Act Two, Scene One
January 9, 2008
That poster child for truthfulness, our ex president lays it out. Bill Clinton and Maureen Dowd have opined. They agree that ‘Tears won Hillary New Hampshire.’
“It was quite touching. You know, people forget that the people that do this are human. She was just very moved by it.
“She called me and said, ‘I can’t believe what happened’. She said, ‘That’s why I’ve got to be careful showing my emotions – I’d cry a lot’.”
In what her advisers believe was a turning point in the Former First Lady’s White House bid, tears welled up in Mrs Clinton’s eyes and her voice dropped to a whisper when she was asked by Marianne Pernold-Young, an undecided voter: “How do you do it? How do you keep up?”
Woman Who Made Hillary Cry Voted For Obama
The woman whose empathetic question — “how do you do it?” — sparked uncharacteristic emotion Monday from Sen. Hillary Clinton ended up voting for Sen. Barack Obama in the New Hampshire primary.
Marianne Pernold Young, 64, a freelance photographer from Portsmouth, N.H., told ABC News that while she was moved by Clinton’s emotional moment, she was turned off by how quickly the New York senator regained her “political posture.”
Blame Chris Matthews for Hillary’s NH showing:
Matthews: I thought the debate Saturday night, and I was in the room, was a draw. I wasn’t clear at all that she won it. But maybe she was good enough to seem good enough here for women who wanted to root for her anyway…
Maddow: Pat, I will tell you that on the influential — influential perhaps on the left — website Talking Points Memo today, you want to know who they’re blaming for women voters breaking for Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama? Who they’re blaming for this late showing in a big vote for Hillary Clinton? They’re blaming Chris Matthews. People are citing specifically Chris not only for his own views, but also for as a symbol of what the mainstream media has done to Hillary Clinton.
MADDOW: People feel that the media is piling on Hillary Clinton. They’re coming to her defense with their votes.
At least she’s honest. No one is claiming Hillary to be qualified.
The winner will face a new generation of European leaders such as Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s Nicolas Sarkozy seeking a chance for a new start with Washington.
They will want U.S. backing for European goals such as coming up with a successor regime to the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, opposed by Bush, and will be keen to plot a new joint approach to global security.
But the same leaders also know that any demand from Obama, Clinton or McCain would be harder to refuse than if it were coming from Bush — widely unpopular among European publics.
“The ‘Bush excuse’ excuse goes away,” said one source at NATO headquarters in Brussels, where the United States has for months been trying largely in vain to win pledges of European troops for the war in Afghanistan.
“There is the concern here that next year the U.S. will say: ‘That guy you didn’t like has gone — now we need some more help in Afghanistan’. It’s going to get harder for the Europeans to say ‘No’.”
Like they say, be careful what you wish for.
Isn’t politics great theater?
January 9, 2008 at 3:45 PM
Gentlemen:
I say a resounding brava to Hillary’s Denny’s moment this past Monday morning. It was poignant indeed—real pathos nestled amid artery clogging platters of Grand Slam breakfasts.
I understand that after Mrs. Clinton’s performance, she received 300 phone calls urging her to leave home and hit the campaign trail even harder…298 of them were from Bill.
LK
January 9, 2008 at 5:48 PM
To meet the approval of the GD hypocritical Europeans we have to jump through several hoops: We have to elect a president solely on the basis of “gender”–forget competence or corruption as possible considerations. We also have to prove that we aren’t racist; we could do this by making Jesse Jackson VP.
Then we need to prove that we are not under the influence of some Jewish conspiracy by supplying Palestinian school children with books and Disney knockoff films portraying Jews as pigs. Supplying a few UN ambulances to terrororists for use as car bombs would also be helpful. And the next time a crisis in the Balkans is producing too many asylum seekers for European budgets, we are expected to supply the fire power to stop the conflict, while all rights to criticize our actions are retained by European pacifists and Irene Kahn.
We must also enforce UN resolutions regarding disarmament following a UN-appoved war, including no-fly zones and sanctions, but we must take the blame for kids starving and dying for lack of medication. Under no circumstances should we criticize those entrepreneural EU, Russian, or Pakistani citizens or UN employees who accepted bribes to get around the sanctions. This would be prima facie evidence that we don’t respect international institutions.
We should also seeek to resolve differences with countries like Iran by negotiating endlessly and perhaps calling for economic sanctions that would be criticized by European bankers or evaded by setting up straw firms in an Arab country.
Finally, we we should give medals to Michael Moore, Sean Penn, George Clooney and the Dixie Chicks who have suffered so greatly for speaking truth to power.
BTW, I’m thinking of making a donation to the Hillary campaign–a box of Kleenex.
January 9, 2008 at 10:44 PM
I find it ironic that some think that Obama being President would help our relations with the Europeans, it being that Europe has a much more difficult time dealing with people of non-European origin than the US does. How many Blacks and/or Muslims are in European legislatures or cabinet positions, compared to the US?
Were a Democratic Party President to request that the Europeans contribute more to NATO or to some military endeavor, said Democratic Party President would get the following reply.
“We like you more than ChimpyBushMcHItler, but we are not going to contribute. Diplomacy is our route.”
January 10, 2008 at 7:32 PM
Diplomacy like what worked against Japan in Manchuria in ’31 or against the Reich in Czechoslovakia in ’38?
Well, waving a signed treaty from a balcony WAS a good photo op for Chamberlain…