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Clinton Campaign Marching Orders: Portray Her As Vigorous, Not Old And Sick (Which She Is)
Townhall.com ^ | September 14, 2016 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 09/14/2016 4:29:33 PM PDT by Kaslin

Pass the aspirin. That’s probably what many on Clinton’s team were either asking, or taking, after the fallout from the former first lady’s medical episode at the 9/11 Memorial in New York City over the weekend. A presidential candidate was whisked away in full view of the public, she was taken to her motorcade, she wobbled as she entered the van, and then disappeared for 90 minutes. What’s wrong with her? Where did she go? What’s her condition? All legitimate questions, as is the true state of Clinton’s health. At 9:30 a.m. on September 11, the Clinton camp added another headache to their list. This is after not fully quelling the narrative surrounding her email fiasco and the Clinton Foundation.

Now, Politico reported that after the collapse, a new memo was issued to surrogates to portray her with vigor:

Hillary Clinton wanted to “power through” her pneumonia, but after Sunday’s overheating episode, it “seems like the smart thing to do” to take some downtime, even though she is “raring to get back on the trail.”

Those phrases, projecting strength, prudence, and vigor, were among the six bullet-pointed talking points about Clinton’s health the campaign distributed to its army of outside surrogates Tuesday morning.

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The memo — which sought to underscore Clinton’s famous stamina and to argue she had been transparent about her health — was distributed a day after Clinton’s top campaign officials assured voters that the Democratic nominee had no undisclosed medical conditions, that she’d be back on the trail within the week, and that more medical records were forthcoming.

[…]

The surrogates were guided to say they could “understand why she wanted to attend the 9/11 memorial on Sunday, as a Senator from New York when the tragedy occurred.” And they were instructed to note that even after her diagnosis, which was shared only with a small handful of aides in her inner circle, Clinton attended “a working session on national security, taking questions from the media and attending an evening event.”

As for Clinton’s decision to take a few days off the trail, resting at her Chappaqua home? No cause for concern. “It seems like she’s doing the smart thing by taking a few days off to rest,” the memo continued, “and I’m sure she’s raring to get back on the trail.”

Well, she plans on returning to the trail this Thursday. Again, I’m not complaining over this trip up. Anything that makes Lady Macbeth’s presidential ambitions more miserable isn’t a bad thing, folks. Still, through the eyes of a Clinton supporter, you have to be ripping your hair out. Precious time was devoted to portraying her as Mrs. Energy, who isn’t sick. That’s simply not true. She was sick and didn’t tell us until she decided to wobble off a curb. Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia last Friday.

There is no end point when it comes to transparency when running for president. Your whole life is under the microscope. We all know this. Just because you release 50,000 pages worth of emails doesn’t mean you’re done giving us the whole picture on your unauthorized and unsecure email server, Mrs. Clinton. It’s especially bad when you say you turned over all your work emails, and then the FBI finds 15,000 more. This is why no one trusts you. This is why every release relating to your health, the emails, the Clinton Foundation, etc. will be viewed with a bit of skepticism, which is entirely your fault. So, don’t get mad with the press. If there’s any one who is responsible for wasting valuable campaign resources over hiding pneumonia, it’s you and your closest confidants.

Now, you have your surrogates, who should be attacking Trump playing defense, trying to portray you as vivacious and transparent, with the will to power through things. In reality, you’re old, sick, and secretive.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: campaign; clinton; election; hillary; hillaryrottenclinton; lieforhilly; vigorous
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1 posted on 09/14/2016 4:29:33 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Geez just like tin-pot dictators....this is what they tell their people. Lies.


2 posted on 09/14/2016 4:32:34 PM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Hillary Clinton......unfit to serve, shovel ready)
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To: Kaslin

I say put Hillary in a bikini and the Donald in a speedo and let the public see what they’re voting for


3 posted on 09/14/2016 4:33:07 PM PDT by jcon40
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To: Kaslin

Nazis and most other dictators always posed with children......just sayin’


4 posted on 09/14/2016 4:33:28 PM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Hillary Clinton......unfit to serve, shovel ready)
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5 posted on 09/14/2016 4:33:50 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: jcon40

Yikes..............LOL. My eyes with killary in a bikini.


6 posted on 09/14/2016 4:34:33 PM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Hillary Clinton......unfit to serve, shovel ready)
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To: Kaslin
And every time she has a brain freeze or the tremors or cough get the best of her or she falls the damage control gets more frantic and less effective.

Dr Noel nails it all down-Parkinson's

More on that, lots more

7 posted on 09/14/2016 4:34:55 PM PDT by arthurus (Hillary's campaign is getting shaky)
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“The surrogates were guided to say ...”

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This is absolutely pathetic. Who the hell are these people who just parrot back what the old had tells them to. It’s one thing to support a candidate, it’s something else to just go out and repeat a bunch of insipid talking points. I suppose they are well paid.


8 posted on 09/14/2016 4:35:54 PM PDT by AC86UT89
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To: Kaslin
Come-on, let's get behind Hillary...


9 posted on 09/14/2016 4:35:58 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: Kaslin

#PowerThrough - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E96lAHygeIU


10 posted on 09/14/2016 4:36:16 PM PDT by Voluntaryist
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Once the video surfaced, I can only imagine Hillary’s tantrum at her staff, lol. Probably rose out of her death bed like Tiberius after Caligula tried to poison him and before he was smothered with a pillow.


11 posted on 09/14/2016 4:38:09 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: Kaslin

If only Hillary could time travel, her looks could get her elected.

They’ll have to settle for “healthy and fit.”


12 posted on 09/14/2016 4:38:17 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Kaslin

Isn’t that a picture of the little girl Hillary hugged when she was contagious with pneumonia? I wonder how she is?


13 posted on 09/14/2016 4:38:27 PM PDT by Jolla
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To: Kaslin

she wobbled as she entered the van
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She did more than wobble. First her head wobbled, then her knees buckled twice and then she went down like a ton of bricks. Her right foot did not leave the curb until they had dragged the rest of her into the van.
She did not enter that van on her own.


14 posted on 09/14/2016 4:38:47 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Kaslin

Under Stalism in the Soviet Union this was called socialist realism...

Where the state was always presented to reflect and promote the glorious communist future...regardless of reality...

So now we have Hillary vigorous, strong, powerful...

When in reality she is sick, weak, and diseased...


15 posted on 09/14/2016 4:39:03 PM PDT by Popman (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproch to any people...)
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To: Kaslin
Matt Vespa is either "quite the gossip" or "in the know."
16 posted on 09/14/2016 4:39:15 PM PDT by onyx (YOU'RE POSTING HERE, SO DONATE MONTHLY! NOT NICE TO FREEPLOAD!)
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To: jcon40

No, just no.


17 posted on 09/14/2016 4:39:38 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Kaslin

She will have another major medical episode in public before election day.... I’m really wondering about the debates


18 posted on 09/14/2016 4:42:29 PM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: Kaslin

They can “portray” her as anything they want.

But people who pay attention see her differently. And people ARE paying attention.

But hey, knock yourselves out over there, DNC.


19 posted on 09/14/2016 4:45:03 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Kaslin

Reached for comment today, a staffmember of
the Clinton campaign stated that although
hILLary has been under the weather, she is
still strong and up to the duties of the
presidency.

This photo from last Thursday was provided
to the press as proof there is nothing to
worry about.

They wound up by saing, "She's a real trooper!"

20 posted on 09/14/2016 4:48:44 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fifty-five days until we take measures to end this nightmare. Trump, for the Free World...)
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