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)
We already are, merely at the thought that she could become president. The only we can get relief is for that not to happen!
A thousand volts of light for hillary ...
Sad and severe bouts of depression are two different things.
Not surprising in the least. Bernstein was, and still is, very much a part of the MSM establishment. You don't get to work at the WaPo so long if you're not!
That was my thought. She's heading into Iowa and NH very soon, and she needs to hold on to the "Vote Vagina!" part of her base, the ones whose primary motivation to vote for her is that "it's a woman's turn." Many of the sucker moms have had their own bouts of depression, and this is another way of saying, "I'm like you."
Bernstein has never done the Republicans any favors, why would he do so now? Considering the extremely low defection rate of Clintonistas (Arkancide looms large), I find it difficult to believe that Bernstein has found enough kiss-and-tellers from Hitlery's inner circle from her First Lady days. More likely, he's just being used as a tool by the same campaign that manages to plant its own operatives both at Republican debates, and at Clinton campaign appearances.
The Witch knows how to manipulate the minds of the sheep, who among us wouldn't put it past her that the so-called 'hostage crisis' yesterday was engineered by her henchwomen?
We can all thank our luck stars that Oprah is an Obama supporter...
Make that LUCKY...
LOL
I have not read through the thread and certainly have no desire to do anything to bolster Hillary Clinton but I doubt if there is one among us who has not suffered “depression” at times.
A death in the family, severe illness, loss of a job, loss of a pet, any of a mirad of ‘losses’ can put you into a deep sadness.
The degree of it is the issue.
Depression is a state of feeling sad : dejection
(2): a psychoneurotic or psychotic disorder marked especially by sadness, inactivity, difficulty in thinking and concentration,
a significant increase or decrease in appetite and time spent sleeping,
feelings of dejection and hopelessness, and sometimes suicidal tendencies .
(1): a reduction in activity, amount, quality, or force (2): a lowering of vitality or functional activity
Kennedy was addicted to a concoction of drugs due to addisons disease. The mix, to which the first lady, Jackie, was also addicted, contained amphetamines, called “speed”.
Woodrow Wilson suffered from small strokes.
Franklin D. Roosevelt suffered severe depression and had a cardiovascular condition.
Lyndon Johnson was crooked, so probably didn’t suffer much depression, lol.
Richard Nixon descended into alcoholism, paranoia and delusions under pressure.
http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/2629/1010801.html
Lincoln suffered deep depression, mood swings and at least two major breakdowns.
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?PID=24067&cgi=biblio&inkey=1-9780618551163-2
Those guys run a shaman's bureau that's something else ~ but for a real good reason ~ they don't go to doctors since doctors usually cannot do anything for their most pressing needs (which have a mostly genetic origin).
Remember, Hillary and Bill are not far removed as cousins go, and Billzo's birthdaddy actually was a major member in the local Church of the First Born in Hope Arkansas.
It was Billzo's gypsy momma that took him to her people in Hot Springs for safety after the COTFB folks foundout she was a NURSE!>!>!>!>!>!
Let me diagnose Scandinavian Porphyria compounded with the first stages of Type II diabetes with indications of possible renal failure.
That's why she gets depressed. And manic. And falls asleep at Ronald Reagan's funeral.
For the record, Nixon did suffer from paranoia, it would seem, when he authorized the break-in and bugging at the DNC offices in the Watergate building. But alcoholism? I can assure you that I never heard anything about that during his presidency or since. And the MSM certainly would have played it up if it were true.
Naw, too many uncooked mushrooms.
I have no love at all for Clinton, but being depressed is hardly being "crazy".
Right or wrong - taken from this LINK!!
http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/2629/1010801.html
Would Americans have given Woodrow Wilson a second term if they had known that he suffered from small strokes before 1916? Or, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, if they knew the degree of his suffering, depression and his cardiovascular condition?
Or Lyndon B. Johnson if we knew in 1964 what Robert Caro has told us since about his crookedness? Or Richard M. Nixon’s descents into alcoholism, paranoia and delusion under pressure?
Do not ping me if you are going to object to every comment taken from a link or my posted animations.
Sometimes there’s a dip in the level of personal sense of self-satisfaction and elation, but not the deep, dark, nasty, hurts in your guts stuff.
Buddy of mine (up at AL Post 36) was in the military and assigned duty to kind of stand around in that area (and there are always a lot of military guys doing that sort of thing in and around the White House).
It was his thought on the matter that Nixon and Bebe drank way too much.
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