Imagine this- Obama fight tears: "It's not easy". How would you react?

[Colobo]

Obama fights tears: "It's not easy"


Exhausted and facing the prospect of losing the second test of his primary campaign, Barack Obama's voice broke and he fought back tears at the close of a sedate event in a Portsmouth coffee shop.

He expressed the sheer difficulty of heading out to the trail each day -- "It's not easy," he said -- and suggested he faced "pretty difficult odds."

And with audible frustration and disbelief, he drew the contrast between his experience and Senator Hillary Clinton's that suggests that his campaign's current message -- the question of who is ready -- matches his profound sense that he alone is ready for the job.

"Some of us know what are going to do on day one, and some of us haven’t thought that through enough," she said.

The question was inoccuous:

"As a man I know it’s hard to get out of the house and get ready," asked Mario Pernold, a local freelance photographer. "Who cut your hair?"

Obama began by talking about his hair -- he has some help -- but moved to talk more generally about the campaign.

"It’s not easy, it’s not easy, and I couldn’t do it if i just didn’t passionately belive it was the right thing to do," he said.

"I have so many oppporuntities for this country. I don’t want to se us all fall back," he said, his voice breaking in the last phrase.

"This is very personal for me," he said to supportive applause from the small gathering, at which he'd been discussing policy around a table for an hour. "It’s not just political, it's not just public -- I see what's happening. We have to reverse it."

"Some people think elections are a game -- it’s about who’s up and who's down," he said. "It's about our country's future, it's about our kids' future - it's really about all of us together."

"And some of us put oursevles out there and do this against some pretty difficult odds, and we do it each one of us because we care about our country," he said.

"Some of us are right and some of us are wrong. Some of us are ready and some of us are not. Some of us know what are going to do on day one, and some of us haven’t thought that through enough," he said.

"When we look at the array of problems that we have, and the potential for it really spinning out of control -- this is one of the most important elections America's ever faced," she concluded.

The questioner, Pernold, said he'd come to the event "smitten" by Clinton, but that he's now torn. "Showing that emotion -- I really find it refreshing," he said.

[SaveElmer]

1. I'd assume it was another bullshit story from Politico...nt

[dailykoff]

2. Oh, my cold, cold heart is melting, melting for poor lil Obama

that per per MAN up against all those nasty nasty WOMANS

:nopity:

[Bullet1987]

3. People would be trashing him to high heaven...you know that Katz

The media is likely to give her a pass on this because she's a woman.

[babylonsister]

6. But I thought she wanted to be judged equally, or is that only

when she thinks she's ahead? :shrug:

[dailykoff]

8. It's a ploy, just like the fake "anger" was a ploy.

It's chinatown Jake.

[Birthmark]

4. Don't be silly.

Men don't cry. <leaps behind sofa>

[elixir]

5. Why would campaigning on a wave of elated sentiment make a man cry?

I find it a bit dramatic and most likely he needs some rest.

[Occam Bandage]

7. Same way as I do with Clinton. "Man, they run a tough schedule."

[maddiejoan]

9. I'd react the same way

as I did when Edwards did this at the NH debate.

I'd be touched by the candidate's moving heartfelt statement.

[BootinUp]

10. Imagine if it was a nonsense report by someone

trying to get attention.

[Sparkly]

11. I forgot women and men are EXACTLY the SAME.

How can a woman expect to do a "man's job" if they aren't EXACTLY the SAME???

How dare she expect equality if she's not going to be a man!! She even wears skirts sometimes. She sure plays that "card." Imagine if Obama wore lipstick in the next debate!!

:eyes:

This is low for you, Katz.

[Colobo]

13. I'm not suggesting anything. I'm wondering how people would react

if Obama was the one in the situation. What's so wrong about it?

[Sparkly]

23. You're wondering? You answered yourself.

Post 16: "The media would destroy Obama if he started crying on the campaign trail about how tough it is to run for president."

Ever heard of Pat Schroeder, Katz? This is as old as the hills, and it doesn't smell any better than it did 20 years ago.

[Cameron27]

17. Exactly

:applause:

[dailykoff]

12. I'm fighting tears just thinking about it.

And hey who does his hair?

[truebrit71]

14. I would tell him to grab his sack and man up....the last thing we need is an emotional woman.....

...in the WH...

If HRC can't handle the campaign trail how the hell is she going to handle the Oval Office...

Sorry Hon, I'm not buying....

