I must admit that my heart went out to Hillary when I saw the clip where she wells up and almost cries... my sympathy soon turned to disappointment and anger as I watched her do the best version of CHENEY/ROVE style "only we can keep you safe" bull shit I have ever seen.
If you missed it, Olbermann had it on his show last night, it was number 5 on the countdown (http://thenewshole.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/07/557391.aspx) I'll print his piece below the fold.
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All About Obama: It is hard to believe that after six years of being buffeted by Republicans ranging from Saxby Chambliss to Dick Cheney to Rudy Giuliani about how only they can keep the Nation safe from terrorism, and that Democrats equal Death... That any Democrat could walk into a primary polling booth in New Hampshire tomorrow and vote for a Democrat who just did virtually the same thing. But in our fifth story on the Countdown tonight: on a day in which she had already teared up at one moment and then attacked Barack Obama the next... on a day in which she had already invoked Martin Luther King and President Johnson in a dubious analogy to herself and Senator Obama... Senator Hillary Clinton this afternoon played the Al-Qaeda card.
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What Senator Clinton did here is give us a perfect example of what Barack Obama is talking about when he talks about how tired we are of 'the politics of the past' and after watching this fear mongering, this "rove-sque" style manipulation...I decided to go back and listen to the words Sen. Clinton was using when she almost cried... and my sympathy was gone. After seeing her behavior that followed the welling up, the tearful ramblings looked like just another manipulation... and she won several votes from the moment. For me... It made me realize that when Hillary's seat is up for election in 7 years, I will work hard for what ever Progressive candidate decides to run against her.