{"id":1984,"date":"2008-01-14T11:40:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T18:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2008-01-14T11:40:49","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T18:28:49","slug":"a-sneer-a-tear-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1984","title":{"rendered":"A Sneer, a Tear, a Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles Krauthammer writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

…This "Hillary cried, Obama died" story line is satisfying, but it overlooks an earlier moment played to a national television audience of 9 million that was even more revealing.<\/p>\n

It showed a side of Barack Obama<\/a> not seen before or since. And it wasn’t pretty. Asked in the Saturday Democratic debate about her dearth of "likability," Clinton offered an answer both artful and sweet — first demurely saying her feelings were hurt and mock-heroically adding that she would try to carry on regardless, then generously conceding that Obama is very likable and "I don’t think I’m that bad."<\/p>\n

At which point, Obama, yielding to some inexplicable impulse, gave the other memorable unscripted moment of the New Hampshire campaign — the gratuitous self-indicting aside: "You’re likable enough, Hillary." He said it looking down and with not a smile but a smirk.<\/p>\n

Rising rock star puts down struggling diva — an unkind cut, deeply ungracious, almost cruel, from a candidate who had the country in a swoon over his campaign of grace and uplift. The media gave that moment little play, but millions saw it live, and I could surely not have been the only one who found it jarring.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I do not agree. I don’t think there was anything ungracious in Obama’s behavior here.<\/p>\n

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