Bits, Pieces and Other Folks Snatches

Although a risky play, the crying game worked.

In our village, we teach our kids that you shouldn’t get what you want by crying. Apparently we now know that isn’t necessarily true. The same way we learned that oral isn’t really sex. I know because the President said so. Hillary was well advised when it was suggested after the planted question at the ladies tea in NH that she should work up a good show of emotion. Although an actual tear never happened, the effort to cry was enough. The angry ladies of NH who claim to have bumped their heads on the glass ceiling have spoken. Hilary’s disingenuous efforts work.

She’d be crazy to fire the adviser who led her to that gem. However, it probably would have better served the Clinton campaign to fire up the emotional play before Super Tuesday. Therefore, she will need to play a different emotion card since crying is now old school. The short list of political ploy cards to be played between now and 2/5: cramps, postpartum depression, sincere appreciation, 1st woman president.