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.
Here it comes...the signs of hormones and how a woman president will be as she faces tough times. Folks, this is an election in New Hampshire and this woman is cracking and crying. Can you even fathom what the hell she would do if she was treated with the rejection President Bush has had to deal with for 8 years?
(Runs for cover from the pro-woman for president establishment lurking on FR)
Ohhh, it’s personal all right.
I sure as heck don’t want the country to slide backwards into the Clintoon era.
You don’t need to exaggerate that pic.
No I didn't. But I'd cry too if I'd spent my entire adult life calculating and conniving and living with a sleaze-ball...all to reach a place she'll never get. What an empty life.
I agree, if this is her reaction to the pressures of campaigning, I wonder how could she hold up under the pressure of another 9/11 scenario as a president?
I would speculate not very well.
Such teary-eyed emotion from a woman who purportedly couldn’t breast feed her child because the milk was cold.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
ap title change on the article
Clinton makes emotional vow to fight on
So as tired as I am — and I am
I suppose it is natural when you believe the dictum "L'etat--ces't moi."
But really, this is pathetic-- we have to vote for the girl so we don't hurt her feelings and make her cry? Sheesh. Liberals make me want to heave.
Kathleen Blanco cried- look what happened to her.
If the curtain truly comes down soon on the Clintoon evil empire then the alleged dastardly deeds associated with them may further come to light should the heir-apparant
Hellary become de-queened from the throne.
I hope it’s silver, just to make sure!
Vengeance is a meal best served cold!
New Hampshire should be just about right.....
I think you are 100% right about that. I can’t wait!
It was personal with the White House Travel Ofiice too, wasn’t it?
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