What a Way To Start The Day!
Woke up this morning - thank God, I guess - and turned on the news. That was my first mistake. This day isn’t going so well, it seems. First they found what they think is the body of the pregnant 19-year-old Marine that’s been missing for around a month, and she was burned and buried in the backyard of the man she brought charges against for raping her. Seems the neighbors wondered why there was so much burning going on back there a while back, and why so many buzzards were hanging around it. One even said he lent the guy his shovel. Can you imagine what those folks are feeling like today? And God help her family, who had to have been hoping for a better outcome than this. Yesterday the pundits were saying they’d learned she was still alive and had simply taken off. It has to be hard for them today.
Next came the story that Barack Obama was coming home to Chicago for a rest, and the plane he was on clipped the wing of another plane on the runway (or somewhere close), waiting to take off. Luckily no one on either plane was hurt, but how scary does that have to be for him? I’m not planning on voting for the man, at least in the primaries, but still, that had to have been a hard time for him, and I sympathize with what he must be feeling. I would probably be too scared to get back on a plane any time soon. Well, to be truthful, I’m too scared to get on a plane at any time, but that’s neither here nor there. Thank God he escaped serious injury.
There were more children killed in a house fire, a couple of “local” murders, the continuing downward spiral of the stock market, and more turbulent weather back East. And to top it off, although not on a level with the other stories, it seems Hillary still can do nothing right where the reporters are concerned. The woman just can’t win. She has been called cold, hard, and calculating because she sticks to business, talks about her ideas for a Hillary Presidency, and goes on to the next stop. Not enough humanity, they say. Not very likable. Well, after a few months of hard campaigning and thinking she was probably going to do well in Iowa, she came in a close third after Obama and Edwards. Close, but not close enough, according to the newspeople. So, later, at a Q & A session in New Hampshire, she let her emotions show, even getting dewy-eyed at a question that seemed to be made out of concern for her. Who could blame her?
Well, apparently, the Republicans, the newspeople, and John Edwards, that’s who. And they’re still on her about it, swearing it was all a put-on performance. Now, I don’t know about you, but after spending a few years of hearing people say I wasn’t strong enough to be President, that women are just too weak, and doing all I could to show everyone I most certainly was strong and not prone to emotional outbreaks, breaking down in public would not be something I’d be eager to do, even a very small breakdown. No, people, that lady had no intention of leaking tears, as evidenced by the way she fought to keep it under control and keep on going. She sucked it up, got control of herself, and moved on, with nothing more than dewy eyes to show for it.
The pundits this morning were opining as to how it was all a put on, how she’s trying to show the world she has a softer side - which, according to them, she really doesn’t - and it’s only to gain more sympathy, since it seemed to work so well in NH. But did it really? According to Frank Luntz, certainly not a Democrat supporter in any way, the signs were there that everything wasn’t written in stone, with Obama sweeping NH like he had Iowa. And when you look at the numbers, Obama got pretty much the percentage of votes they’d all said, with 36%. The pollsters all showed him between 35 and 37, so they were right about him. What they all ignored, however, was the 12 to 15% of voters polled who hadn’t made up their minds. It seems most of those broke for Hillary, for whatever reason. It wasn’t the polls that were wrong, it was the reporter’s interpretation of them….or the lack of it.
Anyway, I think that after seeing she could actually show herself to be a thinking, feeling human being without being ousted from the race for all time she simply decided she doesn’t have to wear the Superwoman suit she’d been sporting all along. And besides, most presidents have teared up and even outright cried at least once during their terms, so why should she be looked down on if she does the same? It makes no sense, and neither do the constant jabs at her, no matter what she does. Yes, I support Hillary Clinton, and I want her to become President. I don’t have many years left to see a woman finally make it into that office, and I’m doing everything I can to make sure she does it, because I feel she’s extremely qualified and capable, and she’ll do a great job of getting us back on track, both domestically and internationally. And let’s face it - I love underdogs.
