It's crying time again!

Did anyone else see this on CNN today?

http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/12/17/35/crying-time-2/

your need to post in this manner says much more about you then it does about Hillary.

According to many of the female analysts I know, the crying thing works once, and she used it up and only won by 2%.....this time it will backfire.
Hillary quit and keep whatever little humility you have left.....
DISGUSTING!

I didn't drink the Clinton or nobody kool-aid.

yes life goes on, yes IF the Dems nominate Missy Hillary she will lose, and we will just pick up and start all over again...at least we will finally be rid of the Clintons

GOOD RIDDANCE!

Clinton some emotion here.

Welcome to DU.

If you're a Freeper Troll, then ignore the last sentence.

I teared up myself listening to that story.

the whole talk show format of her "event" was really strange.

She's really running with this whole, "They loved my tears!!" thing, isn't she.

Say hello to Hillary Jesse Raphael.

It felt so staged and forced...I almost felt sorry for her.

The first time, fine. This time, it definitely had a whiff of stagecraft to me.

Mind you, I don't care what they do to market themselves. But it had the opposite effect on me.

...which I really like--because anyone can see what's happening and it will
be a losing strategy for her in the long run.

I actually believe that Hillary's initial teary moment was real. I saw it
and I believe it was not manufactured. However, I do believe that her emotion
was due to exhaustion, sadness and frustration because her campaign was tanking.

I think emotionally, she had been on a roller coaster since Iowa. Those candidates
get so little sleep and they're emotionally vulnerable.

However, this over-the-top "new and improved" Hillary-as-prom-queen shtick
is so contrived, that it's embarrassing. Hillary is Margaret Thatcheresque, and
it's just a bit bizarre to see her rollicking around the country as if she's a
cast member doing a bit from "High School Musical".

Her campaign is erroneously assuming that her emotions turned the NH vote, and they've
manufactured an entirely new personality for her--based on their belief that it will
garner votes.

It's plastic. I don't agree with Hillary's policies, but as far as her
personality goes, she is who she is. She's more introverted and analytical. There's
nothing wrong with that. By creating this drama, she's overreaching and ultimately the
public sees that it's bogus.

Someone told her to smile, like---all of the time. It's scaring me.

any other way. That's not a slam on HC, but a comment on how some people think.

You know, it IS possible that the woman has honest emotions.

He was quite good at it. Hillary deserves an Oscar for her performance!

Published on Thursday, January 10, 2008 by CommonDreams.org
And the Oscar Goes to…
by Cindy Sheehan

…Hillary Clinton! For phoniest display of belated emotion in a Presidential campaign!

Hillary’s recent emotion at the tanking of her multi-million dollar; mass pandering campaign reminded me of a scene in Mike Myers’ Wayne’s World where he, as Wayne, throws water on his face and emotes about something while “Academy Awards Clip” flashes on the screen. Hillary Clinton does not do anything that is not coldly, if not icily calculated. However, seeing her ambitions and life’s work of becoming the first female president go down into the primordial-primary ooze may be something for which she might exhibit a little emotion.

She showed no emotion when I met with her along with another Gold Star Mother, Lynn Braddach from Oregon, whose son Travis Nall was also KIA in Iraq. We poured our hearts and souls out to her and she hardly even blinked, let alone shed a tear for our heartbreak that she had been a major neo-connette chearleader for.

That meeting happened in September of 2005, just a few short weeks after we left Camp Casey in Crawford, Tx on August 31, 2005. Anti-war sentiment was high and the apex was a mass march and rally that hundreds of thousands of like-minded (many for the first time) attended in the belly of the evil empire on September 24th. Since then, the motivation and energy of the anti-war movement has ebbed and flowed with each subsequent fresh assault on peace and democracy by BushCo with the help, support and justification of “Democrats” like Hillary Clinton.

After Hillary was booed at a campaign event in New Hampshire over the weekend, I am sure that there was a high-level meeting of her campaign that came up with the strategy of the new and improved and “emotional, but not too emotional” Hillary Clinton. This is the same campaign that thought Hillary could demonstrate that Senator Mike Gravel (who chastised her in a debate about her vote to sanction Iran) was crazy by laughing at him like she was the insane one with a very bizarre and disturbing cackle. This is the same campaign that told Ms. Clinton that she should under no circumstances apologize to the families of the needlessly and tragically fallen for her support of the war that killed them. This is essentially the same campaign that handed the White House over to Bush again in 2004. Kerry’s campaign was such a resounding “success,” Hillary thought she could run the same careful and calculated one and be victorious…seems to be a disconnect here.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/10/6303/

I can't believe Cindy's stooping to this level. :(

With such sexist gems as "icily calculated" and "bizarre and disturbing cackle," I have to hope Cindy didn't write this one without help. This is just gross.

I have four cat companions myself, plus one dog that my ex left me.

I kinda like 'em myself. :hi:

:puke:

and not keep a permanent occupation force, or guard an embassy the size of Vatican City.

...

:popcorn:

I don't really care how often she cries or gets choked up. It is good to see a politician show empathy and to see one talk from the heart. I think 7plus years of neo conservatism may have desensitized a lot of people to the things that really do count in our society.

:eyes:

The lady finished speaking and Hillary wiped her eye but there were no tears.

First she wipes one of her eyes, then as she's talking, she turns her head and her mouth starts working like she's going to sob. Then she speaks with a catch in her throat.

I didn't say a word about her first "incident" but this one looked fake.

I cried with him.

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to its "pre-sympathy" level.

and then suddenly she does it twice in one week? There have been far sadder things she should've teared up about, like her "mistaken" IWR vote for which thousands of our troops died, her husband's affairs, any PAST questions asked of her before she realized "showing emotion" was politically beneficial, etc. She's a phony. And people will realize it. Even Sherri Shepard, the lady on The View that didn't know if the world was round or flat, said she was touched by it that one time but she doesn't want to see it again.

The first time, I understood the stress of the situation and it seemed to be a very genuine, human moment. I've also worked on campaigns, and I'm damned sure her advisors must have told her to "let it happen" more often.

But this time just seemed bogus.

opening to attack Obama in the process) and I totally agree that she was advised to "let it happen" more often. I think it will be seen as overreaching and insincere.

of emotion is what she acts out on a daily basis? The emotion could be the true Hillary coming out. Nevertheless, I just want Hillary to be Hillary, crying or emotionless, she will always be criticized. There are always people who want to tear down a successful person. They seem to be coming out in droves. I believe America wanted to see her cry over the "Monica" thing and when she didn't, she was considered cold. She obviously learned that it was better to hold it in then be made fun of and described as weak. She just can't get it right, right? Leave her alone! (Can you hear me screaming?)

it's called Crocodile Tears.

Seriously, it just seems wierd to me all of a sudden she's doing this.

Maybe it's legitimate, who the fuck knows. Let's move on.

It's the dirty Politics she's been trying to pull w/ voter suppression that has me more concerned.

but I DO care about it, because she's fooling people into feeling sorry for her and voting for her because of that sympathy.

good grief, I get choked up over commercials fer kripes sake!