By Amanda Throm
While also airing clips of "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" from the musical "Evita," News Radio AM 620 broadcast a despondent, tired and close-to-tears Sen. Hillary Clinton in an ad which first appeared in Texas, where the presidential hopeful is getting a head start for the March 4 primary.
This ad, also found on www.hillaryclinton.com and titled "Lifetime," seems to be a repeated attempt to win a state after the New Hampshire tear-up victory in early February.
Okay, so she could have been talking about something she was passionate about, but does someone seem a little tired? Maybe a little too stressed out?
Maybe she realized that what happened in New Hampshire was actually helpful for her so she's trying for pity votes. I don't think that's how someone who is attempting to make history should really go about doing so.
The tear-jerking video from New Hampshire can be viewed on YouTube, but really, it's not anything we haven't heard before. How many of you girls have cried to get out of speeding tickets?
Now I'm not equating a vote for presidency to getting a ticket, but Hillary got a huge amount of female votes when she started crying, and it's part of the reason why she won the New Hampshire primary. The recent Wisconsin primary, where she lost by a 17-point margin, may have been saying something: she doesn't seem to have cried in the last 10 primaries. She's probably catching on to the fact that she gets more votes because apparently tears are seen as passion, not being pathetic.
"It's very personal...not just political; it's not just public," she said during the speech she gave in New Hampshire. She continues speaking as if she’s talking with a girlfriend; talking about watching her weight, trying to eat healthily when "the easiest food is pizza."
She's got some skill, showing her fellow females that she's just as concerned about what she puts into her body as the rest of us.
I just don't understand how people are eating, save the pun, what she's saying and believing that when she's crying, she really means it. I personally couldn't care less if our next president is fat or thin, fit or reaches for that pizza. While I applaud someone’s attempt at staying fit, as long as they run our country with finesse and can manage to solve the problems we're currently facing, it shouldn't matter what they look like.
The tone she carries in "Lifetime" is just an echo from New Hampshire. AM 620 opened up to phone calls and nearly 10 callers asked if she had a tear in her eye. She sounds really tired, like she's already lost.
We're not looking for sadness. The American people want something to believe in, not sadness and how everything can't be exactly the way we want it.
This election is going to change everything if a Democrat becomes president. Hillary is using her gender far too much this time around, and she’s not exactly doing it properly. She should be evoking past women who have shaped our country today, not saying that because she's a woman she's more fit for the job.
True, if elected president, Hillary would be making history, but is what we're hearing in her speeches and ads just a precursor to what we would hear if she were put in office?
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