Bring On The Tears

I just don 't want to see us fall backwards. This is very personal for me. This is not just political. It's just public. I see what's happening... we have to reverse it. Some people think ... against some pretty difficult odds. And we do it each one of us because we care about our country. But some of us are right and some of us are not.

I was in Concord for the morning and missed the video moment of the day, one that the cablers are playing over and over and the sure-fire lead of the day on New Hampshire television.

Journalists on the trail say it was the most vulnerable they had ever seen Clinton and the media is playing its sympathetic.

Clinton and many -- though not all -- of the candidates work extremely hard at campaigning, and the strenuous exertions of the trail have turned into a proxy for experience. (Why does John Edwards get away with his relative inexperience? Because he's run before.)

Not only is the physical stress getting to Clinton, but because she has in the past few days, taken control of the strategic direction of her campaign, she is a manager and a candidate.

She (and Bill) wrote most of her revised stump speech, an adviser said.