Occam's Razor. Or Why I Believe Hillary Clinton wasn't play acting today

[cali]

It's simple. What these folks are doing is mentally, physically and spiritually draining. They are running on fumes and ambition. You can hear it in their voices which are worn thin with overuse and exhaustion. For Clinton having fallen so swiftly from front runner status, it's even worse.

Clinton got asked a kind question which triggered something in her. And she got a little emotional. Her voice cracked a bit. She didn't cry. She didn't break down.

And here's where Occam's good old blade comes in: What could be less surprising than a candidate becoming emotional for a moment in this pressure cooker?

The idea that this is some elaborate hoax meant to deceive the voter is so much horsepucky or something like that. I don't like her bringing up terror but trying to relate it to this episode is just lame.

I hope there's some karma coming down for some of you regarding the garbage you've thrown out at Clinton.

[ronnykmarshall]

1. God I love you!

[cali]

4. you're gonna love my next

thread even more- and as usual you'll be in the minority. But thanks for the nice comment.

[Cha]

2. Yeah, it's kinda hard

to fake that and she recovered so nicely.

[CitizenLeft]

3. I hate to even comment on this, there's so much hostility

...against her. But I believe it was a genuine moment, where a supporter asked her "how are you?" and she cracked. It probably had little to do with what she actually said in response - or maybe it did, I hesitate to speculate since I can't see the inside of her brain, nor her heart, no matter that other people think they can - but I believe that a simple moment of concern from a stranger at a time of extreme - EXTREME - stress and exhaustion caught her unawares. It's happened to me at moments of strees, in situations when I wasn't sitting in front of a camera with the whole world watching, so that my motives would never come into question. To paint her as inhuman is just... I don't understand it.

Edited to add: I can't imagine what it would feel like to have so many people call me cold, unfeeling, bloodthirsty and a phoney day after day after day after day, and for people to constantly scream how much they hate me. That alone might drive me to tears after years of it, at such a raw moment when I'm so tired and disappointed (they're all exhausted). And I'm tough my damn self, LOL. I admire anyone - her or any man, for that matter, doesn't matter - who puts themselves out there like this and continue on like it doesn't hurt. Takes a tough cookie. Which I ain't. But she is. :)

Except Giuliani. Fuck him. :P

[MH1]

5. I agree.

And the piling on is really starting to annoy me.

And considering I am anything but a fan of Hillary, some folks might want to stop and think.

[Tom Rinaldo]

6. I saw it the exact same way.

I wrote this below as part of a post replying to one of the threads up at DU now about it all being faked:

When I viewed the clip I thought her emotion was triggered by the empathy implicitly being shown her in the question she was asked. Acts of kindness are as least as likely to make me cry as are hardships. And Hillary Clinton, like Barack Obama and John Edwards and the other candidates also, is living a daily grind that is almost impossible for me to internally grasp right now. One, it is exhausting and that has an effect, but that isn't even it.

If I were one of those Democratic candidates, getting up every morning at the crack of dawn to go out and greet thousands of pure stangers without a real moment of privacy - eating lousy food, being hounded by the press and accused of things like your OP accuses Hillary of right here, right now, I tell you what. I would question what I was going through all this for. And if I couldn't find a damn good reason to believe it was worth it, I couldn't put myself through it for a single hour. That question put to Hillary put her in touch with why she was standing there sleep exhuasted in New Hampshire in the first place. The issues that have been important to her all her life. If that can't make someone emotional I sure don't want them as my President.

[LuckyTheDog]

7. I agree

She was not acting.

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