Letters to the Editor
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What can Obama do in response?
Undo his zipper?
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Hillary is obvious not tough enough
She cried!
But she's an evil bitch!
She never shows emotion!
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John Edwards
is an arrogant prick.
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the catch-22
I am so disappointed to hear Edwards trot out the "real-men-don't-cry" mantra.
Long accused of being too animatronic, the woman shows some emotion (heartfelt or "calculated" aside), and she's called out for not being "tough" enough. The response is as predictible as it is sexist.
HRC will never win over her dissenters because they've decided she's the Dragon Lady. There is nothing she can do. Nothing. She could cure cancer with her kisses, tame little woodland creatures with her singing, and spin rainbows from her fingertips, and a substantial amount of the electorate will still say "Yeah, but did you see her eyebrows? What a witch!"
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Between the cackle and the tears
I firmly believe that Clinton has the emotional range to lead this country.
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Edwards of all people should understand how despicable this is.
The right, with a little help from damaged neurotics like Maureen Dowd, has been doing its best to feminize Edwards and portray him as a sissy because he was once (gasp) caught combing his hair before a TV appearance, and because he spends as much on haircuts as Mitt Romney probably does. It's what Glenn Greenwald calls the cult of contrived masculinity, and it's nauseating.
Meanwhile George Bush, both 41 and 43, brag about their ability to cry. Remember Bush 43 back in '00, when he was a candidate, describing in the debate how he'd met with flood victims, and held hands and cried with them, and helpfully explained that "that's what a governor does." (Not a President after Hurricane Katrina, however, it would appear). Somehow, crying proves the sincerity of Republicans but only the effeminacy of Democrats.
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Yes John, we got the message: you're not "too nice."
But there's no need to be a prick about it.
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Phoniness
I was pretty neutral until I watched the video. It looked completely staged to me. She wasn't overcome with emotion that she was struggling to control. She was manufacturing it for the camera. She didn't even answer the question because the whole thing was planned. The question was, who does your hair in the morning? Hillary just mouthed her campaign platitudes and pretended to get teary. I simply cannot believe a woman who could stand up to all the attacks without flinching until now suddenly is overcome with emotion when she's behind in the polls. Edwards could have said a lot worse about that; instead, he stated a simple fact and I give him credit for the restraint. Let's elect somebody genuine, who doesn't need to fake feelings.
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Not Tough enough
And Edwards thinks he is? He tried this once before. Hillary is damned if she does and damned if she doesn't. I will put my vote for her anytime. She's alot more "man" than anyother contender out there.
smtg
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Well I must say,
I am disappointed in that comment by Edwards. It shows an astonishing lack of empathy. Moreover, I contend she didn't cry. You want to see crying, you should have seen what I went through when I had PMS.
How boring all these people get, and how boring the parsing coverage of them. Issues, anyone?
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estrogen ahoy
She didn't even cry. This was the emotional moment that wasn't, and it shows that Hillary can do no right whatsoever. She's too angry, or she's too emotional. Come right out and say she's too female.
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It was sexist of Edwards
Sexist. Plain as day.
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John, John, John...
I said in a previous comment on another thread that "anyone who would skewer [Clinton] for this is being ridiculous."
As much as I support Edwards, as much as I would like to see him be our next President, the same holds true for him.
Go back to attacking Clinton on the issues, John; there's plenty of meat there. Going after her for this only makes you look petty.
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Sleep-deprived
Somehow, we as a nation have the common sense to legislate against allowing pilots to fly, bus drivers and truckers to drive, and now even doctors to operate if they are sleep-deprived because it is a scientific fact that sleep deprivation alters one's judgment and slows one's ability to respond and leads to stupid mistakes.
Yet, somehow, we take these candidates and put them through a grueling campaign schedule that virtually precludes sleep, and watch them get baggy-eyed and flushed from sleep-deprivation, and then expect them to be brilliant, focused, witty, responsive, unemotional, and always right on the money.
They're all making dumb mistakes -- just as every human being does after too long with no sleep. Frankly, we'd all be better served if they all went home and went to bed for about 12 hours, then tried to talk to us again.
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Not a big fan of HRC,
Not since she pissed away a chance for a national health plan in 1992.
But my feelings about the attention to this non-event and now this edwards comment are the same as they were about the "cackle" nonsense. Could be real, could be phony, could be either depending upon the circumstances but that's the way professional politicians are and always will be. Let's look at plans, platforms, voting record, etc. That's what we should be voting for (or against).
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This was a mistake
As reflected in this comment thread, Edwards only came off as a schmuck. It sounded cheap.
Man, she was tired. And she was realizing she was gonna lose.
Edwards should have shrugged off the question, said something like "we're all tired".
But. I'm an Edwards supporter in the process of moving to Obama; I can feel it happening. Haven't quite analyzed why just yet. I think I needed to be more confident that Obama could actually win.
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Edwards played the jerk
So that Obama could be gracious.
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Shudder
Edwards is a hypocrite with zero compassion. Talk about a campaign with a lack on conscience. I guess strength of character would encompass aligning yourself with hedgefunds that boot out Katrina victims?
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Edwards is right, of course.
If a man, Republican or Democrat, had put on the same performance, his campaign would be over. Enough with playing the "you can't pick on Clinton because she's a girl" card. She has never had an uncalculated public moment and she never will. This time, she grossly miscalculated.
I would never vote for her -- or Obama, for that matter -- for anything. What Edwards said is a plain fact. Nobody would even think to criticize him if he had said it about a man. I don't care what gender a good President is, but, yes, they have to be tougher than Clinton was pretending to be in this instance.