Hillary recalls tearing up in '08: "I felt drained." (You'll want to read this personal story. HRC)

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Hillary Clinton said she felt "drained" after tearing up on the campaign trail in 2008 when a woman asked her a game-changing question: "How do you do it?"

"When it was over I just felt drained. I didn't feel anything other than that. I didn't realize it was going to be such a big deal to be honest," Clinton said in an interview with Buzzfeed's "Another Round" podcast published late Sunday night.

The comments offered a rare glimpse into how she felt after the emotional interaction on the campaign trail that many credit with helping her win the New Hampshire primary the next day, and blunting some of the momentum of Obama's win at the Iowa caucuses.

"It was a combination for me of feeling like somebody's asked me a really personal question and it's very hard out there and this is something that just demands your mental, emotional, physical stamina all the time and I just felt like, you know, how do I get up everyday and do this?" Clinton said.

And while some critics have since suggested that the Clinton's choking up was a scripted political moment, Clinton called the moment an "emotional, personal reaction" that occurs "when something real pierces the sort of political screen" that seems to engulf the day-to-day grind of campaigning.

Clinton also recalled more recent moments when she has become emotional on the campaign trail. Just last week, Clinton choked up onstage when introducing the mother of a victim of the Sandy Hook school massacre. And she also came close to tears late last month when a man told her his story of needing to take his mother, who has Alzheimer's, to work with him because he could not afford to quit his job or hire a caregiver.

Clinton also pointed to a double standard that women in politics and other high-pressure environments face as she addressed head on the criticism that she at times appears too scripted or "robotic" on the campaign trail.

"As a woman you're really held to a totally different standard and you're expected to be both strong and vulnerable at the same time. That's not easy to do. And so you just have to be who you are to the best of your ability but it is somewhat frustrating," Clinton said. "We all feel like if you do it you're criticized, if you don't do it you're criticized. It's just so hard to get people to realize that you know we're all different. We may all be women. We have our strengths we have our weaknesses. Eventually people they get you or they don't."...

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/12/politics/hillary-clinton-recalls-2008-tearing-up-moment/index.html via CNN

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1. K&R!

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2. K&R

[Walk away]

3. K&R

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5. Double standard indeed

She's robotic or too emotional. Make up your minds, Haters.

[Rose Siding]

6. She addressed sexism too. From Buzzfeed's piece:

“Yes, I have,” Clinton said, when asked if she’s ever wanted to tell a sexist male colleague to “go fuck himself,” as Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand put it last year.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/hillary-clinton-on-capitol-hill-sexism-there-were-some-peopl#.fn6eyNRmO

She didn't of course! (but I love knowing she wanted to)

“So,” Clinton said in the Another Round interview, taped last week in Iowa, “I’ve been around a lot longer, and I’ve had a lot of challenges, but what I’ve found is that the vast majority of them can be dealt with by, ‘Come on, really?’ — basically saying, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me. Did you just hear what you said?’ — and not, you know, not accelerating it, making it an even bigger confrontation.”

“But then sometimes, you have to do what you have to do.”

“Sometimes nothing helps,” Clinton said. “You’re just up against somebody who has got his own problems that he’s trying to act out.”
Asked whether sexist encounters with men are common on Capitol Hill, Clinton said, “That does happen. I mean, when I got there it was clear that there were some people that were just troubling. And they just, you just wanted to avoid them.”