{"id":23850,"date":"2016-09-13T13:10:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T20:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23850"},"modified":"2016-09-13T13:10:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T20:10:51","slug":"on-hillarys-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/13\/on-hillarys-health\/","title":{"rendered":"On Hillary’s Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t discussed  Hillary Clinton’s health before now, because I consider it a non-issue.  However, the media frenzy, that has resulted from echoing the ludicrous claims of Rump Dump Trump has reached such an absurd level that they are ignoring significant news stories in the process. <\/font><\/p>\n

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Shortly after receiving a diagnosis of pneumonia on Friday, Hillary Clinton decided to limit the information to her family members and close aides, certain that the illness was not a crucial issue for voters and that it might be twisted and exploited by her opponents, several advisers and allies said on Monday.<\/p>\n

To those she did inform, Mrs. Clinton was emphatic: She intended to \u201cpress on\u201d with her campaign schedule, she said. Her confidants concluded that she did not want to be challenged over her preference to keep the pneumonia private and continue working.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Clinton\u2019s inner circle was mindful of both her guardedness and her expectation of loyalty once her mind is made up. And she was optimistic that she could recover over the weekend, when she had only two brief events on her schedule, said the advisers and allies, who insisted on anonymity to disclose private conversations.<\/p>\n

But Mrs. Clinton\u2019s penchant for privacy backfired<\/strong>. On Monday, her campaign scrambled to reassure voters about her health, a day after she grew visibly weak and was filmed being helped into a van: unsettling images that circulated widely and led her aides to disclose the pneumonia diagnosis<\/a> two days after the fact… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From <NY Times<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

Note that the author is blaming the controversy on Hillary’s "penchant for privacy", when to do so is meritless.  Prior to his election to his fourth term, FDR’s doctor told him that, unless he retired and removed the demands on himself, he would die in office.  He did not publicize it.  He was reelected.  As predicted, he did die.  But before he did his service to America was beyond reproach.  And when he died, Truman took over.  As long as Presidential candidates have running mates who are competent to assume the Office, the intimate details of their health are nobody else’s business.  The only time it should become an issue is when the candidate has a running mate like Drill Baby Dingbat, who is not competent to pass gas, let alone take over the Presidency.<\/font><\/p>\n

In his coverage of this story, Lawrence O’Donnell<\/a> explained what the media failed to cover because of harping on this.<\/font><\/p>\n