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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK2j8vVu4eo
I would have though FOX NEWS!!!!! would have been pushing this as 'staged' and 'manipulating'.
Personally, I prefer Obama's cult of personality over Clinton's "Lobbiests are people too". But I think there are a LOT of people who are trying to find reasons not to like her given that she is female. She gets called a "cold fish" for treating politics unemotionally, like most men do, and she gets slammed for it. She acts emotional once and gets slammed again for it.
I think we will see a homosexual muslim male as president before a woman. Because women have to act very un-womanlike to get ahead in politics and that just makes people reject her.
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Excellent point. As blankall said, there was a lot of exaggerating going on about her supposed "crying" before the N.H. primary. I haven't seen the video, but from what I've read the context makes this particular incident seem pretty different. I wouldn't be that shocked if Clinton just lost her voice for a second and that was enough for the media pile-on.
What I've learned from 10 years of watching politics pretty closely is that perception=reality. If CNN and Fox say she cried, then, well, darn it, she cried! If the talking heads say the candidates were "at each other's throats" in the last debate, then by gosh, that must be true too.
For my money, I can't think of anything less important than whether or not Clinton got emotional for a second at a rally. Seriously--there were issues in this election at one time. I miss those days.