that there is a greater interest in a candidate for change, if just for the sake of “change”. After a thirty year career in advertising, public relations and government affairs, I still find it unlikely that the Democratic Party can prevail with the existing choices. When, during a campaign year, I saw AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) come out with their little purple logo where they blended the Republican elephant’s front end with the Democratic donkeys’ kicking heels, I was momentarily hopeful. As a veteran ad man (Creative Director) I could suddenly and optimistically see it all very clearly: An already powerfully organized and affluent independent/third party, comprised of America’s wisest, baby-boomer/retiree’s united, and clandestinely poised to spring more like a Thoroughbred out of the starting gate on a moments notice. Surely, I thought, the next change to AARP’s logo would be in the name (or acronym) itself with the change being something like: “AARP: The ALLIED AMERICAN REFORM PARTY!” Then I woke up, he mused to himself as he tipped back his morning cup. “

Posted by: michaelbasham | January 7, 2008, 8:18 pm 8:18 pm

Hillary doesn’t burp without it being carefully orchestrated.

Posted by: Kristen | January 7, 2008, 8:20 pm 8:20 pm

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Bill Clinton the father to the American people? An insult to fathers everywhere. I see Bill as the lecherous uncle.

Posted by: David | January 7, 2008, 8:20 pm 8:20 pm

there is a paper that hillary wrote in college about the alinsky model who was a radical in chicago , but to make a long story short, his methodology basically says to do whatever you have to do to accomplish your goal and let no one pin you down on anything but hold others to thier own standards
i am surprised no one has done research on this

Posted by: jim | January 7, 2008, 8:24 pm 8:24 pm

I can’t take it any more
Will the Clintons please finally go away
enough already
go !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: worn out | January 7, 2008, 8:26 pm 8:26 pm

Sara and other female Hillary haters-
On behalf of all the other members of our gender who have sacrificed so much for the sake our daughters and to make certain that they will always know that “We” too are good enough to run for the U.S presidency- We too are just as smart, as worthy, as equal as any man is–to do or be or have or dream just as surely and as highly as they do!–On behalf of us Women- I Thank You for taking the low road and for joining up with the Macho Bully- Boys who would rather beat on a woman, than to have her get into a position that just might make our world a better and safer place to raise our children.

Posted by: Evelyn | January 7, 2008, 8:27 pm 8:27 pm

jeff, your right…i dont want false tears and i dont want false bravado and “oorah charge into the breach during a full moon” macho….certainly hard choices must be made both for or sanctity and security but for our national self-image and conscience..the various “character traits” made public by any of these candidates ring false and insecure as has been the case for most of the last 40 years or more…truman was a great man of the people and really “cared” but had the courage to make the hard choices…roosevelt cared but did what needed to be done..even reagan, a decent man with artistic sensitivities had a pragmatic approach to perilous times and situations….the problem is…there are no people of REAL character running for office…every show of intent, every depicted nuance of attitude is scripted for one reason…to cajole us towards a sympathetic leaning towards their candidacy…it was the same last election…they gave us the “dirty dozen because they didnt anticipate bushes failure and didnt want to waste a quality candidate on a losing effort…by the time we saw his vulnerability, it was too late for hillary or any other meaningful candidate to run so we got 4 more years….there isnt one person running for office that stirs the soul..that motivates emotion…no “roosevelt dems” no “reagan repub”…thats the real shame ..and the real terror for our nation

Posted by: incognito | January 7, 2008, 8:28 pm 8:28 pm

jeff, your right…i dont want false tears and i dont want false bravado and “oorah charge into the breach during a full moon” macho….certainly hard choices must be made both for or sanctity and security but for our national self-image and conscience..the various “character traits” made public by any of these candidates ring false and insecure as has been the case for most of the last 40 years or more…truman was a great man of the people and really “cared” but had the courage to make the hard choices…roosevelt cared but did what needed to be done..even reagan, a decent man with artistic sensitivities had a pragmatic approach to perilous times and situations….the problem is…there are no people of REAL character running for office…every show of intent, every depicted nuance of attitude is scripted for one reason…to cajole us towards a sympathetic leaning towards their candidacy…it was the same last election…they gave us the “dirty dozen because they didnt anticipate bushes failure and didnt want to waste a quality candidate on a losing effort…by the time we saw his vulnerability, it was too late for hillary or any other meaningful candidate to run so we got 4 more years….there isnt one person running for office that stirs the soul..that motivates emotion…no “roosevelt dems” no “reagan repub”…thats the real shame ..and the real terror for our nation

Posted by: incognito | January 7, 2008, 8:28 pm 8:28 pm

The last thing we need is a crying Commander-in-Chief during this very trying times.

Posted by: Robert | January 7, 2008, 8:28 pm 8:28 pm

Was that not a dishonest speech she gave when she lost in Iowa ?
I can’t wait for tomorrows speech when she loses again
The country is telling her
no thanks

Posted by: laughng | January 7, 2008, 8:29 pm 8:29 pm

I believe Hillary is dishonest, I do not like her checkered past and I do admire her for standing behind her husband after 1 affair after another
She will not make the country better and apparently most of the country seems to agree with me as she is about to lose another primary tomorrow

Posted by: sara | January 7, 2008, 8:35 pm 8:35 pm

What a shock. Hillary started off the day in her usual hard-as-nails fashion, by laying into her staff and letting them know she wouldn’t be taking anymore of their lousy advice … she was taking over the campaign.
She ended her day by weeping crocodile tears for a bunch of ladies who wanted to know how she keeps her hair nice.
She can’t even pick her own platform and stay on it. She’s now the ‘change’ candidate and the ‘passionate’ and ‘likeable’ candidate? Only because it’s working for someone else. The difference is, one of them is faking it.

Posted by: Kwach | January 7, 2008, 8:37 pm 8:37 pm

Evelyn
I believe Hillary is dishonest, I do not like her checkered past and I do NOT admire her for standing behind her husband after 1 affair after another
She will not make the country better and apparently most of the country seems to agree with me as she is about to lose another primary tomorrow

Posted by: sara | January 7, 2008, 8:37 pm 8:37 pm

Jazzed:
If the Reps do get back in power, maybe they’ll act like Republicans, and not Democrats.
Har Har!

Posted by: Lord Har Har | January 7, 2008, 10:30 pm 10:30 pm

PR crap……… she’ll try anything

Posted by: kimberli | January 7, 2008, 10:32 pm 10:32 pm

DC this is not about winning and losing, its about a better country
Why is Hillary a good choice ?
Please how can you excuse or ignore the stench the Clinton have left us with ?
Obama looks enegetic and full of promise and lacks the bagage
why Hillary why ?

Posted by: Tony | January 7, 2008, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm

Nothing personal BUT! Tears tend to clear the thinking…into truth. Tears reveal…cleanse and heal. Hil can come back to upstate NY and continue her work she committed to – “true life” issues she promised to fix. We will accept her efforts as a sacrifice for the better good – she is not going to the white house. The Empire State will be her final empire. Thanks…an old progressive conservative farmer boy.

Posted by: e grant | January 7, 2008, 10:35 pm 10:35 pm

HA! I love how the libs are trying to convince each other and themselves that one of their candidates can win. The Dem leadership is running their party into the ground like the Hindinberg, ‘Oh, the humanity.” A newscaster compared Obama to Kennedy (Naval Academy/Harvard grad, Naval Offcr, war vet/hero), such silliness. Oh, Dems, open your eyes. The more you try to change, the more you stay the same. This election is going to be too easy :) BET ON IT! HAR, HAR, ME HARTIES!

Posted by: Jazzed | January 7, 2008, 10:41 pm 10:41 pm

Has anybody actually seen the video? She does NOT cry, she just allows herself to feel a moment — its great, and she’s real and she deserves to win. The gendered part of this overblown “news” story kills me — when Bill cried after Columbine, pundits lauded his “human touch”!

Posted by: please | January 8, 2008, 2:02 am 2:02 am

LEAVE HILLARY ALONE!

Posted by: tshirt_tt | January 8, 2008, 2:03 am 2:03 am

15 people DIED at Columbine. Despite how you feel, Hillary’s drop in the polls doesn’t really equate.

Posted by: WyldeBill | January 8, 2008, 2:14 am 2:14 am

my goodness what a bunch of crap I am hearing , I will tell you this Bill Clinton was no father of this nation he was a user and a abuser he insulted the American people with his testimony and also insulted the courts. It is good that she is slowly fading and getting all that she deserves, she was a big liar when she was first lady when she told the world she did not know of Bills affairs with all those women , and Bills answer of it depends on what the meaning of is is was an insult to the American people period no one has ever done that before. Hillary had a damage control to watch over Bill so she could pull his buns out of the fire if it became public. Or was his cigars that she saved from the fire ?

Posted by: ken roberts | January 8, 2008, 2:35 am 2:35 am

There is no point trampling on some one when “weakness” is shown. After all crying can be a last way to get something, when your other means are exhausted. Leave the old con Hillary alone and go for the New Change in spirit not just “body”,
go for Sen. OBAMA!

Posted by: New Change | January 8, 2008, 2:45 am 2:45 am

“Are we all so cynical to believe 35 years of service means nothing to her?”<–WHAT is with this "35 years of service" crap? "First Lady" does not qualify her as ready to lead the free world!!! She was elected to the Senate ONE TERM before Obama, and Obama served as a state congressman before that. Where the hell does this woman get off positioning herself as MORE qualified to lead than him?!?!?! Typical Clintonian bs. It's stunning that there are people out there who are STILL falling for it.

Posted by: Tony | January 8, 2008, 3:12 am 3:12 am

“Entirely STAGED”<–You bet. Watch that video in its entirety and notice how, through her tears , she stayed right on message, taking swipes at Obama toward the end of her performance. This woman has NO SHAME whatsoever. She will do and say absolutely anything to get her paws back on that White House door, just as she proved today with her “poor, real-person me” performance on the day before she’s about to get her butt kicked by Obama again. This time by double digits.

Posted by: Tony | January 8, 2008, 3:39 am 3:39 am

What a crybaby. Sorry, this is not sexist because men also cry in tough and stressful situations, but Hillary is not the type of woman (or person, period) to cry. She had plenty of opportunities to cry when she was First Lady but never did. So these are just crocodile tears.
It also proves what I have been saying all along: Hillary is only concerned about herself — not her husband, not her daughter or her country. Only when her own career, her own fate is on the line (and headed for the dumpster) will she shed tears.
If you want a Democrat as president, vote Obama!

Posted by: Werner Patels | January 8, 2008, 4:02 am 4:02 am

staged.

Posted by: Bob | January 8, 2008, 4:07 am 4:07 am

I love how ABC is continuing to run two threads on this: One for the event itself; The other on the response.
And in both, HC is shown to be the contemptuous opportunist she is.
Time to call it a day. End this rediculousness and be happy being the carpetbagger Senator from the only state that would have you. You and Teddy can have a few good years laughing in the Senator’s lounge.
But, your Presidental ambitions are over.
This poorly played, obvious routine is see by everyone for what it is.
HOPEFULLY, you will do the honorable thing and stop taking contributions from those you have strung along Hillary.
And, ABC, please stop fishing for the best / most antagonistic Hillary quote by doing this dual-thread thing!

Posted by: Alex Wolf | January 8, 2008, 4:32 am 4:32 am

A friend just called me from Texas telling me that Hillary emotional question and shed of tear was planted.I don’t doubt it as she has done it before.She is not fit to be a commander-in-chief.A commander-in-chief should not show that type of emotion in public.She is not prepare for the job.

