Hillary Exausted and Teary-eyed by Nomination Push

It is so hard to feel bad for someone as cool and calculated as Hillary but this article sure makes her sound like a wounded warrior stumbling down the last mile, with tear-streaked eyes, into an uncertain future.

Clinton, voice almost gone, worn down by sleepless nights and days on
the campaign trail, wiped a tear from her eye as she visited Yale University,
where her political journey started as an earnest 1970s student in bell-bottom
pants.

"Well I said I would not tear up, already we are not exactly on the
path," said Clinton, 60, in an emotional moment, as she battled Obama for votes
in northeastern Connecticut and Massachusetts.

I would normally feel sorry for someone in this situation but the Clintons make it so hard to separate genuine emotion from cold, hard election calculus. You always have a sense that one of her operatives is whispering in her ear that she needs to cry again just so that she can carry the womens vote. That same grubby-handed pollster waves a printout that says women 25-55 are 61.625% are likely or very likely to vote for a woman who wears her emotions on her sleeve then not. She then cries on command like a battle-hardened election robot in order to win Connecticut and Massachusetts.

That is why I want the Dems to elect Obama so that there is a general decrease in cynicism in America. I would genuinely feel compassion for a guy like Obama if he was teary eyed at his return to Punahou or inner city Chicago or wherever his dream of being President started. It sure will be nice to finally put those devisive Clinton (and Bush) years behind us.