At first blush, I didn't care for Biden's choking up when talking about the loss his family. I honestly thought, "oh, hell, here we go again with the crying."
Admittedly, I was in the restroom when he started his answer, so I didn't get the full response, and my immediate thought was that it was a bit contrived and he should have figured out by now how to hold it together. However, after I watched the whole clip, I was far more open to it.
Watching the whole response, I get it. It was powerful. It was real.
While I didn't immediately respond kindly to Biden's choking up, I did immediately respond to Palin's complete disregard of of the moment. Maybe she didn't want to come off as too motherly, but my thought is that if she was actually reacting to what was happening around her and not what she expected to happen, she would respond more warmly.
Had she responded to his emotion in her at the table doing homework with the kids hockey mom sort of way, she would have come off as the "I'm Just Like You" woman she portrays herself to be. Instead she came off too hard.
I'll admit it's a fine line for a woman in that position. But, really, if you're campaigning on being the real deal, be the real deal. Real people, real women, respond to that kind of emotion.
People working strictly off talking points don't.
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