Here we go again..."Hillary Clinton chokes up in CNN interview"

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

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WASHINGTON (CNN) – Hillary Clinton choked up Wednesday as she told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that her daughter's presence on the campaign trail had been one of the "most incredibly gratifying experiences of my life."

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"You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair they made the Jews wear..."

To paraphrase "The Blues Brothers"

I love that movie - saying that had me nearly spitting my Doritos all over the monitor.

Just what place did Nancy Kerrigan finish in Lillehammer?

I dunno....

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;)

SORRY!!!!


:rofl: :rofl:

You linked the photo, I did the text. Consider it a gift.

THANKS.

I'll retire it when she steps down....

:rofl:

Ay-ay-ay ... here she goes again ...

for not being hard enough, for not being soft enough.

I mean get a load of this "load": "So she's doing it because she's my daughter, but she's doing it because, as she says, she's a young American who cares about our future."

:eyes:

Whatever, Hillary.

...as in, a fake Democrat. A fake Progressive. A fake populist.

drinks and making up sniper stories to prove her manliness, and now she's back to being the feminine softie. I don't think Hillary even knows who she is anymore. I think she's a little unstable.

or a very good liar. Okay, so she's both those things apparently.

she's nuts

That's even scarier than her just being the proven liar she is!

It is would be hard to not notice her instability of late.

She needs to move on quickly, and get her wits about her again. And do it while there is a shred of a chance that her political future in any venue still exists. I personally think she just passed that train stop and refused to get off.

No one is criticizing her for not being strong or feminine enough here.

I'm criticizing her for her blubbering of convenience.

It's not a plot.

I've just had it with her blatant manipulations, and especially the blubbering. It is so dishonest, and it is cruel for Hillary to chump her more gullible supporters by manipulating them with her tears.

I guess I'm at the stage of this primary where I'm disgusted: with the media, with the process, and with gullible candidate supporters who allow themselves to be repeatedly played like a $2 mark the Saturday night before rent is due. I loathed it when Bush Jr was able to manipulate his supporters, and I loathe it that Hillary is able to so callously manipulate her supporters.

for using sympathy to win votes.

she is modeling after "Bush-tough".

Barbara Boxer is "feminine-tough".

:puke:

Not that having your daughter campaign for you is puke inducing....but enough with the crying already.

28 y.o. daughter from M$M interviews. Talk about having "you and yours" treated like political royalty. :thumbsdown:

She's allowed to choke up. I have no problem with that, and can't think of any reason anyone would.

First Stanford, then McKinsey, then Wall Street. Anyone would think her parents were Republicans. Or, maybe they are? Just a thought.

and it is amazing. But I know, she is a Clinton so she must be an evil whore.

:cry:

emotion. Uh huh.

:sarcasm:

for being hillary, next-in-line by decree....

here come the tears...there goes Oregon...damn

that really pissed me off. That said, I am sure Hillary Clinton is really touched by the loyal and undying support of Chelsea, whose support has been unwavering and complete.

but it won't play in Oregon.

Give me a break.

I'm so sick of these sexist posts.







Obama -08

supporters by plying them with tears.

It's not sexist. It's gullibleist or whatever.

It's purely a feminine trait to use emotions to manipulate...:think:...Oh, wait, no it isn't. Guess that doesn't make this sexist, then does it?. :crazy:

Gosh, I wonder how the cultists would have reacted then. Surely that's what they would have wanted.

I cried when my mother in law died recently. I guess I'm a fake. Oh I hope someone counsels me on how to be a proper human with emotions and all. Most likely won't happen on this site.

:puke:

Some of you people here and your comments are idiots.

Why? Because Hillary Clinton is ultra-secretive. How many other mothers (women politicians) would have DENIED the M$M access to her 28 y.o. daughter?

Hello?!? She's not working on humanitarian efforts but snagging six figure salary from a "cut-throat" Hedge Fund.

I have so little information about "Princess Chelsea - shielded from the evil press" but what I know - I don't like. :thumbsdown:

Well, she's pleasant looking and "on the surface" polite ... do you know anything more about "the person" who is Chelsea Clinton?

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You chose to post this to a thread in which Hillary Clinton is being trashed (again) and some of you wonder why the fundraising isn't going so well. This tells me so much in so many ways.

it's a robot, after all.

the next president of the United States!

Oh, wait. You were wrong on THAT one, too.

if i had that much debt, divided my party, and still lost the nomination.

I can not believe some of the horrible things I read here from Obama supporters. Oh where, oh where have all the good DU'ers gone? You know the ones that used to be here posting intelligent ideas and conversation? You even make fun of a woman who is proud of her daughter and it makes her a little teary? Well, I guess you would make fun of most of the mother's in America then. There really is nothing you all won't do any more. DU is officially in the sewer.

She's a big girl running for President. Personally, I think all this sentimentality is calculated. That's what makes me mad. So get off your high horse about how "horrible" we all are.

that smell, that self-righteous odor ...

I am just a human being who thinks you people say stuff about her that is just uncalled for. So screw off.

I just think that she really gets a bad rap here. I don't see this kind of crap on other forums that I visit. DU'ers have been allowed to run rampant with posts that look like they are done by 12 year old bitchy and bratty children rather than intelligent adults that are trying to promote the good points of our candidates. You people make Obama look like shit and I think he would be ashamed of the things you say.

Sorry if I'm not worried about hurting her feewings.

:toast:

She pulled this same party trick before New Hampshire and pulled off an upset.

All women cry and it is not always to manipulate a situation.

Sorry, I expect a little better than petty manipulation from a presidential candidate.

All humans cry at certain times, but I have known women who hated people that cried, especially to manipulate others.

I happen to cry at parades (especially when the marching bands go by). I cry when I get mad. I do not cry to get sympathy or my way. Fake tears should be saved for the stage and not used by men or women who are trying to manipulate the gullible.

I couldn't even BEGIN to consider pulling that "little girl" shit in order to get over.

HRC is a disgusting role model for young women.

Now, if she wishes to cry when she reflects on how many of our youth were SACRIFICED, due in part, to her POLITICAL vote for the Iraqi Invasion, I could empathize with her.

But with the Clintons ... it's ALL ABOUT the Clintons. :puke:

We're sick and tired of her calculated show of emotions. It's not working anymore.

over your pride in your child is better than the tearing up because it's so hard, and the boys are picking on me, and i'm just a woman, yada yada.

I never understood why her selfish tearing up didn't sink her in NH. It was selfish crying, not compassionate.

fucking gratifying. "The campaign trail" that she's defiling with her lies, smears, and evil racist pandering.

How dare Hillary be proud of her only child. Don't you have some poor people you can go and belittle? Oh, I forgot , you did that yesterday.

She's an ASS.

like HRC and the rest of her royal political family and merchant class surrogates. :shrug:

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

Did she cry when the cluster bombs she voted to use in Iraq killed innocent women and children? I don't think so.

I'll give her a pass on this one.

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Stop crying Hillary!

Just. stop. it.

but she's 10 points behind! She used the 3-pointer analogy, saying, "You don't leave before the end of the game. Who knows, I might make a 3-pointer." She seriously thinks she's TIED with Obama now???

I've never cried ONCE. I guess it worked for her once so she's trying it again.

Just asking.

If this isn't just crocodile tears, I guess we could reasonably expect her to have a complete nervous breakdown within the first year in the White House.

Brilliant.

Her daughter got to take a six-month PAID leave of absence from the HEDGE FUND (now, THAT's an honorable progressive profession in this day and age) that she manages to work on her mom's campaign, and got to claim an exemption from interviews from the press in the process.

Wow. What a sacrifice.

I know plenty of men who can work your emotions to get what they want. I've had professional theatrical training and experience, and I can make myself cry on demand. I've watched myself do it in the mirror as part of that training. You are full of shit if you think you can tell the difference between "real" and "fake" tears.

Why is it ok to pick on Chelsea? She went to school and studied very hard to get the job she has. Clearly you don't understand the financial segment of corporate America. Chelsea asked no quarter, and there is no law saying the family members of a candidate must grant interviews to anyone. Do you want to see Obama's kids followed around and badgered for interview requests.

But it doesn't surprise me that you'd draw as many dots as you needed to in order make that particular connection. It's the same tiresome and inevitable rejoinder offered in response to any criticism of Hillary -- and it lost its credibility after the first brazillion times you and yours spewed it in her defense.

