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Hillary healthy?
Legal Insurrection ^ | March 1, 2014 | Professor William A. Jacobson

Posted on 03/03/2014 1:30:30 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Hillary seems like a fighter in the Tenth Round of the match.

Alternative title: Is Hillary sick in the head?

FWIW, I’ve notice Hillary lately having a vacant, sickly appearance. Not enough to have done a post about it, but I noticed.

Alex Pappas at The Daily Caller writes that others have noticed, too. Whispers persist that Hillary won’t run: Health may be worse than disclosed.

"If you listen to the chattering class in Washington, D.C., Hillary Clinton is a virtual certainty for the 2016 Democratic nomination, and the front-runner in the next presidential race.

But in private, rumors persist that the former Secretary of State may not even be capable of making it to Iowa and New Hampshire. Clinton, these skeptics often say, will not run for president again because of health concerns….

Asked about her health on Thursday, Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said in an email to The Daily Caller: ”To your question, very caring of you to ask. She’s 100%.” …

But the rumors suggesting otherwise date back to the end of 2012, when Clinton’s health made headlines as she finished her term as secretary of state: aides explained then that she developed a stomach virus, hit her head, suffered a concussion and subsequently developed a blood clot in her brain but was being medicated and was expected to recover.

But skeptics say there is much more to the story of her health, which has recently been the subject of increased speculation in Washington.

Because of these rumors, some on the right have been convincing themselves that Hillary is sick and therefore won’t run — a bombshell that would upend the 2016 race.

Roger Stone, the GOP consultant, wrote on Twitter recently that Clinton is “not running for health reasons,” telling followers to “remember you heard it first” from him."

Roger Stone @RogerJStoneJr

@HillaryClinton not running for health reasons.
Remember you heard it first from the #StoneZone

10:53 PM - 24 Feb 2014

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(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

Media Matters, defender of all things Hillary, sees deep conspiracies behind the rumors:

"The phony concussion “rumor” has faded away, so the Caller has made up a new one. And Pappas apparently did the job his employer is looking for – his story got a Drudge Report link, and Caller reporters are paid in part based on traffic. This brand of conservative rumormongering is shoddy, but apparently it pays."

Who knows what the truth is.

I don’t think it’s just a matter of age, or even the medicals. Hillary is just 2 years older than Elizabeth Warren, but they have very different energy.

Warren seems like a fighter in the first round, Hillary a fighter in the tenth round.

Hillary seems tired, someone going through the motions, who is fighting not because she wants to, but because it’s expected of her.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; democrats; elizabethwarren; hillary
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To: Huntress
I believe she suffers from a form of double vision in her left eye. An adhesive prism attached to the lens to help balance her left eye. A temporary fix I believe. Or it could be a prop to gain sympathy.
21 posted on 03/03/2014 3:49:00 AM PST by Bob the builder
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To: JPG
"That special lens on the left eye isn't for bad eyesight."

Those interested in Hillary's glasses can search "fresnel prism glasses" and read about reasons why someone might need them. (Her handlers might make her leave the glasses when she's scheduled for a public appearance, but watch to see if they're always careful to assign an aide to stay on her left side.)

22 posted on 03/03/2014 3:57:40 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: Minutemen

“Didn’t the “Beast” take a fall on her head awhile back?”

That’s the CLAIM, and her excuse to delay her Benghazi testimony. Remember those dopey coke bottle glasses she was wearing for a while after her “accident”, supposedly they were needed after brained herself.


23 posted on 03/03/2014 4:01:14 AM PST by DAC21
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

im thinking this is a red herring, a plant by the clinton campaign so that when she does come out swinging the spin will be how she has been maligned by nasty rumors, and look at her now!


24 posted on 03/03/2014 4:03:51 AM PST by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Bob the builder

Hey, you wouldn’t hit a woman with glasses on, would you?


25 posted on 03/03/2014 4:18:14 AM PST by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: All
The Clintons are all about greed and self-aggrandizement. Their 2016 naked power grab must be measured up against multiple inconvenient factoids.

<><> They've already had eight profitable years in the WH....they didn't have a pot to p** in in Arkansas and came out of Washington as multi-millionaires.

<><> 2016 is about Bill getting back into the WH using Hillary as a vehicle.

<><> Hillary fails on several counts. When her hubby was getting lewinskied in the Oval Office---- Hillary said Bill strayed b/c of "her own failure as a wife" .......not exactly words femi/nazis like to hear.

