Posted on 01/07/2008 1:36:49 PM PST by NormsRevenge
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - Hillary Rodham Clinton's eyes welled up and her voice broke repeatedly Monday as she talked with voters in a restaurant about her campaign for the presidency. The former first lady was making a last-minute pitch for support as she spoke on the eve of the state's primary, with polls showing her trailing Democratic rival Barack Obama.
Asked by a sympathetic voter how she keeps going in the grueling campaign, she replied, "It's not easy. It's not easy."
"And I couldn't do it if I just didn't, you know, passionately believe it was the right thing to do," she said, her voice catching.
"You know, I've had so many opportunities from this country, I just don't want to see us fall backwards," she said, her voice trailing off. The voters crowded into the restaurant applauded encouragingly.
"So," she continued, then paused, seemingly to control her voice as her listeners applauded again. "You know, this is very personal for me. It's not just political. It's not just public. I see what's happening, and we have to reverse it. And some people think elections are a game. They think it's like who's up or who's down.
"It's about our country. It's about our kids' futures. It's really about all of us together. You know some of us put ourselves out there and do this against some pretty difficult odds. And we do it, each one of us, because we care about our country. But some of us are right and some of us are wrong. Some of us are ready and some of us are not."
She concluded, "And so when we look at the array of problems we have and the potential for it getting — really spinning out of control, this is one of the most important elections America's ever faced. So as tired as I am — and I am — and as difficult as it is to try to kind of keep up with what I try to do on the road like occasionally exercise and try to eat right — it's tough when the easiest food is pizza — I just believe so strongly in who we are as a nation so I'm going to do everything I can to make my case and, you know, then the voters get to decide."
After she spoke several of the people in the Cafe Espresso audience crowded around Clinton and offered sympathetic support.
It wasn’t pizza made those cankles; it’s the weight of all those worries. What with a world to destroy, enemies to deal with, a prince of darkness to serve. Life can be hard.
I didn’t see a tear,,did anybody?
1) She really did get this emotional. If so, she can't handle the stress/pressure.
2) This was a fabricated ploy. If so, she is pathetically desperate.
Either way, she's not fit to serve.
Jaw juts out from constant striving to reach that special spot . . .
After she spoke several of the people in the Cafe Espresso audience crowded around Clinton and offered sympathetic support.
Well.....
Looks like the give me sympathy "trial balloon" worked....
Nothing new for a Rat though.....
Yeah, I’m not buying that episode at ALL.
The only reason that these United States and her citizens might "fall backwards" is because Socialists like Hillary are eager to push the rest of us over the edge in the name of "the common good."
Tears? Of remorse or anger...ORRRrrrrrrr.....is she pulling the old "pity" ploy out of her playbook? She could go on Oprah with a box of Kleenex and show her vulnerable side. But wait...Oprah's backing Obama...lol!
at least not where anyone could see them..maybe they cried when they were on the can in the mornin, but they’d NEVER show a weakness in public..
" The VRWC did this to me."
I hope not one of you sharp-eyed, clear-thinkin’ FReepers think for one minute that wasn’t a focus-group tested response, carefully gauged to regain support from the women who are flocking to Obama in droves and the support of weak-kneed milquetoast metrosexual pansies who get all moist the minute a woman sheds a tear.
I thought PERSONAL was when Hillary and Craig Livingstone got/used 700 or was it 900 plus FBI files illegally.
“You know, I’ve had so many opportunities from this country, I just don’t want to see us fall backwards,”......If you get in office it will fall more than backwards right off the cliff you witch!
(1) She resurrected the Old Guard---Bill Clinton, Terry McAuliffe, Maddie Albright. Man, if only Janet Reno had showed up (/sarc)
(2) She stupidly stepped into a dung pile when she followed the idiotic lead of New York Gov Spitler and endorsed licensing illegals.
(3) She approved sending her husband out to campaign for her thinking he was her ace in the hole. Turns out Bill's nothing but an *******.
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