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Hillary Clinton suffered bouts of depression as U.S. First Lady
Yahoo ^ | Saturday June 2,2007 | ANI

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)


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bernstein; clinton; depression; hillary; womanincharge; x42
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To: theDentist; TonyInOhio
Nothing appeals to the uppity woman voter more than a woman with depression. Or cancer. Or a philandering husband. And so on. ~ TonyInOhio

An appeal for the PITY VOTE. ~ theDentist

Yeah? Imagine how many votes the Widder Clinton will get...

161 posted on 12/01/2007 11:28:14 AM PST by null and void (No more Bushes/No more Clintons)
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To: COUNTrecount

Vince Foster did not commit suicide.
Vince Foster was murdered by the Clintons and moved to Ft. Marcey Park.


162 posted on 12/01/2007 11:31:20 AM PST by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: Ken522
Not you, her ....

Me too. I suffer from depression.

163 posted on 12/01/2007 11:32:29 AM PST by null and void (No more Bushes/No more Clintons)
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To: null and void
Ugh! That picture is so wrong!

By the way, did Bill write the song MacArthur Park?

Between the parted pages and were pressed In love's hot, fevered iron Like a striped pair of pants

164 posted on 12/01/2007 11:33:03 AM PST by stillonaroll (Rudy = Hillary: pro-abortion, pro-gay, anti-gun)
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To: COUNTrecount
Well . . . Bubba had been playing hide the salami with Monica and at least two other interns/ aides. Hillary was playing carpet cleaner games with her female staff. Bound to cause lots of frustration. Then there were all those strange suicides and murders. Hillary lost her temper, threw heavy objects at WH staff and caused secret service agents to cry in public.

The poor, poor baby . . .

165 posted on 12/01/2007 11:34:03 AM PST by ex-Texan (Matthew 7: 1 - 6)
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To: purpleraine

I have a box of straight razors I’d gladly loan her.

A warm bath. Glass of wine.

A guy can hope can’t he?


166 posted on 12/01/2007 11:34:21 AM PST by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

The Look of Shear Crazed Lunacy!! and she is being considered for Comander-in-Chief!! She makes John F##ing Kerry look “Fit for Command!”


167 posted on 12/01/2007 11:35:02 AM PST by True Republican Patriot (God Bless America and The Republicans)
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To: Malone LaVeigh
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.

No sh*t, Sherlock.


168 posted on 12/01/2007 11:38:33 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Ron Paul put the cuckoo in my Cocoa Puffs)
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To: COUNTrecount
Paranoia or meglomania I could believe more than depression.
169 posted on 12/01/2007 11:38:58 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: ThisLittleLightofMine
everyone suffers from depression at some point in their lives

They used the word 'serious.' I have never been seriously depressed. Rarely even mildly, and only for a few hours.

170 posted on 12/01/2007 11:39:04 AM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: GOPJ
I'm no fan of Hillary, but Bernstein's hitting below the belt on this one -- if she hasn't felt sad about all this loss, she would have ice water in her veins. On this she gets a pass...

I disagree. Defeat should just roll off your back if you are the CIC. A president must be stable and strong enough to take a political or personal loss and not let it negatively impact forthcoming decisions.

I have been reading the Reagan Diaries, and RWR stayed very level in both victory and defeat.

171 posted on 12/01/2007 11:39:37 AM PST by stillonaroll (Rudy = Hillary: pro-abortion, pro-gay, anti-gun)
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To: jdm
... after her close friend Vince Foster committed suicide.

There really is no need for more corroborating evidence proving that Foster was indeed murdered and that a massive cover-up followed. But if you want more, please go to HRC's book "Living History" and read her phony comments on Foster. The fact is that by the time of the crime, HRC's purported romantic relationship with the victim had fizzled (to put it mildly). They hadn't seen each other for more than a month, even though their respective WH offices were very close to each other. The crocodile tears shed by HRC on Foster's death were merely part of the cover-up.

172 posted on 12/01/2007 11:39:40 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: null and void

Those pants and the stripes are sooo ugly and they seem to come together as a target on her crotch! YUK!


173 posted on 12/01/2007 11:39:56 AM PST by True Republican Patriot (God Bless America and The Republicans)
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To: stillonaroll
Ugh! That picture is so wrong!

You have no idea just how wrong.

Even my son agrees it looks a bit like my ex...

174 posted on 12/01/2007 11:40:44 AM PST by null and void (No more Bushes/No more Clintons)
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To: COUNTrecount

Interesting that this is coming out a day after the hostage situation.


175 posted on 12/01/2007 11:41:34 AM PST by CindyDawg
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To: Cagey

A stock broker, on his way home from work in New York City, came to a
dead halt in traffic and thought to himself, “Wow, this seems much
worse than usual.”

He notices a police officer walking between the lines of stopped
cars, so he rolls down his window and asks, “Officer, what’s the hold
up?”

The officer replies, “Hillary Clinton is depressed, so she stopped
her motorcade and is threatening to douse herself in gasoline and set
herself on fire. She says her husband has spent all her money and the
Democrats told her to forget about running for President in 2008, so
we’re taking up a collection for her.”

The stock broker asks, “How much have you got so far?”

The officer replies “About 75 gallons, but a lot of folks are still
siphoning.”

You owe me a new monitor!!!!!!!!!!!


176 posted on 12/01/2007 11:43:06 AM PST by jamndad5 ("I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials.")
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To: Joe Boucher

All that we really know, based on the evidence that has been made public, is that Vincent Foster did not commit suicide in Fort Marcy Park. Suspecting the Clintons of murder is a reasonable conjecture, but without any proof. The real mystery to me is why two Republican special prosecutors lent their name to the cover-up.


177 posted on 12/01/2007 11:43:14 AM PST by devere
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To: True Republican Patriot

I chopped it off at the elbows before I asked Ratboy if it looked a bit like his mom...


178 posted on 12/01/2007 11:43:34 AM PST by null and void (No more Bushes/No more Clintons)
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To: Cagey
I did as well,in fact depression during her husbands 8 years in the WH is the only thing the hildabeast and I have in common.
179 posted on 12/01/2007 11:44:24 AM PST by Ditter
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To: COUNTrecount


Poor bird...that 3rd and 4th term ought to pep her up a bit.
180 posted on 12/01/2007 11:48:13 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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