If you looked like this, you'd be melancholy too.
Head like a melon. Face like a collie...
Posted on 12/01/2007 9:17:09 AM PST by COUNTrecount
London, June 2 (ANI): Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner to become the next American president, suffered serious bouts of depression when she was the U.S. First Lady in 1994.
According to former Watergate scandal journalist Carl Bernstein, Hillary also displayed persistent signs of melancholy as a student.
Bernstein 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" in his book -- "A Woman in Charge" in 1994, a year after her husband, Bill Clinton became president.
The book says 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.
Due to be published on Tuesday, the book, according to The Telegraph, 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. (ANI)
This is seven years old, but very worth reading.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38af4b041045.htm
LOL! I like that!
I usually use “Bravo-Sierra” or “Bovine Scatology!”
All the more interesting and important because it comes from the pen of Carl Bernstein, an icon of the left!
ROTFLOL!! I think the whole country did.
Good grief .. you couldn’t turn on your TV without having Bubba’s face in the middle of the screen. That was truly depressing!
I’d love to eliminate Hillary as a candidate, but this is not the way. We’d have to eliminate many great leaders if ever having an depressive episode precludes one from higher office. What would Europe be like today without Churchill?
Why were Billy Jeff's medical records never released?
You would deny me the Presidency???
She doesn’t look depressed to me.
Yes, it's posted on Yahoo India. I'm not surprised that the Hitlery worshiping US media is spiking the story.
Clinton’s “emotional state” was “as fragile as it had ever been” in late 1994 after her close friend Vince Foster had committed suicide, (without her)
Well that rules out Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson.
It does now. Now, the CIC must be able to make life or death strategic calculations within seconds. A nuclear launch/abort decision was not a factor in the nation's olden days.
*GROAN*
Hey Carl, quit picking on her. She just hadn’t come to the self actualization that she was a lesbian. now that she has reconciled that I am sure she is perfectly happy and well adjusted. /s
If you looked like this, you'd be melancholy too.
Head like a melon. Face like a collie...
Indeed. I often refer to her as 'the Demon possessed one'...
..Vince Foster...suicide??????.....(that's what you call suicide?)
Her power hungry scheme with healthcare..??????
Where are you coming from...Mars?
I say that as someone who knows.
We did tell you to not get married!
Hi cyborg! *waving*
[Petronski backs away slowly]
I agree that her father's death and the rejection of her health care proposals could have contributed to her depression. However, the health care proposals were defeated in 1994, while Foster was killed on July 20, 1993.
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