Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., wipes her eye as she listens to a disabled U.S. veteran in the audience tell his story during a campaign stop at The City of Lewiston Memorial Armory in Lewiston, Maine., Saturday, Feb. 9, 2008.
[satire] Hillary Clinton Auctions Tears on eBay
So what role do tears play in politics? Why is Hillary Clinton crying so much? Does America really want a crying president?
Maybe they do.
Orchestration of Tears: The Politics of Crying and Reclaiming Women’s Public Sphere
But one of the most distinctive characteristics of classical Japanese cinema is that woman’s tears were anything but her own. Moreover, the act of crying, especially women’s crying, has been an essential experience allowing the male subject to construct and reconstruct a national identity in times of social crisis – first in the process of modernisation in the 1920s and ’30s, and later that of post-war democratisation in the mid ’50s. In the former period, tears were shed as symbols of sacrifice, shed in forgiveness of a beloved man who chose worldly success over a woman’s love, as in the case of many shimpa melodramas. In the latter period, tears were shed to reconcile the irreconcilable, such as the collective war guilt, healing the wound of male subjectivity, in many dramas, melodramas and even comedies.
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What is it with the Clintons and bodily fluids? At least tears don’t stain very much…except a reputation. How is it that women’s tears stop all discussion and men’s tears are an embarrassment? Rhetorical question only, as the answer will never be known.
Tom
Is she crying because she lost Maine to Obama?…At least last time I checked.
Obama, he de man.
Just hope they don’t start a necktie party…Can’t trust those “‘publicans”.
What is it with the Clintons and bodily fluids?
HAHAHAH. Nice.
Not sure if Bill is getting any throughout Hillary’s busy schedule.
I thought I saw a photo of him wiping a tear.
Memories of Monica?
Little CIA asset blew her first assignment!
But in the name of love!
Wasn’t Bill linked with Belinda (B.S.) a while back? I think she went on to hockey players after that.
As for Hillary weeping, it is said that crocodiles shed a tear as they devour their victims.
Tom
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