biden's tears

In light of the recent discussions about sexism people might want to
consider the differences in the way media and the campaign's dealt
with Hillary's "tears" and Biden's "tears"

The most egrigeious example being this. Watch the video and imagine if
anyone would say the same of Biden and what the reaction of the media
might have been.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNrlSn7ndAA

Something else happened in this debate that we're still analysing
within the campaign. First of all we're moving on to the final 35
days. But there were tears that melted people and those tears that
Biden cried on that day clearly moved voters. He somehow connected
with those voters. but those tears have to be analysed. They have to
be looked at very very carefully in light of Katrina in light of other
things that Biden didn't cry for particularly as we move to these
final days. We saw something very clever in this campaign. We saw a
sensitivity factor something that Biden has not been able to do with
voters that he tried in the debate. Not in response to Katrina not in
response to other issues that have devastated the American people, the
war in Iraq. We saw tears in response to his appearance. So his
appearance brought him to tears but not hurricane Katrina, not other
issues.

Are you suggesting it was a little bit affected, his tears, that it
was staged?

I wouldn't say that, but I am saying that there are a lot of issue
that we can be emotion about in this campaign. And I'm super sensitive
to that. There are people without jobs, we're approaching a recession,
the sup prime market is collapsing and people are losing their homes
and yet in this dynamic at the debate we saw a melting.
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