Clinton on Mission to Improve Image

Could this woman be any less likeable?

“Dr. King’s dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act,” Mrs. Clinton said when asked about Mr. Obama’s rejoinder by Fox’s Major Garrett after her speech in Dover. “It took a president to get it done.”

The Obama campaign declined to comment on either of those remarks.

Later, during an appearance in Salem, Mrs. Clinton refined her remarks on Fox:
“You know, today Senator Obama used President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to criticize me. He basically compared himself to our greatest heroes because they gave great speeches.

“President Kennedy was in Congress for 14 years. He was a war hero. He was a man of great accomplishments and readiness to be president. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a movement. He was gassed. He was beaten. He was jailed. And he gave a speech that was one of the most beautifully, profoundly important speeches ever written in America, the “I have a dream” speech.

The tears were a nice touch too. The serpent almost looked human for a minute.

But I'm not sure whose vote she was going after with the tears? Surely not men. They aren't likely to want a crying female in office. Perhaps the female vote? I'd think that the women out there would see through it. Neither Clinton has ever made a move that wasn't carefully orchestrated and successful in focus groups.