http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHGAxGZts8M&feature=related

it’s really pathetic that it seems to have worked

assuming that those tears were for real (and I admit, I think they were)

They may well be. I don’t know. And with the Clintons, no-one ever knows. You want four years of wondering?

“Hillary cried, Obamamania died.”

Remember this, she can’t do it again. She only had one shot with that tactic. It will NOT work again.

That’s just it; I seriously doubt she CAN do it again. I’m guessing she had a time just squeezing out those few tears.
The only reaction I came away with, after seeing the whole “crying spell” over and over again, is this…if she tears up over this, what the h*** would she do if she were elected, and faced with a gen-u-ine crisis? Would her secretary find her crumpled in a blubbering heap on the floor of the Oval Office? Would she run to the bathroom, sobbing hysterically, after a particularly heated session with congressional leaders?
If I were Hillary (and I thank God every single day that I’m not), I’d be a little worried. It’s like a magician who has one really big trick; if he does it at the beginning of the show, what’s gonna make the audience stick around for the rest of his act?

When I heard that she had won in New Hampshire, I cried a little bit.

why whenever I see her “moment”…

do I think of Tom Hanks character in that baseball movie about the women’s team…

“Crying… theres no crying in BASEBALL!”

The last thing in the world I want, is for the Male Chauvinsts who make up the Jihadists movement to see my President cry… reinforces their sterotype of the weak and decadent West.

And he senses that after eight years of exile, he is within shouting distance of the prized White House again.

Maybe not.

That tears can be a vote getter – this nation is lost.

Update: A good organization, particularly targeted at her core demographic, didn’t hurt either.

This is exactly why she won and why republicans lose. I battled for over a decade with RNC types that organization beats message. And they act like I was from another planet.

Look at Fred’s Campaign right now. I have gotten several emails imploring me for money or to volunteer. I cant do either. And where are they in the polls ?

The democrats have re learned the value of machine politics. The republicans run their vamapigns like a high school campaign. And that is why we get wiped out.

I could build an organization that has a very good chance of electing many republicans. But Im told by the republican leaders that their dinosaur way of doing things is far superior. Yeah right.

Whether or not the tears changed the NH outcome (maybe with some brain dead voters) is water under the bridge. Remember this, she can’t do it again. She only had one shot with that tactic. It will NOT work again.

Can anyone imagine Margaret Thatcher tearing up in the face of adversity?

Get a spine! This is no time to go wobbly!

She is for the war, and against the war.

She practically ran things in the White House, but never knew that Bill had interns under his desk.

What does she think, Will Smith got all of us with that flashy thingy?

Update: Karl at Protein Wisdom says it wasn’t the late deciders who decided it. Follow the link to the Jay Cost piece he cites and you’ll see they broke for Hillary only slightly, 39-36. Cost says she simply did a much better job of getting her base out to vote than the polls anticipated. It’s hard to believe that given the fact that the lines to see Obama at events the day before the election ran for city block after city block — even late at night — but there you go. It’s in line with the Time piece linked in the previous update.

She probably bussed her base in from NY, VT, ME, and MA.

she’s going to have to make doubly sure she doesn’t cry again anytime soon, and probably for the rest of the election.

No. It means she’ll have to come up with some plausible excuse for tearing up right before each primary. Then she’ll have to pull a Tammy Faye Baker right before the general election.