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Hillary gets leaky

By Michelle Malkin • January 7, 2008 01:06 PM

“It’s not easy.”

All together now: Boo-freaking-hoo.

Anyone who believes Hillary spontaneously teared up and got emotional on the campaign trail today has been in a coma the last three decades.

Forget a box of Kleenex. I need an airsickness bag.

Via ABC News:

“My question is very personal, how do you do it?” asked Marianne Pernold Young, a freelance photographer from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. “How do you, how do you keep upbeat and so wonderful?”

Clinton began responding, jokingly: “You know, I think, well luckily, on special days I do have help. If you see me every day and if you look on some of the websites and listen to some of the commentators they always find me on the day I didn’t have help. It’s not easy.”

Then Clinton began getting emotional: “It’s not easy, and I couldn’t do it if I didn’t passionately believe it was the right thing to do. You know I have so many opportunities from this country just don’t want to see us fall backwards,” she said.

Then, her voice breaking and tears in her eyes, she said, “You know, this is very personal for me. It’s not just political it’s not just public. I see what’s happening, and we have to reverse it.”

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Question: How did she get those tears to flow?

Commenters below think she borrowed pepperspray-tainted eyeliner from Miss Puerto Rico. I’m going with hidden onion slices in her pantsuit sleeves.

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#211735

On January 7th, 2008 at 5:08 pm, ajmontana said:

is there an internet radio show in Bear1909’s future?

I might listen but would be disappointed not being able to see the Thongette’s in the background.
#211738

On January 7th, 2008 at 5:14 pm, bear1909 said:

I might listen but would be disappointed not being able to see the Thongette’s in the background.

The videos are in storage, to be viewed at my funeral, dude.

Soap! when it is all pulled together, i will make sure you are the first charter listener.
#211739

On January 7th, 2008 at 5:16 pm, RetFireman said:

Like I said in another thread…the most fun I am having, is watching and listening to all the Dems and Libs talking about and saying all the things about her and yes, even Bill that we Republicans and Conservatives have been saying about them for over 16 years now. I can’t believe that the Clinton mystique has taken this long to wear off, nor that it took her running for President to do it, but it is truly refreshing and a really great sign to have it finally happening.

This must be what it felt like in the movie “the 40 Year Old Virgin” when at the end, they were all singing and dancing to “Age of Aquarius”. Where is my Hippie wreath of flowers for my head?
#211746

On January 7th, 2008 at 5:19 pm, bear1909 said:

Enough with the myth that it takes a strong person to cry. Creemenie Cripes! We’re two-leggeds. We cry. It’s in our DNA. Some cry more than others.

So why is it perceived as a virtue? Suck it up. Yer runnin for President. Shed a tear at Arlington National Cemetery. Shed a tear at Gettysburg. Shed a tear at Walter Reed or any VA hospital. At the monuments you so despise.

I won’t be shedding a tear when yer chickens come home to roost. Nosiree Bawb. I won’t be shedding a tear when they find the papers Sandy Berger stole or when you happen to forget those files you carry around with you in some New Hampshire diner while you lie about why you wannabe El Presidente.

Nosiree Bawb.

Question for ya, PIAPS: if your tears could talk what would they be sayin?
#211751

On January 7th, 2008 at 5:21 pm, bear1909 said:

Where is my Hippie wreath of flowers for my head?

Image: Bear1909 (former horseshoe champ back in the days of farmin for a livin) tossin a wreath of hibiscus flowers onto RetFireman’s noggin.

Looks good on ya, Ret!
#211760

On January 7th, 2008 at 5:27 pm, ajmontana said:

Sometimes I cry on Sundays, from August to December/Feburary.
#211761

On January 7th, 2008 at 5:28 pm, ajmontana said:

and october…
#211762

On January 7th, 2008 at 5:29 pm, laugrat said:

This reminds me of the story about the Governor of Louisiana who ‘fell apart’ during the hurricane Katrina and was reduced to tears in her office. It would be like being on the Titanic and having the Captain burst into tears when the ship hits the iceberg. It would unnerve me if I were onboard!!!

It takes a very strong personality to be President — that is why it is imperative that Americans vote for the best candidate to fill that need – - not because they are a minority or a woman alone, but because they can do the job.

