Hillary Tears Up

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  • Posted By: terrid @ 01/07/2008 6:45:40 PM

    Hllarious sai that 'it shouldn't be about numbers,' however, that is exacly how she and her husband both run their campains. They watch the polling numbers and then adjust their tactics to give the people what the Clinton's think the people wil vote for, it has nothing to do with what is good for the country, only what will get them elected. She'll even try showing emotion to fake us out.

  • Posted By: plcs556 @ 01/07/2008 6:44:25 PM

    If Hillary is elected president this country will be in bad shape. Even though we are in bad shape right now. How will she the extreme pressure of the presidency? Cry so our enemy's will feel bad for her. It would give them a better chance to have our country fall even further.

  • Posted By: Change is a verb not a platform @ 01/07/2008 5:58:26 PM

    I say good for Hillary! How many of the people voting , how many of the under-exercising fat-ass Americans could keep up the pace of this campaign. Hillary is real, she is smart, and she knows what and how to work within the framework of our government. Change is going to come no matter who wins- Bush is finished. Change is not a platform it is merely a verb describing a fact! Vote HILLARY

    • Posted By: Give me the news @ 01/07/2008 6:02:14 PM

      Yeah, but you don't cry. This is such an act to sway woman voters. When it gets tough, is she going to cry? Give me a break. We need thick skin to lead the free world. You Hilary voters are going to bring down this nation. We will fall if she gets elected.

      • Posted By: Change is a verb not a platform @ 01/07/2008 6:16:04 PM

        Hillary cried from a combination of factors, first a foremost fatigue, then add in frustration.....she is human. Hillary's crying at this moment in time has absolutely nothing to do with her qualifications to lead this country. She has thick skin, but she is not immune to human emotions. Sorry her display rattled your cage and caused you stress. As you know, intolerance is at the core of many social and political issue.

        • Posted By: Give me the news @ 01/07/2008 6:44:00 PM

          Oh because she is tired, and slipping in the polls? Was her pizza cold? Intolerance? Prove my intolerance. It isn't just the woman factor, it's the breaking under pressure.

    • Posted By: Give me the news @ 01/07/2008 6:18:05 PM

      We aren't talking about regular "fat-asses". We are talking about a field of candidates who are qualified. Well, minus one anyway. Apples and oranges! Apples and oranges!

    • Posted By: Californialove @ 01/07/2008 6:11:14 PM

      You made a really good point. I think its so easy for us to critique the candidates, but how many of us are actually going to make an effort to get off our lazy butts and vote! I especially give Hillary credit for being the only female to make it this far, you have to praise her courgage.

  • Posted By: yogibrat @ 01/07/2008 6:43:53 PM

    I hope you morons remember

  • Posted By: gayemont @ 01/07/2008 6:42:13 PM

    I am a Canadian but am following CNN re: the US election. We share a continent and what happens with Americans impacts Canadians.

    In my personal political thinking I like to see new people get a chance and I am impressed by Obama and agree he is likely more "likeable" than Hillary.

    However, I truly believe she is one tough cookie and VERY intelligent. It impresses me more, not less, that she can shed a tear for the state of things right now! That doesn't make her less able, in fact maybe it reminds us that leaders need to be cool, calm, collected, but also human!

    I't like to see her as President and Obama in some role that would benift from his authenticness and provide him more experience.

    A watcher from Alberta, Canada

  • Posted By: Christelle @ 01/07/2008 6:01:20 PM

    As a women I was offended by Hillary tears. I believe in crying however privately. Unfortunately in this society crying is a sign of weakness or tears of joy. We know Hillary was not happy at this time. As a president you have to keep a strong front so that you do not put fear into the people you are leading. The stress of this campaign is very small compared to the stress of running a country. Whether this was a strategic or sincere, it is just bad. My belief is Hillary has been planning to run for president all her life and every thing she has done has been to reach her goal. She will adjust herself however she thinks the public wants her to be. Whether it is to cry or wear what ever they want her to wear. She is a professional politician and this United States of America need something different..

    • Posted By: Give me the news @ 01/07/2008 6:41:44 PM

      Well written!!!

  • Posted By: Tony11223 @ 01/07/2008 6:41:18 PM

    Its easy to see who works for Hillary and is posting on this site. She is slipping in the polls and lost enroute to her coronation. What is she going to do when if she was President and the congress doenst agree with her, hold her breath and stamp her feet.

