It looks like Senator Obama's success is starting to wear on the Clinton family. It's sad to hear that President Clinton had to pitch his wife to a quiet, half empty room. He could have gone out in style, now he looks like a 40-something basketball player trying to come out of retirement to play in the NBA - and that isn't a pretty sight!
As for Sen. Clinton, I don't know if the emotion was an act or not. But, if she was near tears, I'd bet the state of the union has nothing to do with it. She is a bit arrogant, she's probably in shock. She may have just realized she's fighting a losing battle. Perhaps she can try again in 2016!
In New Hampshire, Bill Clinton Finds Less Spark
By MARK LEIBOVICH
DURHAM, N.H. — Is this what it would have been like had Elvis been reduced to playing Reno?
Former President Bill Clinton has been drawing sleepy and sometimes smallish crowds at big venues in the state that revived his presidential campaign in 1992. He entered to polite applause and rows of empty seats at the University of New Hampshire on Friday. Several people filed out midspeech, and the room was largely quiet as he spoke, with few interruptions for laughter or applause. He talked about his administration, his foundation work and some about his wife. Read it at NYTimes.com
Clinton’s Campaign Shows Stress Before Primary
By PATRICK HEALY
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Key campaign officials may be replaced. She may start calling herself the underdog. Donors would receive pleas that it is do-or-die time. And her political strategy could begin mirroring that of Rudolph W. Giuliani, a Republican rival, by focusing on populous states like California and New York whose primaries are Feb. 5.
Everything is on the table inside Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign if she loses the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, her advisers say — including her style of campaigning, which shifted dramatically on Monday when Mrs. Clinton bared her thoughts about the race’s impact on her personally, and her eyes welled with tears. Read the full story at NYTimes.com
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