{"id":374,"date":"2008-02-22T10:34:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T10:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/02\/hillary-speaks-from-the-heart.html"},"modified":"2008-02-22T10:34:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T10:34:46","slug":"hillary-speaks-from-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/02\/hillary-speaks-from-the-heart.html","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Speaks from the Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/I2Om-c9IMjw&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/I2Om-c9IMjw&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object>Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Faith, Family and Values team sent out this clip of the senator&#8217;s response to the final question of last night&#8217;s debate, <em>Describe a moment in life when you were tested most<\/em>.Toward the end of her response, Clinton characterizes her political career as more or less a religious calling:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d resolved at a very young age that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d been blessed and that I was called by my faith and by my upbringing to do what I could to give others the same opportunities and blessings that I  took for granted. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what gets me up in the morning, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what motivates me in this campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On CNN last night, David Gergen called her response her most humanizing moment since New Hampshire. Te Clinton campaign itself emailed a &#8220;breaking news&#8221; alert about it, saying &#8220;Senator Clinton talked tonight from her heart.&#8221;If Clinton is able to pull off victory in Texas or Ohio next week, it will probably require more such &#8220;from the heart&#8221; moments. But her predicament is that such moments work because they seem to reveal the real, human, vulnerable side of an overly scripted candidate. 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