As long as we're comparing resumes, I'll go ahead and mention that one of my bachelor's degrees is in theatre & film studies. I've been acting since I was a kid in everything from community and dinner theatre to university summer stock to Shakespeare in the Park. I've appeared in commercials and films and on television mini-series. I've worked as an actor all over the U.S. and in Europe. So, it's indeed a pleasure meeting a fellow thespian. But then again, our training has nothing to do with it, anyway -- does it? Any groundling can spot a phony onstage. I've seen plenty of trained actors squeeze out tears to rival the Trevi Fountain and fail utterly in convincing me that their characters were suffering from anything other than a complete emotional disconnect from their facial contortions and waterworks. Maybe it has a little something to do with the voice and one's physical carriage. But, simply put, at the end of the day, neither her predictably-timed whimpering or your odd rationalization convinces me. I don't buy it. After all, with the exception of her duplicity, I find everything else about her completely contrived.

I hate to break this to you, but Chelsea Clinton is not a "child" -- she's nearly thirty years old -- and she's still hiding behind her mother's skirt (or pants-suit legs). She and her parents HAVE, in fact, put reporters on notice during the entire campaign that she will not speak with them, and she has been quoted as saying to a 9-year-old CHILD reporting for Scholastic News who asked her a simple and respectful question: "I don't talk to the press, and that applies to you." So, essentially she is claiming special dispensation. She can say anything about her mother that she wants, say conceivably anything about her mommy's opponent that she wants, and never have to personally answer for any of it. Of course, this arrangement has worked out really well for her, since she was never compelled to explain her mother's Bosnian delusions of dangerous combat grandeur, which included Chelsea herself.

Yes, she's a clearly intelligent person who has the right to work wherever she chooses. But I won't bow in reverence to her choice of jobs, or her continued privileged upbringing. I understand the financial sector plenty, but I'm not impressed with the fact that she happened to take a cushy job with a secretive, virtually unregulated and unaccountable industry that's pretty much designed exclusively to make the rich even richer, handed to her by one of her mom's big donors on Wall Street.

Yeah, you're right -- she's not bound by any law to grant interviews or even answer questions of reporters while she's out stumping for her mommy, but I think it's pretty disingenuous and transparently insincere, if not completely laughable, for her, Hilly or Billy, or any of their sycophants to get their panties in a twist and claim she's "being picked on," like she can't defend her po' widdo' self. So, find another excuse, would you? This one is now more than 28 years old, and it's getting sillier by the minute.

I am not now nor have I ever been a Clinton supporter; however, I have always been a woman.

Pardon me for presuming the former. I never doubted the latter. But then, your last two statements are neither here nor there, insofar as my observations and your own straw-man argumentation and ad hominem, nonsensical presumptions about me are concerned. It's not about a man vs. a woman with me, and never has been. I think John Boehner's contrived weeping for "solemn debate" over troop funding was fake, too. Of course, he undoubtedly had a few scotch and sodas to act as lubricant for that faucet handle, so I give Hillary at least some extra credit for calculated control.

Tell you what: why don't you go back and read what I had to say. If you can entertain a civilized discussion on the merits, or what you perceive to be the lack thereof, I'm your Huckleberry.

If not, I bid you adieu and leave you to your vicarious victimhood.

But how about looking again at your last sentence, then realize that I'm being ultra gracious in giving you another chance after this passive aggressive slap.

I'd offer an olive branch, but the emoticon is missing.

How about :donut: ?

Accepted and appreciated.

Again, where is it written that anyone who is related to or stumps for a candidate MUST submit themselves to the press?

What do you know about hedge funds? You are painting them with a very broad brush, leading me to believe you don't really know all that much. Chelsea most probably got the interview because of her parents, but it's very unlikely she got the job without actually being able to do the job. She would be eaten alive. I have no doubt that my firm would give me leave under these circumstances.

Quite honestly, it appears to be you that is full of hate, vitriol and ad hominid attacks. You seem really worked up over Bill and Hill's kid having a good life. I don't much care. What she has doesn't take away from me in the slightest.

No one is asking you to bow in reverence or anything close. I would just like the poo flinging to stop so as not to further alienate more voters we will need to secure Obama's election! I don't get why that is so hard to understand.

