Hillary: There's no crying in baseball... or primary season!

When the campaign trail gets tough, Hillary turns on the public waterworks. She has recently cried three times to gain voter sympathy.

Is this emotional behavior acceptable for a potential leader? And is crying a tactic she’ll use in negotiations with tyrants? 

When freelance photographer Marianna Young asked Hillary how she deals with the stress of running for the presidency during the New Hampshire primaries, Hillary broke down.

“I just don’t want to see us fall backwards,” she said with a pathetically contrived tremble.

Attempting to crack her ice-queen reputation and sound like an uber-softy, she said her heart was full and tried desperately to appeal to women: “I found my own voice.”

Maybe Hillary is just exhausted from years of riding Bill’s coat tails and lurking in the shadows of his popularity. “Why won’t the American public embrace me, too?” she wonders. Perhaps Sen. Clinton dreads the day when she might relive her invisible early days when she sported nerdy glasses and frizzy hair. Just the thought of being a political bridesmaid—and never a bride—brings the senator emotional distress.

Her teary-eyed frustration with American voters is glaringly obvious. Hillary can’t fathom why hard-working Americans just won’t buy into the idea that they need her “leadership” and socialistic health care, so she manipulates public sympathy by playing female victim of Obama and the media.

In an interview on Access Hollywood, Hillary complained, “If you get too emotional, that undercuts you. A man can cry; we know that. Lots of our leaders have cried. But a woman, it’s a different kind of dynamic.”

Perhaps she nailed it when she said expectations are different for women. But rather than hinder her campaign, the media frensied around her first tear-jerking performance and boosted her popularity.

Does anyone honestly think crying would have done the same for Barack Obama or any of the GOP candidates?
As for the freelance photographer who asked Hillary the empathetic question about her courage to deal with campaign stress, she voted for Obama in the New Hampshire primary.

According to an ABC News report, Young explained her choice: “I went to see Hillary. I was undecided, and I was moved by her response to me. 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.”

It was a brilliant strategy, though an unconvincing performance, on Hillary’s part.

Feb. 4, when political talking-heads took focus off of her and Obama’s popularity was surging, Hillary turned on the waterworks—again. in a third act, crocodile tears began flowing Saturday as well.

It is an all-too-familiar performance: Her lip shakes, her chin trembles, her eyes glisten with tears and the media responds favorably.

Even Miss Sunshine Breck himself, Sen. John Edwards, responded to her appeals to public sympathy by saying he believes we need someone slightly tougher in office (this coming from someone who used his wife’s illness and son’s death to cash in on public compassion).

In an extraordinarily rare departure from the norm, Edwards is absolutely right. If Sen. Clinton wants to play with the big boys and be respected by foreign leaders, she had better drop the crying act.

Here’s a better idea: Hillary, forget 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Your true calling lies in a starring role on a daytime soap opera.