The more I think about the role Hillary's crying episode had on the impacting this race the more it leaves an unpleasant taste in my mouth.

Were we played or was it just incredible fortune that she let her emotions get the better of her at that critical moment?

One this is sure, man or woman, I don't want a presidential candidate who uses pity and cries about not being liked to get votes.

It may have saved the day for Clinton in the short term, but this tactic will not win elections over time. If Obama regains his momentum, he cannot afford to let such an act go unanswered again.

I think, over the next few days, when American's consider just how much they were played, this may yet have negative consequences.

I still prefer Obama's confident and sincere messages of hope, unity, and a better future over Clinton's fear mongering, negative tactics, and ploys for sympathy. I just hope that the rest of America feels the same way.

I am stunned! As someone who knows a fair amount about statistics (though not so much about political polling) I cannot fathom how Clinton turned a 10% deficit into a 2% victory in two days!

I have to come to the conclusion it was in large part due tothe "hurt feelings" comment at the debate and the crying the day after in the coffee shop. Good for her, that was a huge political risk to take and it worked brilliantly.

That being said, I do think it's a one trick pony. If Obama regains his momentum (which may be difficult to do, I'll admit) she will not be able to cry and be sad again and make people feel sorry for her. People will move away from feeling sorry for her to being a little put off by the whining. And if she does do it, Obama will have no choice but to hammer on her for being unpresidential!

That being said, though her crying moment may have saved her race for the nomination, I guarantee that it will come back to haunt her in the general.

I give her terrific props to saving herself in NH. Even if Obama pulls out a win of a couple of percentages, Clinton still wins just by defeating expectations.

If she pulls off the democratic nomination, I guarantee that emotional moment will be seen as the moment that saved her candidacy.

That being said, I still want Obama to win.

Was Clinton's wavering voice and teary eyes a genuine display of frustration or a cynical act to reveal a softer, vulnerable, and consequently a more likeable side to the former First Lady. I have no way of knowing. But I do think it speaks volumes of the way people view the Clinton political machine that the first thing that came into my mind and my wife's mind was that she was faking. Hillary Clinton can never escape Hillary Clinton.

I predict Obama will get 40% or more of the NH vote. I think there's a genuine chance he'll approach 50%. If that happens Clinton will be all but finished.

There's nothing vague about that!

where does that leave Senator's Clinton and Edwards who voted to authorize the war in Iraq: probably the biggest foreign policy disaster in our nations history!

incompetent?

cynical?

cowardly?

Obama has the potential to fundamentally change the nature of the game. And it appears as if partisan dinosaurs like Joe Conason are getting increasingly worried about their place in it.

Is Obama wrong? Again and again Senator Clinton can highlight her years of experience and all the tea and cookies she's shared with various world leaders. But all that wonderful experience and perspective didn't stop her from supporting one of the biggest foreign policy blunders in American history!

And anyone who thinks that the current rise in terror in Pakistan is not partly related to the destabilization of Iraq is deluded!

Penn? This is the man the Clinton camp wants to represent them to America?

Such smugness, such arrogance, and such nastiness!

I can't believe it, it's making me sick. I just saw him pull EXACTLY the same stupid shit Bush and his people have been pulling for years!

Oh, I see, Obama's COCAINE use is off the table is it? We won't dare talk about this COCAINE addiction anymore.

I'm sick, truly, as I write this, I'm sick. I've been waiting so long to see an end to the Bush sleaze, to being lied to my face daily by the people who have temporary rule of this nation. Aren't we're all so tired of the life and death decisions of our nation being treated like a game?

And yet, there's a very good chance that this coming election we are going have a choice between either 9/11 Gulliani, Double Guantanamo Romney, Jesus's best friend Huck, and Hillary Clinton.

I don't care who wins the nomination. Obama, Edwards, Biden, Richardson. Just please, please not a democratic version of George Bush!

Sigh, I'm going to go start drinking. Yeah yeah, I know what time it is.

Seriously, Hillary looked a little like George Costanza there. Oh yeah, well the jerk store called. They're running outta you!

Still, at least both Clinton and Obama tried to be a little humerous. Please, I don't want to hear Dodd tell any more jokes!!! Yeeesh