Hillary's Pity Party

The video footage of Monday's news cycle was clearly Hillary's teary episode during a Q&A session with independents. Some are doubting the sincerity:

"My question is very personal, how do you do it?" asked Marianne Pernold Young, a freelance photographer from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. "How do you, how do you keep upbeat and so wonderful?"

Clinton began responding, jokingly: "You know, I think, well luckily, on special days I do have help. If you see me every day and if you look on some of the websites and listen to some of the commentators they always find me on the day I didn't have help. It's not easy."

Then Clinton began getting emotional: "It's not easy, and I couldn't do it if I didn't passionately believe it was the right thing to do. You know, I have so many opportunities from this country just don't want to see us fall backwards," she said.

Then, her voice breaking and tears in her eyes, she said, "You know, this is very personal for me. It's not just political it's not just public. I see what's happening, and we have to reverse it."

On Special Report Monday Brit Hume mentioned Bill Clinton's ability to cry on cue, but doesn't think Hillary has that skill. Bill Kristol thinks the whole thing is an act designed to move voters with her passion for the job. Captain Ed reminds us of Hillary's history of planted questions. Some are attributing today's episode to fatigue from the grind of a long campaign.

I tend to think there's a little bit of all of those going on here, and don't forget for a minute that nothing happens in the Clinton campaign by accident. One blogger seems to have hit the motherlode of predictions:

What I dread most in this political season is the “genuine” moment - and it is coming, soon, sometime between today and tomorrow, or tomorrow and New Hampshire - when Mrs. Clinton, in her ongoing effort to turn herself into whatever the polls says she must be, cries in public. It’s going to be genuinely ghastly.

Nice job, Anchoress.