Tears for Fears

Why are we so surprised that Hilary Clinton has a heart? She answered a question, at the end of a juggernaut of campaigning with a simple unplanned moment of truth. Her obvious love for our country, of the true sacrifice a public servant makes and the one overlooked and biggest reason one would want to hear from a candidate, that they care, that they are grateful for the life they have been given by others who served before them.

It was a real moment, tears or not, and it seemed to cut through the bullshit that accompanies most answers on the campaign trail.

Michael Moore's analysis of her vote for the war was that as a woman she has to "be as 'tough' as a man, she has to be willing to push The Button if necessary, and give the generals whatever they wanted."

Why is a woman's natural emotionality, as well as incredible sense and judgment and compassion and strength, a liability. None of you would be here were it not for a woman's strength -- you men try giving birth, something Mrs. Clinton has done. Most of all, don't we really want a president with a heart, a big, open, warm, loving, mother's heart to lead us out of this bleak despair, into the light of hope and peace.

Please don't just classify her tears as a hoax or a "woman's moment". Classify it as a human contact made in a time of great need and I for one am proud of her commitment to service and duty and honor and yes, tears, for we have so much to be sad about and so much to hope for in the future.

Comments

[daveny]

Yeah, I'm more just bothered by the fact that she was crying for HERSELF, face with the prospect of LOSING, rather than crying for any higher cause or purpose. I don't doubt is was genuine, and yes, I do feel bad that she's suffered so much partisan bile -- but the Clinton MO has always been to revel in generating that and using it to advantage, rather than trying to defuse it and move past.

[hitiny]

Well done, Jamie Lee Curtis! Thank you for giving voice to what so many of us have been thinking. This women-on-women crime has got to stop. Hillary is not the devil and Obama is not the messiah--the truth is somewhere in between and all of us have to figure that out for ourselves.

[draftedin68]

Jamie,

Very. Well. Said.

Interested in the VP job?

[Woody II]

Thanks Jamie for a good perspective, that the chattering classes made such a brouhaha about her show of emotion says a lot about the backwardness of our political discourse these days.