Clinton sheds some more tears

HILLARY CLINTON became tearful yesterday at a televised campaign event in Connecticut — on the eve of today’s crucial Super Tuesday contest — immediately drawing comparisons to her emotional moment the day before she unexpectedly won New Hampshire’s primary.

This time she had an emotional reunion with a colleague from the early days of her legal career as a child advocate. The moment came as she revisited her law school days while hosting a campaign event at the Yale Child Study Center where she first pursued her interest in child advocacy.

Penn Rhodeen, a New Haven public interest lawyer who worked with Clinton as a student, recalled her showing up on his doorstep wearing purple bellbottoms.

“It was so 1972,” he recalled, praising Clinton for her long-time interest in helping children.

“Here is the abiding truth we know — you have always been a champion for children. Welcome home, dear friend. We are so proud of you,” he said.

Clinton responded emotionally to Rhodeen’s praise, at one point wiping her eyes with her hand.

Generally a stalwart campaigner, Clinton was showing signs of strain yesterday — at one point starting to cough uncontrollably in the middle of an economic round-table with a dozen women voters. It was the first event in a busy schedule on the last campaign day before Super Tuesday.