Bachmann Migraine Story Underscores Lingering Stigma

Medscape Today ^ | July 22, 2011 | Nancy A. Melville

[kabar]

And Karl Rove had no problem piling on.

[Berlin_Freeper]

When Bachmann is incapacitated or miscalculates due to migraines and half the country lays in ruins is she going to show another doctor’s note?

If Obama had this problem, people here would be all over him for it.

[ejdrapes]

Where is there factual evidence that she’s ever been “incapacitated” due to migraines? Are you taking what was written in Daily Caller and Politico as the truth?

[9YearLurker]

I think this story is the official end of TPaw’s campaign:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/07/22/pawlenty_denies_associates_pushed_bachmann_story_110684.html

[MEGoody]

don’t think she golfs, - - wouldn’t she have time to spare??

I nominate this for post of the day.

[MEGoody]

When Bachmann is incapacitated or miscalculates due to migraines and half the country lays in ruins is she going to show another doctor’s note?

Good grief, what hysteria.

[Berlin_Freeper]

July 31, 2010 - Congresswoman Michele Bachmann Hospitalized
She's spending the weekend resting at home.

[repub4ever1]

How does one carry on presidential tasks when playing 75 rounds of golf, dozens of trips abroad, weekly parties in the White House, not to mention campaign trips disguised as government business ?????

[Berlin_Freeper]

Feel free to use your crisis of choice.

[MaxMax]

When I get migraines I smoke pot, snort coke and get drunk like everyone else who gets migraines.

/s

Incredible.

[repub4ever1]

A great president does not need to micromanage the country every minute of the day. He/she sets the agenda and then delegates the detailed work to subordinates. Only fighter pilots and Indy 500 drivers need to be alert every minute.

Besides I would rather have a president with occasional headaches than Obama who gives me a headache every fricking day.

[itsahoot]

No one has ever asked if Gabby Giffords has missed any votes because of the gun shot.

Then again we had Woodrow Wilson serve out his presidency in a coma, or something close to that, since we will never know the full truth.

[Ground0]

Sounds like selective discrimination...cite the Americans with Disabilities Act.

[Stoat]

Only fighter pilots and Indy 500 drivers need to be alert every minute.

 

And, as you mentioned, Presidents have a distinct advantage over fighter pilots and Indy drivers in that a President's support team is right there with him or her all the time, not separated by a radio, and they're also 'in the cockpit' so to speak, especially the Vice President.

All great Presidents have had great teams as well.  Even some of the lousy ones had enough clear-headed advisors around them to avoid having the 'launch' button pushed unnecessarily, with the possible exception of Clinton and the aspirin factory incident.  Speaking of Clinton, I think I'd rather have a highly intelligent, true Patriot who gets occasional headaches and can delegate tasks effectively at the helm than a serial rapist who is unfaithful to his wife as well as his nation in the Oval Office with an intern the age of his own daughter.  No contest.

[slumber1]

John F Kennedy suffered from horrible back pain and numerous other ailments that required him to take as many as eight medications a day to function. While a Represtative he had been in and out of the Hospital and had missed many days on the House floor because of debilitating back pain.

Yes and the media helped cover for him. The real question is this: would he have been elected if the public had known the extent of his medical problems.

[hellbender]

Aha! Here's a key quote from your link:

The Minnesota Independent reported in March that former Bachmann Chief of Staff Ron Carey was one of three ex-staffers for the congresswoman who were publicly lending their support to Pawlenty for the GOP nomination.

[hellbender]

"If you're going to be President of the United States you've got to be able to do the job every day, all the time. There's no real time off in that job," he said.

Who's doing the job while Baraq Hussein 0bama is out on the golf course all the time?

[9YearLurker]

Yep, and TPaw waffles and backtracks like his ‘volunteering’ ex-Bachmann staffer and he are as guilty as heck. No proof, but weak and suspicious.

We’ve now got motive and opportunity and could surmise intent.

[Stoat]

Sounds like selective discrimination...cite the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Indeed, as well as sexism.  From the article:

"Migraines, which are more common in women...."

Also from the article:

"......Dr. Shapiro said. "This is a huge issue that affects the 60 million Americans that will have migraine this year."

 

Many of those 60 million Americans vote.  If the Left or other candidates try to make the case that migraines make a person untrustworthy or non-functional, I think that a good percentage of that 60 million will not be pleased with such an assertion and may become less than thrilled with the party or candidate making such a statement.

[Stoat]

I think this story is the official end of TPaw’s campaign

Indeed, as well as Huntsman.  Stick a fork in them, they're done before they even get out of the starting gate, sans a massive Leftist CPR effort to keep a Republican in the race who they think will lose to Zero.