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The New Hampshire Woman Who Sparked Clinton's Emotional Moment Voted for Obama
This article kind of sums it up for me:
http://abcnews.go.com/Story?id=4109322&page=1
By KATE SNOW and
JENNIFER PARKER
Jan. 9, 2008
The woman whose empathetic question — "how do you do it?" — sparked
uncharacteristic emotion Monday from Sen. Hillary Clinton ended up
voting for Sen. Barack Obama in the New Hampshire primary.
Marianne Pernold Young, 64, a freelance photographer from Portsmouth,
N.H., told ABC News that while she was moved by Clinton's emotional
moment, she was turned off by how quickly the New York senator regained
her "political posture."
"I went to see Hillary. I was undecided and I was moved by her response
to me," Pernold Young said in a telephone interview with ABC News. "We
saw 10 seconds of Hillary, the caring woman."
"But then when she turned away from me, I noticed that she
stiffened up and took on that political posture again," she said. "And
the woman that I noticed for 10 seconds was gone."
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Comments (2)
ABC is way slow on that news.
February 10, 2008 8:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Right. The person who asked about hair voted for Obama.
Those of us who have watched Hillary for decades have treasured the glimpses we get of the caring, open person we know Hillary to be but have seen enough of how the press has continually trashed her to understand why she is so restrained.
Almost all the press coverage of Hillary is pure snark. Much of the coverage of Obama would not be out of place in a highschool paper covering the homecomine king.
When you get serious coverage you find positions that flex with his political convenience.
February 11, 2008 11:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
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