Politico: Clinton fights tears: "It's not easy"

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3978664, Politico: Clinton fights tears: "It's not easy"
Posted by Perky on Mon Jan-07-08 11:37 AM

Clinton fights tears: "It's not easy"


Exhausted and facing the prospect of losing the second test of her primary campaign, HIllary Clinton's voice broke and she fought back tears at the close of a sedate event in a Portsmouth coffee shop.

She expressed the sheer difficulty of heading out to the trail each day -- "It's not easy," she said -- and suggested she faced "pretty difficult odds."

And with audible frustration and disbelief, she drew the contrast between her experience and Senator Barack Obama's that suggests that her campaign's current message -- the question of who is ready -- matches her profound sense that she alone is ready for the job.

"Some of us know what are going to do on day one, and some of us haven’t thought that through enough," she said.

The question was inoccuous:

"As a woman I know it’s hard to get out of the house and get ready," asked Marianne Pernold, a local freelance photographer. "Who does your hair?"

Clinton began by talking about her hair -- she has some help -- but moved to talk more generally about the campaign.

"It’s not easy, it’s not easy, and I couldn’t do it if i just didn’t passionately belive it was the right thing to do," she said.

"I have so many oppporuntities for this country. I don’t want to se us all fall back," she said, her voice breaking in the last phrase.

"This is very personal for me," she said to supportive applause from the small gathering, at which she'd been discussing policy around a table for an hour. "It’s not just political, it's not just public -- I see what's happening. We have to reverse it."

"Some people think elections are a game -- it’s about who’s up and who's down," she said. "It's about our country's future, it's about our kids' future - it's really about all of us together."

"And some of us put oursevles out there and do this against some pretty difficult odds, and we do it each one of us because we care about our country," she said.

"Some of us are right and some of us are wrong. Some of us are ready and some of us are not. Some of us know what are going to do on day one, and some of us haven’t thought that through enough," she said.

"When we look at the array of problems that we have, and the potential for it really spinning out of control -- this is one of the most important elections America's ever faced," she concluded.

The questioner, Pernold, said she'd come to the event "smitten" by Obama, but that she's now torn. "Showing that emotion -- I really find it refreshing," she said.


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1. Look at how Yahoo news is reporting Clinton's emotional moment

Forum Name General Discussion: Politics
Topic subject Look at how Yahoo news is reporting Clinton's emotional moment
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3979817, Look at how Yahoo news is reporting Clinton's emotional moment
Posted by Katzenkavalier on Mon Jan-07-08 01:33 PM

"Fading in polls, Clinton vows to fight on"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080107/pl_nm/usa_politics_dc

Read the article- they are linking her tears with the fact that she is losing, not with any personal conviction she might have. I'm not sure this kind of press will help her tomorrow or in the near future.