Hillary EMOTES!

Hillary Clinton showed that she will try conceivable trick to stay politically relevant, even if it means appealing specifically to women with show of - would you believe? - genuine emotion. This may very well have been the reason for her surprise victory in yesterday's New Hampshire primary over Barack Obama. Wow, that scene in that diner was so . . . touching! She cares! It's not political, it's personal! Behind that soft, post-feminist, pain-feeling bluster ("Her ad-libbed lines were well-rehearsed" - Rod Stewart) was her typical insinuation that she and only she can possibly get the country out of the mess we're in, even though she's hobbled by animosities between her supporters and a Republican establishment that sees her as the embodiment of self-important Baby Boomer bourgeois neoliberalism. Not to mention her own sense of entitlement and her humorless egotism. Check Andrew Sullivan's article in the December 2007 edition of the Atlantic Monthly for explanation of why Barack Obama has the ability to transcend that great American sociopolitical divide.

Obama, after campaigning in New Hampshire, had a rally today in New Jersey, evidence that he not only plans to wage a 50-state campaign, he likes to visit each state . . . alphabetically. :-D

Most Americans were unaware of the New Hampshire primary because they were too busy watching the People's Choice Awards - hosted by Dana Owens, the entertainer normally known as Queen Latifah. When the writer's strike crippled the Golden Globe Awards, I was hoping for the People's Choice Awards to similarly be affected and sink Owens's annoying ubiquitousness. No such luck.