Posted by: Al Jong | January 8, 2008, 4:35 am 4:35 am

It matters not who is in the Whitewash…I mean White house of sin.
You will all see the real agenda very very soon.
It’s not just the M-pyre falling.
It’s worldwide and started with “Moses” , the liar, thousands of years ago.
The truth will set you free but it’s hidden by lies, brainwashing and enslavement.
Remember how Bush brainwashed his hillbilly followers by bowing his head ?
Now even those ignorant bass ( a lot of them) see the truth.

Posted by: Blammo | January 8, 2008, 5:20 am 5:20 am

First off, I think that Hillary showing emotion is NOT a bad thing. It does prove that she has feelings and isn’t as cold as many voters believed her to be. (Remember the whole likable thing posed at the Saturday night debates?)However, the question arises: were they genuine? Who knows? BUT Who cares? Everyone should be confident enough in what they want for our country/who they want to lead us as president, that they should not be swayed by tears if Hillary wasn’t their first choice. Give the woman credit for trying to prove her humanity, or merely just dismiss it. And if she was your first choice, then by all means, hand her a tissue and continue supporting her. Tears should not affect votes in anyway at this point.
With that stated, I suppose the only thing I find irritating with all of these posts is the fact that many people are attacking this display by putting down the idea of a woman as a leader. It’s repulsive to think that people have such archaic views and view crying as feminine and use this to bash women. There have been PLENTY of female leaders who were successful and powerful and just because this is a new concept to the United States does not mean we have to revert to ignorance. Please, people. If you’re going to try to post something and sound intelligent, AT LEAST have intelligent means in proving your point, whatsoever it may be.

Posted by: Sabrina | January 8, 2008, 5:36 am 5:36 am

Sabrina -
As stated above: You can’t have your cake and eat it too. Either she IS as tough as nails and can play with the big boys, or she is a soft girly who can’t take a couple of days on the campaign trail. (What does that say about her ability to handle REAL heat in the Oval Office???)
You are missing the point.
I WOULD have voted for E. Dole. And Maggie Thatcher was a great leader.
This person (using the term generously) isn’t of their caliber.
You’re fighting the wrong windmill here madam.

Posted by: Alex Wolf | January 8, 2008, 5:42 am 5:42 am

Hillary has just proven why she is not Presidential material…
Amoung other things…
When the going gets tough (I’ll cry if I want to)…
Come on now…

Posted by: James - Mesa, AZ | January 8, 2008, 5:54 am 5:54 am

If the country believes this crap, then we deserve Sen Clinton. I say nominate her- that will guarantee a Republican win (and I ain’t too crazy about any of them, either).
btw, ABC, SHAME ON YOU for pushing this propaganda.

Posted by: SoBo | January 8, 2008, 6:43 am 6:43 am

Hillary Clinton is an evil scheming shrew that would do or say anything to get elected to the Presidency. Her candidacy is all about securing her place in history as the first female President. This country is overdue a female President, but not HRC. Obama is no better than her. He is a closet racist who doesn’t much care for Whites. Just read his books if you need proof. I don’t know why anybody would support either of them. I don’t see the Republicans offering any good candidates either. This election will not give us a good President, no matter who wins.

Posted by: Skepticus | January 8, 2008, 6:57 am 6:57 am

Hillary does not have the mettle to stand up to terrorists or be Commander and Chief of the Armed Forces. Saying she “has the experience from day one” is like allowing a surgeon’s wife to operate on you! Somehow she has the experience because she was the First Lady?? As an Independant, I want the candidate that I most think will implement CHANGE in Washington. Hillary is SO YESTERDAY! I want a leader this time who is articulate, energetic, ethical and strong enough to maintain dignified composure. That candidate is Obama!

Posted by: RDFoss | January 8, 2008, 7:07 am 7:07 am

Wonder how those tears will work when a nuclear device is detonated in New York or Los Angeles by terrorists? Yep, that’s what we need… a strong leader who can have a good cry while our enemies are destroying us.

Posted by: AJ Barnes | January 8, 2008, 7:17 am 7:17 am

Tears or Cocain? I think I will go with tears. Only in America will we vote for someone who once used hard hitting drugs and allow him to run our country! It is a shame. Even if I like the man, I could never vote for him because we try to teach our children about drugs and yet we say its okay because he has made amends? Everyone else would serve jail time, even if we write a book about it! But, drugs are okay in America now – that’s what we are telling the rest of the world!

Posted by: Brian | January 8, 2008, 7:30 am 7:30 am

Alison Hamilton was going to vote for Obama, but now will vote for Her Highness because…she cried? Wonderful.

Posted by: Crush Liberalism | January 8, 2008, 7:34 am 7:34 am

This is what you want; your Commander in Chief crying when something goes wrong. When the nation is in a crisis, the President is crying. Man, are we serious about electing a woman?

Posted by: WayneDawg | January 8, 2008, 7:38 am 7:38 am

“Only in America will we vote for someone who once used hard hitting drugs and allow him to run our country!”<–It didn't stop Bill Clinton voters. He was as big a coke-head as his convicted brother, who confirmed it on an FBI sting tape.

Posted by: Tony | January 8, 2008, 8:02 am 8:02 am

“How did her message collapse to this?”<–Because she never had a message beyond "Vote for me; I'm Bill's wife, and I'm entitled." Until she pilfered Obama's "change" message, that is. She's an empty pants suit and a 35-year fraud.

Posted by: Tony | January 8, 2008, 8:06 am 8:06 am

You have to be kidding, if she cannot take the pressure of ATTEMPTING to become US President, how can she imagine its going to be if she did take office, in the most stressful position in the world! She needs to find another passion

Posted by: bryan | January 8, 2008, 8:08 am 8:08 am

America should be crying out of remorse for even elevating Senator Clinton to the level of “once front runner” on the democratic ticket. Clinton is not crying because she is so emotional over her concern for America but as a spoiled pathological hypocrite who has been exposed for what she is. After all, Clinton’s crying pales compared to America’s crying for 7 years since electing, or witnessing the White House stolen, by the most incompetent and reckless charlatan since the days of Warren G Harding. With the lineup of candidates presented by both parties, it appears that America’s crying will not end any time soon.

Posted by: mongo100 | January 8, 2008, 8:14 am 8:14 am

I find it both amusing, and disappointing at the responses here. I definitely have an opinion on the candidates, but to raise up a notch the thinking about how to select a candidate, this is what I think we should use to select a candidate:
Positions: What candidate best articulates your position on key direction/vision for the U.S.
Character: A combination of morals, duty, honor, sincerity, honesty. “The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.” (MLK)
Leadership: The ability to inspire, lead and provide results in all arenas of Executive (presidential) responsibility (arenas include congress, the nation, and the world)
Integrity: Doing the right thing, even when no one is looking. A person of integrity and character would be able to stand up to the scrutiny of the public, if all were to be seen and in view. This does not necessarily mean that you would agree with their positions.
Loyalist: Protecting the United States of America first and foremost, and is one who believes in, and wholly supports the Constitution without the intent to usurp or modify the Constitution.
Intelligence: A person who speaks well does not guarantee intelligence. An intelligent person does not always speak well. Intelligence is closely linked to reason, and is to take information and formulate new concepts or to synthesize events and effectively summarize their meaning. An intelligent person will often see and understand things that others do not see or understand.
Experience: One with “experience” does not necessarily ensure they will make the right decisions, or be a good leader. One with little experience does not necessarily mean they will fail. However, if we were to look at an individual’s track record of prior accomplishments and conduct, it will give us a good feel for what they are capable of accomplishing.
Politics: The ability to successfully implement ideas into actions by forming arenas of consensus which will support the idea.
(the pursuit of) Power: Many great leaders are driven to positions of power, since this is where they see the pinnacle of success. Be wary of those who are in pursuit of power to control others. Look for those who use the pursuit of power to lead others, while avoiding the seduction of power as an elixir.
I would state that no candidate is without flaw. Some flaws are more obvious (and annoying) than others, however, a careful blend of the traits above will provide a greater chance of a more successful president, and one who will ensure the nation will benefit from their serving both in present, and for future generations.

Posted by: Jeff C | January 8, 2008, 8:17 am 8:17 am

It’s not that no woman should be President it’s that this one shouldn’t…Her “experience” comes from hanging around Bill during his term and I don’t think she was doing much of that judging from what he was doing in the Oval Office…Her time in the Senate, she did nothing, produced no significant legislation even though she has such great ideas about what we need to do in this country to make it better for all of us…All she did was sit around biding her time for this run expecting the Clinton name and a little help from Bill to put her in…Like most politicans she thinks the public is stupid…More people are educating themselves about all this stuff and keeping an eye on all the candidates and all the things they say and do or don’t do and just who is behind them in their run the “special interests” that they are beholden to…But then again there are still those who will get in line and vote for someone just because they are cuter than the other guy/gal or because they can cry, something stupid like that…What a wonderful system…Wish every voter had to answer a quiz to get to vote just to make sure they actually had a brain to vote with.

Posted by: Stevel | January 8, 2008, 8:18 am 8:18 am

If she gets emotional over the campaign, how will she handle the stress of being president?? One word-”Pathetic”. Call it quits Hillary!

Posted by: Mark | January 8, 2008, 8:18 am 8:18 am

These crocodile tears call for a “willful suspension of disbelief” (keyword: crock)

Posted by: barbara | January 8, 2008, 8:20 am 8:20 am

“Posted by: Vince | Jan 7, 2008 1:09:27 PM
Jesus wept.
If Jesus can cry, I guess Hillary is allowed to cry.
If any of you think you’re better than Jesus, go ahead and keep criticizing. Otherwise, please shut up.”
Jesus didn’t cry because he was losing. Small spoiled children cry because they don’t get what they want.

Posted by: Spanky McBluedress | January 8, 2008, 8:22 am 8:22 am

Hillary Clinton is a bigger but not better liar than her husband
I wish these two corrupt white trash dirt bags would go away. I will vote for anyone who oppose them and I will be voting

Posted by: martin | January 8, 2008, 8:24 am 8:24 am

I support your historical endeaver for all US women — none of us want to “fall backwards” in the sense of losing ground for women’s rights. Universal healthcare and hybrid cars need to be the focus; simplicity is critical. Be brave; be bold; be honest. We’re with you!!! [You go girl!...]Clarksville, In.

Posted by: wlschaad | January 8, 2008, 8:28 am 8:28 am

Don’t miss the BIG Picture here she’s crying cause someone asked her how she keeps up with her appearance, and didn’t ask about the issues she based her campaign on ……..now that would be a big reason to cry……………….waaaaaa! they still aren’t hearing what im saying……….since she’s going to cry now ,if she made it to office she’d be crying when faced with tougher questions….like “hillary what scandals do you have planned for America now?

Posted by: surculus | January 8, 2008, 8:31 am 8:31 am

Hillary is crying because she saw the victory speeches in Iowa of both Obama and Huckabee and realized that they come off as sincere whereas she comes off as cold, calculating, and bent on winning more than caring. She desperately trying to alter that image
for New Hampshire.

Posted by: Smitty | January 8, 2008, 8:51 am 8:51 am

You people are all so stupid. Anyone that believes that the “crying” was not a calculated event planned in advance is an idiot. Do you people actually believe she is telling you the truth ever?? She is trying to win votes from the oversupply of gullible sheep that the USA has to offer. The fact that Americans take these politicians at their word is why we are all in the mess that we are in. Keep the status quo at all costs. Fools.

