Who's Crying Now?

Online Journal ^ | January 11, 2008 | PEGGY NOONAN

[ricks_place]

One way to see what happened Tuesday is that it was an anti-coronation backlash. Iowa said: We are not here to crown Queen Hillary. New Hampshire said: We're not here to crown King Barack. The polls said they would. People don't like to be told what they're going to do.

Other ways to see it: Women saved her. The working-class sisterhood beat the white-collar snots of the mainstream media. Middle-aged women body-slammed young professionals who were carrying on as if history had never happened before because it had never happened to them.

Students were still on Christmas vacation. Hillary had been bruised in Iowa, and people are more inclined to give a second chance to a bully who's been hurt.

The Democrats of New Hampshire resented the media pile-on, in which national reporters and editors, liberated by what they thought her impending demise, rushed to get on record as never having liked her. In this understanding of events it was the mainstream media that, in effect, showed up at Mrs. Clinton's last rallies to chant "Iron my shirt."

But the smartest thought came from a Democratic woman who watched from New York with experienced eyes. She saw it this way. When she was a young woman, she learned to drive on an old Buick. She drove it for seven years. Then she made some money and got to look at other cars. Showrooms, convertibles, long gleaming fins. But she'd come back from a test drive, get back into the Buick, and think:This old leather seat fits me, it feels good. Why complicate life? Why not stick with what's comfortable? And she did.

She left Mr. Obama on the showroom floor.

I would say: All of the above. And more.

While everyone beats the hell out of the media...Hillary Clinton's own people knew she was going to lose.

[rockinqsranch]

It’s ALL about Hillary. Nothing else.

[harpo11]

I'm certainly sure that if the working women of New Hampshire, and the rest of the United States really knew how pampered, spoiled, and so accustomed to other people doing the hard work for Mrs. Clinton and to see the luxury she lives in, never having to find her own parking place, never having to wait in endless lines to travel, filling her own car with gas, washing her own clothes, dusting, cooking, washing floors and cleaning toilets, they'd have never fallen for Mrs. clinton's contrived emotional act.

She is so used to commanding others to do her bidding from driving her to wherever she needs to go, spending whatever she wants on clothing, purses, shoes, hair and make-up. Never worrying how is she going to pay the electric bill, and having enough money to buy groceries.

Frankly, any female voter that fell for Mrs. Clinton's calculated emotion, should be insulted rather than feeling sympathy for her. She has afterall planned and dreamed ambitiously for this moment and the only thing that could possibly make her cry is the prospect of losing.

[Cicero]

This is not really Peggy Noonan at her best. Boorring.

Except for the little tidbit at the end:

There you will see that federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will soon "destroy" Barack Obama in a "scandal" involving an "indicted slumlord" who is Mr. Obama's "friend of 17 years" and with whom Mr. Obama has been involved in "shady deals."

This is Tony Rezco. ABC News just revived the story, posted a little after this one. If Fitz really gets involved in it, working for hillary, then I think Obama will be washed up. And no doubt Fitz would love the chance to do more work for the DNC and get offered the Attorney Generalship under hillary.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Vote fraud saved her, period.

[Intolerant in NJ]

The night Mrs. Clinton won...she won 9 delegates in NH - as did Obama - the rest is just hype to try to convince the voters that she had a great comeback - just more Clinton fraud.......

[Timeout]

SOmething just occurred to me. I was reading the article at Politco, “Race roils Dem campaign”.

Suddenly I recalled Monday afternoon when I first saw/heard Hillary’s tears. It happened to be shortly after the Martin Luther King comments had started making the rounds. My instant reaction was that the crying was a ploy to knock the MLK remarks out of the news.

With all the commentary since then (her softer side, she found her voice, blah blah blah) I’d forgotten about that. But reading Politico brought it back to me.

I think her campaign instantly recognized the damage that could be done by her disparaging Dr. King. I think the tears were deliberate and they were meant to blanket the news so the MLK story would get buried.