Mom, the Coldheart

Last night, the pundits on cable news kept discussing Hillary’s tears as being a watershed moment and in Hillary’s speech last night she thanked New Hampshire for helping her find her voice.

That’s cool. I finally saw footage of it today on Youtube.



It was heartfelt and genuine. Of course, there are those that will attack her for it. They’ll see it as a sign of weakness. They’ll possibly make illogical connections between leading a country or how a leader should act or be perceived with stereotypical views on women, their emotions, and judgment.

Apparently, my mom is one such person. She called my sister and asked, "if she cries during campaign how is she going to handle being president?"

I don’t think my mom (immigrant, business owner, homemaker) could quite understand that bit about how tired she is, and how difficult it is to do what she tries to do such as exercise, and eat right, while on the campaign trail.

It's true that everything else Hillary got emotional about such as loving the country and wanting what’s best for it is what every other candidate feels. But maybe she's experiencing a new level of fatigue, or is feeling the weight of historic responsibility.

I'm hesitant to knock her too much because I may have to vote for her. I don’t know. Mom’s a bit of a roboticon when it comes to anything resembling a pity party.

It’s going to be interesting going into South Carolina and Las Vegas. We’ll see how much the Oprah effect will help in SC and, now that Barack’s got the service employees’ union to endorse him, whether these will make huge differences.