Posted by: whateverpeople | January 8, 2008, 8:56 am 8:56 am

Some of you people have no compassion; I just need to remember people on the east coast are very rude. So Hillary had a moment she cried, she’s a human being, and she cried probably thinking about the disaster of what’s going on in the presidency as it is today with Bush. She did not cry because of Barack Obama is in the lead, and maybe if she did because of that reason I would right now too! Barack Obama has a Muslim background, why would you want to have a democratic presidential candidate that has Muslim in his background running right now??, did you all forget about the people who killed over 3900 Americans so far are Muslim!! That’s pretty scary to me that people are not considering that; who knows he might be leading America to the slaughter house! America is not ready for a Muslim descendant for President that wants more war in the middle east (typical Muslim)!!! Hillary helped Bill in the White House during his presidency, do you all think it was just all Bill?? Wrong!! So she has experience leading the country and did an excellent job!

Posted by: Randy | January 8, 2008, 9:01 am 9:01 am

“Jesus wept.
If Jesus can cry, I guess Hillary is allowed to cry.”
Oh. My. God. You just compared Hillary to Jesus?!?! Are you freakin’ serious??!?!
Jesus didn’t weep because he was losing a presidential campaign to which he felt entitled. That was a crappy, lousy analogy.

Posted by: Crush Liberalism | January 8, 2008, 9:58 am 9:58 am

Funny this moment of emotion of
Hillary’s came after the political
analysts decided she would have to
connect in a personal emotional way
in order to make progress in N.H.
after the Iowa embarrasement.

Posted by: Callie | January 8, 2008, 10:35 am 10:35 am

We keep hearing, experience, what experience, sleeping with the Governor and President? If that’s her idea of experience would her secretary of state be monica lewinski and her attorney general Jessica Flowers?

Posted by: Bob | January 8, 2008, 10:37 am 10:37 am

It’s good to see that few people are falling for this contrived nonsense…another embarrassing low in American politics.

Posted by: Nutsnbolts | January 8, 2008, 10:44 am 10:44 am

wlschaad,
In 1983, what rights do women not have that they have now?
Har Har!

Posted by: Lord Har Har | January 8, 2008, 10:44 am 10:44 am

Clinton crying doesn’t make her more human. Did she cry for the victims of Katrina? Did she cry for the victims of 9/11? Her crying just underscores the Clintons’ selfishness and ingrained propensity to do whatever they must to get their way, including emotional manipulation.

Posted by: Publius | January 8, 2008, 10:45 am 10:45 am

Randy said: “Some of you people have no compassion; I just need to remember people on the east coast are very rude. So Hillary had a moment she cried, she’s a human being…”
No she’s not. She’s a calculating Hillabeast whose ONLY concern is in getting back into power. She doesn’t give a good godd*mn about any one of us beyond the votes she can get. If you believe otherwise, then you are EXACTLY the type she is looking for. Bravo for you.

Posted by: blue_persuasion | January 8, 2008, 11:49 am 11:49 am

Also, Randy, for what it’s worth, I don’t WANT compassion running this country. I, for ONCE, want people of SUBSTANCE and with SPINES doing what is RIGHT, even if it doesn’t meet the compassion standard.
Compassion gets us more rapists and murderers on the streets, huger welfare rolls, more social programs that fail miserably, and higher taxes to FUND these crackpot “feel good” schemes.
Show me where compassion has made us better overall as a nation. Show me where ANY liberal runs on SUBSTANCE instead of just feeeeeeeeeeeeelings.
It’s about time we got down to business, pulled up our big girl panties, and RAN THE COUNTRY, ENFORCED THE LAWS **INCLUDING and ESPECIALLY** THOSE ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, AND BECAME A GREAT NATION AGAIN rather than a laughigstock. How about THAT for a change, Randy?

Posted by: blue_persuasion65 | January 8, 2008, 12:00 pm 12:00 pm

I hope she loses by 15 points this time and comes in 3rd yet again
I have had it with the Clintons
all their plans to spend the money I make to buy votes
she is a socailist
I perfer Capitalisim

Posted by: A Voter | January 8, 2008, 12:34 pm 12:34 pm

Tears of self-pity

Hillary Clinton’s recent welling-up has triggered reactions ranging from sympathy and further attacks to accusations of sexism. Everyone should be allowed a good cry once in a while, men and women. It is clearly wrong to accuse society of sexism

Posted by: WernerPatels.com | January 8, 2008, 12:36 pm 12:36 pm

How is it that you people dont understand that this woman genuinely cares about what happens to this country and the people that live within the U.S.? I do not work in politics nor have I ever but, I have met her in person prior to her announcing her candidacy and she is the most real and honest person you could ever meet. Guys she genuinely cares about this country and one of the many reasons the tears came out is due to the fact that yet again this country is making stupid decisions so one race can have more power than the other, or because someone is so liberal minded that he thinks he can go into the whitehouse without a plan….get your facts straight folks and remember what we are actually voting for. Liberalism and a democracy dont matter if we are run into the ground by another president who has absolutely no idea what he is doing. Hillary by far is this countries best hope for a new beginning not only because of her experience but because of the plans that she has already established and worked so hard to push through, we as a country just need to give her a chance to succeed.

Posted by: ~meticulous~ | January 8, 2008, 1:03 pm 1:03 pm

meticulous, their are pleanty of other candidates that really care and have good ideas
not this lying socialist

Posted by: jesse | January 8, 2008, 1:08 pm 1:08 pm

Your an example of the ignorance that put the Clintons into office in the first place
She has been a senator for 8 years now and what has she done ? she does not seem to mention anything about her Senate record. You know why ? she has nothing to talk about.
We need new faces in goverment not her.
why don’t you research the candidates and their track records and stop treating important elections like its some kind of game or popularity contest

Posted by: Gino | January 8, 2008, 1:27 pm 1:27 pm

Hilary will use anything to get her own desires fulfilled, even the crying scorned woman bit. This is what she really learned from her experience in the Monica White House, that pity is a drawing card even when they won’t give you any access to the inner workings of foreign policy. I’m sorry, but our country has already been broken by its last narcissist leader, we cannot afford another one.
But the country is too important to

Posted by: Iris | January 8, 2008, 1:32 pm 1:32 pm

~meticulous~
Your namesake has no bearing on why we should vote for Hillary.
If I say the sky is green with purple stripes doesn’t make it so.
When looking at the Constitution (it’s really a good read, and shouldn’t take too long; it’s shorter than this whole conversation), it is pretty easy to see that she is a failure.
She, as a senator from New York has the power to introduce legislation to “change the world”, yet she hasn’t.
A couple of other things that make me concerned about your name:
Perhaps we DO understand her.
So, you met her, and you think she cares. Dick Morris worked with her and Bill for 25 years, and perhaps he is a better judge of her character. (by your logic, right?)
So, there are no more real and honest people than Mrs. Clinton? What does your spouse, parents, children, and friends think of this assessment?
Watch the video and see exactly how many tears came out her eyes. I saw none. Zero. Zippo, The Big Goose Egg. Maybe she cried when she met you, but not yesterday.
Is this really about race? When has Obama said, “vote for me, I’m black and a real African American” (Dad was Kenyan.)
White House is a proper noun, and two words.
We don’t have a democracy, we have a Democratically elected Constitutional Republic. If you really believe we have a democracy, don’t run to the courts when a measure in your state is passed, and you don’t like it.
Do you prefer to be run into the ground by a president that DOES KNOW what s/he is doing?
Countries should be country’s (the possessive form of country, not the plural)
There should be a comma after “beginning”.
Meticulous? I think not!
Har Har!

Posted by: Lord Har Har | January 8, 2008, 1:45 pm 1:45 pm

Well, “meticulous,” we see who the Hil’s voter base is. Sad, sad, sad.
The fact that she is able to convince you that she cares about this country says a lot about you. She’s a good liar. The fact that you can’t see through it, however, is alarming.
Don’t feel bad, you’re not alone. A lot of other dim bulbs believed her crap too.

Posted by: blue_persuasion | January 8, 2008, 1:46 pm 1:46 pm

Good grief–with some of these comments you have to wonder if people even watched the clip. No one was attacking Hillary, she wasn’t being a crybaby…I think she was just having very strong feelings about something that is important enough to feel strongly about–and that is the future of this country.
I heard a squeak in the voice, but saw no tears. And if you don’t get a squeak in YOUR voice when you think about our country’s future, it seems as though maybe you’re not paying attention.
I don’t know if I would vote for her or not, but I sure as heck would not make my decision on the basis of whether or not she got a little “verklempt” during a coffee talk.

Posted by: Skidoo | January 8, 2008, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm

Can someone point my wife to the Kool Aid stand where all of the Hillary supporters go?
I want her (my wife, not Hillary) to follow me without question, and take whatever BS I give her to be the truth!
Har Har!

Posted by: Lord Har Har | January 8, 2008, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm

Skidoo said: “Good grief–with some of these comments you have to wonder if people even watched the clip. No one was attacking Hillary, she wasn’t being a crybaby…I think she was just having very strong feelings about something that is important enough to feel strongly about–”
Uh, YEAH, it’s called WINNING. And it’s not just about the White House. She envisions a One World Order, and likely sees herself as queen of the world.
If she cared so much about this country, then why has she single-handedly worked so HARD against everything sacred?? Better yet, what has she done other than overlook the BJs in the Oval Office and stand beside her lying husband and lie herself?
She has no shame — and SHOULD carry more than most because she earned it herself.

Posted by: blue_persuasion | January 8, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm

So how is that ignorance workin’ for ya, Skidoo?
Shows how out of touch you are. Nobody’s yelling… just pointing out facts.

Posted by: blue_persuasion | January 8, 2008, 2:10 pm 2:10 pm

Blue–the only ignorance I am guilty of is “ignoring” accusations that have no basis in fact.
At what campaign stop did Hillary talk about creating a One World Order? I must have missed that speech.
She has single-handedly worked against everything sacred? What, exactly, has she worked against that is sacred? I didn’t realize that people being uninsured was sacred.
I’m not out of touch I just disagree with your view of the world. You must be one of those people who listens to talk radio and believes everything they hear. It must be nice to have people telling you what to think–means you don’t have to actually do any thinking for yourself.
For those of us who do try to think for ourselves (some people like to call us moderates), we have to actually think and decide for ourselves. So, I may not decide to vote for Hillary, but I am not going to rule her out on the basis of something this trivial either.

Posted by: Skidoo | January 8, 2008, 2:21 pm 2:21 pm

Excuse me, how many of you know better than a former first lady what the pressures of office are like? I am not saying I am for Hillary, I just think most of these comments are stupid. She knows better than ANYONE writing a comment what kind of pressure the president faces. Let’s see, who of you has been there? Idiots.

Posted by: Jeanne | January 8, 2008, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm

“It’s my future…”
Bravo.

