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January 07, 2008
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Clinton fights tears: "It's not easy"
Exhausted and facing the prospect of losing the second test of her primary campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton fought back tears as her voice broke at the close of a sedate event in a Portsmouth coffee shop.
She expressed the sheer difficulty of heading out to the trail each day "It's not easy," she said and suggested she faced "pretty difficult odds."
And with audible frustration and disbelief, she drew the contrast between her experience and Sen. Barack Obama's that suggests that her campaign's current message -- the question of who is ready -- matches her profound sense that she alone is ready for the job.
"Some of us know what are going to do on day one, and some of us havent thought that through enough," she said.
The question was innocuous:
"As a woman I know its hard to get out of the house and get ready," asked Marianne Pernold, a local freelance photographer. "Who does your hair?"
Clinton began by talking about her hair she has some help but moved to talk more generally about the campaign.
"Its not easy, its not easy, and I couldnt do it if I just didnt passionately believe it was the right thing to do," she said.
"I have so many opportunities for this country. I dont want to see us all fall back," she said, her voice breaking in the last phrase.
"This is very personal for me," she said to supportive applause from the small gathering, at which she'd been discussing policy around a table for an hour. "Its not just political, it's not just public I see what's happening. We have to reverse it."
"Some people think elections are a game its about whos up and who's down," she said. "It's about our country's future, it's about our kids' future it's really about all of us together."
"And some of us put ourselves out there and do this against some pretty difficult odds, and we do it each one of us because we care about our country," she said.
"Some of us are right and some of us are wrong. Some of us are ready and some of us are not. Some of us know what are going to do on day one, and some of us havent thought that through enough," she said.
"When we look at the array of problems that we have, and the potential for it really spinning out of control this is one of the most important elections America's ever faced," she concluded.
The questioner, Pernold, said she'd come to the event "smitten" by Obama, but that she's now torn. "Showing that emotion I really find it refreshing," she said.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0108/Clinton_fights_tears_Its_not_easy.html
Read More: Hillary Clinton
Clinton fights tears: "It's not easy"
Exhausted and facing the prospect of losing the second test of her primary campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton fought back tears as her voice broke at the close of a sedate event in a Portsmouth coffee shop.
She expressed the sheer difficulty of heading out to the trail each day "It's not easy," she said and suggested she faced "pretty difficult odds."
And with audible frustration and disbelief, she drew the contrast between her experience and Sen. Barack Obama's that suggests that her campaign's current message -- the question of who is ready -- matches her profound sense that she alone is ready for the job.
"Some of us know what are going to do on day one, and some of us havent thought that through enough," she said.
The question was innocuous:
"As a woman I know its hard to get out of the house and get ready," asked Marianne Pernold, a local freelance photographer. "Who does your hair?"
Clinton began by talking about her hair she has some help but moved to talk more generally about the campaign.
"Its not easy, its not easy, and I couldnt do it if I just didnt passionately believe it was the right thing to do," she said.
"I have so many opportunities for this country. I dont want to see us all fall back," she said, her voice breaking in the last phrase.
"This is very personal for me," she said to supportive applause from the small gathering, at which she'd been discussing policy around a table for an hour. "Its not just political, it's not just public I see what's happening. We have to reverse it."
"Some people think elections are a game its about whos up and who's down," she said. "It's about our country's future, it's about our kids' future it's really about all of us together."
"And some of us put ourselves out there and do this against some pretty difficult odds, and we do it each one of us because we care about our country," she said.
"Some of us are right and some of us are wrong. Some of us are ready and some of us are not. Some of us know what are going to do on day one, and some of us havent thought that through enough," she said.
"When we look at the array of problems that we have, and the potential for it really spinning out of control this is one of the most important elections America's ever faced," she concluded.
The questioner, Pernold, said she'd come to the event "smitten" by Obama, but that she's now torn. "Showing that emotion I really find it refreshing," she said.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0108/Clinton_fights_tears_Its_not_easy.html