  • Posted By: KTzip @ 01/07/2008 6:09:56 PM

    Those that attack Hillary's comments to the long hours of campaigning and show of true human emotion may consider how they may be blinded to a person who gives a rats ass about this country. The campaign has been running full steam for all candidates since summer. The recent debates showed the demands and long hours on all candidates faces. Her honest emotion today is not a sign of breaking down, as some quick to judge have eluded to, but a promise that she has the strength and fortitude to press on with her heartfelt plan to end the war, health care for ALL, and getting our country back on track. It's easy to put up a facade of smiles, smirks, lies and deceptive promises like we have had the last seven years from Bush. No wonder some of you are sceptical of a Hillary Clinton who genuinely cares about the future of America. We have not seen honesty in a long time from our President or his adminstration. Nor have we come to expect it. This election is not who can win the Academy Award for the best representation of a president but for a real person with experience, diplomacy and true courage to be successful in driving the United States back to the great country it can be starting day one in office. We do not have time to train a President Obama. Mr. Obama, practice being a politician, study up on foreign affairs and I may consider you for some "changes" down the road. Do your homework, experience the Senate a few years and stop para-phrasing the other candidates. For today - You have my vote Hillary. Thank you for being the ethical woman I thought you to be.

    • Posted By: Penvention @ 01/07/2008 6:40:54 PM

      I have no problem with genuine tears from either sex. With all the pervarication that comes from Hillary people with the ability to use a bit of crirical thinking might question her sincerity. When you write "a person with experience, diplomacy..." do you refer to Hillary Rodham Clinton? If so then please list five meaningful and specific items of experience over her "thirtyfive years" of experience. She spoke well of balancing the budget during the nineties but is she claiming some credit for that accomplishment? During her perilous "corkscrew landing" without any "tea on the tarmack" she had her daughter and the Head of the Red cross with her. Do you really believe she brought peace to Northern Ireland? Perhaps she stopped the genocide in Ruwanda! She has claimed both.

  • Posted By: Medwin @ 01/07/2008 6:40:44 PM

    I was interested in Hilary before I saw this video. As human as she is, this weak spot cannot be displayed in public, we need strength and backbone in the White House. We're talking about the potential Commander in Chief. I'm sure Hilary is a great person who is very good at her job, but a tough campaign is a trial by fire method of seeing who has the backbone to handle the highest executive position in the world, and today she broke, even if it was just a glimpse. In a time of national security and touchy foreign policy, this would not bode well for a nation that needs a strong and fearless leader. Today, Hilary Clinton sold me on the idea that Barack Obama is this leader.

  • Posted By: smm101 @ 01/07/2008 6:40:43 PM

    I don't "buy" it. Not one bit. I am a liberal female and I do NOT buy into Hillary's acts. Give me a break. This Political Race is becoming too "Reality TV" dramatic for me.

  • Posted By: Give me the news @ 01/07/2008 6:03:51 PM

    This is garbage. You can't cry like that. Do it in private. We need thick skinned candidates. I showed this article to all my fellow female coworkers and they all agreed that it was not the place for it, and I asked them if they would vote for her now, and ALL of them said no way. She is not going to win. I love it!!!!!!!!!!

    • Posted By: carhughes @ 01/07/2008 6:12:08 PM

      do you mean thick skinned like our brave and bold leader George W. who has cried countless times on national TV?

      • Posted By: Give me the news @ 01/07/2008 6:40:36 PM

        IF you don't cry after 9/11 then you are a terrorist. You don't cry because you want sympathy votes. He was already in office.

  • Posted By: jd1976 @ 01/07/2008 6:40:25 PM

    Clinton has the potential to be an incredible president, and while she may not be my first choice, I would have nothing but high expectations for her given what I see to be a strong moral character, and experience that no other candidate can offer. We now can see she has a passionate side and will fight for change and progress to make our nation great again. She has so much to offer and we are so quick to judge. Shame on us. Hillary-thank you for raising difficult questions and offering us hope for change and plans to accomplish them. I hope our nation takes note that we are in deep trouble and must be dilligent and wise in choosing our next leader.

  • Posted By: thevoiceof middleAmericaandreason @ 01/07/2008 6:40:13 PM

    We can only hope and pray this contrived moment (as are all moments with the Clintons) backfires on her and becomes the final nail in her campaign coffin. She believes in Marxism and woe be our country if she somehow hoodwinks enough ignorant voters to somehow win the office of the Presidency.

  • Posted By: marinewifevet @ 01/07/2008 6:40:02 PM

    Hillary's tears or so-called tears is just for show. She is trying to make people, more specifically women, feel like they can relate to her when all she is doing it for is the almighty vote. She is behind Obama and deserves to be because he is definitely better than the two. I am a woman and am not voting for her just because she is a woman. Actually, I am not voting for her period! Everyone knows that women are emotional and take things to heart which is a great reason for her not to be in office. Someone needs to be in the Oval Office who is level headed and looking out for the best interest of Americans and this country. We need a President who is going to start fixing things here at home such as the abundance of homeless and unsecure borders instead of trying to fix everyone else's problems.

