So I watched it again.
And it made me cry again.
More below the divider doodle.
Okay,
so I cry easily anyway.
But what, exactly,
in Hillary's video
made me cry?
Let's watch it again,
and then I'll give you some kind of answer:
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I looked for a transcript,
and failed.
But the video is short, and I took notes,
so here we go,
analyzing Hillary's video,
from my notes and my memory:
The music,
first drums,
then nice electronic music,
and video of regular folks,
saying they're getting ready for things,
it all sounded just like an ad,
and,
since ads always run before the video you want,
I was certain it was an ad.
Of course,
it is an ad,
with all the details worked out,
I presume,
by the same folks who make other ads.
Anyway,
when Hillary finally came on,
towards the end,
I realized this was what I was looking for.
And I started crying.
WTF?
So I watched it again.
Cried again.
So I looked back at the parts
that got my attention,
and played them over and over.
At about one minute and twenty seconds in,
there is a couple who is fixing up an old house.
They have a black dog.
When I got a look at the actual couple,
I noticed the woman is light non-white,
and the man is white.
My wife is light black,
and I'm white.
And we've been struggling for three years
to fix up an old house we're buying.
And the two men,
getting married.
That's a very emotional topic for me.
And,
after speaking of the deck being stacked
in favor of those at the top,
she spoke of
everyday Americans.
Not middle class Americans.
Everyday Americans.
I suppose any such terms
means to you,
whatever you like.
But all my life,
I've been a working class,
lower level working class
American.
Whereas,
A six figure income, nowadays, is middle class in America,
seems to me.
Living in that lower class level all my life,
I hate it when anyone says we need to make America work for
middle class Americans.
Seems to me,
if you want to help middle class Americans,
you seem to be saying you want to help those Americans
who,
some of them,
already have an income in six figures.
So.
Everyday American suits me just fine.
I hope that term,
and the Hillary campaign,
serves to unite Americans
around the goal
of helping those of us who truly need the help.
Back to the beginning of the video,
the theme:
Getting ready for a lot of things.
I like that.
After all,
living life is all about
getting ready.
Getting ready for a lot of things.
And then doing it,
living it,
and relaxing at the end of the day.
That's all we have in life.
When families are strong,
America is strong.
And with a President
who works to make families strong,
we might have a better country.
Women are,
by nature,
at the primal level,
more nurturing than men.
They have had to be,
since a human infant is so fragile.
If human females were not so nurturing,
our species would already be extinct.
I know that does not mean any and every female human will do what's best for those around her,
but it makes sense that the same woman
who published a book called,
It Takes a Village
would speak of strong families making for a strong country.
So,
I never did actually answer the question,
which of those things made me cry?
I'm not sure.
But maybe Hillary is saying some very good things,
and maybe I heard them.
And maybe that gave me
a glimmer of hope.
Thanks for reading.