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Hillary's Coughing and the Debates
American Thinker ^ | August 25, 2016 | Bruce Walker

Posted on 08/25/2016 5:47:14 PM PDT by Kaslin

Hillary's flacks maintain that she has no serious health problems, but there is an increasingly public amount of evidence that they are lying. Her coughing fits, for example, have gone on for minutes during interviews and speeches and debates. The leftist establishment media has totally ignored this running story, but there is one venue in which her uncontrollable coughing and hacking cannot be hidden from the American people: the presidential debates.

Because her health seems to getting worse all the time and because she has never appeared in a nationally televised presidential debate (indeed, even her few debates with Bernie Sanders were scheduled to avoid large audiences) the stress of standing before 100 million or so Americans watching her live should make the chances of her descending into minutes of coughing, gagging, and hacking while the world watches very real.

What happens then? Well, consider if she keeps coughing for two or three minutes, as she has several times. It will interrupt whatever point she has been trying to make and focus instead on her inability to speak. A debater affects audiences as much by his demeanor and voice as by what he actually says.

Images matter, as the haggard-looking Nixon proved in the 1960 presidential debates. He looked tired. He looked old. He had five o'clock shadow. Those who heard Nixon and Kennedy on the radio actually thought Nixon won the debate, but those who watched them on television thought Kennedy won.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hillaryrottenclinton
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To: Heart of Georgia

One can feel sympathy for a person’s infirmities while still judging them unfit to perform a specific job.

The challenge is to get people to question whether she is capable of doing the job. Get them to consider what happens when the president has to rapidly make a tough decision that can affect millions of people, when the president doesn’t even have enough information to truly understand the situation. That produces an extreme amount of stress. Someone who is prone to seizing when subjected to stress is not someone who can do that job.

Or (the tl;dr version), to paraphrase Hillary, what happens when that phone call comes at 3 am?


81 posted on 08/26/2016 9:52:58 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Elsie

http://www.snopes.com/photograph-incontinent-hillary-clinton/

Yes, they posted the alleged actual picture. Says “The real image was taken by photographer Luke Frazza in 1996,”. I say alleged because I don’t trust any media backing Hillary and her goons.


82 posted on 08/26/2016 10:21:06 AM PDT by roadcat
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To: Graybeard58; All

It’s not unreasonable for a woman to wear a wig where time is very limited. Women’s hair care takes time. I wore a wig for a time myself when working and raising two young children. Frankly I wonder why Trump has not had hair transplants instead of his comb over. He can certainly afford it.


83 posted on 08/26/2016 12:49:18 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: roadcat
Just saw your post,snopes is not reliable,they are liberal democrats.
84 posted on 08/26/2016 4:02:15 PM PDT by samantha (keep up the fight....)
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To: gleeaikin

Or just go bald.

A big man can be imposing being bald!


85 posted on 08/26/2016 6:22:16 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: cymbeline

How could she get out of them and remain viable?>> press will cover for her. how can we have a debate with a racist, bigot, sexist, islamophobe? the meme starts soon after his immigration speech tomorrow.


86 posted on 08/30/2016 8:45:57 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (all your base are belong to us)
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To: Paulie

Besides, her buddies in big media will provide cover.>>> exactly how can you have a debate with a sexist, reacist, bigot homophobe, islamophobe?


87 posted on 08/30/2016 8:48:11 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (all your base are belong to us)
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To: cymbeline

press and sheeple she has 269


88 posted on 09/01/2016 10:11:37 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (all your base are belong to us)
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