Today Democratic Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton attended a campaign event in New Hampshire to speak to 16 undecided voters. During her speech, the New York senator’s voice crackled and her eyes welled up with tears as she spoke to the primarily female group at Cafe Expresso in Portsmouth about her passion for the upcoming election as well as for the feelings about the country. Political analysts have seized on this opportunity to speculate whether Sen. Clinton’s spontaneous show of emotions was merely a tactic to demonstrate her ability to shed her tough, cold exterior or if it was a sign of an impending breakdown dues to lackluster support for her candidacy.

The unexpected outburst occurred while Sen. Clinton was taking questions from the group and one woman asked a question about how she manages to stay so “upbeat and so wonderful”?

“It’s not easy, and I couldn’t do it if I didn’t passionately believe it was the right thing to do,” said Clinton, getting teary eyed. “You know, I have so many opportunities from this country I just don’t want to see us fall backwards.”

“You know, this is very personal for me. It’s not just political, it’s not just public. I see what’s happening, and we have to reverse it,” she added, with her voice breaking and eyes growing moist.

The pundits may be prematurely sounding a cause for alarm regarding Sen Clinton’s sudden show of emotion as a sign of weakness. While a male candidate who would show similar emotions when discussing the country and their beliefs in democracy would be hailed as patriotic, the unfortunate analogy apparently does not hold true for a female candidate and to the analysts it is seen as a sign of weakness. It is unfair, when dealing in the political realm to assume a female’s emotions are a sign of weakness while a male’s are a sign of sincerity. In this day and age of equality, harkening to those old stereotypes and gender based prejudices is a terminal mentality that has no place in conventional society.

Regardless of the gender bias, Sen Clinton has shown time and again that she is a capable leader, capable of being this country’s first female President. While it is not the goal of this blog to endorse a particular candidate and we are not endorsing Hillary Clinton’s election campaign, it is important that we, as voters, take a step back from our numb, stereotypical cultural values and take a look deep inside each candidate and see what they truly stand for and how they would be an effective leader for this country, not judge them as male, female, black, white, Mormon or Christian.

Here’s the video of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s speech…