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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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.
She just wants what she once had: The perks of the FLOTUS without having to do anything to earn it. No soap, sugar, you're going to have to actually make an effort this time, and hope another Rat pressure group doesn't trump you again like the blacks did in '08.
If she does have another episode, and it occurs in a private setting, we'll never hear about it. If, however, something happens in public - such as during a speech with the TV cameras rolling as paramedics come to the stage to attend to her, it cannot be explained away as "fatigue" or some other nonsense. Her candidacy will be doomed at that point.
We can only hope. Hope her old man’s enjoying the same health.
Hear, hear!
Indeed!
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