  • Posted By: glenpool2005 @ 01/07/2008 6:39:03 PM

    Its nice to see an honest emotion coming from a candidate. She still gets my vote.

  • Posted By: marinewifevet @ 01/07/2008 6:38:58 PM

    Hillary's tears or so-called tears is just for show. She is trying to make people, more specifically women, feel like they can relate to her when all she is doing it for is the almighty vote. She is behind Obama and deserves to be because he is definitely better than the two. I am a woman and am not voting for her just because she is a woman. Actually, I am not voting for her period! Everyone knows that women are emotional and take things to heart which is a great reason for her not to be in office. Someone needs to be in the Oval Office who is level headed and looking out for the best interest of Americans and this country. We need a President who is going to start fixing things here at home such as the abundance of homeless and unsecure borders instead of trying to fix everyone else's problems.

  • Posted By: frustratedinJersey @ 01/07/2008 6:38:53 PM

    It is with great sadness that I read these comments. I think that the comments seem to be divided between women and men also speaks volumes. Perhaps "tears" do not represent "emotional control issues", but rather, a rational response to the circus that our election process has become. And, maybe they are not tears of "weakness", but tears that mark the focus on gender rather than the issues which we face today. I do not support Senator Clinton's candidacy, but I do support less sensational, less bias, less exaggerated hysteria by the media. YOU made it an issue.

  • Posted By: kr515 @ 01/07/2008 4:46:08 PM

    Thanks, Hillary. Thanks for setting women back oh-so-many decades. Appreciate it. Really I do.

    • Posted By: howard6117 @ 01/07/2008 6:38:43 PM

      I didn't see her cry. There were no water works. She got emotional. I thought her acting rather well.--trying to show her sensitivity. I didn't like it. As for her comment that she was hurt from the debate, I thought that was rather a funny tounge in cheek moment from her. I think most of us can agree that Hillary is rather cold. But let's get this straight, I don't have a problem with a *** for president as much as I wouldn't have a problem with a bastard for president. I want someone smarter than me as president. The name of the game is to get the job done. I had only wished that having committed to his folly of invading Iraq, Bush whould have been a bastard in Iraq, rather than having decided to go in with Rumsfeld's spreadsheet strategerey [sic] to only get us where we are today. If maybe he had a surge from day one. He too, I remember, cried upon seeing the body bags.

      It's ironic that Bush who campaigned as the uniter and not the divider has not only divided the country but his own party. In this calamitious (sp?) state he has brought our country to, the republicans by observing Regan's 11th commandment of not speaking ill of other republicans, are a mess because they have felt they have to remian loyal to Bushe's failures. Because of this, the republicans, and I mean all three sub parties within, are reluctant to find a consensus canidate.

      I'm not a Hillary fan, though I do feel her a capable president. My problem with a Hillary nonimation is that those 10-15% if republicans who might otherwise choose to sit out this election for lack of enthusiam would show up to vote against Hillary. This could be enough.

    • Posted By: jrthomas @ 01/07/2008 4:57:45 PM

      What???? Women don't cry? Gimme a break. Real woman AND men can shed a tear when moved. I'm NOT a Clinton supporter - but I won't bash her for being human either.

      • Posted By: skullduggery1 @ 01/07/2008 5:31:46 PM

        She cried because she's slipping in the polls. give me a break. and the real pathetic thing is, it was in response to a question proposed by another woman, who asked where she gets her hair done. What the hell, you have a chance to ask a candidate for the most powerful position in the world, and possibly a historical moment, being the first woman, and all this lady can ask is where she gets her hair done? Jesus almighty. What a slap in the face of woman's sufferage...which for you lay people is women's right to vote. what a joke question and pathetic crybaby response.

  • Posted By: DLN1964 @ 01/07/2008 4:48:05 PM

    I was undecided and starting to lean towards Obama, but this moment of reality has changed my mind. I'll be voting for Clinton now.

    • Posted By: Tony11223 @ 01/07/2008 6:38:36 PM

      DLN1964 you have to work for Senator Clinton ! You are going to vote for her because she got all teared up due to her slipping in the polls. Is she going to hold her breath if congress doesnt agree with het if she was President.

    • Posted By: Give me the news @ 01/07/2008 6:33:02 PM

      Then you are ridiculolus

    • Posted By: smyers16 @ 01/07/2008 6:04:39 PM

      If I cry, will you vote for me? I am as qualified to run this country as she is, but I don't want the job.

  • Posted By: nbctjon @ 01/07/2008 6:38:29 PM

    When it turns out that the question was vetted(in other words Hillary knew it was coming), will Hillary supporters change their tune?

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