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)
Google definition of priest. “a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites.”
Secondly, if you do not know about the work of the far-Left in the Civil Rights movement, then suggest you review history of the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. Ignore the current PC reviews, rather look at early reports, FBI field interviews, etc. There are many other examples of that infiltration.
I agree that the Civil Rights movement was just and long overdue. To tell Blacks that they couldn’t go to certain public schools or tax-supported hospitals was immoral, unjust and illegal. There are clubs here in Orlando that ten years ago would not have welcomed Colin Powell or J.C. Watts singularly because they were Black. That was and is shameful.
That said, the Civil Rights movement was, in places and at times, infiltrated by the far-left, the same far-left that wanted (and wants) to destroy America.
Depression implies feelings and she has none. She is an arrogant, robotic, elitist micro-manager who has no time for such things. Besides, if that was true and she really looked at her life (unfaithful husband, father who never really cared for her, worthless brothers, ugly daughter, rejection of socialist agenda), she would be so depressed that she would become dysfunctional. She's too ruthless to be dysfunctional.
Start spreading the news...........
Just read your Post #265; now I’m depressed.
Its a quote with some liberties taken. Shakespeare, maybe?
Depression in more than one way...
“Bipolar?”
Nah, this is just more Clintonian character rehabilitation.
It’s like this:
You thought Hillary was a full-on bitch in the past, firing all those Travel Office people, trying to get them thrown in jail, then there’s her performance in her health care socialization project that failed, and on and on and on, all the really creepy stuff she’s been involved with, and her general demeanor has always appeared to the public to be, well, unpleasant.
Now she’s out on the campaign trail, yucking it up with the common folk, and there’s just something not... quite... right about it all.
So, here we have the answer.
She was depressed!
But she’s all better now.
So you can feel good about voting for her. Cause she’s not going to do all those nasty things again. She’s a new woman. Actually, she’s not a new woman, she’s her real self now, now that she’s no longer depressed.
Do you understand now?
Good.
we agree about the civil rights movement.
Methodist ministers don’t call themselves priests nor do their parisioners.
I know about the civil rights moevement and the Methodist Church. I am older than Hillary Clinton and I saw it up close first hand. I went to CORE meetings, marches, and to everyone who knows me chagrin, I worked with the Black Panthers for a brief time in a professional role. I know what went on and how the movement was infiltrated and use to corrupt the young.
I was there and I am no communist or far left winger and know that the fact that Hillary was there does not reflect badly on her.
ANd I am a lifelong Methodist and know of their actions in social causes.
You write very very well! And are spot on.
There is something “not quite right” about her. I suspect her entire life, she has walked through places and situations, and as she left, people have looked at one another, raised brows and said “something isn’t right about that girl”. I know women like her, have met a few in my lifetime, and haven’t liked them, always saying to myself, “that girl isn’t right”.
Bernstein’s book was published back in June 07. No big deal then about this little tidbit. And...no big deal now, I suspect.
Look at the publication date. This story was published six months ago in India.
>>>>I was there and I am no communist or far left winger and know that the fact that Hillary was there does not reflect badly on her.
Since you are here at FR, we will agree that you are probably not left wing. However, you must agree that the work you did in your youth for CORE and the Panthers did advance the agenda of left-wing issues here in America.
The difference between you and Hillary is that her exposure to the Revolutionary Doctrine that sweeping some churches in the 60s and 70s radicalized her. It was the foundation on which she built the rest of her “America is a bad place for anyone who is nor a rich, White male, and therefore white male Americans are all bad people. Remember, after further indoctrination from her self-chosen lesbian roommates at Wellesley, Hillary had moved in 6 years from Goldwater Girl to so far left that she too was working to free Black Panther murders.
Please read Hillary’s early writing and speeches. Look at her further tutoring by Sol Alinsky. Look at her work to bring down Nixon and destroy America’s military.
Hillary was and is a self-loathing American, and the roots of it begin with her magic moments with this “pastor.”
We agree. Hillary is a left wing AMerica hating, man hating person who should never ever occupy any position of power.
Where we disagree is that just because she admired King and was influenced by a minister does not mean that King and the Minister are America haters.
BTW I did not work for CORE, I knew what they were at the first meeting I went to and watched them with interest and alarm. And I did not work for the panthers,,I was recruited in a professional capacity by a local government for a health care involvement. But, this is interesting, while they were a scary bunch, there was something impressive about them. They were trying to help their kids in a very impressive way that was not antiamerican or dangerous. I think the movement for civil rights had some real heroes, some fine people, who were side by side with radicals and saboteurs.
THe CORE group was mostly white, radicalized, angry young people who hated their parents and all authority. They were in no way admirable. But the panthers were something else albeit it there werre sociopaths there as we all know.
The worst thing I have ever seen was the corruption of a noble movement by sociopaths who still reign.
Same thing with the Church,,good Christians are used by radicals.
This better start to hit the fan; close to Election too late; and info must be dealt with. Unconscionable for any Repub candidate to ignore as well. Assuming they know.(And surely they do. . .)
PS the radicalization of young in the sixties was something that has always interested me.
I look at Hillary, we had so much in common in our youth and wonder why she and I were exposed to the same influences and ended up on different planets.
She had a mean mean Father and cold Mother. I did not. She went to school in Illinois and to Wellseley. I was in the South and had brief exposures to the east coast. She hates men/I love men. She also hates women, I truly believe that. She uses them but she doesn’t like them and she had no sisters. I had five sisters.
She grew up steeped in hate and ambition and without female relatives, sisters, to slap her around and without men she admired. I think that is why she is like she is. And why she tolerates Bill and uses him. She never dreamed, experienced or thought there was better.
Good Fathers, warm Mothers, good Sisters are necessary for women not to turn out like Hillary.
Besides, good southern girls don’t become radicals for the most part. Our manners are better and our Mothers would never stand for it.
She’s going to be REALLY bummed out when she is rejected by the American people!
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