I can’t imagine Margaret Thatcher getting teary-eyed in any public situation.
#211769

On January 7th, 2008 at 5:39 pm, Azygos said:

laugrat,

I thought she was the ice ~~berg~~ queen
#211802

On January 7th, 2008 at 6:24 pm, realitycheck said:

I actually think that the tears may indeed be genuine.

Rumour has it that she has a rather painful cut which has become infected: the unfortunate result of a slip whilst shaving her back.
#211806

On January 7th, 2008 at 6:33 pm, nbarry said:

How did she get the tears to flow on cue? Buddy Hackett said he did it by plucking a hair from his nostril.
#211829

On January 7th, 2008 at 7:00 pm, graysonret said:

That’s all we need….an emotional President standing around crying. Lord help us.
#211849

On January 7th, 2008 at 7:25 pm, laugrat said:

As I watch the clip and the commentaries on this Hillary scenario, I have begun to ask the question that all these journalists should have asked. Especially, by the journalist that elicited the tearfulo response, but also the pundits who are all taking about it tonight????

What exactly did she mean when she said

I see what’s happening, and we have to reverse it.

What the H– does that mean???? Her answer to that would be very meaninful to the voter; but no one asked. I also think I “see what’s happening” in this country and feel as strongly that “we have to reverse it”; but I don’t think her answer would come close to mine – - i.e. the liberals are destroying our culture and our childen – - our future.

Please, someone ask her what she meant???
#211872

On January 7th, 2008 at 7:51 pm, Dimsdale said:

The reporterette lost me at “How do you, how do you keep upbeat and so wonderful?”

No lovefest here! That question alone created a volley of projectile vomiting.

Hillary could bite the head off a puppy and not shed a tear. FAKE, FAKE, FAKE!
#211879

On January 7th, 2008 at 7:59 pm, tpierce2 said:

Did anyone actually see a tear? I don’t think she has one in her!

Wonder what she will do when the crazies attack us again? Call Osama and ask him to please stop–he caused her to cry!

Her husband is much better at bringing up instant tears! I remember a clip Rush played years ago. Clinton is walking along with another person, bible in hand, having a good old laugh. The instant he spotted a camera on him the laughter stopped and he produced a tear or two! Absolute phonies! Both of them!
#212177

On January 8th, 2008 at 3:11 am, RetFireman said:

Ahhh.thanks for the wreath…now I must skip merrily about as a “Breasts Not Bombs” trog.

Funny thing about Hill-Dawg busting out into tears all the time…

When Pres. Bush would legitimately get chocked up when holding the daughter of a murdered 9-11 victim, or when visiting a wounded soldier or the family of a soldier killed by an Islamic thug, the MSM and the Liberals mocked him,clled him weak and satd he was faking and doing it for effect.

Where is all the citicism of this whiney little cry-baby who turns on the waterworks everytime she doesn’t get her way or feels picked on as a ploy to garner sympathy from the voters? She hasn’t even realized that it bckfired on her yet.
#212214

On January 8th, 2008 at 7:58 am, arclight said:

I tried to watch the video clip but blood kept coming out of my eyes.
#212576

On January 8th, 2008 at 1:29 pm, sbrowning said:

Life imitates ‘The Simpsons’.

There was an early episode where Mr. Burns runs for governor. Lisa is forced to pose a staged question to him:

Lisa: Mr. Burns, your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?

Compare with: How do you, how do you keep upbeat and so wonderful?
#212612

On January 8th, 2008 at 1:43 pm, diggafromdover said:

Absolutely the most lickspittle depiction of Hillary’s Muskie Moment…
here
#212727

On January 8th, 2008 at 3:08 pm, DBNinKY said:

The issue isn’t whether or not the tears were fake – after all, there was the visible evidence of red, watery eyes – but rather, the motive behind those tears.

She wasn’t misty-eyed because of some benevolent concern for the nation; to the contrary, she was on the verge of an old fashioned bawlin’ because the realization had set-in that her own party, the party she nearly single-handedly decimated with Hillary-care in the ‘94 election, may very well deny her the “destiny” her Clinton-centric view had deemed was rightfully hers for having endured the last twenty-some years of marriage to Bill – the U.S. Presidency!