<><> OTOH, when Bill said "I never had sex with that woman," lesbians thought he meant Hillary---so she'll get the lesbian vote (/snix).

<><> The Clintons have their very own Muslim terrorist to carry out presidential orders. BACKSTORY Billy Boy Clinton was grinning like a simpering fool at the annual meeting of the tax-exempt "Clinton Global Initiative Foundation"....even Boobomba was there hugging Billy like they were old pals.....all in the wake of the bombshell news that:

<><> the tax-exempt Clinton Global Initiative Foundation uses shady financing;

<><> the tax-exempt Clinton Global Initiative had employed an active Muzzie terrorist named Gehad el-Haddad (The stupid Clintons did not know Gehad was Farsi for "jihad")

Gehad also knows how the Muslim Brotherhood launders money to finance terrorism, using "tax-exempt foundations."

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THE CLINTON FOUNDATIONS / MUSLIM TERRORISM CONNECTION --- The recent story that a Muslim terrorist was working at the Clinton Foundation AND conducting terrorist activities at the same time, explains why the Clintons just remade themselves into the hallowed "Clinton Family Foundation."

The Clintons doing their "Holy Family" act.

NOTE The Clintons' shady foundation financing is unveiled in a recent NYT expose of Clinton corruption, greed, entitlement, nepotism, cronyism.

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<><> And there's this downer for Hillary: HILLARY FIRED FROM WATERGATE IVESTIGATION FOR LYING AND FOR UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR

Excerpted from EO-History: The now-retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised Hillary when she worked on the Watergate investigation, says Hillary’s history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther – and goes much deeper – than anyone realizes.

Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career.

Why?

“Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview last week. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”

How could a 27-year-old House staff member do all that? She couldn’t do it by herself, but Zeifman said she was one of several individuals – including Marshall, special counsel John Doar and senior associate special counsel (and future Clinton White House Counsel) Bernard Nussbaum – who engaged in a seemingly implausible scheme to deny Richard Nixon the right to counsel during the investigation.

Why would they want to do that?

Because, according to Zeifman, they feared putting Watergate break-in mastermind E. Howard Hunt on the stand to be cross-examined by counsel to the president. Hunt, Zeifman said, had the goods on nefarious activities in the Kennedy Administration that would have made Watergate look like a day at the beach – including Kennedy’s purported complicity in the attempted assassination of Fidel Castro.

The actions of Hillary and her cohorts went directly against the judgment of top Democrats, up to and including then-House Majority Leader Tip O’Neill, that Nixon clearly had the right to counsel.

Zeifman says that Hillary, along with Marshall, Nussbaum and Doar, was determined to gain enough votes on the Judiciary Committee to change House rules and deny counsel to Nixon. And in order to pull this off, Zeifman says Hillary wrote a fraudulent legal brief, and confiscated public documents to hide her deception.

The brief involved precedent for representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding. When Hillary endeavored to write a legal brief arguing there is no right to representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding, Zeifman says, he told Hillary about the case of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who faced an impeachment attempt in 1970.

“As soon as the impeachment resolutions were introduced by (then-House Minority Leader Gerald) Ford, and they were referred to the House Judiciary Committee, the first thing Douglas did was hire himself a lawyer,” Zeifman said.

The Judiciary Committee allowed Douglas to keep counsel, thus establishing the precedent. Zeifman says he told Hillary that all the documents establishing this fact were in the Judiciary Committee’s public files. So what did Hillary do?

“Hillary then removed all the Douglas files to the offices where she was located, which at that time was secured and inaccessible to the public,” Zeifman said. Hillary then proceeded to write a legal brief arguing there was no precedent for the right to representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding – as if the Douglas case had never occurred.

The brief was so fraudulent and ridiculous, Zeifman believes Hillary would have been disbarred if she had submitted it to a judge.

http://patdollard.com/2013/05/flashback-hillary-clinton-fired-from-watergate-investigation-for-lying-unethical-behavior-conspiracy-to-violate-the-constitution/

26 posted on 03/03/2014 4:22:40 AM PST by Liz
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Leave her to the Lord.


27 posted on 03/03/2014 4:24:53 AM PST by FES0844
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She has been living a grueling life for decades, grasping and scheming for power, accumulating stupendous wealth. It’s so nice to realize she has put herself through a living hell, unable to enjoy life, and now has nothing to show for it as her health breaks down.


