Emotional Hillary

Sincerity Or Playing the Pity Card? (Updated below)

Hillary Clinton made an emotional entreaty today in explaining the rigors of the campaign trail and how people in her position do it for love of country. Then she attacked Obama again.

"...it's not just political, it's not just public. I see what's happening, we have to reverse it. And some people think it's a game... 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 we're going to do on day one, and some of us haven't really thought that through enough..."

Now I'm not going to make fun of Clinton for showing emotion. In fact, it's refreshing to see her human side. And it isn't like some druken crying jag by John Boehner on the Senate floor. But it seems to me that you can't say you are the person to bring in change with an empassioned speech like this one, and then use the Republican fearmonger playbook and invoke Al-Qaeda.
Keith Olbermann does a fine job, as usual, of concise oratory and video.

Early on, I was under the impression that had Edwards or Obama not pulled out the nomination, I didn't think it would be so horrible to have Clinton as our representative.

After today, I'm officially done with Hillary Clinton.

UPDATE: Portrait in Cynicism: Hillary Attacks Obama from Every Angle

Arianna Huffington on Clinton's attacks on Obama:

Obama is a dreamer. That's right, Clinton is actually trying to convince voters that Obama is too positive, too optimistic, too inspirational. In a speech she called him "an untested man who offers false hope," and in Saturday's debate she said, "We don't need to be raising the false hopes of our country about what can be delivered."

...This is who Hillary Clinton is, through and through. "I have always tried to strike a balance," she said in 2004. "I think you have to view the world as it is, not as you would wish it to be." That's a long, dispiriting way from Bobby Kennedy's "Some men see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and ask, 'Why not?'"