Just curious. Does anyone else see a pattern here?
From 1/7/08
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – Hillary Clinton’s eyes welled with tears at a campaign event Monday in a rare display of public emotion from the former first lady, one measure of the toll that the opening phase of the presidential campaign has taken on her candidacy.
“It’s not easy. It’s not easy. And I couldn’t do it if I just didn’t passionately believe it was the right thing to do,” she said.
From 1/9/07 NYT:
… Mr. Obama’s energy level appeared to ebb at times, and he took the stage with an acknowledgment of the toll that the campaign was taking.
“My voice is a little hoarse, my eyes are a little bleary, my back is a little sore,” he said. “But my spirit is strong.”
Edwards in N.H. Debates:
… this is a very personal cause for me, because I come from a family — my father’s in the audience tonight — where my father worked for 37 years in the mills. He didn’t get a chance, like I did, to have a college education. And this is a fight for the middle class and families just like the one I grew up with. My grandmother, who helped raise me, had a fifth- or sixth-grade education, came from a family of sharecroppers.
This fight is deeply personal to me.
….
I, Senator McCain who was here earlier, Senator Kennedy, the three of us wrote the Patient’s Bill of Rights, the three of us took on the powerful insurance industry and their lobby every single day of the fight for the Patient’s Bill of Rights . And I’m proud of having done that, but that’s just an example of why this battle is personal for me. You know, we need a president who believes deeply in here, who believes deeply in this battle, and it is personal for me. When I see these lobbyists roaming around Washington, D.C., taking all the politicians to cocktail parties, I mean, the picture I get in my head is my father and my grandmother going in that mill every day so that I could have the chances I’ve had. Where is their voice in this democracy? When are they going to get heard?
Obama:
Not only does this have to be personal, John — and you know, I completely agree. When I think about health care, I think about my mother, who, when she was dying of cancer, had to read an insurance form because she had just gotten a new job and they were trying to figure out whether or not this was going to be treated as a preexisting condition and whether or not they would pay her medical bills. And I — so I’ve seen the costs of a health care system that is broken in very personal terms.
Bishop Romney was in tears today too.
New Republic:
“Romney Squirts A Few”
Is he retooling his campaign to mimic Hillary? From today’s NYT:
“We’re going to make sure this state gets on the move again,” Mr. Romney said. “I care about Michigan. For me, it’s personal. It’s personal for me because it’s where I was born and raised.”
Earlier in the day, after hearing from a voter who recalled his father, Mr. Romney choked up momentarily, according to a pool reporter who was present. “He was a great man, and I miss him dearly,” Mr. Romney said.
Windex tears flow down the robot’s face. Why does Romney keep reminding me of Silver Jews’ lyrics?
Comments:
He IS a shapeshifter!
What an incredible geek. No wonder the other Stepford GOP candidates hate this guy. He is truly pathetic.
What IS remarkable is that his programmers have managed to create a functional emotion chip hundreds of years before “Star Trek” told us it could be done.
Magnificent geeks of the GOP, I salute you!
He is the one candidate whom I have grown to detest based on his campaign strategy.
He’s not only an emotional android, but he can speak in contractions too!
Mitt has used his sons, their wives, his grandchildren, and his wife as mere props to further his ambitions. If his consultants told him throwing his mother under the bus would get him a vote, he would not miss a beat. Now its his father’s turn because he thinks using his father’s name will get him votes. I find him to be, beneath the genteel veneer, to be an exceptionally crass and self-serving individual and an absolutely shameless panderer.
Romney is almost hilarious sometimes. I especially love the huge signs behind him at his campaign rallies: “Ask Mitt Anything!” Romney is the Troy McClure of presidential candidates.
“Hi, I’m Mitt Romney! You might remember me from such campaign head-scratchers as ‘The Candidate’s Soul is Missing,’ and ‘My Convictions Now Are Much More Reliable than My Convictions Then.’”
At least no one brainwashed him.