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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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 Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:18 am Post subject: Hillary Clinton cries in Connecticut |
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. � Sen. Hillary Clinton teared up this morning at an event at the Yale Child Study Center, where she worked while in law school in the early 1970s.
A doctor, who was introducing Clinton, began to choke up, leading Clinton's eyes to fill with tears, which she wiped out of her left eye. At the time, the doctor was saying how proud he was that sheepskin-coat, bell-bottom-wearing young woman he met in 1972 was now running for president.
"Well, I said I would not tear up; already we're not exactly on the path," Clinton said with emotion after the introduction.
Clinton is holding a roundtable discussion with Connecticut women to talk about childcare and healthcare.
When Clinton got misty-eyed at an event in New Hampshire on Jan. 7, politicos and pundits filled hours discussing if it helped her, and Clinton eventually pointed to the moment as when she "found her voice" and turned the corner in the Granite State.
At the time, there was much debate if the candidate's emotional response to a question -- "How do you do it?"" -- was genuine or calculated.
Let the conversation begin again... |
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/02/clinton_crys_in_connecticut.html |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:27 am Post subject: |
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So tears up now = cries?
It won't work this time, largely because it didn't work last time.
It won't hurt her, either. Tearing up is not the same as making snarky comments at a debate. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:36 am Post subject: |
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I just copy/pasted the title.
I don't know if I'm cynical enough to believe that she plans these events of emotion. I'm sure she is hardly sleeping and has little time to just chill. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:38 am Post subject: |
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| thepeel wrote: |
I just copy/pasted the title.
I don't know if I'm cynical enough to believe that she plans these events of emotion. I'm sure she is hardly sleeping and has little time to just chill. |
Yeah, I suppose the media can't help but call it crying.
At this point I'm happy about the election results because its clear the media is losing. |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:08 am Post subject: ... |
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| At this point I'm happy about the election results because its clear the media is losing. |
So, who's winning then?
The truth?
The average man?
The Giants? |
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stillnotking
Joined: 18 Dec 2007
Location: Oregon, USA
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:37 am Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| At this point I'm happy about the election results because its clear the media is losing. |
I know this error has passed into common usage, and probably I have been guilty of it myself, but "media" is a plural noun. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:48 am Post subject: Re: ... |
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| At this point I'm happy about the election results because its clear the media is losing. |
So, who's winning then?
The truth?
The average man?
The Giants? |
Well, since apparently your posting style has regressed into kind of bitter stalking, you're certainly not winning.
So are you a fan of the media's coverage of the election? They get paid to bloaviate (sp?) on TV about the election, and it is the most superficial analysis (if you can call it that) which I have ever seen. It's the media's role to inform the voters on the issues. Instead they're placing emphasis on haircuts, what dress Hillary wears, whether she cries (ie tears up), etc. Remember Howard Dean's scream? I wasn't a fan of Dean but I thought the emphasis of that scream in the media was awful. The worst part is that the media whose job it is to track the election isn't any more accurate than anyone else.
The truth? You must have me confused with EFLTrainer. When have I ever used 'the truth?' If you're going to be a bitter stalker, you'll have to do better at taking jibes at my posting style. C'mon, a little more accuracy; a little less bitterness. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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| but "media" is a plural noun. |
The United States are a nation where baseball is popular. The Yankees is a team which are very successful. It is from New York. 
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| A doctor, who was introducing Clinton, began to choke up, leading Clinton's eyes to fill with tears, which she wiped out of her left eye. At the time, the doctor was saying how proud he was |
It's perfectly natural that a person tear up a bit when someone is paying a compliment like the doctor was doing. It's an emotional moment.
My prediction: The next time someone gets off a good joke and she tears up with laughter, someone in the media is going to play that one up, too.
And I agree. Dean was screwed by the media for his 'scream' and Gore was for his 'wooden' stage presence.
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| sheepskin-coat, bell-bottom-wearing young woman |
This makes me nostalgic. Fashion has definitely gone downhill since those days. If she's elected, maybe bell-bottoms will make a come-back. We can only hope. Did you know that bells can keep your feet warm? Sit on the floor, kick off your sandals and slide your feet inside your girlfriend's bells--and hers inside yours... |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:47 am Post subject: ... |
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| Well, since apparently your posting style has regressed into kind of bitter stalking, you're certainly not winning. |
Aye, aye, Goph.
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| So are you a fan of the media's coverage of the election? |
I don't know what media outlets you're following, but I haven't seen anything on Hillary's clothes or haircuts. In fact, I didn't know she "teared up" until thepeel scooped it here.
More importantly, though, "the media" is a pretty ambiguous label to be using, especially when you're accusing "the media" of concentrating on haircuts and clothing. It also leads to the equally ambiguous question of how it's losing.
Of course, we wouldn't even be at this point on the thread if it weren't for your snarky interest in whether she actually cried.
But hey, the Giuliani hate-down is over, eh? Time to move on. |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:50 am Post subject: ... |
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| Oh, and media can be used in both plural and singular. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:43 pm Post subject: Re: ... |
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Of course, we wouldn't even be at this point on the thread if it weren't for your snarky interest in whether she actually cried. |
Do you know what even know what snarky means? |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:46 pm Post subject: ... |
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Snarky means critical in an annoying, sarcastic, grumpy,
wisecracking, or cynical sort of way.
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=383533
The victim card. The vocabulary card. What's next, Goph?
Start a poll about whether "the media" is "losing"? |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Kuros and I are separate posters. And you are a bitter, crying wuss: part wimp and part puss. |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:00 am Post subject: ... |
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| Kuros and I are separate posters |
I hope so.
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| And you are a bitter, crying wuss: part wimp and part puss. |
Hmm, how to respond...
A) Hypocrite. You have made vicious and personal attacks against me. Stop stalking me! Boohoo.
B) Borrow words from you: Take that chip on your shoulder and shove it up your ass.
Choose one of the above. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:35 am Post subject: |
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Ha. First, you deserve the personal attacks. As I said, you are a wuss. Second, yes I said that. Indeed, those are my exact words, at least as far as I can recall (it was well over one or two months ago, no?).
You have apparently created a catalog of my words and positions somewhere out there in your petty little world, because you cite them at will -- and many of them go back weeks, months, years. Congrats. But do you realize what this implies about you, Mr. Obsessively-Fixated...?
No matter. Glad I have captured your attn so completely and that whatever I say or to whomever I say it impresses itself into your consciousness so deeply and permanently. Cheers.
And we are done here. Dismissed. |
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