Carl Bernstein's A Woman in Charge profiles Hillary Clinton
Posted on 06/01/2007 11:35:29 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner to become the next US president, has suffered serious bouts of depression, according to a new book by one of the journalists who broke the Watergate scandal.
Carl Bernstein's A Woman in Charge details how she showed "persistent signs of melancholy" when she was a student and quotes a White House adviser saying she was "deeply depressed" in 1994, a year after her husband, Bill, became president.
Carl Bernstein's A Woman in Charge profiles Hillary Clinton
Due to be published on Tuesday, the book could damage the New York senator's ambition to become America's first female president.
The claims are part of a potentially devastating portrait of a woman whom, Bernstein concludes, is controlling, aloof, dishonest and greatly flawed as a politician.
Although the Clinton campaign has attempted to dismiss the book, Bernstein's pedigree and sympathy towards the former first lady's policies make this difficult.
Advance media coverage has focused principally on suggestions that the Clintons came close to divorce in 1989. But accounts of Mrs Clinton's temper, tendency to bear grudges, lying, detachment and struggle to establish her own identity are likely to prove more damaging. The prospect of a commander-in-chief who might be prone to depression during a crisis could deter voters.
The book says Mrs Clinton's "emotional state" was "as fragile as it had ever been" in late 1994 after her close friend Vince Foster had committed suicide, her father had died and her healthcare proposals had been rejected.
It quotes David Gergen, then a senior Clinton aide, as saying: "I don't know whether she was seeing a doctor or not but she was depressed."
Bernstein suggests that this was not a one-off. He says she experienced recurring "February depression" as a college student. The future Mrs Clinton confided in Don Jones, a Methodist minister, who became a "confessor, partner in Socratic dialogue, and spiritual adviser", according to Bernstein.
"When depression struck, she turned to him, as she would for the next three decades, including the year of her husband's impeachment."
Many American were depreseed when Beelzeflubba and her Heinous defiled the White House..
Aw gee, that’s just so sad.
Who cares? Not me. Too bad she’s not REALLY depressed.
You can’t be depressed if you have no feelings.
Aw gee, that’s just so sad. Pardon me while I reach for the world’s smallest violin.
Who cares? Not me. Too bad she’s not REALLY depressed.
You can’t be depressed if you have no feelings.
Oh Golly, I feel so bad for Hillary I might vote for the poor thing. NOT!
The mere thought of her becoming President is far more depressing than anything she’s gone through!
Well at least Hillary is getting hit pieces. She might as well get used to it because if she ultimately gets the nomination she will be getting lot of these. This ia all fair game. When Fred gets in he will get this type of hit pieces too. Politics is just one of those things where your life is under a microscope.
boo
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I was hit by depression while she was first lady too. I’ll probably be depressed enough to kill myself if she becomes POTUS.
I think her recent communist manifesto speech and prior “We will take things from you speech” should have been enough to bury any Presidential run.
Well, you need make peace with your maker, because Bill will be the next depressed First Man.
June 24, 1996
Web posted at: 12:10 a.m. EDT
Excerpt
NEWARK, New Jersey (CNN) — The woman described by Bob Woodward as a spiritual adviser to first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton disputed several of Woodward’s published assertions Sunday night .
Jean Houston, interviewed at the Newark Airport by CNN, said that Mrs. Clinton did indeed have imaginary conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt at Houston’s suggestion.
“(But) that was maybe four minutes out of hours and hours of conversation,” she said.
http://www.cnn.com/US/9606/24/clinton.houston/
With any luck she be far more depressed after the 2008 elections.
Antidote:
I would be depressed too if I was a communist.
ahhh, poor hilwaweeee, she should look into my eye and see if she sees anyone who gives a hoot about her.
I think it was that pair of size “small” thongs that she found in their bed that got to her.
Not hard enough.
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