Choked Up
Hillary Clinton teared up today during a campaign event in Portsmouth, after being asked this by a female voter: "My question is very personal, how do you do it? How do you, how do you keep upbeat and so wonderful?"
Her response, per NBC/NJ's Athena Jones:
Clinton joked about having help with her hair and then got teary-eyed.
"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. You know, I have so many opportunities from this country, I just don't want to see us fall backwards (voice breaks a bit, people applaud) This is very personal for me it's not just political, it's - I see what's happening, we have to reverse it and some people think elections are a game. They think it's who is up or who is down. It's about our country it's about our kids' futures it's really about all of us together you know let's (inaudible) just put ourselves out there and do this against some pretty difficult odds. And we do it each one of us cause we care about our country. But some of us are right and some of us are wrong. Some of us 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 and so when we look at the array of problems we have and the potential for getting really spinning out of control this is one of the most important elections America's ever faced," Clinton said.
She then began to compose herself.
"So as tired as I am -- and I am. And as difficult as it is to try and keep up what I try to do on the road - like occasionally exercise and try to eat right, it's tough when the easiest food is pizza - I just believe so strongly in who we are as a nation so I'm gonna do everything I can to make my case and you know the voters get to decide. Thank you."
So does this help or hurt HRC? Does it inspire sympathy or spark the cynical to charge she was faking it? With polls showing HRC down nine or more points here might this impact the last 24 hours of this critical contest?
John McCain served as the Commander of Attack Squadron 174 out of Cecil Field in Jacksonville Florida in the late 70's. Under his command a female ensign by the name of Rosemary was raped and sodomized. John McCain watched and did nothing. It was investigated by the Naval Investigative Service and the three men (including McCain) were split up and not allowed to serve together. Ask around Jacksonville - some of the folks who served with him know about this but have kept a tight lip. This story was told to me by a witness who served with McCain and lives in Jacksonville. I hope someone checks it out.
She has the experience, she has the intelligence, she has her heart and her head in the right place, and she'll work herself to the bone to do right. Not only that, when did this race turn from "can a woman win" to "can this woman be stopped"? When was that?
So all that taken into consideration, the MSM will jump down her throat for getting misty-eyed. She'll be too soft where one of the men would be showing sensitivity.
I hope she comes right back at the MSM and gives them all a swift solid kick in the. If she misses, she'll get the Fox people in the back of the neck.
So does this help or hurt HRC? Does it inspire sympathy or spark the cynical to charge she was faking it?
Neither. It means that Hillary Clinton is a normal human being.
Why don't you tell us when, where and how a female candidate can display emotion? Because she's damned if she does and she's damned if she doesn't.