Hillary Clinton, Boo Hoo

By Sean “Quixotic” Donovan

In a well-distributed video, presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is seen getting choked up because of how difficult running for president is. Well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle (well…not really, of course)! If she didn’t just blow her whole campaign! How does she look when compared to the ardent Barrack Obama, or the hypocritical yet crowd-pleasing John Edwards (whose house is six times the size of mine! Ha! A man of the poor! Ha!). Both of these men do not shed a tear. Don’t get me wrong; I think any woman could be just as good a president as any man, but what will the public think?
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had jobs that were more difficult and essential than any other candidate in this race. They had to prove to the country that they were able to be president just as well as anyone else. Obama is performing admirably. If I could vote, and neither Joe Biden nor Dennis Kucinich achieved the nomination (which they almost certainly won’t), I’d definitely vote for Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton needed to prove the argument against a woman being president wrong. This argument is mainly that women are not tough enough and are too emotional for the job. So…what is Hillary Clinton doing? She’s ruining her own campaign, for one. She was already behind Obama and Edwards at the Iowa Caucus. However, Clinton has done something far worse than ruin her own chance at presidency.
Clinton has set the possibility of a woman president back a few more years. It was her job to convince the public that, yes, a woman could be president without being too emotional. She obviously didn’t do that, as she is the only one of the candidates who’s been seen publicly crying (although we can all be sure Mitt Romney cries himself to sleep). We are supposedly a country of progressive, even though many countries have already had female leaders. Indira Gandhi was the fourth leader of India after Mohandus Gandhi’s reform (no relation between the two, like how there’s no relation between myself and the Australian actor/singer Jason Sean Donovan). India is largely a Caste society! Come on, people! If they can do it, surely we can!
Of course we can. Women always had the ability within themselves to be president. Unfortunately, this one woman failed to prove that to the public.