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Some great leaders had mental illness-it may have helped (Pro-Hillary piece?)
AP ^ | Aug 11, 2016 | Seht Borenstein

Posted on 08/11/2016 5:45:57 AM PDT by libertarian27

Some of America's greatest leaders in history have had mental health problems and it may have helped in times of crisis, psychiatrists and psychologists said.

Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, along with Civil War generals Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., all struggled with mental health issues, often depression, said Tufts University psychiatry professor Dr. Nassir Ghaemi, who has written about historical figures' psychological issues. He also points to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and India's Mahatma Gandhi as major historical figures who thrived while having emotional issues.

(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hillaryhealth; mentalillness; presidents
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#HillaryHealth is trending, her mental state is in question.

Enter: AP - the hero-journolist to save the day!

Can't make this up.

(heavily excerpted AP article - read the whole thing - "embrace Hillary, our mentally deranged candidate!")

1 posted on 08/11/2016 5:45:57 AM PDT by libertarian27
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To: libertarian27

Hillary hitting the bong. Explains the coughing. Outstanding half-minute video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiHMM-VyDug


2 posted on 08/11/2016 5:48:20 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: libertarian27

And when her husband was lying about sex, the articles about how lying can be a good thing sprung out, seemingly out of nowhere.


3 posted on 08/11/2016 5:49:14 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: libertarian27

Yet, as crazy and disturbed as the media claims DJT to be, HIS ailment somehow doesn’t apply to this Hillary Excusal meme, huh?


4 posted on 08/11/2016 5:50:49 AM PDT by Gaffer (Muslims are the tall grass in which Jihadi terrorists hide undisturbed.)
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To: libertarian27

Hillary drinks like Grant and is as crazy as Mary Todd Lincoln, vote for her today-AP


5 posted on 08/11/2016 5:50:52 AM PDT by Donglalinger
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To: libertarian27

Article is written by AP’s Seth Borenstein, a bona-fide environmentalist whacko. Any question who he supports?


6 posted on 08/11/2016 5:50:55 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: chajin

Yes, methinks there’s a pattern here...


7 posted on 08/11/2016 5:51:29 AM PDT by libertarian27 (FR Cookbooks - On Profile Page)
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This looks like it works more in Trump’s favor than Hillary’s. Hillary has neurological problems (seizures, motor difficulties), not mental illness (i.e. schizophrenia, megalomania, psychopathy). I’m not saying Trump has any of those (though psychopathic tendencies are often a component of success in business), but that is what the Left accuses him of, so in that light this article would favor Trump over Hillary.


8 posted on 08/11/2016 5:52:13 AM PDT by Little Pig
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To: libertarian27

The advantages of having a mentally ill president certainly didn’t stop George McGovern from dropping Thomas Eagleton as his Veep candidate in 1972, did it?


9 posted on 08/11/2016 5:52:34 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: libertarian27

Now the media is admitting the Hilldabeast is mentally ill. Why else would this new mantra be started?


10 posted on 08/11/2016 5:54:05 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: libertarian27

Australia’s ABC Radio National Late Night Live uber-left host Phillip Adams trotted this segment out last night...

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/politics-and-grog/7712566

She’s nuts, her health sucks, she’s a boozer...but it’s okay, there’s precedent.


11 posted on 08/11/2016 5:54:08 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: libertarian27

remember when Obama first got elected the media looked at high unemployment and declared that the president had found a new way for parents to spend more time with their kids..?

I find this article is equally disgusting.


12 posted on 08/11/2016 5:54:55 AM PDT by gaijin
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How about a rotten, black, oozing soul like Hillary's?

Does that help?

13 posted on 08/11/2016 5:55:56 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: libertarian27

They left Hitler and Stalin off the list.

These rabid press folks are really pathetic.


14 posted on 08/11/2016 5:56:11 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
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If you can’t hide that she’s nuts, try to create a meme that being nuts may be good.

These guys are pretty funny.


15 posted on 08/11/2016 5:56:13 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: libertarian27

All mental issues are identical?


16 posted on 08/11/2016 5:57:23 AM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: libertarian27

Yeah, Hitler and Stalin weren’t playing with full decks either. And need I mention Caligula and Nero?


17 posted on 08/11/2016 5:57:40 AM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: libertarian27

William Tecumseh Sherman can not be considered “great” using any definition, unless you throw in the descriptor “psychopath”.


18 posted on 08/11/2016 5:58:31 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Donglalinger

Is true, great leaders with mental illness (or even barking dog crazy) still have been able to become historical greats....A.Hiter, Mao, Pol Pot, Lenin, Stalin, Chavez, Obama, etc etc the list goes on....no reason why H.Clinton can not also attain similar historical status....you know, remembered for great things...disposed of the American Constitution, started WWIII, responsible for millions of deaths and suffering, etc etc.
Her potential for a spot in the history books is promising.


19 posted on 08/11/2016 5:59:24 AM PDT by OldArmy52 (All change is progress.)
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To: libertarian27

There must be some evidence in hacked emails that Hellary is a complete wackadoodle being kept from a total psychotic meltdown by an arsenal of prescription and experimental drugs. So the word has gone out to the fifth-column media leftist buttboys and whores to start spin-doctoring the eventual release of those emails.


20 posted on 08/11/2016 5:59:37 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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