

Sen. Hillary Clinton did not actually cry in New Hampshire yesterday but she did choke up when a woman in the crowd asked her how she was holding up.

This non-crying moment nonetheless led the news throughout most cycles yesterday. It was even the first item up on Keith Olbermann’s “Countdown,” and was the first bit of news mentioned on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” yesterday.

Funny though, where was the same attention to a story in September in which macho-man George Bush admitted that he cries all the time and apparently at the drop of a hat?

“I’ve got God’s shoulder to cry on. And I cry a lot,” Mr. Bush says in “Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush,” which was released to U.S. bookstores [Sept. 3, 2007]. “I do a lot of crying in this job. I’ll bet I’ve shed more tears than you can count, as president. I’ll shed some tomorrow.”

He also confessed to a friend that he once saw ghosts in the White House: