Hillary Plays the Emotion Card

Well, I've never seen or heard of her getting choked up about anything in the many, many years she's suppposedly been in public office and todays' emotional show was way too convenient and much too coincidental for me to buy into.

I'm not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. That's why Senators Clinton and Obama have to be careful not to let a healthy debate turn into the kind of hostility that the news media love. Both will need a coalition of outsiders to win a general election. The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that.

What worries me is that reporters ignore Mr. Obama's dependence on the old ?- for instance, the frequent campaign comparisons to John F. Kennedy, though Senator Edward Kennedy is supporting Senator Clinton ?- while not challenging the slander that her progressive policies are part of the Washington status quo.

What worries me is that some women, perhaps especially younger ones, hope to deny or escape the sexual caste system; thus Iowa women over 50 and 60, who disproportionately supported Senator Clinton, proved once again that women are the one group that grows more radical with age.

US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's run in the all important primary state of New Hampshire has turned from bad to worse with rival Barack Obama's early win in first ballot results.

Mrs Clinton's first faced screaming male protesters telling her to "iron my shirt" at a rally in the state.

I am not saying the reason she is loosing to Obama is because of sexism; but the reaction to her emotionalism is; IMO. And also it appears to sexism is alive and well to some voters.

Men have cried on TV in the past and been called compassionate, Hillary does it and is either called fake or weak.

I personally think most people are misstating what she was crying about. She was watering up thinking about the direction of this country and how she don't want to see it go backwards. (like it has been) She honestly thinks she is the most qualified out of those running to see that it don't. I am not sure it is a loss myself because she might turn out to be an underdog with all the bad attacks she is getting, mostly from democrats.

Rivals Reacts to Teary Clinton

I think this was the most honest emotion that we have seen from Hillary and I liked it. We'll see how it plays out a few days from now after everyone has anyalyzed it to death.

Care to expand on that, bear?

[EDWARDS:] And this is a very personal cause for me, because I come from a family -- my father is in the audience tonight -- where my father worked for 37 years in the mills. He didn't get a chance, like I did, to have a college education.

And this is a fight for the middle class and families just like the one I grew up with. My grandmother, who helped raise me, had a fifth or sixth grade education, came from a family of share-croppers, she worked in the mill every day so that I could have the chances that I've had.

And this -- I spent 20 years fighting irresponsible corporations in courtrooms.

EDWARDS: I know what it takes to fight these people and win.

But here's what I would want people to know. What I want people to know is, this battle is deep inside me and it is personal.

And it matters whether it's personal or not, because is if it's either academic or political, when the tough fight comes, you'll walk away from it. You'll do what's political.

This fight is deeply personal to me. I've been engaged in it my whole life, to fight for the middle class, to fight against powerful special interests. And it is a fight I will wage on behalf of the American people as president of the United States and win, as I have for 54 years.