I think you should re-read your bit about acting. You just made my point. It's not easy to be convincing, it takes a lot of practice and a lot of attention to the craft. I don't see "acting" in Hillary's resume. Not even at the groundling level. As for me, I try never to put my resume on the InterTubes.

I see you are filled with the hate. Too bad. You seem otherwise intelligent, but your hatred makes you seem very small-minded. IMHO, there is no need to keep up the hating. There is far more argument for letting go and going on.

I don't hate Hillary, or Chelsea, or Bill Clinton. Quite the opposite: I counted myself as one of their biggest supporters for over a decade. But I also watched them marginalize true progressives and pull our party, kicking and screaming, further to the center. Now I'm seeing a lot of incredibly selfish behavior on their part that will only squander or at least obscure most or all of what is left of their legacy. I'm not "worked up over their good life," but I am indeed tired of the fake populism, the forced laughter, the phony tears, and the self-centered, scorched earth politicking. I made my comments about Hillary not out of hatred but out of anger, disappointment and chronic fatigue.

I want them to GO AWAY, so that we can get to the job of electing an American president who seems to still give two sh*ts about doing what is good for America.

Maybe you might also want to re-read what I wrote. You seem to have missed entirely the fact that I said she's NOT convincing. My point was that I don't NEED acting lessons to recognize bad acting when I see it. I agree with a lot of non-trained, non-actors in here who see her weepy, evenly-modulated-quavering-voiced moments as more than just highly suspect, given that she has never before had any history of even blinking her eyes when a camera is pointed at her, let alone giving way to teary emotional displays.

But I'll grant you that I'm not winning any Hillary hearts and minds, so I will back away from this rather inconsequential matter of whimsy. But I won't hesitate to call out bigger bullshit on her when I smell it, and I don't care how locked up the nomination might be for Barack Obama -- or how many feathers of Hillary Clinton acolytes that I may ruffle.

Oh, and although I'm not an accredited investor, I do know a little bit about hedge funds -- although I wouldn't be caught dead in one, even if I had a few million laying around. Because it's barely regulated, the industry is prone to abuse (witness LTCM). Because one of its key strategies is short-selling, I find it additionally distasteful. I wouldn't invest in a hedge fund for the same reason I wouldn't buy a house out of foreclosure. I only invest in SRI's (socially responsible investment vehicles) because don't believe in consciously and strategically profiting from the misfortune of others....and I don't much cotton to those who do.

Got DLC all over her. YUCK

and for doing such a puff-ball interview.. When's Obama's puff-ball interview??

The commander in chief choking for 3rd or 4th time in 5 months... Ready on day 1 :eyes:

Janet Reno Chelsea's father? ... or daddy's LOVE was still strong when he went on a show (Rush Limbaugh) called Chelsea the WH Dog?

Yes, the Clintons have NO moral standards. They'll get "in bed" with anyone who can scare them up some votes ... even if they've shamelessly insulted their daughter in the past. Oh, I'm sure Chelsea understands ... perhaps she'll have the opportunity as Political Royalty to do the same thing to her daughter? :scared:

The words "insincere and duplicitous" keeps coming to mind every time I think of the Clintons.

thanks to the IWR that she voted for.

made Hillary quite emotional. :eyes:

I'm at the point of thinking that some of you Obama supporters are so damn mean spirited that you do not deserve to have your guy win the presidency!!!!

The woman was talking about her only child, the love of her life, but she doesn't have the right to get a bit emotional??????

God, some of you make me sick!!!!!!

You are far worse than the RW, at least I know where they are coming from, but for fellow Democrats to be this mean is truly sickening.

I don't recognize the party anymore.......

Clintonian royalty. Nobody is insulting you personally so I'm a little taken aback by your indignation. :shrug:

who happens to be a woman who does NOT deserve the crap that she's been thrown by the left wing.

Even the Freepers bash her less than her supposed fellow Democrats on this board. You make us Hillary supporters despise being in the same party as some of you people. Good luck in November without our support, every day you make it more difficult to even consider voting for him.

Your feigned indignation is not fooling anybody. We're growing tired of that OLD ruse. Take a rest?

