Fired up! Ready for you to drop the stupid, sexist Hillary's-a-crybaby-and/or-a-faker story already!

Seriously, Jesse Jackson Jr., you really shouldn't do that.

The other day, I was proud to be an Obama supporter when, after Clinton choked up a little--she didn't even shed any tears or cry out loud, for crying out loud!--my guy responded to a question about it from the juvenile gaggle of groupthinking gossip hounds Our Nation's finest political reporters with just the right combination of classy respect for his opponent and subtle disdain for the question--while the other guy expressed fear that Hillary might, if elected, get too emotional to think clearly while she's menstruating all over the missile launch buttons gave a careless and offensive response.

Today, Jackson, Obama's co-chair, outdid Edwards. While Jackson doesn't get into the crying-women-are-weak garbage, he does talk some pretty serious nonsense about how she should have cried about other sad things--POLICY-related sad things--instead of about "her appearance." And, asked if he's accusing her of faking the tears, he hedges, tries to have it both ways.

Now please don't accuse me of perpetuating a story that I think should be a non-story, because this blog doesn't have enough readers to have any kind of real effect...but, on the off chance that somebody from the Obama campaign stumbles onto this post by mistake: please don't let this happen again. It's offensive, and it won't work.

My friend Dave summed it up well in an e-mail:

Encouraging that someone in the Obama campaign is echoing talking points from William Kristol.

It's mean to accuse someone of crying on purpose. At least Edwards had the integrity to believe she was really crying, and the guts and backbone to just make fun of her for being a weak woman.