Posted by: Skidoo | January 8, 2008, 2:24 pm 2:24 pm

Too bad we can’t bring back testing before people can vote. Not to weed out certain races like what happened before — simply to weed out the truly stupid.
Problem is, we ARE voting for or against a person — even if only based on what they stand for.
However, Hilla has been able to flamboozle a lot of people in believing that with HER in office, the birds will sing sweeter and the sun will shine brighter… when in reality the seedy underbelly of what she REALLY wants to happen grows and festers and is kept away from all of you because if you REALLY saw what she wants to do to this country, she wouldn’t get even a single percentile rating.
She wants socialism — if not outright communism — so bad she can taste it. She wants to run the country — the PEOPLE of the country — by eventually making everybody beholden to the government teat.
She has already proven how treasonous she and Randy Bill are by the ICBM secrets they SOLD to China!! Why do you think the Chinese are in the Clintons’ back pocket???
Seriously, people (the handful here who are clueless), look into her record! It’s there for all to see if you CHOOSE to look for it. Don’t just take the Clinton spin machine’s word on everything, and don’t base what you “know” just because you “met” her once. Big flippin deal!
Listen to those who KNEW them, WORKED with them. Hell, ask Vince Foster’s family what they think of the Clintons.

Posted by: blue_persuasion | January 8, 2008, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm

When will the Hillary (and Bill) connection to Wal-Mart come to light.
She was on the Board when Bill was Gov.of Arkansas (where Wal-Mart is head quartered)
Wal-Mart got the inside track to China when Bill was Pres and Wal-Mart needed profits because their bottom line was weak.
After Wal-Mart showed it could be done the others followed and US jobs went south.

Posted by: Robert Roberts | January 8, 2008, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm

I’m incredibly offended by this biased article. This is not reporting.
Clinton embarrassed my wife and not supporting her. Why is she crying on national tv? Who would give you security clearance?!?! And I’m sorry, being the President’s wife is not experience to me.

Posted by: O. A. | January 8, 2008, 2:32 pm 2:32 pm

Skidoo:
I tried to post a link to a video with Hilla about the new world order. ABC flagged it and won’t let it post.
Try Google. It can give you a wealth of information.

Posted by: blue_persuasion | January 8, 2008, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm

We need her because she is strong and honest. I hope all women open their eyes and suport Hillary because she cam bring a new a Strong America.

Posted by: Katia Maia | January 8, 2008, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm

I don’t get the joke, Katia.
OHHHH, I get it… tongue-in-cheek, right? Good one.

Posted by: blue_persuasion | January 8, 2008, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm

Why is it that when a man running for President (such as Mitt Romney) gets teared up (not on one, not on two, but on THREE occassions), it means that he is passionate and its considered a positive thing. But when Hillary, the only female candidate running for office tears up, it is not “passion” but rather unstable emotions. I’m so sick of reading about her tearing up on every news website. Nobody had anything bad to say when Romney got all teary. But as soon as Hillary shows her “passion”, its suddenly and excuse to use the “unstable emotional woman” card! Get a grip people!! A passionate President is just what this Nation needs after the joke we’ve had in office during the past 8 years!!

Posted by: ALH | January 8, 2008, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm

skidoo:
I’ll yell more softly now that you’ve let me know.
Har Har!

Posted by: Lord Har Har | January 8, 2008, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm

Name-calling doesn’t make your argument stronger either. Her name is either Mrs. Clinton, Senator Clinton, or Hillary. The name isn’t “Hillabeast.” Calling her that just makes it sound like you heard it on talk radio somewhere and decided to repeat it. Maybe that is what Rush Limbaugh or Michael Savage is calling her these days. I wouldn’t know as I don’t listen to that stuff. I think the vitriol those people spew is part of what is wrong with our country, but that is just me.
Name calling and mud-slinging is not thoughtful analysis. In fact it’s neither worth listening to nor responding to–so shame on me for rising to the bait.

Posted by: Skidoo | January 8, 2008, 2:48 pm 2:48 pm

blue_persuasion: I’ve got my big girl panties on….let’s hope that whoever gets in office next year will, too. I’m with you…there is compassion, then there is push-over. It’s time to show compassion only when it is warranted, not in order to win the popularity vote. Being politically correct and being worried about hurting everyone’s “feelings” has gotten us nothing other than on the receiving end of disdain from countries who used to admire us. It’s time to get back to hard-core government again. I don’t know if Hillary’s little display was an act, a plan, or spontaneous…but I can assess from everything I’ve heard that if it was a plan to show her “softer” side in order to win votes, it backfired. I think that has done her more harm than anything else she has ever done. Americans don’t want “soft”…they want results. Someone in the position of president has no business crying in public…they can cry in private all they want, we just don’t need the rest of the world to see it.

Posted by: ARSailorMom | January 8, 2008, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm

Okay Blue–Fact is that no matter what you believe, if you look hard enough you can dig up some sort of ridiculous “evidence” to prove it, but anyone with a critical mind is going to need something more substantial. But just for fun I decided to give you the benefit of the doubt.
I googled “Hillary Clinton New World Order” and all I found was a bunch of websites run by right-wing wackjobs. My fave was the one claiming that her and Bill were both Illuminati witches.
Uh, paranoid much?
Not a credible news source in the bunch. If this is where you are getting your news from, that explains a lot.

Posted by: Skidoo | January 8, 2008, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm

No, the only cancer to this country is the hate at both ends of the spectrum. I have no reason to hate Republicans, or Democrats, or Green Party people. Only policies I disagree with.

Posted by: Skidoo | January 8, 2008, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm

Katia: As a woman, I certainly hope that was a joke. What a down-grade to women everywhere for you to suggest we vote for her because she is a woman. That is not what “equal rights” is all about sister. Equal rights means that you don’t need to know what a person IS in order to be able to know what they stand for. That’s like saying we should vote for Obama because he is black. Give me a freakin’ break! Sexism and racism have no place in politics. You vote for them based on what they can do. As for me, Hillary may be a woman, but she IS NOT the woman for the job, or the man for that matter. Shame on you Katia for even suggesting this.

Posted by: ARSailorMom | January 8, 2008, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm

Skidoo said: “I have no reason to hate Republicans, or Democrats, or Green Party people. Only policies I disagree with.”
I don’t hate GROUPS of people, I hate the Clintons. Period. Please at least attempt to stay focused and refrain from false accusations. Thank you.

Posted by: blue_persuasion | January 8, 2008, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm

Skidoo:
ARSailorMom gets it!
Har Har!

Posted by: Lord Har Har | January 8, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm

Blue–Again, for what it’s worth I don’t support Hillary’s candidacy, I am still undecided. The only thing that concerns me here is the vitriol that is being spewed toward her as a candidate. Especially as most of it is totally without basis.

Posted by: Skidoo | January 8, 2008, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm

Hey Skidoo , Hillary has been offically in the race since early last year
she has been in our faces for 16 years
your still undecided ? how long do you need ?
do you approve her socailist agenda ?
well shes going down in a 20 point defeat today so New Hampshire is deciding for you

Posted by: Hank | January 8, 2008, 4:08 pm 4:08 pm

skidoo,
Do the virtriol spewed that DOES have basis concern you?
I’m not yelling, but I’m also not sure that this forum allows HTML tags, and it is already italicized, so the only thing I could add is to make it bold.
Har Har!

Posted by: Lord Har Har | January 8, 2008, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm

She is absolutely losing in a big way today. The New Hampshire polls close 8PM EST, They will call this one at 8:05
News Reports today are stating she has decided to give up North Carolina and Nevada and hope to turn it around super Tuesday on Feb 5th
Baring something bad coming out about Obama. Its over
America is rejecting her and not because she is a woman. I think people have just had enough of the Clintons

Posted by: Max | January 8, 2008, 4:17 pm 4:17 pm

Some news outlets are reporting that Hillary and Bill have bunkered down today. They are not on the ground trying to bring out the vote but rather hudling with advisors to decide how to go about damage control
She is getting a drubing today according to exit polls
she is trailing in NC and Nevada polling and has fallen behind in California polls as well
This could become very embarassing
very fast

Posted by: Jason | January 8, 2008, 4:23 pm 4:23 pm

When is she going to have her NH primary victory speech like she did in Iowa?
(read my prediction of today…
posted on Jan 7, 2008 6:41:56 PM)
Har Har!

Posted by: Lord Har Har | January 8, 2008, 4:27 pm 4:27 pm

This is all great news.
I despise the two of them
The constant lies and the dirt dishing that they practice.
Her policies would bankrupt this country. Its pure re-distribution of wealth.
New York should wake up and vote her out of the senate the next time she runs
that is, if she runs anymore, after all, the move to NY to run for the Senate was all part of plan to become president which appears to be crumbling

Posted by: Gina | January 8, 2008, 4:29 pm 4:29 pm

Yeah that speech in Iowa was typical Clinton BS. She wanted to sound like a winner and look as if she was not worried
And what a cast of characters on the stage with her
Madeline Halfbright
General Weasel Clark
and Bubba( Checking out the babes in audience)
What will she say tonight ?
If she says its a great night for Democrats again, she’ll be right
its a great night for the whole country as we reject het socialist ideas

Posted by: Hank | January 8, 2008, 4:34 pm 4:34 pm

I agree that the country has had enough of the Clintons. I don’t think Hillary is losing this because she is a woman, I think she is losing it thanks to her husband and their history together. There is just too much water under the bridge….

Posted by: ARSailorMom | January 8, 2008, 4:37 pm 4:37 pm

I agree with ARSailorMom
I am suprised it took this long
They have finally worn out their welcome

Posted by: Anthony NJ | January 8, 2008, 4:45 pm 4:45 pm

There is only 1 person who deserves to be the next president of the United States of America! That person is Hillary Clinton!!
It seems to be that people only want to vote for Barrack Obama because he is so “young” he has “fresh ideas” and he calls for “change.”
For all you voters out there that want to vote for Barrack Obama please tell me one thing! What happens when/”IF” he is elected president that people see him for the real person he is?
For example:
Barrack Obama is new to the senate scene. He actually had to ask a political advisor how to lobby for a bill. He didn’t even know the first thing to do. Doesn’t this tell any of you anything??? He is NOT READY!!
Hillary Clinton has 35 years of Experience behind her. She knows how to get the job done and does not have to ask for help! Also the most important thing is that she is a woman and she is the most capable of getting the job done compared to all the Hippocrates and the one-minded individuals that want to place bans on every thing they can think of under the sun so people can not enjoy a free life in the “FREE COUNTRY!”
What makes me so disgusted is how people can vote for an individual that grew up as a Muslim and all the term oil that we are facing over in IRAQ & Pakistan. Even worse is people continue to support him even though there could be severe consequences that our country may have to face with having him as the president of the United States. People can tell you that he is a re-born Christian…Guess what folks…He will always be a Muslim in my eyes. It’s easy to see that he changed his religious affiliation because of what people would think and say and he really wants in those political offices so he will do what is necessary to make sure everything is taken care of before he runs for office. Right in front of your faces!!
I do hope that voters will become more educated on their candidate of choice before they continue to vote so they don’t destroy a great yet volatile country that we all call home.

Posted by: sick&tired_democrat | January 8, 2008, 5:02 pm 5:02 pm

Hank,
It will go something like this:
“Thank you for this victory tonight! It is a victory because 58% of Democrats and Independants voted agains the inexperienced and unelectable Obama!”
… more on how it was a great victory for them and America …
“there will be those that say that I lost, but what does it matter? New Hampshire is a teeny tiny little state, and it two days, most people won’t be sure if it is the skinny state on the left or right. The people here are dupes, and have shown that by their choice of Obama”
…more trashing of NH, and the people that live there …
“Now, we move on to the great state of South Carolina, where the people know what makes a great leader!” Southern drawl… “I know y’all down there will have some down home talkin’ over some sweet tea, and pick me as the best candidate!”
… The crowd, looking at the applause lights is a bit confounded, but they clap at the insistence of the staffers.
…and across town, there are scores of people with Hillary T-Shirts turned inside out mesmerized by Mr. Obama’s speech…
Har Har!

