Clintonian Waterworks…Again

Hillary Clinton cries in Connecticut

Repeating a stunt that observers say helped earn her a win in New Hampshire on January 7, Hillary Clinton shed some tears as cameras clicked, again. Hillary was at Yale Child Study Center, which she worked at when a law school student in 1972.

Clinton’s former boss Penn Rhodeen began the sniffling when she told the assembled media, campaign flunkies and a “roundtable” of women how proud she was to see her former apprentice running for president. Clinton caught the bug, saying “Well, I said I would not tear up; already we’re not exactly on the path,” wiping her tear stained cheek.

Clinton is often portrayed as a http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2890 him as “the black candidate.”  Hillary was depending on women’s votes when she was stunned to lose the Iowa caucuses to Obama. White women abandoned her, but analysis indicated that, because voting was public, liberal white females were ashamed to vote for someone other than a black person. Hillary’s waterworks stunt, which came about in response to a planted softball question made to make her look like a poor, put upon woman suffering from sexist hatred, was said to have clinched the New Hampshire female vote. Clinton also said that the experience meant she had “found her voice.”

Facing an uphill battle in the face of Super Tuesday, Hillary Clinton is shameless enough to pull the stunt again.

2008-02-04