I completely agree with Jack Cafferty about Clinton throwing away the script.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

He said the crying thing was good, it humanized her. I think so too and I'm not a supporter of hers. I was touched by it, quite honestly, and it didn't come off as weak at all. I also saw a glimpse of her "true self" when she got passionate in the last debate. I thought it was impessive. It's so much more genuine and quite a departure from the scripted, carefully controlled persona she usually presents. JMHO.

[Atman]

1. I guess that entirely depends upon whether or not you believe it was real.

I'm not saying I believe one way or another, I'm just commenting on the other reactions I've seen here on DU. The last few campaign cycles have made each and every one of us very cynical. If they haven't...why not?

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[maddiejoan]

2. True

But can you blame her?

One moment of emotion and the press (and even some in DU) pounce on her like a pack of jackals.

[lapfog_1]

12. Leave Hillary ALONE!

All she ever wanted to do was be President and run the country! How DARE anyone out there make fun of her after all she's been through!

[Bicoastal]

3. Hillary is people too!

I agree, and I just hope it was "real" emotion, and not some rehearsed stunt. That would REALLY make her look controlled and calculating in my eyes.

[hisownpetard]

4. That's how I felt about the "Well, that hurts my feelings," answer. I thought she was

adorable, sweet and funny in that one unscripted moment. She was disarming.
Even Chelsea (in the audience) was tickled.
If she could have more moments like that, people wouldn't be put off, as some are, by the feeling that every answer she gives
has been memorized down to the last comma.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

7. I know! I thought that was cool too.

I'm told she has a wicked sense of humor.

Frankly, if I were love-her-or-hate her woman like Hillary Clinton, I would have given up caring what people thought of me long ago. I'd come skidding in with a martini in one hand and a ciggie in the other, cussing up a storm and owning the room. Probably not good for a Pres. candidate, though.

[Recursion]

5. Really? I thought it screamed "a consultant told me to cry"

I've got no problem with a candidate choking up, but that's not the question (or answer) to do it over.

[mod mom]

6. Why not shed tears over lives lost in this war or civil rights lost to this admin instead of her

own political demise? Priorities please!

[JVS]

9. amen

[Double T]

8. Like your HO and agree with YOU.

[H2O Man]

10. Right.

I think that between Wednesday and February 5, Senator Hillary Clinton would do well to keep being out in front of her campaign, and keep some of the other spokesperson in the background. Easy for me to say, of course, considering that she can only be in one place at a time. But she is a very strong, capable candidate. A combination of some curious media "framing" of her campaign, and a couple poor moves by a couple others, has taken the focus off of her strong points.

[Benhurst]

11. I am not a supporter, but I was touched and took her at face value.

Whether you agree with her positions or not, the hate which has been heaped on her over the years has been as merciless as it has been unjustified.

[OHdem10]

13. I have been screaming--and I do believe the Democratic

Consultants are lost in the past. They seem to ignore what is
taking place in the news, what for example the GOP is doing.
Guilliani and Romney go after our candidates big time. If
they think this stuff does not stick, they are in never land.

Yes, HRC should become not as controlled, and scripted.

[rodeodance]

14. nicely said. thanks for the post

[Missy M]

15. Agree with you completely....

and it certainly wasn't scripted as some try to say. It was from the heart.

[Robbins]

16. MY Take

This was far worst than the so called Dean scream.She Is crying because she Is not winning.Could you
Imagne a man losing and then crying they would be saying how over It Is.This Is not about the Clintons and their egos.This Is about our country.

[Missy M]

18. She was not crying....

she choked up. Your post doesn't make sense to me anyway. She cares very much for our country. She hasn't lost yet or are you one who thinks it's all over with. There is a long way to go yet.

[Benhurst]

19. I agree. That was the corporate media's take; but then they've let

the Gipper and Bush have tears streaming down their cheeks with not so much as a mention. If she had cried, it wouldn't have bothered me. But she didn't.

Oh, well. The truth doesn't seem to matter any more in this country.

[Kansas Wyatt]

17. Can you envision a republican commercial with that film clip....

Followed by film of Osama or the Iranian nut, and ending with a nuclear explosion?

Yes they would and they would run it over and over, and some will be convinced.

[EFerrari]

20. The problem is the crying, earnest thing was as stiff as everything else.

Don't anyone hire Cafferty as your drama coach.