Posted by: Lord Har Har | January 8, 2008, 5:08 pm 5:08 pm

Hey sick&tired_democrat why does she deserve to be president ?
she did nothing in 8 years in the senate. What legislation did she author ?
Why does she deserve to be president ?
Because she says so ?
You like the fact that she changes her personality daily trying to find a niche rather than standing by her own convictions ?
How about her flip flops on drivers license’s for illegal Aliens
What she deserves is whats shes getting
REJECTED

Posted by: Hank | January 8, 2008, 5:11 pm 5:11 pm

Lord Har Har, so true
don’t forget Monica Lewinsky’s boyfriend standing behind her with his red face biting his lower lip and nodding in approval

Posted by: Hank | January 8, 2008, 5:16 pm 5:16 pm

Hillary Clinton is the canidate that could handle the problems we have in this country. The tears are not correct she became emotional about her beloved country but no tear touched her face .Thank God we have someone that could become emotional about out country. Jesus wept did that show weekness. Many Presidents wept. What have these remarks done but show that people resort to anything to try & make the strong look week.

Posted by: Jean Gibson | January 8, 2008, 5:21 pm 5:21 pm

Hillary Clinton is the canidate that could handle the problems we have in this country. The tears are not correct she became emotional about her beloved country but no tear touched her face .Thank God we have someone that could become emotional about out country. Jesus wept did that show weekness. Many Presidents wept. What have these remarks done but show that people resort to anything to try & make the strong look week.

Posted by: Jean Gibson | January 8, 2008, 5:21 pm 5:21 pm

Lord Har Har…Tell me what has any of the candidates whether democrat or republican really done that was so great?
Obama can’t even stop the river that is flowing behind his ears.. They are about to join the oceans.
Also tell me you have nothing to say about what I had to say about Obama? I didn’t think so because if you think about it, it will hit you like a freight train. So I think it is time we all scratch the Illinois Senator from the presidential ballot FOR GOOD. We can work on the rest of the Hippocrates very soon.
Rebuttal? Please I live for them! I stand by my candidate!

Posted by: sick&tired_democrat | January 8, 2008, 5:22 pm 5:22 pm

Sick&tired_democrat: So, please tell me, why is the fact that Clinton is female “Also the most important thing”? I’d love to know how that has anything to do with her capabilities in politics. Second, why do you assume that if we are against Clinton that we are for Obama? I don’t want either one of them for president. She’s too much of a liar and he is too inexperienced…not to mention that I agree with very little on either of their platforms.
So… before you go spewing your venom on people because you think they are going to vote for Obama, you might consider that there are actually some other qualified candidates out there. We don’t have just two choices. (Thank God.)

Posted by: ARSailorMom | January 8, 2008, 5:23 pm 5:23 pm

Sick&tired_democrat your candidate is a liar, she and her husband are both power hungry frauds that would sell their souls to the devil to get back in the oval office
Last week she stated on 2 major news shows that Pakistan had one canddidate in the up coming election …. musarf
When it was pointed out that it wasn’t a presidental election she could have owned up to her mistake but lied again stating she meant members of his party
She changed her mind about illegal Alien drivers license 3 times in 2 days a few weeks back
She voted for the IRAQ war but says that she did not actually want ua to go to war which again either makes her a liar or an imbeciile
Stand behind her all you want, as you will see once again tonight when she loses again, your standing back there by yourself

Posted by: hank | January 8, 2008, 5:33 pm 5:33 pm

Sick & Tired democrat:
Hippocrates was a Greek Physician who has attributed to hi the Hippocratic Oath (“Do no harm…” I think you meant hypocrites.
Regarding the “she’s a chick, she’s the best”, see my earlier post and reply intelligently.
What is term oil? I’ve heard of term limits, midterms, terminal illness, the Terminator, but not term oil. Perhaps you meant turmoil.
About getting educated: We are, hence the pecipitous drop at http://www.intrade.com. (These people buy “stock” in candidates with money, and as they say, “money talks…”
Har Har!

Posted by: Lord Har Har | January 8, 2008, 5:35 pm 5:35 pm

Jean Gibson it was fake scripted crying, to make her more likable
Thats what pisses people off.
Its all show, its not real
I ask again, name something important she has done in 8 years as a senator
This is not a game, we are choosing a president to lead the country.
Choose a candidate based on the issues. All of her few supporteras ever say is she is ready
Why is she ready ? becuase she has been talking on tv for 16 years ?
Show me some substance
Tell me she and her husband have not been caught bveing dishonest are multiple occasions
What kind of self respect does she have for herself to stay with a man who WE KNOW cheated on her (inclusing while president) WE KNOW OF 3- Jennifer, Paula, Monica, and we all know their are many others … and she knows also
Buit she wants power and it would be to much to ask, to get elected as a divorced woman, so she stays with the morally bankrupt creep
Shes done

Posted by: Jack | January 8, 2008, 5:45 pm 5:45 pm

ARSailorMom—-
I do hope that you will not be supporting any of those republican HIPPOCRATES or the John Edwards DEMOCRAT that needs to stop thinking of only himself and think about his lovely beautiful wife who is silently trying to control & fight cancer? Doesn’t she have a say in this? She seems happy but it’s all a disguise. What ever makes Johnny Happy!
This country needs another Clinton Administration in the White House. Yeah there may have been affairs involved with Billy Boy but he did more in 8 years then any other president ever could. Hillary Rodham Clinton can do even better and get our country stable once again.
So I am not spraying venom on just on person I spraying on all of them. Obama is just the democrat of special concern that democratic voters need to be aware of.
At this point in time I am not worried about the Hippocrates (republicans) because they all are worthless nobodies!
Have a Nice Day! :)

Posted by: sick&tired_democrat | January 8, 2008, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm

Skidoo said: “The only thing that concerns me here is the vitriol that is being spewed toward her as a candidate. Especially as most of it is totally without basis.”
Actually the things I have read are NOT without basis. You have obviously just chosen not to read things by people who have known them for decades and whose claims are backed by evidence.
My vitriol isn’t towards her as a candidate, though it does somewhat dovetail. My vitriol is towards her as a person, as a quasi-human. Everything about her reeks. She makes Bill look like a walk in the park… or a romp in the Oval Office.
As you are, I am entitled to my opinion. Nobody is forcing you to accept it or feel good about my choice of words. That’s a liberal tactic. I don’t play that PC game.

Posted by: blue_persuasion | January 8, 2008, 5:54 pm 5:54 pm

Lets also get rid of another myth
this 35 years of experience balony
When Bill Clinton was president she was the first lady, counting those years as experience means Laura Bush would be a better choice because she has 8 years in the white house also BUT her 8 years are more recent so she must be more up to date with current issues
and if you want to keep using the 35 years talking point
list her top 5 accomplishments in those years
should be easy, 35 years is a long time, she must have dozens
go ahead list them I challenge you
and no making things up now ….
we’re all waiting

Posted by: Hank | January 8, 2008, 5:55 pm 5:55 pm

Max said: “America is rejecting her and not because she is a woman. I think people have just had enough of the Clintons.”
I read an article posted at Drudge today that stated it a bit better — and it may even be more truthful (though people ARE sick of those idiots).
They claim that people are looking for somebody a little less entrenched in politics — that those who are as entrenched as the Clintons have not brought about change YET, so Obama’s “new plan” seems to be hitting many of these people and energizing them where Hillabeast cannot.
I’m not a lib and likely wouldn’t vote for Obama, but he’s worth a look see anyway. I’m piqued, but I’m a conservative at heart. Now if we could only get some great candidates THERE… *sigh*

Posted by: blue_persuasion | January 8, 2008, 5:59 pm 5:59 pm

Argue all you want for the Clinton’s
but the point seems moot,
she losing again tonight
she will never be the president
watch your TV at 8:05 tonight
she is not just losing, reports say
double digit loss
and I agree with blue_persuasion she does reek, does anybody believe she is honest ?

Posted by: Jeff | January 8, 2008, 6:02 pm 6:02 pm

Lord Har Har—
Wow you really are something!
You have to go to the bottom of the barrel to check my spelling. If you have nothing better to do then check peoples spelling then what good are you doing here blogging?
Hmmmm–I guess my terminology is not good enough for you. Well the thing is I could not afford to go to college because of the Bush Administration with all their damn FEDERAL TAX HIKES!! Maybe if I went to college I could spell better and even make some more terminology make since.
GIVE ME A FREAKING BREAK. THIS IS A CHAT ABOUT POLITICS!! NOT THE DAMN WEBSTERS DICTIONARY!

Posted by: sick&tired_democrat | January 8, 2008, 6:03 pm 6:03 pm

We certainly don’t have to worry about Bush and company lying under oath – nope, they just refuse to participate.

Posted by: Mrs. Osipov | January 8, 2008, 6:04 pm 6:04 pm

Lord Har Har he has no brain
thats the problem here

Posted by: Hank | January 8, 2008, 6:13 pm 6:13 pm

Sick&Tired said: “Hillary Clinton has 35 years of Experience behind her.”
So please show me her track record. In 35 years, what has she done, gotten done, or initiated that GOT done?
I’ll wait patiently. :)

Posted by: blue_persuasion | January 8, 2008, 6:13 pm 6:13 pm

Lets also get rid of another myth
this 35 years of experience balony
When Bill Clinton was president she was the first lady, counting those years as experience means Laura Bush would be a better choice because she has 8 years in the white house also BUT her 8 years are more recent so she must be more up to date with current issues
and if you want to keep using the 35 years talking point
list her top 5 accomplishments in those years
should be easy, 35 years is a long time, she must have dozens
go ahead list them I challenge you
and no making things up now ….
we’re all STILL waiting

Posted by: hank | January 8, 2008, 6:16 pm 6:16 pm

Blue–no, I have not chosen not to read things by people who have known them for decades and whose claims are backed by evidence. I read all the allegations about Vince Foster, Whitewater, etc. I’ve now read the stuff about the New World Order (and by the way that is an accusation that gets leveled against liberals and conservatives–and whenever I hear it I just discount it).
The difference is that when I read, or watch TV, or listen to the radio, I engage my brain. I don’t automatically believe whatever I hear. I ask “who benefits from my believing this.” I ask to see proof. I don’t just believe things because I want to believe them–or because others want me to believe them. I believe when I have satisfied myself that there is truth–and when some arch-conservative tries to tell me that someone who is liberal is evil, just because that person happens to have a different view of things…well, not only do I not believe them, I’m not going to allow them to spew lies and have it passed off as fact if I have anything to say about it. It sickens me to see that tactic deployed at both ends of the political spectrum, but the smear campaigns run by the right wing have been by far the more damaging to the long term health of this country.

Posted by: Skidoo | January 8, 2008, 6:17 pm 6:17 pm

Oh and one other thing–my vote, and votes like mine (the moderates, the independents–the “swing voters”) are the ones that decide elections. So, convince me that your position is the right one if you can. Not that you seem to have a position beyond just bashing Hillary.
I think if Republicans/conservatives had spent half as much time trying to solve the problems of this country as they have trying to destroy the Clintons at a personal level, this country would be a lot better off.

