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The Tears Of A Clinton

By The Daily Dish
Jan 11 2008, 1:08 AM ET

And, yes, a double-standard:

When George Bush senior cries in public, it's considered moving. Ditto his moist-eyed son. But in fairness, they have tended to appear moved about things apart from themselves, apart from their own predicaments. Mrs. Clinton was weeping about Mrs. Clinton. If a man had uttered Mrs. Clinton's aria--if Mr. Obama had said, "And you know, this is very personal for me . . . as tired as I am . . . against the odds," and gotten choked - they would have laughed him out of town.

Maybe they shouldn't have.



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