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By Shakti - Nov 4th, 2008 at 3:18 am EST

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I am online talking to a friend of mine.

Me: "No matter what happens tomorrow. When it's all over, I am going to be crying."

Friend: "Me too. I already have been."

I am so emotional about this election. I want to be crying with a smile on my face tomorrow,

(Please, please, please) and not the other way around.

I can literally summon up tears without hardly trying. I just sit here and think about what's at stake, who the players are, what they stand for, where we might go-- for better or for worse-- and they are just sliding down my face. I've got to find a place tomorrow to watch the election that will except my bawling as par for course, or even better, where others will join me in bawling. I have to say I am so nervous and I know anything could happen, but I really think he can win. I really do. And god, I hope he does.

On a side note, I feel so terribly for him that his grandma died so soon before this is all over. That to me is so so so the saddest thing. (Tears have already rolled down my cheeks for that one.)

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FISA and Trolls and RNC: repugnantcan neocons crying

By Beth from ColoradObama - Jul 22nd, 2008 at 12:03 am EDT

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Most, if not all, members of MyBarackObama are well-aware that most, if not all, of the members of the FISA group are not Obama supporters. Since we are elitisit, college-educated liberals, we are probably smater than most Repugnantcans.

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With Great Sadness - Reflections on New Hampshire

By Jedidiah Palosaari - Mar 27th, 2008 at 8:18 pm EDT

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This was not a good day for our team. Obama didn't win the New Hampshire Bowl. But only by the slimmest of margins.

Sadly, no one really noticed that this was actually a big win for Obama. Hillary won by only less than 3%, resulting in a tie in delegate counts. This is a smaller difference delegate-wise and percentage-wise than Iowa, giving Obama more (non-super) delegates than Hillary at the time. Plus, minus post-Iowa predictions, Obama did great, and came in where he was expected.

Pundits discussed for days how it was that the polls diverged from what actually occurred. And truthfully, this was the reason for the great disappointment we now feel, for we had all of our expectations placed so high by those polls.

As for why, I think it was a variety of reasons. It's sexist, but I think that we, men and women, don't like to see a woman cry. Especially if there's something we can do about it. As one commentator said, we don't want to fire her (from a possible Presidency). When she expressed emotion the day before the primary (and I don't think that was false- I think it was genuine emotion, though perhaps a calculation to express it), voters realized she had emotions, and they didn't want her to cry. It seems a number connected with Clinton at that moment as a real human being, and as a woman. (Ironically, the woman who prompted the tears with her question- she ended up voting for Obama.)

Consider the opposite. (It's great when we have a control for a hypothesis!) Allegations were made against Presidential candidate Edmund Muskie and his wife, and he gave a speech defending her just before the New Hampshire primary in 1972. (It turned out after the election that the allegations were part of Nixon's "Dirty Tricks" campaign.) During the speech it appeared as if Muskie was crying, though he claimed it was snow melting on his face. Because of that event, he won New Hampshire, but by a smaller margin than originally predicted. Previously he was leading in the polls; after that, he fell behind and McGovern gained the momentum and eventually the nomination.

A man crying is bad (to voters), and they won't vote for him. A woman crying is a bad thing, and we (voters believe) have to step in to help her stop.

I think a second big reason New Hampshirans supported Hillary, from interviews with voters after the fact, is that some, especially women, liked all the candidates equally. When it came down to it, they thought, "Well, I should then vote for a woman."

Note that, though I think the wrong candidate won, I think both of these reasons are very legitimate reasons for voting.

The final reason, I believe, was that all the press indicated a big win for Obama, and so Independents thought, "Well, I don't need to vote for Obama then, and I like McCain too," and they went over for McCain.

So, tonight is a sad night for Obama fans. But there is still hope. After all, we've got Obama, and he has a whole lot of baraka.

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Hillary Cries! REAL or NOT

By Qiana from Houston, TX - Feb 25th, 2008 at 11:39 pm EST

I understand the running for and being the president of a country comes with its share of stress, however I need to be honest that did not move me at all. Some feel it showed that Hillary is a human and has emotions. Um, I dont know about you but I am not looking for a sensitive president. The going has not even begun to get tough so if she is having emotional breakdowns now she may not be the best person to handle this position. I don't want my president to show his/her cards and what they are feeling. Breakdowns and sensitivity need to be kept behind closed doors for the safety of the country.

A. If her cry is real. She has just exposed a weak spot. We all have them but when representing many its not wise to reveal it to the public.

B. If her cry is not real then how sincere is she really? Just doing what it takes to get the votes and trying to play many for stupid.

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Why Did Hillary Win? It's the Tears, Stupid!