Posted by: Skidoo | January 8, 2008, 6:28 pm 6:28 pm

One problem is being solved in New Hamsphire right now
how to keep Hillary out of power
She will lose by double digits tonight
The wheels have come off the wagon
Now we can start working on the other problems

Posted by: mary | January 8, 2008, 6:33 pm 6:33 pm

Hank–I don’t support Hillary. I am undecided. I am even undecided as to party, as I like Obama and McCain best, but I don’t hate Hillary, and Ron Paul has some appeal even though he is an idealogue and a populist (which means that he will say whatever is most likely to win votes).
Firstly, I said before that the whole thing about her crying is a bunch of overblown crap. She was at most a little verklempt, there were no tears there.
Bill and Hillary are not the same person. I think it fairly unlikely that Hillary is going to be receiving any hummers in the oval office, so we won’t have to worry about that. Beyond that, very little of what was alleged against the Clintons was ever found to have any basis in fact. Vince Foster’s death was investigated three times and they came up with nothing though heaven knows Ken Starr tried.
I don’t think her actual experience in elected office does much to recommend her, so therefore, I am not too sure I would be comfortable supporting her. However, the hate that gets pointed in her direction, and has been pointed in her direction since the early 90s, is an embarrassment to this country.

Posted by: Skidoo | January 8, 2008, 6:37 pm 6:37 pm

Skidoo said: “and when some arch-conservative tries to tell me that someone who is liberal is evil, just because that person happens to have a different view of things…well, not only do I not believe them, I’m not going to allow them to spew lies and have it passed off as fact if I have anything to say about it.”
You really don’t get it, do you? I don’t dislike her because she has a “different view on things,” you silly person!! You really don’t listen.
I dislike her because of what I know she wants to do to this country. I know these things based on things SHE has said! What more proof do I need to “engage my brain” than to listen to the words coming out of this harpy’s mouth??
Besides that, I’m not talking about simple op-ed pieces or books that I have read on her, I am talking books with real live bibliographies (please explain what this is to your cohort Sick&Tired… I’m sure s/he will stumble on the word for the next five minutes) with evidence of where certain information came from. It’s all DOCUMENTED proof of what she did, what she said, where she was, how she reacted, etc.
I’m very glad that you have the ability to engage your brain, but somehow you are of the belief that only you or only libs have the ability to do that. Truth be told, I have RARELY met a lib that didn’t work almost solely on feelings and don’t give facts any credence at all. Once faced with substantial facts, they resort to the shouting-down tactic because they can’t fight the facts with any facts of their own. I’ve watched this go on for YEARS on different message boards across the country.
You seem to be one of the rare people who is NOT doing that — however, you really don’t want to believe that there is FACTUAL evidence out there of what she is really all about. If you choose not to find out the facts for yourself, that is your right. But please don’t believe that because I HAVE seen the facts an *gasp* believe them, that I’m somehow uninformed. I am HIGHLY informed, and by choice.
I could read all the fluff pieces that the Klintonista machine churns out, but I know better. I am not fooled, and I HAVE seen the evidence.
Again, it’s rather a moot point. It’s likely she will never see the inside of the White House again, God willing.

Posted by: blue_persuasion | January 8, 2008, 7:04 pm 7:04 pm

Skidoo said: “And by the way, conservative and liberal are subjective labels anyway. Hillary may be too liberal for you, but she is not liberal enough for some others.
I’m neither conservative nor liberal, so I don’t have the convenience of just applying labels to people in order to have to avoid doing any thinking.”
Ooooh, again with the digs!
I am conservative in NATURE, but I can’t say I always side with those who claim to be conservative when it comes time to vote. Seems to me everybody keeps moving more left. The left becomes flaming left, and the right becomes more centerist.
I don’t know of ANYbody who really represents my views — at least not since Reagan. I consider myself more of a Reagan republican, if I must label myself.
I am your worst nightmare. I AM a thinker and I AM intelligent. Highly intelligent. And I AM NOT a liberal. :)
But anybody who could even say anything even remotely redeeming about Hilla… well, that’s a whole ‘nuther situation altogether. I CAN say it colors the way I look at anybody because it’s very apparent that they aren’t working with a full deck.

Posted by: blue_persuasion | January 8, 2008, 7:08 pm 7:08 pm

Blue–no, you have seen what you think is evidence because it is something that you happen to agree with. That is what most partisan people on both sides do, and it’s part of what is wrong with our country. You can’t abide anyone who doesn’t 100% agree with you, and can’t understand that solutions can be found on both the right and the left. And it is people like you who will destroy our country. Not because you are conservative or liberal, but because you are more interested in choosing teams than in finding solutions.

Posted by: Skidoo | January 8, 2008, 7:13 pm 7:13 pm

Skidoo said: “Oh and one other thing–my vote, and votes like mine (the moderates, the independents–the “swing voters”) are the ones that decide elections. So, convince me that your position is the right one if you can. Not that you seem to have a position beyond just bashing Hillary.
I think if Republicans/conservatives had spent half as much time trying to solve the problems of this country as they have trying to destroy the Clintons at a personal level, this country would be a lot better off.”
Omg, are you riding the same short bus that your buddy Sick&Tired does??
I have not ONCE tried to convince you that MY position is right! All I’ve talked against is Hillary! I believe that conservatism (not what we see in the people tossing their names in the hat, but TRUE, REAL conservatism) is the way to go, yes. BUT I have not made that THE issue here. The ISSUE is Hilla. What is it with you and listening?? Good grief… you have GOT to be a guy.
As for bashing the Clintons on a personal level, I don’t know what rock you lived under for the past number of years but the Klintonistas have done that ALL by themselves, thank you. I can’t even give myself or my “party” that much credit. :)

Posted by: blue_persuasion | January 8, 2008, 7:14 pm 7:14 pm

Skidoo, I asked earlier, I’ll ask again what more do you need to know about Hillary
your still undecided ?
You think she is honest ? does she claim experience from her Husbands presidency but not share the blame for the many issues that disgraced the country ?
Don’t tell me it isn’t disgraceful to have a president getting oral sex in the oval office and staring the nation in the face to deny it only to come back 7 months or so later and face the nation and admit he did have oral sex and lied about it
She defended him back then, called it a vast right wing conspiracy, I know she is a brilliant leader now, but then she was the poor little house wife
time to decide
undecided is a cop out
if you can’t decide then don’t defend

Posted by: hank | January 8, 2008, 7:20 pm 7:20 pm

Blue–”I have not ONCE tried to convince you that MY position is right! All I’ve talked against is Hillary!”
Exactly my point. It’s personal with you, and it should be political. By which, I mean it should be about policies. Or lack of. I can tell from your writing that you are not a stupid person, so why not use your intelligence to make an intelligent argument to sway an undecided voter?

Posted by: Skidoo | January 8, 2008, 7:21 pm 7:21 pm

I researched her years ago!! What do I have to do now? What will I find out differently now?? I DID research her and THAT’S why I know she’s a Hillabeast. What have YOU done??
Good lord you think you know so much!

Posted by: blue_persuasion | January 8, 2008, 7:22 pm 7:22 pm

Skidoo said: “Blue–no, you have seen what you think is evidence because it is something that you happen to agree with.”
Uh, no Einstein, wrong again. Last I knew, I only have one other person living in my home who may be somewhat aware of what I’ve read, what information I have gleaned from the factual, backed evidence I have seen for myself.
Unlike you who believes NOTHING no matter how blatantly it stares you in the face, I can actually read, utilize deductive reasoning, use a bibliography, research where the information listed in the bibliography came from… etc.
You obviously choose to believe nothing. That is your choice. Just like I actually have the brain power to do research, which I have done.
Those who choose not to believe anything have no reason to research — such as yourself. However, those who ask questions and want to know answers — that would be me — find the answers and don’t just stick fingers in ears and go la la la la la la. Again, that would be you. :)

Posted by: blue_persuasion | January 8, 2008, 7:29 pm 7:29 pm

Blue–I thought you were intelligent but if you keep talking you’ll convince me otherwise. The inability to tolerate opposing points of view is the sign of a small mind.
I believe lots of things, but one thing I don’t believe is anything said by someone whose only goal is to smear someone they don’t like.

Posted by: Skidoo | January 8, 2008, 7:50 pm 7:50 pm

Skidoo said: “Blue–no, you have seen what you think is evidence because it is something that you happen to agree with.”
Can you explain those who worked with and knew them for decades, even working directly with Clinton? Dick Morris is only one name that comes to mind.
Seems they LIKED Clinton but once they worked with him and — more to the point, HER — long enough, they wised up.
Spin it all you wish, Skidoo. That obviously works for you. The only one trying to pass bogus information here is you.

Posted by: blue_persuasion | January 8, 2008, 7:54 pm 7:54 pm

Well, Blue, let me break it down for you. Dick Morris is a political strategist who claims to be bipartisan, but who has identified himself primarily as a Republican since even before Bill Clinton was elected. So, even though Bill Clinton was able to work with the guy and gain insight from him early on in his first term, ultimately Morris’s loyalties lay elsewhere. Pretty common thing actually, for people from opposite sides of the political spectrum to be able to come together but ultimately be divided by their differences.
You could also look at it as Morris is the ultimate Machiavellian. The man makes his name working for Clinton, and then turns on him in order to make an even bigger name for himself. And look at him now–the only places he is getting any work at all is on right-wing news sources such as Fox, Hannity, etc.

Posted by: Skidoo | January 8, 2008, 8:06 pm 8:06 pm

Blue–by the way, there is something that is more than a little “I know you are but what am I” to a lot of your posts. Seriously, are you unable to articulate a clear argument, or are you just too lazy?

Posted by: Skidoo | January 8, 2008, 8:10 pm 8:10 pm

HERE ARE A FEW THINGS THAT HAVE COME TO ME FROM MY RESEARCHING ON HILLARY… SEE SHE DOES MAKE THINGS HAPPEN!!
1.) Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Clinton sought to obtain funding for the recovery efforts in New York City and security improvements in her state. Working with New York’s senior senator, Charles Schumer, she was instrumental in quickly securing $21.4 billion in funding for the World Trade Center site’s redevelopment. She subsequently took a leading role in investigating the health issues faced by 9/11 first responders, eventually earning the praise and endorsement of New York City’s Uniformed Fire Officers Association and the Uniformed Firefighters Association for her 2006 re-election bid. In 2005, Clinton issued two studies that examined the disbursement of federal homeland security funds to local communities and first responders. Clinton voted for the USA Patriot Act in October 2001, as did all but one senator.
2.)Senator Clinton voted against the tax cuts introduced by President Bush, including the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 and the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003, saying it was fiscally irresponsible to reopen the budget deficit. At the 2000 Democratic National Convention, Clinton had called for maintaining a budget surplus to pay down the national debt for future generations. At a fundraiser in 2004, she told a crowd of financial donors that “Many of you are well enough off that … the tax cuts may have helped you” but that “We’re saying that for America to get back on track, we’re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”
3.)In 2005, Clinton was joined by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who once led the Republican opposition to her husband’s administration, in support of a proposal for incremental universal health care. She also worked with Bill Frist, the Republican Senate Majority Leader, in support of modernizing medical records with computer technology to reduce human errors, such as misreading prescriptions.
4.)During the 2005 debate over the use of filibusters by Senate Democrats, which prevented some of President Bush’s judicial nominations from being confirmed, Clinton was not part of the “Gang of 14″, a bipartisan group of senators who would support cloture but oppose the Republican threat to abolish the filibuster. However, she did vote in favor of cloture along with that group, thereby allowing the nominations to come to a vote. She subsequently voted against three of the nominees, but all were confirmed by the Senate.Clinton voted against the confirmation of John Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States, saying “I do not believe that the Judge has presented his views with enough clarity and specificity for me to in good conscience cast a vote on his behalf,” but then said she hoped her concerns would prove to be unfounded. Roberts was confirmed by a solid majority, with half the Senate’s Democrats voting for him and half against. She joined with about half of the Democratic Senators in support of the filibuster against the nomination of Samuel Alito to the United States Supreme Court, and subsequently voted against his confirmation along with almost all Democratic members of the Senate.

