Hillary's wet eyes worked in the campaign but not completely with Bill ,in contrary to what the joking reporter said.

My mother used to as well. And so did I. She still does, but I don't. I'm immune to most things now.

Adams Rib

A fantastic movie! It 's a Prototypical Romantic Comedy made in a difficult Hollywood period. After the superb jear of '39 HW had a crisis. In the 40' The
competition from the TV was too big. Tv began to look for actors with a vaudeville background, were Jewish shtick's were popular. So Hollywood tried to do the same. After some bad borscht belt comedies where the Jewish ethnicity was exploited, there came better films. At the end of the 40' the jewish ethnicity was still popular and was illustrated by blackface acts, for example in the Jolson Strory, and Babes in Armes. George Cukor. ( a Jew) directed this Adam's rib in 49. It was'nt a big hit, but it still is an important movie. Cukor combined a romantic comedy with a feminist subject: "What blow you think you were striking for women's rights, I am sure I don't know, but you've certainly fouled us up beyond all recognition." the film displays archetypal male and female issues, and an examines gender-role stereotyping. This use of stereotyping (like in the Jewish tradition) was to win the tv-audience! I understand that Adam's rib was not so well received. Katharine Hepburn's Amanda is difficult to follow. The feminism that is spread on display by defending her client, a stupid blonde (no offence I'm blond to), (who is clearly guilty, but loved by the audience) is not that convincing.
Today the film is far more appreciated. Adam's rib look so much smarter. Or is it to the fact that the contemporary audience is stupid?

It is in the family

I agree with Maureen Dowd. “Here we go again, the old juice. Guaranteed heart melter. A few female tears, stronger than any acid.”

Her husband wept openly on television when he talked about the assassination of the israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin . Clinton tried, after a difficult start, to win the American electorate . The jear after he was easily re-elected.

Though there is a lot wich could be said about my mother, tears didn't belong to her suit of armour. Rage was what you could expect if she wanted something done her way. As a consequence she didn't accept tears from us neighter. The world is harsh, the wet eye only proofs your vulnerability wich must be kept hidden at all cost.
Last years she softened up a little bit though. Maybe due to her age?

That sounds like my grandfather, Mieke. I didn't like my grandfather when I was young (and neither did he like me), but when he suddenly became old (= couldn't work anymore) he softened up. He's still the same, hard man, but he showed his weak spot and I love the guy now.

For Hillary I think it works the same. Show your weak spot once, and cover it up!

Only Bert(je) Anciaux was a weeping politician in our beloved Belgium.
I do not like the Clintons that much. Somebody who pretends to have smoked pot but did not inhale, is a risée forever to me, even his wife. I prefer Obama then. Sometimes a choice is made easily.

It's not that easy to produce tears on demand, is it? If they were planned, it was a good performance, but a risky strategy: do the voters want a (female!) crybaby for the top job? My guess is that the wet eyes were not planned at all but were the consequence of frustration and anger over Hillary's threatening loss after putting in so much effort and being in the lead for such a long time. It's her luck that they came at that moment and were mistaken for more positive emotions than anger and frustration. Or am I mistaking presidential candidates for human beings like (most) mothers now?

@dens

"i am immune to most things now" ??????? Explica. Por favor.

@Noa

Tried to comment on your storie at the end of 2007 in an easyinternetcafe in Barcelona, but since the connection was everything but easy overthere i failed to do so.
So let me clear this for once and forever. Why do you blame people for not being truly interested? Com' estas Noa? Or did you end up embittered, like Rutger.
Adding that expecting more from people than an upright "truly sorry for you" or "hire a good lawyer" might be a harmfull thing to do.

@Hanny, I believe I myself came to the exact same conclusions about myself and my comments (but maybe you didn't read the rest of them, for example I said I panicked and shouldn't have shared my issues here).
I don't think I look like Rutger but if you feel I'm a cynical, hateful, obscene, witch then who am I to try and change your opinion? But I hope you're not merely taking the fact that you've been hammered on this site in the past out on me. If that's the case, then I urge you to address the people that hammered you, not me.

@Hanny

I mean that I don't weaken that easily anymore. As Seth said: "It's a good life, if you don't weaken."

Dens

Excuse me, but who is Seth?

I'm sorry for the vagueness.
Seth is a comic-book-author. His book "It's a good life if you don't weaken" is on the 52th place in the "Best 100 comics of the 20th Century"-list.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_%28cartoonist%29

Wiki says he stole this title from Maurice Chevalier. So I'm sorry to misquote.

@noa

Idon't feel hammered and i am not doing it to you.
I don't think that you ended up embittered an that you are like R. No.
How are you doing?

@noa

I have read your comment about saying that you shouldn't have shared your issues.
You know, i think what you did was okay.
That is why.
How are you now?

I love tears. You can't count on them.
I love it when they come as a surprise.
If it is not a problem they ruin my make up.

@Hanny, thnx. All I can say in reply to your question is: my tears don't have the same impact as Hillary's. They're not changing my luck. Honestly though, it's better (for many reasons) I hang low a bit. ... tchau!

Hanny, Noa

I am very happy that you two found each other again after establishing that

1) bitterness is exemplified by me
2) neither of you looks like me

It makes it so much easier to make up when you find a common antagonist, doesn't it? Oh, and those tears, so heartfelt, so warming, so much... better than the bitterness projected unto somebody else!
Like Bush said today, evil must be eradicated. All good people should join hands. Let us pray.

@RHCdG - I prefer to stay silent for a while but when people claim I said things I didn't, I feel I have to speak out. So: where did I say bitterness was exemplified by you? I don't think I lmade any claims regarding your looks either, or my own personal goodness.