Huckabee Denies

The Washington Times story I linked to earlier is untrue, according to the guy himself:

I do not support an amendment to the constitution that would prevent children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens from automatically becoming American citizens.  I have no intention of supporting a constitutional amendment to deny birthright citizenship.

Dissent Of The Day

A reader writes:

In this context, "crying" and "weeping" function as weasel words, suggesting complete loss of control. In fact, her voice became a little unsteady at a couple of points, and her eyes teared up a bit, but she recovered quickly. To my mind, that’s significantly different.

It’s also not clear to me that the show of emotion was "about" the stresses of the campaign, or even really that it was brought on by the stresses of the campaign, although the latter is certainly possible.

It seems to me she was feeling emotional about her perceived mission in life, and no doubt the prospect of losing the nomination heightened her sense of how important it was to her. But if you watch the video, the emotion didn’t become evident until *after* she had said how hard the campaign was, when she was talking about the urgency of reversing what the Bush administration had done. It appeared to me that she was resigned to the difficulties of the campaign, but very much *not* resigned to the possibility of losing the opportunity to repair the damage Bush has caused.

As you note, it isn’t at all uncommon these days for male politicians–even Bush, for pete’s sake–to tear up a little when they’re talking about their devotion to their cause. Mitt Romney apparently did so in a television interview not long ago.

So why portray Hillary as "crying in public about the stresses of the campaign," even as part of a show of sympathy, when such a description misses the mark on at least two counts?

“Those People”

"You know and it’s a lot of the Clinton people that are putting this out and I really resent it. It’s wrong. I believe very strongly that this was a big vote for Obama because he brought a lot of new people in. That’s why he won and those people should stop trying to get scapegoats," – Bill Richardson on the Clinton machine’s spin.