Posted by: sick&tired_democrat | January 8, 2008, 8:27 pm 8:27 pm

Sick&Tired, so you get the pay of somebody with a 2-year associates degree. Wow. However, they must not have you type a THING because just reading your posts you sound like you’re 12.
I am going to college for ME. Nothing more, nothing less. The pay I make is gravy and is all savings anyway.
Maybe you didn’t get funded for college because the powers that be could see how little you made of K-12. Even with free education you can’t spell a damn thing. Shame.
Now go vote for your gal Hilla! She’ll give you all the social programs your little heart desires.

Posted by: blue_persuasion | January 8, 2008, 8:30 pm 8:30 pm

Blue–the pay you make is gravy and is all savings anyway? That would indicate you still live at home with mom and dad. Which explains a lot. Keep working on that degree, and while you are there, try to squeeze in some debate classes. Then you might learn how to make stronger arguments that don’t entail name-calling and repeating the slanderous statements of others.

Posted by: Skidoo | January 8, 2008, 8:41 pm 8:41 pm

This is a woman who held her family together, raised a lovely daughter to be proud of and still had time to take on public issues. She is smart, warm, thoughtful
and yes, sensitive. We are lucky to have a person of her abilitiy willling to put herself on the line and run. If you think it’s easy, try it!

Posted by: Rose | January 8, 2008, 9:08 pm 9:08 pm

Uh, make that “conscience”, not “conscious”. I was getting a little long-winded and was anxious to post before I lost the entire post to a time-out. Need to proofread next time.

Posted by: Ron | January 8, 2008, 9:15 pm 9:15 pm

I’m completely outraged reading these comments. So many people have criticized Hillary for being some sort of “ice queen” with no emotions. Here, she’s showing SINCERE emotions and NOT in the face of a problem she cannot handle. Hillary is ahead of the race; she’s not crying for any ridiculous reason like some sort of cry baby. These emotions came from the heart, from someone who truly cares about what happens to this country. Hillary is NOT an elitist; she grew up in the middle class and used her intelligence and ingenuity to bring her where she is today. She does not deserve to be judged differently because she is a woman. If there was a male candidate who believed everything she did, he would be the best candidate this country has ever seen. And that is why Hillary is right for this country.

Posted by: ashley j | January 9, 2008, 12:34 am 12:34 am

It’s 1:50 on the East Coast, and I have to say:
Impressive, Senator Clinton,
Most Impressive.
You managed to pull off an impressive win when no one thought you could.
I haven’t done a refresh, and the last one one my screen was from 8:41 by Skidoo.
I was enjoying an evening out with Lady Har Har. Priorities, you know…
Now to read the posts from 8:42 on…
Har Har!

Posted by: Lord Har Har | January 9, 2008, 1:53 am 1:53 am

I don’t understand how some people see this as such a negative reaction. I do think that to cry is to show that things have been so wrong that we need real emotion to lead and fix or “reverse” the wrongs that have been done. I could think of hundreds things the current president has done and said that are far worse.

Posted by: Mel | January 9, 2008, 2:52 am 2:52 am

how can she be a good president, when she is so vulnerable to even mild pressures,more over she and her husband is so greedy of power

Posted by: Paul | January 9, 2008, 3:31 am 3:31 am

You know, I have no illusions about the intelligence of the average guy on the street. I’ve watched those Leno bits where he asks random people questions anyone should know the answers to, and they respond with ignorance so complete you can only laugh.
But that’s innocent ignorance. The self-satisfied, smug, mean-spirited ignorance I’ve been reading in these comments makes me sick. And just now, ashamed to be a human being.

Posted by: Doris | January 9, 2008, 4:20 am 4:20 am

Oh my GOD she WON!!!! God Help us all!!!!

Posted by: Joe | January 9, 2008, 5:36 am 5:36 am

People want a leader who is “strong”, but when a woman shows strength, she’s stereotyped and said to be cold or agressive. Male politicians can and have shown emotion during elections and while in office. But when a woman politician shows emotion, it’s blown out of proportion and again, stereotyped: women=emotions=lack of control.
Mrs. Clinton gets attacked on all sides by those who chide her for being human. Name one president who was without fault or failings? Name one candidtate who is? I wasn’t going to vote for Clinton. Now I am, having seen for once a human side of her. I didn’t see weakness in her “emotional” display. I saw thoughtfulness and compassion and caring. Qualities that are important in leaders too.
Hans

Posted by: Hans | January 9, 2008, 8:32 am 8:32 am

I see right through the tears. She can’t use her woman hood to cry. This is an election. She is going down.

Posted by: juliu | January 9, 2008, 8:35 am 8:35 am

She is smart she will get fools to vote for her, because of a couple of tears. Woman know they can cry at the drop of a dime. It was smart to do so for her, she has a lot of people fooled. We seen what the Clinton administration can do already, and we need more than that now! (mandatory health care thats crazy)

Posted by: Me | January 9, 2008, 8:40 am 8:40 am

Ancient Greek warriors – some of the toughest ever known – thought it fitting, as good soldiers, to weep after battle for the brave men that they had killed. There was no shame in this. Today, people still think that women cry and show emotion because they are, well, women. And that men who cry and show emotion are acting LIKE women. Give me a break. All are acting like HUMANS, and didsplays of emotion now and then do NOT indicate a lack of judgement or ability to be tough when toughness is needed.

Posted by: Nick | January 9, 2008, 8:48 am 8:48 am

Reading a lot of these comments is truly unsettling; look at all the hate and vidictiveness that people are throwing at other people. No wonder the world is in the state it is in. As far as tears, I choose to believe that it IS beacause this world is in such a mess. This country does need the hope espoused by Obama, Huckabee; this country does need the experience espoused by Clinton and McCain. Let’s hope this election is a wake-up call to all in government that they have a responsibility for the future of our children, our country, our world.

Posted by: jfs | January 9, 2008, 9:10 am 9:10 am

YOU KNOW: ITS ABOUT TIME THAT WE CAN HAVE A CANADATE THAT CAN SHOW EMOTION WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE SHE REALY CARES, SHE WILL MAKE A DIFERANCE. JUST THANK ABOUT IT. A CANADATE WHO REALY CARES AND THAT CAN MAKE HER IDEARS AND PLANS WORK FOR US THE PEOPLE OF THE U.S.A.;MY VOTE IS GOING FOR ONE WHO CARES,”SEN. HILLERY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT.” THAN YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

Posted by: ALVIN | January 9, 2008, 9:29 am 9:29 am

Get a life!!! Hillary’s voice cracked for goodness sake! We’ve seen
Reagan, Bush 1, Bill C, Bush 2 and ol’ Mitt Romney shed real tears and
no one seemed to care. A woman’s voice cracks and you make a big deal
of it. My husband and I are NH Independents who want to see the glass
ceiling smashed. That’s it!!!! Hillary is far far and away a better
leader than the flimflam man Obama. He paid off Democratic NH and
Iowa leaders with thousands of dollars with the Hope Fund (check
opensecrets.org). He paid kids “gas money” to go caucus for him in
Iowa. He’s a scam, a cheat and an unethical politician. We never saw
Chelsea dragged out like he drags out those poor little girls. He’s
disgusting. As I held a Hillary sign at the polls in Wolfeboro (where
Mitt lives) yesterday, I had an old white man and young black woman
screaming at me that I am a racist for not supporting Obama. I happen
to have a black brother in law and two 1/2 and 1/2 nieces. I would
rather vote for McCain than Obama and most of my friends feel the same.
Leave Hillary alone why don’t you. Obama is fresh meat. Start chewing
on him!!!!!

Posted by: Wendy | January 9, 2008, 11:09 am 11:09 am

Whether or not the choking up was planned is completely irrelevant. Everything all presidential candidates, and all politicians for that matter do and say is planned so why is this any more upsetting to people? Honestly these comments about how her crying was disgusting is so frustrating to read because anyone that plans on making a decision of who they are going to vote for based on this is incredibly ignorant. By saying her display of emotion makes her weak or is somehow proof that she can’t handle the presidency is absolutely ludicrous. Like many other people have said, quite a few of the male candidates have shown emotion while on the campaign trail but it wasn’t made to be a big deal because they are men and for a women to show emotion she is cementing the stereotype of the ‘typical woman.’ The sexism here really is astonishing. The media is very good at taking the American people’s focus off important issues and making them concentrate on incidents like these which have no bearing on whether she would make a good president or not and anyone that thinks otherwise needs to take a minute to consider every other crucial issue that will actually effect the country. I liked that TIDER1701 brought up the Kerry/Bush election and how the Republican spin doctors managed to take Kerry, a decorated military-hero and make him into an “anti-military traitor” which turned so many people against him; it may have cost him the election when Bush had an unexplained absence from his National Guard Service! To all you people that enjoy criticizing Hillary calling her a witch and a “socialist toolbox” you need to grow up and start paying attention to her position on immigration, the economy, the on-going war, outsourcing, international policy especially with countries like India and China, the environment, etc. and then make a decision.

Posted by: a.e.w. | January 9, 2008, 11:59 am 11:59 am

Well i think the tears helped.

Posted by: me | January 9, 2008, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm

She cried and put on an act because she knows that it is natural for other women react to the tears. That is the only reason and the sympathy card got her some votes. Plus, isn’t she use to crying with all the things Big Bill has put her thru.

Posted by: Axel Rivera | January 9, 2008, 12:57 pm 12:57 pm

Wow! I’m really shocked at all the hatred that’s being spread hear. It’s quite disheartening to see the venom being spewed from most of you. Hatred and discrimination are ugly and make not only yourself but our country look ugly as well. May God bless you all.

Posted by: Rick | January 9, 2008, 1:33 pm 1:33 pm

I’m sure someone has already posted a comment similar to mine and if so, I apologize. The few comments I read are absolutely ridiculous. Why are we wasting time and energy arguing over why Senator Clinton got a little “misty-eyed” at a town hall meeting? Imagine if we spent as much time examining her positions on the issues we care about comparing her to the other candidates. Imagine if we didn’t spend hours discussing the price of John Edwards’ hair cut and instead talked about his ideas for tax reform? Maybe then, for once, Americans would start voting based on an informed decision then on “who they would most like to have a beer with.” I was tempted to view this debate through a feminist lens but I clearly see now that the current obsession is due more to the fact that most Americans would rather hear about Britteney Spears shaving her head than sit down and learn about what’s going on in their country and in the world. Happy voting…or caucusing.

Posted by: Kate | January 9, 2008, 7:04 pm 7:04 pm

How to Make Hollywood Tears:
So when I was a kid, my Mom was telephone operator and worked all weird shifts. My brother and I once decided to freak her out when she got in late one night. When we heard her get out of the car, I got a jar of Vick’s salve out and put small dots on my eyelashes and then he jumps on top of me and as she walked in he’s pretending to beat the crap out of me, and the Vick’s provide all the tears necessary.
Anyone check her purse for the Vick’s?
My image of the true Hillary came in 2004 at the convention when John Edwards, then Kerry’s running mate was speaking the cam panned up to some dark hidden space in the hall where Hil and Chelsea sat with their white wine. At that very moment, Hillary threw head back and rolled her eyes as if about to puke at something Edwards had said. It did not warm the cockles of my hearts.
And one more thang: What the hell happened to that bogus Southern drawl? She got rid of that faster than Edwards lost the mole on his face from 2004.

