When faced with the depredations of the Bush Administration over the past six years, I’ve gotten fairly emotional at times. It’s hard for me to fault Hillary if she does the same. Who among us hasn’t occasionally felt like weeping for the direction this country has been taken since 2000?
Think Progress notes that when men, particularly Republican men, tear up, it’s “genuine,” “poignant,” and “extraordinary.” There’s a double standard here, and it’s not a pretty one.
Oh, by the way, later in the day she had to cope with a couple of idiots in a room demanding that she “iron my shirt!”