Posted on 06/03/2008 4:46:34 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
New York,June 3: In an embarrassment to Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's despondent campaign, an article has claimed that the aides of her husband, former President Bill Clinton, believe his 2004 heart surgery fundamentally altered his state of mind and that he is constantly in rage. The article to be published in Vanity Fair, and already posted on the magazine's website also questions some of Clinton's business dealings and behaviour since leaving the White House.
"Old friends and long time aides are wringing their hands over Bill Clinton's post White House escapades, from the dubious (and secretive) business associations to the media blow-ups that have bruised his wife's campaign, to the private-jetting around with a skirt-chasing, scandal-tinged posse," the article said.
Some, it said, point to Clinton's medical traumas; others blame sheer selfishness, and the absence of anyone who can say "no," it added.
It also asserts that several of his aides were concerned about reports of his inappropriate behaviour during his travels and one of them unsuccessfully attempted to intervene, believing he was "apparently seeing a lot of women on the road."
The Clinton campaign immediately hit back, saying the theory was flatly rejected as "false" by his doctors who say he is in excellent health and point to his vigorous schedule as evidence of his exceptional recovery.
Bill Clinton also lashed out at journalist Todd Purdum, who wrote the article, for bringing negative attention to his wife's candidature campaign, calling him a "sleazy", "slimy" and "dishonest" reporter, Huffington Post said.
Purdum, a former White House reporter for the New York Times and the husband of former White House Press Secretary admitted he had no evidence but was reporting what the former and current aides of Clinton are saying.
Besides, the theory that the heart surgery had altered his behaviour was based on a doctor who had not seen Clinton.
The editor, who infuriated the Clinton campaign with the explosive article strongly defended his reporting in an interview to CNN. He stood by his article's most controversial assertions including charges that aides to the former president believe his 2004 heart surgery altered his state of mind and that some of them grew concerned with rumors Bill Clinton had been "seeing a lot of women on the road."
But he repeatedly said he was not insinuating that Clinton had been involved in inappropriate behaviour but rather reporting what aides had become concerned with.
"I'm very careful to say that there is no clear-cut evidence that President Clinton has done anything improper," he said.
"What I am careful to say, is that this former senior aide was concerned enough that prominent Democrats around the country were complaining about hearing reports of this that he felt President Clinton... should know that it was out there in the slipstream ... and that it could have an effect in the campaign season."
The Web posting prompted a blistering response from Clinton campaign spokesman Jay Carson Sunday night, who called the piece "journalism of personal destruction at its worst."
"A tawdry, anonymous quote-filled attack piece, published in this month's Vanity Fair magazine regarding former President Bill Clinton repeats many past attacks on him, ignores much prior positive coverage, includes numerous errors, and ultimately breaks no new ground," he added.
Geez the press still cant hold him accountable. The fact is that because Clinton does not hold power he once did, he cant control people with his power now. Thus he shows the true colors that everyone behind the scences have described for years. They happen in public so often the press can not ignore them.
A very odd story about Bill Clinton.
China is a very diverse country. For hundreds of years, it was culturally knit together by pamphlets. Full sized books were rare, but every school child would be taught the same lessons from four or five pamphlets. Less practical knowledge, than cultural and moral knowledge.
One of these pamphlets was based in Taoism. It described a list of the difference between a good man and a bad man. It explained how the gods would reward a good man and punish a bad man for their actions in life.
I found a translation of one of these pamphlets made by some American missionaries in the 1920s or ‘30s, in a used bookstore a few years into the Bill Clinton administration.
I was amazed at the irony. That is, with the exception of a few things so personal that only Bill Clinton himself would know, the great laundry list of “what is a bad man” fit him perfectly. It was almost as if he had used it as a checklist to determine the course of his life—and always choose the path of evil. Perhaps 50 items.
Interestingly, the one and only punishment offered by the Taoist gods was that the life of a bad man would be foreshortened. A year here and a year there.
Bill Clinton is 62 years old. Perhaps when he was born, he was supposed to live to be 120. We shall see.
I am a doc. I sense that he is an active alcoholic. His irritability, poor health etc fit. I suspect he uses Viagra or other sex enhancement due to his coronary artery disease. In addition he’s a known sex addict with all the trimmings. The dems out did themselves this year. They’ve come up with two candidates that surpass Kerry and Gore for mediocrity.
When my dad had open heart surgery we were told by the doctors that IT WOULD change his mental state.
You're absolutely correct. My Dad experienced a severe case of what is called "pump-head" after his CABG. There was a big time change in his personality...from an easy going attitude to something I'd rather not describe but I guarantee it wasn't pleasant. Unfortunately we were not informed of these potential changes and it took a lot of research to finally understand the situation. Over the coming months things did improve but there were lingering effects that friends and family noticed until his untimely death last fall. He was a young guy...several years younger than Clinton, but without the vices of smoking, drinking and womanizing.
It’s common. Head injuries also change the psychic state. Sometimes the changes are permanent, sometimes they get better. Ted Kennedy says he would undergo the brain surgery again tomorrow, a walk in the park. This also might be a symptom.
Heart surgery my a**. He is the same as before. The only difference is that nobody is covering for him anymore. Which ticks me off even more. From the MSM down to Clinton’s lowest employee knew the real person behind the facade.
It is bittersweet to be vindicated. My brother was shocked. I told him I told you years ago about this man. He clammed up real quick.
I sure hope he doesn't hang around there after he's gone either.
Carolyn
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