Oh God Help Me, Cuz Here I Go: Hillary's Tearing Up.

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Topic subject Oh God Help Me, Cuz Here I Go: Hillary's Tearing Up.
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3983855, Oh God Help Me, Cuz Here I Go: Hillary's Tearing Up.
Posted by David Zephyr on Mon Jan-07-08 07:18 PM

I admit I felt sorry for Hillary when she teared up. And you know what? I really don't care what anyone thinks about it either.

I just don't have it in me to be a Hillary hater. Maybe it's because I've watched her for a very long time now. She's certainly had every reason to cry.

The reason her tearing up was news is because she is not a cry-baby. That's why it was "news". No one has ever seen it before. Nearly 40 years on the national stage and not one tear.

And Lord knows she has had her share of raw deals in her public life. And, yet she never broke down in front of the world. Nope. Not even once.

I remember when Hillary first tried to outmaneuver the insurance corporations, the big pharmacological conglomerates and the HMO monsters all on her own. She almost succeeded. But then out came the biggest guns in America. The journalists-for-hire began to discredit her plan before they even knew what it was. The "Harry & Louise" television, radio and print advertising blitz hit the airwaves and Hillary was transformed a " socialist monster". "How dare this lady try to extend health-care to every American man, woman and child!" And sadly, when Hillary lost, America lost. And yet, not a whimper of self-pity from this woman. In fact, I hardly remember anyone willing to stand with her. Not even many of her fellow Democrats. Yet, no tears from Hillary. I wonder how lonesome that must have been.

Hillary was falsely accused of having her dear friend Vince Foster murdered. It was the daily menu on television and on right-wing talk radio. Even after Foster's family sucked it in and went public telling the world that Vince had been depressed for a long time and suicidal and that these "murder" charges were outrageous and hurting them as a family, the "Reverend" Jerry Falwell sold videotapes for $39.00 each from his "gospel ministry" asserting that Hillary had murdered Vince. Instead of being able to grieve the loss of a dear friend and professional colleague, Hillary had to deal with that shit day in and day out. She never broke. Not once.

Right-wing zealot and grand hypocrite of the century, Kenneth Starr -- a tobacco lawyer -- stuck his religious-fanatical nose into every aspect of Hillary's life including having his staff rummage through the First Lady's underwear drawer in the White House. Starr invented some of the most novel abuses of prosecutorial power in American legal history in his "witch" hunt against not just the president, but his mate, too. But again, Hillary never showed a tear. She held it all together. Talk about stamina.

And Hillary's husband (yeah, that would be Bill) made a world-class and historical jackass screw-up in the Oval Office -- and worst of all, he betrayed Hillary and made a fool out of her right in front of the whole god-damned world. And yet, somehow throughout it all, she kept her head up and never broke down publicly. She took Bill back and how she found the grace to do it beats the hell out of me.

I'm supporting Barck Obama and proud to say so. But I gotta say this -- and I mean it with every fiber within me -- there is no room for any of us here to get smug about her showing a bit of emotion in New Hampshire. It's unseemly and downright shitty to do so!

I know I am not alone in saying this: Hillary always knew there would be a double standard for women in politics, just as there are in almost every realm they live and work in. She didn't cry...because that would prove all the sexists right. "She cried like a little girl. Boo hoo" would come the taunts as they always do when women try to dare break into any of men's privileged positions.

There are millions of right-wing jackass men (yeah, it's mostly my gender) who have been waiting like vultures for the day to see Hillary break down as they piled it on and piled it on. They've salivated like jackals to see "the little lady cry".

I for one will not be part of that hate-fest. And neither should you.