By Michele from Normal, IL - Jan 9th, 2008 at 12:18 pm EST

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I’m so glad I have some hot sauce, fresh salsa and sour cream to make this big bowl of crow I’m eating this morning more palatable. How did she win? It doesn’t make sense—that many polls aren’t wrong and I can’t bring myself to believe I live in a country where the Wilder effect (in which people tell pollsters they are undecided or plan to vote for a black candidate and then actually vote for the white candidate) actually exists.

So my husband and I started our own optimistic analysis, in the midst of our, “I can’t believe Obama lost” slump.

The conclusion?

It was the tears. Come on girls, how many of us haven’t turned on the tears in an attempt to get out of a traffic ticket? When you’re young and cute (Hillary isn’t) the tears work well on men; apparently when you’re old and tired, they work on women. Hillary took 47 percent of the female vote in New Hampshire, compared to Obama’s 34 percent. In Iowa, the female vote was startlingly different: Obama soundly beat Hillary by winning 35% of the female vote to her 30%. Yes, there are certainly demographic differences that contributed to the difference, but this seems like too big of a swing to be purely due to that. It was the tears, which she used masterfully to manipulate the women of New Hampshire. Bone-tired and road-weary, Hillary cast herself as an overworked, aging Everywoman, relating to overburdened, tired women everywhere. This Everyman/Everywoman theme is something she’s been slow to grasp, but this year, we want to feel like our presidential candidate is one of us. To use her husband’s now clichéd phrase, we want to know that she feels our pain. And her tearful “share and care” session let us know that she does. Or at least she wants us to believe she does. I believe it was a sham, an emotional manipulation the likes of which we haven’t seen since Steel Magnolias. The question that was asked before her public display of emotion did not really fit her answer. A 64-year-old freelance photographer asked her how she kept going, and who did her hair, and received the now famous response. This was a prepared outburst, waiting in the wings for an opportunity to be presented. It looks like it worked.

Women of America, I know a lot of you loved Steel Magnolias, but please don’t fall for this again. If Hillary was really an emotional, touchy-feely woman, we would have seen it in her post-Lewinsky interview. These are just crocodile tears.

Michele Franks
Musingmom.wordpress.com

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Does Hillary feel entitled?

By Malik Singleton - Jan 7th, 2008 at 11:43 pm EST

Wow. Hillary's breakdown seems deeper and deeper as I continue to replay it. I'm ready to call it a serious political gaffe. Read between the lines, what is she really saying? She says "this is very personal for me, it's not just political, it's not just public." So what does that mean? Is that a sense of 'entitlement' I hear in her voice? Does she think she rightfully deserves the nomination? Does she somehow feel more entitled to the presidency? Sure she was out in front of the polls but polls aren't what hold up a democracy, fair elections are what determine the direction of a democracy, and when the voters actually voted she wound up in third and wound up in tears. Read More »

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tentatively hopeful.

By albalovescholo - Apr 4th, 2007 at 10:58 pm EDT

i have been crying. i am crying. today's announcement(s) is the most amazing testament to the resilience of the human spirit i have seen in quite a while. i am tentatively hopeful that this could be it. this could be our moment.

we have been hijacked by a fascist oligarchy, Earth is dying, and it seems that of the faces we are shown on the nightly news representing fallen soldiers, NONE has been over 25 for a long, long time. this is very literally our last shot at saving ourselves (and every living thing inhabiting Earth).

Barack Obama is the man who can lead us out of the fog. i honestly believe he is the only one who can. i love Ralph Nader, but he has gotten the short end of the stick, and the Oval Office simply is not his destiny. my dream ticket is Obama/Gore, but that is not likely, as President Gore believes he is more effective as a private citizen. i believe with all of my heart he is correct--so i guess that is where the blessing in the fiasco/coup of 2000 resides.

funny, isn't it? after so much doom & gloom about computers crashing, and airplanes falling out of the sky, the Apocalypse arrived in the form of a learning-impaired, unbelievably un-funny carpetbagger; a man too stupid to know he is a stooge. a man who owes EVERY membership, job, and "friend" to his father's connections. "legacy" at yale, legacy with skull & bones, and legacy at the white house. his "presidential" legacy is the most shameful tenure in the history of this nation, and will be one of the most infamous in the history of human life on this planet (given that time will allow our children will grow to see their own children grow)

he is/was a miserable failure at everything he does--everything he touches turns to s**t.

Barack Obama is an individual worthy of the position for which he means to apply. he is a loving, brilliant, honest, well-educated, well-read, well-rounded human being, who has worked tirelessly for the betterment of his fellow human beings. he is what the job requires: a statesman. his bearing is regal, his demeanor humble, his voice strong yet appropriately soft at the appropriate moments. he LISTENS. while other people speak. he LISTENS. he is genuinely interested in what others have to offer, and happy to wait patiently while you gather your thoughts.

this is our moment. this is his moment.

i am tentatively hopeful.

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