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Clinton Gets Emotional on Campaign Trail
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ABC News' Kate Snow Reports: Campaigning in New Hampshire one day before the first-in-the-nation primary, Senator Hillary Clinton got emotional and had tears in her eyes as she spoke with voters about how hard it is to balance a busy campaign life and her passion for the country's future.
The Senator from New York was sitting at a big table in Cafe Espresso in Portsmouth, New Hampshire with 16 undecided voters, mostly women, warmly and calmly taking questions.
Then she took an unexpected question from a woman standing in the back.
"My question is very personal, how do you do it?" asked Marianne Pernold Young, a freelance photographer from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She mentioned Clinton's hair and appearance always looking perfectly coifed. "How do you, how do you keep upbeat and so wonderful?"
Clinton began responding, jokingly. First talking about her hair: "You know, I think, well luckily, on special days I do have help. If you see me every day and if you look on some of the websites and listen to some of the commentators they always find me on the day I didn't have help. It's not easy."
But then, Clinton began getting emotional: "It's not easy, and I couldn't do it if I didn't passionately believe it was the right thing to do. You know, I have so many opportunities from this country just don't want to see us fall backwards," she said.
Her voice breaking and tears in her eyes, she said, "You know, this is very personal for me. It's not just political it's not just public. I see what's happening, and we have to reverse it."
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"Some people think elections are a game, lot's of who's up or who's down, [but] it's about our country , it's about our kids' futures, and it's really about all of us together," she said.
"You know, some of us put ourselves out there and do this against some pretty difficult odds, and we do it, each one of us because we care about our country but some of us are right and some of us are wrong, some of us are ready and some of us are not, some of us know what we will do on day one and some of us haven't thought that through enough," she said in a veiled reference to her Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.
"And so when we look at the array of problems we have and the potential for it really spinning out of control, this is one of the most important elections American has ever faced," Clinton said.
After the event, Pernold Young told ABC News that she was glad Clinton showed emotion.
"She allowed herself to feel," Pernold Young said. " I was surprised and I said, 'wow there's someone there.'"
Another woman in the group, Alison Hamilton of Portsmouth, New Hampshire said she, like most of the people in the group, had been considering Obama.
But after seeing Clinton become emotional, she said she was going to vote for Clinton.
"Her whole thing today really convinced me but that really did clinch it for me," Hamilton said. "She's very impressive."
During the event, Clinton also had an exchange with an Obama supporter asking whether she can bring change, and why the Democrats haven't been able to affect change in Congress, despite taking power after the 2006 midterm elections.
"At the end of the day when the cameras are off what have you done?" asked the voter.
Clinton responded, arguing a politician's record is important.
"I know that to some people it sounds like there's a contradiction between change and experience... You can't have one without the other."
Clinton said people aren't aware of the small things the Democrats in Congress have accomplished because the war in Iraq is ongoing.
"You just keep going at it every single day," she said.
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January 7, 2008 in Bush, George W., Tancredo, Tom | Permalink | User Comments (1086)
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Gimme a break. She's crying because she is losing. Boo hoo.
Posted by: Madeleine Dunn | Jan 7, 2008 12:43:08 PM
Hillary cried? LOL Hillary cried...just like a woman.
Posted by: Catbird | Jan 7, 2008 12:43:21 PM
She's crying because feels entitled to the nomination and isn't going to get it. She acts like a spoiled brat who isn't getting her way.
Posted by: Pamela, Brooklyn, NY | Jan 7, 2008 12:43:25 PM
Oh puh-leaze...did they poll whether she should release those tears?
Posted by: BILL G | Jan 7, 2008 12:44:24 PM
Croc. tears. Big saltwater croc.
Posted by: wade malloy | Jan 7, 2008 12:45:24 PM
Hillary is showing her emotional weakness when it comes to pressure. Do we really want someone like this having to face major challenges affecting our country and our freedom??? I think not!
Posted by: Vesta | Jan 7, 2008 12:45:25 PM
Can't you just see Hillary in the White House sobbing on national t.v. as terrorists strike the country again? We don't need whiny, criers defending us.
Posted by: John | Jan 7, 2008 12:45:32 PM
Hillary Clinton is so pathetic, and lying never stops. Hillary is noseating.
Every time Hillary opens her mouth, she swiftboats herself.
No more Clinton's in the White House please.
Posted by: Rick Morrow | Jan 7, 2008 12:45:52 PM
We all have our moments..mostly honest..Hillary caculates every move and emotion...this was a planned moment..just ask James Carvile
Posted by: Doug Nelson | Jan 7, 2008 12:46:11 PM
Waaaaaaaaaaa. It's over Hillary. LOL
Posted by: J. Richie | Jan 7, 2008 12:46:12 PM
"...her voice breaking and with tears in her eyes..."
I got tears of uncontrollable laughter filling my eyes!
Posted by: Defiant_Infidel | Jan 7, 2008 12:46:50 PM
Good grief, how overtly obvious is it that ABC news is pro-Hillary. Every article and photo is presented in Hillary's favor while Obama's headlines present a negative effect. What ever happened to un-biased reporting?
Posted by: BamaBoy | Jan 7, 2008 12:47:51 PM
theres no crying in politics!!!
Posted by: dennis | Jan 7, 2008 12:48:02 PM
It's over for Hillary. Aside from the fact that she actually has LESS experience as an elected offocial tyhan Obama, no one LIKES her! No one is going to vote for someone they don't even like. Remember Bob Dole? Remember Mike Dukakis? No one liked them! Obama, also, knows what poverty is, knows what suffering and hopelessness are! I'm voting for Obama!
Posted by: gwascher | Jan 7, 2008 12:48:02 PM
You think running for President is hard, try running the country.
Hillary has just proved that she is not qualified to be our next leader. Buh-bye, loser.
I'm not laughing with you. I'm laughing at you.
Posted by: Frak | Jan 7, 2008 12:48:08 PM
No one is truly impressed with the angry, self-pitying tears of a self-righteous, self-entitled elitist. This young Democrat, like a growing number of Americans, have a message for the Clintons and their sad, manipulated 'legacy': It's over. The 1960's and 1990's are done, and so are you.
Posted by: Dr. B. Prince | Jan 7, 2008 12:48:27 PM
Is this really objective reporting? Why does Kate Snow make judgements on the other people at the table being "bored"? And WHO CARES if Hillary cried, anyway? Don't you think running for office is stressful? This kind of nonobjective drivel really is alarming and not up to ABC standards.
Posted by: Anna M | Jan 7, 2008 12:48:37 PM
I think she is crying because she realizes she is not being taken seriously right now. I mean, how must she feel that someone asked her who does her hair? How did her message collapse to this?
Posted by: Alox | Jan 7, 2008 12:48:39 PM
remember:
..sincerity is the key to life; once you can fake that, you've got it made.
Posted by: drew | Jan 7, 2008 12:49:37 PM
A tactic straight from the Clinton "War Room" no doubt. Just one more reason she cannot be President. This has gone on long enough... she should step down. ABC and the lib media are trying hard to prop her up and help the Dems. Even actively campaigning against Romney - unbelievable. That is why ABC failed to bring up illegal immigration during the Dem debates. The lib media is desperatly trying to steer the elections.
Posted by: Bill | Jan 7, 2008 12:49:47 PM
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