If you looked like this, you'd be melancholy too.
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)
Lincoln suffered from depression... but Jimmah Carter didn’t...
Heh, heh. Confirmation. There was just a poll out the other day that revealed that DemocRATS are more likely to consider themselves as mentally ill than are Republicans.
Well she kept her composure long enough to clean out Vince’s files before lapsing into that bout of depression.
Depression usually involves feelings of guilt,worthlessness and inadequacy.Kinda like the blurb I placed in parentheses.
Oh did we ever!
Wait until she’s president. Then we’ll ALL be suffering depression.
Interesting that Bernstein buys the official version that Foster's death was a suicide.
If I were Hillary, looking in the mirror would make me depressed.
Much ado about nothing, everyone suffers from depression at some point in their lives.
Oh, Hillary, just put some ice on it.
Took him a while to figure that out.
Well, of course it did. He was looking for her good points. :=)
If you looked like this, you'd be melancholy too.
Haven’t heard anything out of Jimmah lately.Did the DNC stuff him back into the attic until after the election?
Couple her bouts with depression with her bouts with stupidity and you get somebody who has no business holding office.
BI polar... ROFL.
She has a reaccuring history of depression.
Oh, great, she wants to share your wealth and her insanity.
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