28 posted on 03/03/2014 4:28:40 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Liz

Bookmark post 20


29 posted on 03/03/2014 4:28:49 AM PST by sport
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To: prisoner6

You forgot the cankles.


30 posted on 03/03/2014 4:30:06 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: FES0844

She has one thing that will always remind her of Webb—Chelsea.


31 posted on 03/03/2014 4:35:09 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: DakotaGator

Dems couldn’t care less about her age, health, ability, sanity, etc. Just look at ol Robert Byrd. Good grief, he was as old as dirt and senile.


32 posted on 03/03/2014 4:37:31 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: Huntress

I had to check it out a week or so ago. A fresnel lens compensates for visual distortions due to stroke.


33 posted on 03/03/2014 4:41:10 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Arthur McGowan
It’s so nice to realize she has put herself through a living hell, unable to enjoy life, and now has nothing to show for it as her health breaks down.

Ah, reading that gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling, and a thrill up my leg.

34 posted on 03/03/2014 4:44:11 AM PST by Salvey
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To: Arthur McGowan

Arthur — thanks for that summary and for the excellent warning to the rest of us. As ye sow, so shall ye reap!


35 posted on 03/03/2014 4:45:25 AM PST by Toucan Dance
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Looking at current pictures of Clinton makes me believe she is ill. If she does run, it will be to fulfill ‘the promise’ we heard had been made to her. In essence, whoever votes her ticket is actually going to be voting for the vice-President. I sure hope this Country pulls its head out of its keester and just says ‘no’. Palin/Cruz, Cruz/Palin.
36 posted on 03/03/2014 4:49:17 AM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: sport
Will they never learn? Democrats Held Secret Meetings On Health Care ----Majority Leader Sen Harry Reid (Dim-NV) and then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Dim-CA) colluded to pass the Godzillian monster known as O/Care. Obama (gag) promised to have open, televised discussions about health care reform (as he promised Americans could keep their plans). Instead, the Dem honchos met in secret (excluding Republicans from any input into the health care debate).

INCONVENIENT FACTOID Obamacare was preceded by Hillarycare----which went down in flames b/c Hillary held secret meetings.

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AND NOW TO THE BUSINESS OF POLITICS ----In 2009, retiring Arkansas Rep. Marion Berry presciently warned that ObamaCare was setting up the Democrats for a huge 2010 midterms defeat (just like “HillaryCare” had led to a loss of 54 House seats in 1994).

Ego-driven Obama scoffed at such concerns. Berry said the president told him, “Well, the big difference here and in ’94 was you’ve got me.”

END GAME Republicans went on to win 63 House seats and six Senate seats. It was the largest swing in the House since 1938. Looks like the "difference" was Obama (/snix).

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BTW, Obama did not have to put on his thinking cap---b/c it was Hillary Clinton who whispered in his sweet little ears.

Yes, voters, it was Hillary who originally used the wonderfully reassuring “if you like your plan, keep your plan” a phrase that helped Obozo get reelected........and the talking point that Obama relied on during his fight to push Obamacare through Congress on an historic straight party-line all-Democrat vote.....

NOTE Hillary's 2007 campaign website was unearthed by America Rising. America's Rising found written on the website under "HILLARYCARE"---AKA Hillary’s American Health Choices Plan---the phrase: “if you have a plan you like, you keep it.”

VIDEO of Hillary saying, "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan."

http://burstupdates.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/hillary-2007-if-you-like-your-plan-you-can-keep-it/

See a smiling Hillary (above) in 2007, saying: “You can keep the doctors you know and trust. You keep the insurance you have. If you have private insurance you like, nothing changes, you can keep that insurance.”

37 posted on 03/03/2014 5:00:58 AM PST by Liz
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Hillary seems tired, someone going through the motions, who is fighting not because she wants to, but because it’s expected of her."

This certainly seems to describe Hillary of the last year, or so. It doesn't seem like she really has the heart for another run at the presidency. "At this point, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE."

38 posted on 03/03/2014 5:06:34 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: DAC21

From 1993 El Rushbo:

“I don’t remember, ny brain’s in a blender, it’s Jello, jello, jello, jello..............”


39 posted on 03/03/2014 5:09:46 AM PST by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: Minutemen

I believe she has had at least 3 episodes.


40 posted on 03/03/2014 5:32:49 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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