The strain of the last few days finally caught up to Hillary Clinton on Monday.
At a meeting with undecided voters on the New Hampshire seacoast this morning, a red-eyed Clinton battled tears and had to pause for to collect herself when a 64-year-old woman asked her how she gets through the day.
“As a woman I know it’s hard to get out of the house and get ready,” said Maryann Young, a freelance photographer. “My question is very personal: ‘How do you do it?.. How do you keep upbeat?’”
Clinton, voice breaking, tried to reply. “It’s not easy -- it’s not,” she said. “And I couldn’t do it if I didn’t passionately believe…”
At this point she stopped, too choked up to continue, as the audience applauded.
“I see what’s happening and we have to reverse that,” Clinton said, apparently referring to her loss in Iowa and uphill fight here. “Some people think elections are about people — they’re about our country… it’s about all of us… It’s been difficult and we do it, each one of us because we care about our country.”
Again her voiced cracked and she had to stop.
--Melissa Mansfield and Glenn Thrush
Comments (2)
Good grief.... how is she going to behave when there is a real world crisis..???
But, let's remember who we are talking about here. Everthing, and I mean EVERYTHING, Hillary does is calculating. I'm sure some poll told her that if she showed more emotion that people would feel her pain and give her the sympathy vote.
If she's cracking up like this she should do us all a favor and leave the race. No sense in embarrassing herself further.
Goodbye, Hillary!
I watched the video @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfRLEvQsv9A and I’m still doubting whether she faked the tears as part of her ‘warm personality tour’ or whether she was emotional because she is too fatigued. Which makes me think she will not be ready on Day One to be our president in the White House.