2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWashington Post: Hillary Clinton’s health just became a real issue in the presidential campaign
Deplorable.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/11/hillary-clintons-health-just-became-a-real-issue-in-the-presidential-campaign/
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)He is such a hack.
SaschaHM
(2,897 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)That says it all about what Cilizza really is.
Rex
(65,616 posts)The media is doing everything possible to help them win the WH and grab the Senate...yet this will fail too.
Cons picked a loser's loser...Trump has no chance in hell.
molova
(543 posts)Reminds me when "H. A. Goodman" became "Huffington Post".
emulatorloo
(44,098 posts)elleng
(130,825 posts)*'Whether Clinton likes it or not, her "overheating" episode comes at a very bad time for her campaign. Thanks to the likes of Rudy Giuliani and a small but vocal element of the Republican base, talk of her health had been bubbling over the past week triggered by a coughing episode she experienced during a Labor Day rally.
That talk was largely confined to Republicans convinced that Clinton has long been hiding some sort of serious illness. I wrote dismissively of that conspiracy theory in this space last week, noting that Clinton had been given an entirely clean bill of health by her doctors after an episode in which she fainted, suffered a concussion and then was found to have a blood clot in late 2012 and early 2013.
Coughing, I wrote, is simply not evidence enough of any sort of major illness that Clinton is assumed to be hiding. Neither, of course, is feeling "overheated." But those two things happening within six days of each other to a candidate who is 68 years old makes talk of Clinton's health no longer just the stuff of conspiracy theorists.
Whereas Clinton and her campaign could laugh off questions about her health before today, the "overheating" episode makes it almost impossible for them to do so. Not only has it come at a time when there was growing chatter with very little evidence that her health was a problem but it also happened at a 9/11 memorial event an incredibly high-profile moment with lots and lots of cameras and reporters around.
Her campaign may well try to dismiss this story as nothing more than an isolated incident, meaning nothing. (Democrats were already pushing the story of George W. Bush fainting in 2002 after choking on a pretzel, via Twitter.)
But the issue is that Clinton kept reporters totally in the dark for 90 minutes after her abrupt departure from the 9/11 memorial service for a health-related matter. No reporter was allowed to follow her. (Clinton has resisted a protective pool for coverage because Donald Trump refuses to participate in one.) This is, yet again, the Clinton campaign asking everyone to just trust it. She got overheated! But she's fine now!'
Her campaign has to get it's act together.
I've seen him on shows.. he's turning into Halperin.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)Oh and fuck the reporters kept in the dark Chris...nice try though...you know we get it right? concern and more concern...I am going to need more pearls...She is not quitting. You won't get a 'new' candidate...the fact is that would guarantee a loss for the Dems.
stopbush
(24,393 posts)How dare she not keep them up to the second on her activities? Doesn't she know they're an entitied group?
Then, to compound the damage she's done to her campaign, she appears a few hours later looking just fine.
Now, if I were a member of the elitist press, I would be questioning whether the overheating episode was fake. A ploy to allow her to head off to Chelsea's apartment, probably to pick up $5-million or so in cash in illegal campaign contributions being funneled through the CGI. After all, Chelsea still sits on their Board. What other reason could there be for Hillary to visit her alledged daughter than to pick up illegal contributions?
As usual, our press is missing the real story here.
BlueInPhilly
(870 posts)On 9/11 no less, when a lot more people did more than "feel unwell" or "faint".
On the day when 3,000 folks lost their lives, this article and all the hysteria gripping DU are disrespectful and totally out of perspectice.
kcr
(15,315 posts)I can't help but notice who want to be, though. None of them are surprising in the least.
Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)lucca18
(1,241 posts)Trump is in no position to talk about Hillary's health. What is he hiding?
And, by the way release your tax returns.
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)It just changes the question:
Who would you more likely trust as president in the event hillary couldn't serve, Tim Kaine or Donald trump.
You still get the same answer: Not Donald Trump.
ladym55
(2,577 posts)Or his total dishonesty? Just curious.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)The Trump BRIBERY Scandal ... oh, nothing to see here.
Dem2
(8,168 posts)I guarantee you this will bring real sympathy and humanizing of her.
Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)You can have a reasonable concern and not be a concern troll.
Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)BFD...and what concern do you have? She will take antibiotics and get better. meh.