Will crying help?
Posted By Carlo on September 17, 2009
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi cried about the body politic today, it reminded me of the day in January 2008 when then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton grew misty during a New Hampshire campaign stop.
Clinton intimated tears when a woman asked her how she bore up under the campaign strain. Pelosi quivered when she compared today’s heated rhetoric over health care reform and other Obama moves to late November 1978 in San Francisco, when Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, the city’s first openly gay executive, were assassinated.
Clinton and Pelosi have reputations for being hard and unemotional. Many credited Clinton’s unexpected vulnerability for her primary win against Barack Obama. I wonder whether Pelosi’s show of vulnerability over the meanness in today’s charged political atmosphere will pay a parallel dividend. What that might be is being played out daily.
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Buddy’s party is like a yearly class reunion where everyone can reminisce and tell tales of their misspent youth, wasted opportunities and wild stories. The stories are the best part for me, mostly because they cant be repeated outside this gathering. (because either no one would believe them or outsiders shouldn’t really know those kinds of things about you