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Hillary powers through pneumonia — because that’s what women do (Barf alert)
Salon ^ | 9/12/2016 | Mary Elizabeth Williams

Posted on 09/12/2016 2:55:31 PM PDT by RightGeek

Why is it surprising that the presidential candidate kept working even while ill? Women do it every day

As the cover of nearly every newspaper and news site in America made abundantly clear Monday morning, Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate for president of the United States, cut short her appearance at 9/11 memorial ceremony on Sunday and later disclosed that she’d been diagnosed on Friday with pneumonia. In a more normal world and in a more normal year, that information might receive a public round of supportive get well wishes, and then we’d move on. But these, as we are painfully aware, are not normal times.

Clinton’s health has been a front and center topic of public speculation and armchair diagnoses for several months now, all couched in the vague concern about whether this woman — this woman with actual political experience and knowledge — is less qualified to run the country than her Twitter-troll reality-show-star opponent. It’s a popular old ploy: Ladies, aren’t you too weak to do this stuff? Why don’t you just sit down and have a lemonade and leave the heavy lifting of running the world to the menfolk, dear? To which I say: You have got to be kidding me.

Powering through is what women do.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: desperate; flyingmonkeys; hillary; medicalissues; msm; pneumoniaseizures; yeahsure
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To: RightGeek

What a puff piece.


21 posted on 09/12/2016 3:18:04 PM PDT by independentmind
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To: RightGeek

I am surprised it took this long. “Look up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane! No, It’s Superwoman Hillary. look at her power through that nasty pneumonia bacteria! what a gal. She didn’t even want us to know, cause she aint looking for cheap pity points. She is doing it for us, the little people. With one lung tied behind her back she will defeat the deplorables!


22 posted on 09/12/2016 3:18:29 PM PDT by Awgie (Truth is always stranger than fiction.)
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To: RightGeek

23 posted on 09/12/2016 3:21:26 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (This posting is a microaggression.)
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To: RightGeek

Hillary is Supergirl.


24 posted on 09/12/2016 3:26:18 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: RightGeek

“Women do it every day “

MEN have been doing it for thousands of years otherwise women would be dead.


25 posted on 09/12/2016 3:27:18 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: RightGeek

Just powering through the campaign trail…

26 posted on 09/12/2016 3:34:20 PM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: RightGeek

Guys just die in the hundreds of millions in War.


27 posted on 09/12/2016 3:39:03 PM PDT by heights
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To: Oldexpat

You should really talk to people from India who have arrived in the USA for the first time. Your last sentence is absolutely the way they think of Americans. What’s funny is that as soon as they step off of the plane, they want to know where the nearest liquor store is.


28 posted on 09/12/2016 3:39:37 PM PDT by zaxtres
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To: RightGeek
When you have a communicable disease you don't "power through" unless you want your car keyed at the least.

I has pneumonia a couple of years ago, I got it confirmed and call my boss to tell him that I would be out for a couple of weeks and why. I was sure that I would lose that job. Instead he called back and thanked me for not coming in and spreading it though the entire department.

I actually got four extra months on that job which was unheard of for a temp job with that company.

29 posted on 09/12/2016 3:41:38 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles!)
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To: RightGeek

30 posted on 09/12/2016 3:42:59 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: umgud; All
“I’m almost 65 and in far better health and condition than HRC, but I got pneumonia a few years ago and it kicked my ass.

I don’t believe her diagnosis.”

Neither do I. I have had pneumonia and seen cases of it during my military tour. There is no way in hell you can be almost catatonic then 1.5-2 hrs later be all perky and prancing to a waiting car. Even if you get pumped up with IV fluids and coke. She is sick that is a given but pneumonia? I doubt that unless the speculations that it was a double are true.

31 posted on 09/12/2016 3:48:11 PM PDT by Polynikes ( Hakkaa palle)
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To: RightGeek

I just noticed the same thing. Must be Son of Journ-o-list.


32 posted on 09/12/2016 3:50:19 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: RightGeek

Power thru the bull$hit.


33 posted on 09/12/2016 4:19:35 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as h it ouealing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: RightGeek

If that is what women do then that is why women should not be Presidents.


34 posted on 09/12/2016 4:32:12 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: mikey_hates_everything

Her main disease isn’t “dumbass.” That is just one of the complications.


35 posted on 09/12/2016 4:33:06 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: precisionshootist
"Almost collapsed."

I guess it wasn't a collapse if she didn't fall to the street under the van.

36 posted on 09/12/2016 4:34:43 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: vooch

She punishes people ON SCHEDULE?


37 posted on 09/12/2016 4:36:29 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: RightGeek

What a wagon load of steaming B.S.!!

Shrillary hasn’t “powered through” anything, she has had an incredibly light campaign schedule all year long.

She wasn’t “powering through” to go to a 9/11 memorial and she did not merely “depart early” she frickin’ COLLAPSED in front of her van and had to be lifted-shoved into the van like a side of beef.


38 posted on 09/12/2016 4:45:59 PM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: RightGeek

Powering through pneumonia is what people who make poor decisions do.


39 posted on 09/12/2016 4:46:21 PM PDT by TigersEye (~Putin made me post this!~)
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To: RightGeek

Salon. ‘Nuff said.


40 posted on 09/12/2016 4:52:48 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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