Edwards couldn't remember ever tearing up on the campaign trail himself?

Not even with a wife who has cancer?

Interesting...

Don't cry for me Rodham Clinton

The truth is I never left you

All through my Obama days

My mad existence

I kept my promise

Don't keep your distance

It's really important to get past whatever emotional attachment we have to any one candidate to remember that the most important thing, if not the only important thing, is that we finally wrest power from the republicans this fall. You can have your favorites but, for america's sake, don't give ammunition to those who will be opposing whoever the candidate eventually is.

Can we not just move on from this? Looks like Obama's camp are sore losers. Take it like a man and move on!

Let it go. Win on the merits of your argument.

Attacking her for tearing up? that's just plain bad.

She "cries" and gets the Oprah vote.

I'm still mystified that a stunt like that would work. If she cried when talking about the poor or the soldiers maimed and killed in Iraq or the people in New Orleans still without homes or the average Americans who have lost thier savings in corporate scandals or thier homes in the mortgage crisis...no she cried because things weren't going her way. Immature, self-indulgant AND certainly not presidential.

Junior Junior should get fired for that. As if the pathetic media circus about the tears hasn't helped Hilary enough already.

of the things they believe worth crying about. Asteriks ought to be added next to the listings they have cried about and two for those they cried about in public. This information is crucial to our ability to select the best candidate.

Nothing is more likely to help Hillary win the democratic nomination and beat a republican opponent this fall than the fact that Jesse Jackson is supporting someone else.

Obama's impotent tatics handcuffs his true nature and allows HRC to play the gender card

I have never thought that Obama's core tatic of not presenting himself as a strong black personality was a good idea it has not proved to be a lethal mistake and has backfired on him..

It has bite him in the ass in NH, instead of using his inate cultural skills to dominate a shallow woman defined only by her white hasbeen husband.. Obama has mitigated his unmatched talents and cultural capital by playing into the myth of leveling the playing field by not being a strong Black figure.

Such a stupid tatic now has him unable to sieze upon his greatest culural currency his leadership skills a talent that whites in this country have never mastered nor cultivated.

There are no white counterparts to MLK, Malcom, Marshall, Parks, Jordan, Chisholm, Roberson et al..in our country's history when you compare iconic black leaders to white leaders none yet.. Obama has self censored these cultural skills to appeal to white voters.. a segment which are white woman who betrayed him in NH.

Going forward he must reject this underdeveloped campaign style and give his full efforts and his full measure of a man otherwise he is putting a rope around his own neck..

She "cries" and gets the Oprah vote.

I'm still mystified that a stunt like that would work. If she cried when talking about the poor or the soldiers maimed and killed in Iraq or the people in New Orleans still without homes or the average Americans who have lost thier savings in corporate scandals or thier homes in the mortgage crisis...no she cried because things weren't going her way. Immature, self-indulgant AND certainly not presidential.

I completely agree. And then women lined up to sympathy-vote for Clinton after that. Way to reinforce the stereotype. I suppose all Obama needs to do to get Black votes is eat a bunch of watermelon and say "sho 'nuf".

Why not give your promised "retirement" a try? Remember promising it if Obama wins? So just, you know, practice - stop saying stupid things for a while and see how it feels.

What do Hillary's tears mean?

Was Hillary sincere?

If Hillary cried over X, why didn't she cry over Y?

Why did Hillary cry more from her left eye than from her right eye? Is there something sinister to that?

Did Hillary take a special lozenge to make her voice crack on cue? Because that would be, like, totally phony!

Why did Obama's campaign guy say something mean about Hillary crying? Why is he such a meanie?

Why is Edwards so mean too? I used to like Edwards, but now I hate him! Because he was mean about Hillary crying!

When will Hillary cry next? What will it mean in the future?

This is important!

I didn't see any tears. I don't know why anybody's talking about tears, except that somebody decided to say they saw it, and every other fool reporter just glommed on. Take a look at the freakin' footage. There's no tears, fake or otherwise. Now if you want to talk about that fakey little waver that came up in her voice, fine. Actually, not fine. All these petty dissections of candidate performances (wow! candidates perform? who knew!) are stupid as hell. Keep it up, keep it up, and we'll have another anti-America Republican in office again.

The rabid Hillary hatred blinds her critics to the possiblity that she was stressed out and actually got choked up for real.

Think about it - if she planned a stunt like that wouldn't you think it had a 50% chance of totally backfiring into a whole "weepy chick" meme? I sure wouldn't recommend it to a candidate in her position. Would you?

Obama, Edwards and all their surrogates need to be VERY careful here -- they're venturing into a minefield when they try to analyze (over-analyze?) Hillary Clinton's apparent tears. Better to just leave it alone and move on.

Whether the tears were real or not, whether there even WERE any tears, and whether or not she ever got teary over anything else (including Katrina, 9/11, or Bill's infidelity) isn't likely to be fertile ground for her opponents. They're going to be perceived as unfair and just plain MEAN if they persist in trying to criticize her this way.

More likely than not, it will backfire and actually help Hillary cement her support.