Hillary Clinton wins with manly tears
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The thing about most crying is that it is usually born of self-pity. Some people are empathetic enough to weep on others behalf - starving people in Darfur, say, or (more commonly in Britain) broken old donkeys that people have been mean to. Some people cry because their heart is broken, which seems fair enough. But the majority of tears are shed selfishly: they re shed because you think, a terrible thing has happened to me and it is making me very sad, whether the terrible thing is bad news, or someone s death, or being passed over for promotion. We don t cry because someone has died: we cry because we ll miss them and it s going to be very miserable for us.
We know this, which is why we view crying with suspicion: the person weeping is, more often than not, unable to control self-pity, and is putting it on display in quite a demanding way (because it forces us to react, whether we feel like it or not). You feel sorry for them, but it can also be slightly repulsive if the occasion doesn t warrant a torrent of tears if someone is hysterical, for instance, because X hasn t phoned.
Hillary Clinton s tearful moment in New Hampshire last week, which has been credited with winning her votes and reversing her fortunes, is a case in point. Although she was talking about America at the time she got choked up I just don t want to see us fall backwards. This is very personal for me. It s not just political, it s not just public. I see what s happening, and we have to reverse it you wouldn t have to be the world s greatest cynic to think, cut it out, Miss Pants on Fire. You are crying for yourself, which you re perfectly entitled to do, and for your apparently doomed ambition. You are not crying for America. It was also noticeable that she inclined her head slightly towards the camera just before she welled up.
Anyway: whether she was crying for herself or for the US, it worked for the voters. Her tears were, I think, genuine it must be bloody annoying to think something s a dead cert and to have your assumption proved wrong in the most public way imaginable. As we all know, Hillary subsequently won in New Hampshire, and the game was on again. Because she cried. Or, more complicatedly, because she is a strong woman who cried. If she was a known weeper, or famous for wearing her emotions on her sleeve, nobody would have batted an eyelid but then Hillary wouldn t have been in the situation in the first place, because had she been a weeper, she wouldn t have been a senator.
Isn't this article predicated on two assumptions - first: that we want our politicians to open up; and second, that voters turned to Hilary because of a few sniffs. The latter hasn't been proven by anyone - it simply a theory that sections of the media have floated. As such it suggests most of us are pretty shallow.
So far as the first assumption is concerned, I don't want an ordinary person in the White House. I have no problem per se with women crying - I have known very able and very senior women in my profession who turn to tears when under stress. And if a man wants to cry - that's his business.
But I want someone extraordinary as President - someone who doesn't buckle under pressure - the sort of pressure that would cause most of us to dissolve and which is going to be everpresent in the Oval Office.
Senior politicians who cry openly and very publically simply aren't up to the job and shouldn't be there.
Hillary Clinton have proven that she will make a First Lady President and to me thats one of many more challenges for all women in this Country and no matter what anybody else said about it I am Voting for this mature and wonderful Lady because she knows what she wanted for her Country and maybe she it's going to make some mistakes like any other President did in the past , but she is a human being and thats the only way we learn to make better the USA go for it Mrs.Clinton.
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