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)
Having Hillary as POTUS is like having Ted Kennedy in charge of an alcohol rehabilitation center.
Besides, I can’t do waffle thighs, too many carbs.
I have to substitute cottage cheese thighs...
Perhaps you misunderstood me. Dr. King was a fine brave man who saw something very wrong with America and was willing to give his life to fix it. There are few higher callings
However, traveling to the bowels of Chicago to see Dr. King was a very daring for a lily white church group to do under the tutelage of their young Svelgali-like radical)pastor."
It and other things, having nothing to do with Dr. King or her church, gave her an introduction to her later and much more severe radicalism at Wellesley, the hands of the New Haven Black Panthers murder defendants and under Sol Alinsky.
Wasn’t a VP candidate dropped because they had sought professional help for depression or some other mental health issue?
LOL....
Of course, integrity being what it is on the left, they just lied to Dr. King and said they were gone.
She wasn’t as depressed as most of the citizens will be if she becomes President. It will be a nationwide Jonestown moment...
Replaced by Sergeant Shriver, Maria’s father.
Later in life, Eagleton was blackmailed by his niece with threats of divulging that he was bisexual. She was convicted of blackmail. Supposedly the money was to go to the Scientologists.
It’s so FUBAR, you can’t make this stuff up!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton
Thomas Eagleton
[edit] Selection as Vice Presidential Candidate
In 1972, Richard Nixon appeared unbeatable. When Senator George McGovern won the Democratic nomination for President, virtually all of the “name” Democrats such as Ted Kennedy, Walter Mondale and Birch Bayh turned down offers to run on the ticket.
Having been declined by the “name” Senators, McGovern turned to lesser-known candidates, and Eagleton, who had opposed the Vietnam War, was selected on July 14 with only a minimal background check. Eagleton made no mention of his earlier hospitalizations. Newspapers soon revealed them. McGovern and Eagleton initially joked about the case with Eagleton saying he would undergo a psychiatric examination if other candidates (e.g., Nixon) would do the same. But the charges kept coming. Columnist Jack Anderson wrote a column falsely accusing Eagleton of being arrested for drunk driving — a charge that Anderson had to retract.
Now it's up to the voting public to decide whether that - even by itself - should disqualify her for the presidency. If there's enough sanity remaining out there, the answer should be a resounding NO to her candidacy.
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