You seriously overreacted to a passing comment made by a presidential candidate who is himself under an enormous amount of stress. And his comments were reasonable! Clinton's teary-eyed, choked-up moment was soooooo calculated and contrived...at least half the women posting here agree with me, as do all the women I work with. She wasn't being asked about her dead child, or her dog that got run over, or her mother's terminal illness, or the fire that burned her house down, or her divorce, or anything that might reasonably be expected to induce such near-weepiness. She was being asked about the rigors of the campaign trail, with a question that sexist in its very structure, tone, and timing (and note it was asked by a WOMAN.) It was designed to give her an opening for an emotional scene. In fact, given Clinton's own history of stage-managing campaign appearances to include planted questions (remember, she was caught earlier in this campaign doing that very thing??!) I wouldn't be at all surprised if the question was planted and the "concerned voter" who asked it was a ringer. Sorry if that sounds too cynical, but it's politics and the Clintons we're talking about here. At the very least she leapt at the opportunity provided by the woman and milked it for all it was worth!

Fer Chrissakes, the woman is running for president! She's going to be faced with life-and-death decisions, tough policy choices, a constant stream of intense criticism, a hostile opposition party, constant media exposure and scrutiny, tough negotiations with diplomats and foreign leaders and congressional leaders, and more. One of the major selling points of her campaign is how tough she is, how much she's already weathered and survived, etc. Why is it sexist and Orc-like to question the sincerity of the oh-so-conveniently-timed moment, and send a little zinger her way for it? Do we really want as a president facing issues of war, terrorism, recession, financial crisis, etc. someone who almost broke down when asked how she gets out of bed in the morning to face another day of campaigning? Get with the program, Ms. Traister!

And although I'm sure it's already down the memory hole, I seem to recall Mitt Romney tearing up a couple of times on camera in the last few months, and plenty of sarcastic commentary being directed at him, let alone questions about the sincerity of the moments. But I guess you only get constipated when it's a woman on the receiving end of the barbs. Big surprise!