Posted by: BubbasBreath | January 9, 2008, 7:52 pm 7:52 pm

To quote a post here:
“No one is truly impressed with the angry, self-pitying tears of a self-righteous, self-entitled elitist.”
…. do you really think that anyone running for president is NOT a self-serving elitist? I can only think of one who wasn’t since Eisenhower who wasn’t. Yeah, some of them come off like Yokels, some hard and tough, some like soft-hearted liberals, etc, but they’re all elitists who (as far as i’ve observed) don’t see the average American as worth serving and representing.
Do you really want someone like THIS in the White House????

Posted by: Mike | January 9, 2008, 8:41 pm 8:41 pm

To everyone that is chastizing for questioning her tears, here’s a play by play:
“It’s not easy, it’s not easy. And I couldn’t do it if I just didn’t, you know, passionately believe it was the right thing to do.”
OK, I’m with you on this.
“You know, I have so many opportunities for this country, I just don’t want to see us fall backwards, no.”
Kind of a “stream of thought” – Fall backwards? OK, she wants to move us forward, OK…
So — (applause.)
“This is very personal for me. ”
Ummm, OK.
“It’s not just political. It’s not just public.”
ummm… From what I’ve seen of your public life, everything is political. From “Going to your husband’s competition’s press conference” to “Stand by your Man” to “Baking Cookies” to “Health care – 1993″ to “Going undercover – 1995″ to “Vast Right wing conspiracy” to “Let’s move to New York! They have open Senate races!” to this election. It’s all political.
“I see what’s happening. We have to reverse it. And some people think elections are a game, it’s like who’s up or who’s down.”
- OK, here is the tipping point. She goes from “I’m tired of people attacking me” to “Hey! attacking people is where the fun begins!”
“It’s about our country. It’s about our kids’ futures. It’s really about all of us together. Some of us put ourselves out there and do this against some pretty difficult odds. And we do it, each one of us, because we care about our country. But some of us are right and some of us are wrong. Some of us are ready and some of us are not. Some of us know what we will do on day one, and some of us haven’t really thought that through enough. ”
Hey, wait a second… you just it wasn’t all political. You just said!
“So when we look at the array of problems we have and the potential for it getting really spinning out of control, this is one of the most important elections America’s ever faced.”
Aren’t they all?
I mean, does anyone ever say, “The election is the 22nd most important election!”
Who keeps tabs on the importance of elections, and always seems to rank the current one as #1?
Here are my top 5:
1789 – We need to pick someone…
1860 – The country is falling apart…
1796 – Hey! He’s stepping down!
1932 – How depressing…
1980 – Are you better off now?
Har Har!

Posted by: Lord Har Har | January 9, 2008, 9:53 pm 9:53 pm

Rick,
I’m only shocked at some of the hatred here.
The hatred towards me doesn’t really faze me.
Har Har!

Posted by: Lord Har Har | January 9, 2008, 9:56 pm 9:56 pm

Lord Har Har said: “Impressive, Senator Clinton,
Most Impressive.
You managed to pull off an impressive win when no one thought you could.”
Yeah, but has anybody checked to see that ALL the votes cast for her were made by LIVING people? How about that they actually LIVE there and weren’t bused in from somewhere else?
My memory is sharp enough to remember that that happened in huge numbers in the last couple elections on the democrat side. HUGE numbers. Dead people “voting,” people voting in more than one district, people being bused in in droves and directed how to vote… it’s a sleazy tactic, and one that has been proven time and again on their side.

Posted by: blue_persuasion | January 9, 2008, 10:18 pm 10:18 pm

I gathered three newspapers the day after the N.H. primary and read all the comments on Clinton’s becoming emotional publicly. In one paper, I saw a beautiful photograph of her in embrace with another woman at a polling station, taken by Joe Raedle.
Have all of you nasty-minded folks ever heard of Lincoln’s often-quoted phrase, “the better angels of our nature?” Well, I am seeing, quite clearly, “the lesser angels of our nature” in all this talk that should be reserved for bars and around water coolers and on cell phones. I am disgusted with how so many just spout out insipid remarks about a human being showing emotion publicly. Frankly, it is wonderful. And, that – among other things – is what is wonderful about America.
We don’t know how this race will turn out, and it is a “drama” largely determined by the candidates, their courage, their hopes, and “by the people.” Come on, please! Let’s celebrate, and not let ourselves go so low as these judgemental responses to Hillary’s shedding tears. For me, is it a sign of strength – not weakness – for a person to show emotion, whether female or male.

Posted by: Scott Forbes | January 10, 2008, 11:05 am 11:05 am

Well put Scott!

Posted by: Rick | January 10, 2008, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm

I think that those tears were real, but I still don’t want to vote for her. The emotion really gets you listening, but that only works once. If she tries it again it’s probably fake.

Posted by: I'marandomperson | January 10, 2008, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm

Scott, it’s not that she “showed emotions publicly.” It’s that those emotions are either fake or solely about her winning. She doesn’t give a crap about this nation beyond the power she can derive from it and wield over the rest of us. PERIOD.

Posted by: blue_persuasion | January 13, 2008, 6:26 pm 6:26 pm

Tears of the potential president, First lady Hillary Clinton, show that she is not capable of making difficult decisions like veto of bills and sending to war without tears. As you know, these decisions are associated with the job of US President. Or, It was just another scam for her to rent the White House for free for the third time (3 anti or creative Amendment 22)like her idol, Mrs Roosevelt. Whether it was a grave weakness or a fraud, Americans will use reliance (for dummy it means, if Iraq is not Iran, electors have been victims of fraud) to prosecute any fraud, corporate or political, against Skilling or Hillary Clinton. Remember nobody is above US law and a presidential race is not a license to kill or defraud.
Arthur, MBA, JD

Posted by: Arthur Mboue | January 15, 2008, 11:42 am 11:42 am

I am totally amazed at how many Americans are willing to support Hillary Clinton after everything that has been said & published about the dishonesty of Bill & Hillary Clinton. But it is obvious that most Americans don’t seem to care! Google the Clintons to read & learn how they lied, cheated, manipulated & bullied their way to the top while destroying those to stood in their way! These people are bona fide crooks! Hillary Clinton’s election for NY Senator was all a lie! It doesn’t end there… They received a contribution of $10 million dollars from the UAE which they funneled through the Clinton Library. How can she be president when this is a conflict of interest to our national security!? Her Health Care proposal will be a living nightmare to every American! Why do you suppose Canadians come to this country for health care? Can you imagine having to wait months for heart surgery? I can’t fathom the chaos her health care plan will create for all Americans! Wake up America — DON’T VOTE FOR HILLAR CLINTON!

Posted by: Dee Olson | February 3, 2008, 9:01 pm 9:01 pm

This time her tears will be against her. America needs a strong brilliant president. America needs somebody who is TOUGH on radical Islamic Jihadists, and to stand against countries claim to be superpower as China and Russia. Tears can not stand global political shocks. Long live J. Kennedy.

Posted by: Paul | February 4, 2008, 6:55 pm 6:55 pm

Hillary should have shown this kind of emotion when her husband was President. She should have shown and had, compassion for the people in this country when her husband was President. Neither one of them were for the people back then and I doubt very strongly that she will be for the people now. Just like Barack and McCain, she is spewing forth what she knows the people want to hear, but not what she truly means. It is high time people open their eyes and ears to see and hear the truth about Hillary. She has no integrity and no honor and she does not belong in the White House at all!

Posted by: Adrian | February 7, 2008, 4:05 pm 4:05 pm

“Oh Hillary, how do you stay so wonderful?”
Hot tears, hot tears flowed when Hillary explained how her wonderfulness ain’t easy.
She cares too much – sniffles – and for what? To lose to a big election to a Day One Not Ready Boy!
Waawaabaaawaaa! A-huh-huh, Waabawaabawabaawaaba!

Posted by: astrobeefcake | February 11, 2008, 4:44 am 4:44 am

For all of you who are sooo critical—you sound like a bunch of ignorant fools. You try running for President! And for you women bashing her…you, even more so should be ashamed of yourselves!

Posted by: Celiang | February 18, 2008, 2:52 am 2:52 am

Do your homework. Wake-Up! Watch the documentary and do research on “The Clinton Chronicles” Hillary and Bill are pure evil. It caught me off guard too. I liked them both a few months back untill I did my homework.

Posted by: Walksthis way | February 20, 2008, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm

most of you people sound like a bunch of barbarians,what,you have never been emotional.now that is whats sad.you have no feelings ,no emotions,no heart.you must make your parents really proud!!!

Posted by: greg attaway | February 24, 2008, 10:14 am 10:14 am

Hilary i think you would make one hell of a president. its not easy knowing that every guy in this world, is trying everything possible to keep a woman from being president. the first voting session, i truly believe that you won!!!! Then all of a sudden, their was a glitch in the voting on all non-partisian votes. So non of them were counted. I really felt like they wasted my time. when i went the other day to go vote, i was told that non-partisians could only vote from the back four pages. oh great i get to select judges, we have so many corrupted judges…get rid of all of them. but what really pissed me off…..everyone has the right to vote, and because i did not wish to choose right then…i was told to just do the last portion. no one is perfect….not the democrats or the republicans…everyone has areas they are very good in… the same goes for the democrats and are republicans….now if only they were to work together we would have one hell of a state… but they choose to battle each other…..so i wish to stay clear, so why should i not be given the same opportunity as everyone else. i pray that i am not the only one standing here with my eyes open. can no one else see that we are going down fast, we are so far in debt. i must be the only one that saw hilary work on medical and education issues for four years, trying to make changes and rejected every time. has know one seen what has happened these last few months with the schools…teachers fired, kids cramming into classes, food items taken off the menus….i have kids… this is rock bottom to me….these men need to put aside their pride…voting for a woman, won’t make you anyless of a man. Hilary stay strong, my vote is with you…..please save us.

Posted by: brenda | June 6, 2008, 1:32 am 1:32 am

I am not impressed with the sarcasm and thoughtlessness of most of these responses. Today Hillary threw her support behind Obama, and I like both of them a lot. It is too easy to be sarcastic and hypercritical, as most are in here. She did make history as a woman running for president, and that is and will remain historically significant. The vitriolic comments I see in here are for people who have little or no compassion, and are too lazy to really go deeper than to criticize. The negativity shown in here shows a lack of depth of any soul, and I am sick of reading stuff like that. I won’t waste any more time here watching a bunch of people who only criticize and don’t do anything about it. By sitting on your ass, you have little or no room to criticize, and you get what you have paid for, which is nothing.

Posted by: Michael O. | June 7, 2008, 4:23 pm 4:23 pm

PLLLEEEEAAAAASSSSEEE! That woman has a heart of coal. She pulled the same crap when she was losing back in 2008 and it didn’t work then, nor will it work now. Lose the tears Hillary and retire already. Get those Clintons out of the picture. They had their turn and blew it. Even their daughter looks like she’s in trouble with the crook of a crook’s father that she married. Pitiful. Can’t stand those phonies. Intellect doesn’t matter when you have no heart and those people are majorly on the heartless list. Bunch of phonies. Thought we got rid of them, but they are leeches and the biggest phoney-baloney going.

Posted by: Janice Cavalcante | October 16, 2011, 8:38 am 8:38 am

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