I believe it.
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)
Why has nothing been reported on Hillary's seroius bouts of depression yet?This report is from Carl Bernstein.The media can't hide everything.
LOL. Good one!
She wouldn’t be human {insert joke here} if she didn’t find some of what happened depressing.
Foster died in July 1993. Not "late 1994."
Hmmmm...
I suffered a few bouts of depression while Bill and Hil were President too.
Imagine how depressed she’ll be when she loses.
A CIC with mental problems should be an automatic disqualifier for the job ...
Took him a while to figure that out.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/02/wus02.xml
Hillary ‘was hit by depression while first lady’
By Toby Harnden in Washington
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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.”
I was depressed TOO when Hillary was First Lady!
SOME of us remember Eagleton's crucifixion in the Press because he had received electroshock in the past. That ended him.
There was even a joke button going around that had his name. The outer edge of the circular button had a line cord as a border.
Yeah she was depressed because she wanted to be the Prez and hated that Bill had the title. Just as Bill will go into depression mode if Hilly gets elected. Wait ..he already is with her being center of attention.
(Hillary...."oh,I feel so unworthy,so inadequate.I think the world would be better off without me")
She’s a carrier...
Remember Senator Thomas Eagleton ....
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...
And any walls where the ashtrays and lamps hit - hope there's a little put away in the campaign funds for the cleanup of that mess.
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