[LostinVA]

18. Do you NOT see how sexist your statement is?

:sigh:

You're a poster I like, too. But people on here discrediting HRC by using an "emotional crying woman" article from a very RW source is appalling.

[dailykoff]

21. So how sexist are fake tears?

Come on.

[LostinVA]

26. It's from a RIGHT WING SOURCE

Since when do liberals take that as a legit source? Stormfront, Fox, Drudge, etc. It's ridiculous. I certainly wouldn't take ANY RW source at face value if they posted ANYTHING about a Dem candidate I'm not supporting in the primaries.

"Fake teats." You prove my point, and you have been for days.

Pshaw,

[dailykoff]

28. Here's a clue, the right wing is backing her.

Which pretty much covers all print and broadcast media except Pacifica.

[progressivebydesign]

35. Media backs Hillary:? DO TELL! Cuz she's been shown to get the worst press.

There was study by an independent group that showed HIllary Clinton gets disproportionately BAD press in comparison with the other candidates.. by a HUGE margin. So you keep believing that the repub owned media is backing her.. okay? Cuz obama is the media darling right now, as is huckabee.

[dailykoff]

36. Oh please. Did you watch the debate?

It was basically one big commercial for the PNAC agenda and their candidate.

[KennedyGuy]

24. I can't see how women support this kind of talk

just because its against Hillary..
Amazing..
How come no women condem this?

[LostinVA]

27. I did -- and others will probably be here, too

Unless the OP is on their Ignore List. I know of some female DUers who don't go into any threads like this anymore, because the sexism upsets them too much.

[KennedyGuy]

30. I would hope so..

but I never see it..if anything, I see women chining in..
(as long as its that shrew, catty, bitch Hillary) equality for the rest of the gals.

[truebrit71]

34. Wait a minute...you like me?

:blush:

Yeah, I know it was sexist, deliberately so...It's another attack on a candidate that is meritless...as was my response...

But enough of that, you like me???

Really?

Cool....

[LostinVA]

37. I actually hate foreigners

I'M TEASING!!!

Yes. Even when I don't agree with you, you're someone whose posts I enjoy reading.

[truebrit71]

38. Wow....

:blush:

[LostinVA]

40. I've changed my mind -- I'm putting you on Ignore

:pals:

[cali]

15. He'd never be in that position. Never.

A man would never be asked about his hair and all that attendant crap.

And I'd feel sympathy for him if he got emotional. The same thing I feel for her.

[Colobo]

16. The media would destroy Obama if he started crying on the campaign trail

about how tough it is to run for president.

[dailykoff]

19. Another parallel would be when Clarence Thomas

started yammering about a "high-tech lynching." Worked, to.

[H2O Man]

20. I would be reminded

of when Ed Muskie, one of the most honorable of politicians, was slimed by the Manchester Union-Leader's infamous "Canuck Letter," and then was savaged by the national press when he held a press conference in a snow storm.

We have real issues to deal with.

[flordehinojos]

22. hey, another page stolen from the bush easily out put of crocodile tears at the drop of a convenient

hat!
obama is bush light.

[Bluerthanblue]

25. not sure I'm 'getting' this- but

if you are contrasting Hillary and Obama- and saying that our reaction to one or the other should vary according to gender- or that it's wrong for a candidate to be CANDIDly human then I say bullshit.

I don't know how those who run for office keep themselves together, and keep going.

One thing I AM sure of. They all have feelings and failings. They are human beings who get tired, weary, discouraged, make mistakes, and deserve our compassion regardless of what we "wish" they could 'be' or 'do' for us.

We are more alike than we want to admit.

Maybe that is why we are so unkind to each other- It's time for some changes.

Starting with ourselves first?

peace-
blu

[dailykoff]

29. He's saying it would be equally credible.

Fortunately, Obama wouldn't stoop to that or any other cheap trick.

[ecstatic]

31. Either way, hearing wealthy folks whine is not the best way

to draw sympathy. From the angle of disappointments and setbacks in reaching your goals, I definitely understand how painful that can be. But when you look at the big picture of all the suffering that goes on in this world, all of them, even Kucinich, are damn lucky to be even considered for the highest office in the land. I like Obama and Clinton, but I'll save my pity for people who truly deserve it.

[ronnykmarshall]

32. What the hell is this?

[dailykoff]

33. Call it a wake.

nt

[NewHampster]

39. I'd assume he'd peeled an onion

nt