Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton got emotional today when she was asked how she was holding up under the rigors of the race.

She came close to tears, but not a tear drop fell.

I saw the video tape of her response to this question, and felt it was genuine.

The video cameras rolled, the still cameras clicked as rapidly as they could.

Hillary responded, “It’s not easy, it’s not easy,” Mrs. Clinton replied slowly.  “I couldn’t do it if I did not passionately believe it was the right thing to do. It’s very personal to me.”

And according to the New York Times , “at this point Mrs. Clinton’s voice softened and lowered to a near-hush, she she spoke more haltingly.”

“I have so many ideas for this country, I just don’t want to see us fall backwards,” she said, her eyes visibly wet, as the Times reported it.  “It’s about our country; it’s about our kids’ futures.”

And then the media started analyzing what this emotion all meant. Was it real or was it staged?

I am tired of the broadcast media and their analysts over examining emotions, body language, eye-blink rate and senior citizens’ moments, and diagnosing Alzheimer’s.

Get off of it! The guiltiest of this analysis is Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly and that self touted guru who he has on his show that analyzes body language without credentials.  You were leaning forward, that’s aggressiveness, your arms were folded, and you were not accepting the point of view of your guest.

Let’s stop with this over analysis of the candidates by so called experts on everything visual, even to the point of commenting on someone who might seem to have gas.

We do it with suspects in criminal cases, people who disappear and then we bring in analysts who question the truth of what these people are saying and then other analysts who substantiate what they are saying, and for the most part the analysts don’t know what they are saying. 

When speaking of emotion, females get a bad rap.  Perception is that females are emotional and can very easly be on the verge of tears for a variety of reasons. Conversely, a male is not emotional, but its okay for them to cry. Why is that? Do we make a judgement of what is cryable and what is not?

Allow me an example, both Bush Presidents are very emotional and cry easily — Dad more than Son.

Do we make judgments about what they should cry about or what they shouldn’t? It seems to me they do it instinctively based upon their own human emotion.

We are all human and humans have emotions and the emotions are different for each of us.

Hillary, I may not like your policies, and I do not want to see you as President of the United States, but it’s okay for you to show emotions and it’s okay for you to cry, without the media analyzing it.  

However, it’s also okay for the electorate to analyze it, without media influence, and you may find the electorate to find your genuine emotions to be human and comforting.  It’s okay to cry.