You people represent hope and change? Change to what, cynicism and incivility??? Some of you are so damn nasty that it's embarrassing to be in the same party.

pray tell, can those of us who are not "hard working, white Americans" sympathize with her or are we too elitist to have feeling for a woman who has run the most brutal scorched earth campaign since Sherman through Atlanta?

They're nothing but a bunch of mean spirited jerkoffs.

Lay off of this one, folks. Girl loves Mom; Mom loves girl...

I don't like her, at all.

But hell, I choke up when I talk about my little son, and I'm a rank bastard.

:nuke:

is bipedal, and uses language. She also has an opposable thumb.


That pretty much wraps the argument.

If she wants to consolidate women and blue collar voters she needs to be seen crying while pounding back shots at a bar.

I think most mothers who love their daughters get emotional when they talk about how proud they are of them and how much they admire them. Most parents get emotional talking about their children.

Give the woman a fuggin break. She is a good mother and that is one thing Obama and his supporters cannot take from her or twist into a negative about her.

I know all politicians must "play a role" but HRC is so damn good at it, that's she's completely LOST her moral compass.

Nobody knows WHO exactly is "the real Hillary?"

What I despise most is her "sense of entitlement" and demonstrations of "self-righteous indignation."

HRC would be a MONARCH and secretive as President. DAMN, it would be a nightmare. :nuke:

MOF, I think she probably feels her mother was more worthy and deserving of the job of POTUS than her father ever was.

I am so choked up about the phoniness of the Clinton clan!

...on the facts, before Hillary repeated the Bosnia sniper-fire lie a dozen times during her campaign?

Did she "forget" the truth, too?

Actually I couldn't find much fault with the entire interview, other than the 2210 goalpost moving.

How many times has she choked up in public in the last 4 months? About as many times as I've choked up public or private in the last 20 years. Either she's 1000 times more emotional than me, or it's an act. Since she never choked up in public before, and as many posters have mentioned, she doesn't choke up about fallen soldiers, I'll bet on it being an act.

maybe Obama could let her sit in the presidential chair just for a couple minutes. Poor thing.

:cry: :cry: :cry:

I have a daughter. An only daughter, like her. We're very close. If I were talking about how much she means to me and how thankful I am for her in my life on TV, I'd probably have a hard time not choking back a big cry ball in my throat.

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I think any parent would choke up talking about their kid.

Not that I'll get any credit for posting this, but I do admit the media is at times sexist, as well as racist.

i would give these criticisms a rest.

How did you get up on those s with your computers and in those heavy robes?

that Chelsea can take six months off her job with no penalty. I had a friend who needed to take her daughter to the doctor and was told "If you don't come in tomorrow, don't bother coming back."

I have another friend who is in a high-level executive position, and even he was told that, despite the fact he has more than six weeks accrued vacation, he can't take more than two weeks at one time.

Being able to just blow off your six-figure job for months at a time is a sure sign of the elite class. Most "hard working" people wouldn't have a job to go back to.

Mothers do choke up sometimes when talking about their kids. I know mine does.

Give it a rest.

We can either have President Hillary Clinton or President John McCain. I hope the Democrats make the right choice in Denver.

Must be that Edwards thing.

I don't see anything wrong with this or the timing. I thought the N.H.incident was more questionable simply because she managed to fit in talking point digs at obama in the process. This is different.

NO disrespect to Hillary intended. I mean that.

...and a Clinton campaign spokesperson made a point of contrasting Edwards with Bill Richardson.

That one's left a mark that'll never heal.

You do Obama no service by such behavior.

Hillary did nothing wrong there. Give me a break, CNN. That is NOT a news item.

EDIT: and I'm a rabid Obama supporter...

It's hell running for president and probably even hellier to see a life long dream dashed.

If you don't like what Clinton is saying, just be patient. I guarantee that a month from now she'll be only saying thing you like.

Dead soldiers don't do it. Dead innocent children doesn't do it. Only HER self interest is sufficient to make her emotionally react.

That nasty 41+ point primary victory will just go away!

:rofl:

41+ points don't do shit for 'unity.'

Can't a mother get choked up about her daughter? Some things aren't always done for show or to score points. I'm not even supporting Clinton in this race, but really...I wish people would give the negative, petty speculations a rest. It's really unbecoming.

what in the hell is wrong with all you nasty nasty people?????