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An Unplanned Absence for Hillary Clinton at an Inopportune Time
NYT ^ | Sept 13, 2016 | MATT FLEGENHEIMER

Posted on 09/13/2016 10:44:55 AM PDT by upchuck

For much of the summer, Hillary Clinton deliberately kept a low public profile, fund-raising in private and pursuing a hands-off campaign strategy: If Donald J. Trump wanted to seize center stage by picking unpopular fights — with a Gold Star father, a federal judge, the leaders of his own party — she would not stand in his way.

Now, sidelined with pneumonia just as she hoped to reintroduce herself with a series of more personal policy speeches, Mrs. Clinton has left herself uniquely vulnerable to an unplanned absence.

Her dismal public standing on questions of candor, combined with decades of conspiracy theories about her health, had already produced an uncommon challenge for aides and supporters seeking to tamp down speculation about her physical condition.

More substantively, among Democrats worried that Mrs. Clinton has failed to make a more forceful case for her candidacy since the party’s convention, her illness has reinforced the danger of a Trump-centric strategy — leaving the Clinton side without a memorable affirmative message to hammer home, especially when its chief messenger is on the mend.

The focus on Mr. Trump has done little to remedy Mrs. Clinton’s trust deficit with voters. And despite volumes of policy proposals, even Clinton supporters often strain to identify cohesive themes, independent of Mr. Trump, in her campaign.

Aides said last week that she planned to deliver several speeches aimed at connecting her personal motivations to her political agenda. The second in the series, slated for Tuesday, was postponed after she fell ill.

“They’ve clearly framed the race as a referendum on Donald Trump,” said Steve McMahon, a longtime Democratic strategist. “That does create a vacuum and a greater level of interest in things like this that, frankly, probably have no special significance.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hillary2016; hillaryshealth
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To: upchuck

“”What’s your fav color?””

While smiling and rolling the questions on an orange.

https://www.google.com/search?q=presentation&tbm=isch&tbs=simg:CAQSlwEJiQQrXqfdrjAaiwELEKjU2AQaBAhCCEMMCxCwjKcIGmIKYAgDEiiSHacRtxfoFpIb5xa2F7kc7Bb6EZY0ui-7L9gtjC2KLdAtviWqMIA9GjCoGkUgPpfCJMYuhAJi7tRYk50goL3OAMw7vDK-R7R5xYavwMteHmY8DFeCZlfgNRggBAwLEI6u_1ggaCgoICAESBBSMLPQM&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi-5r_W-IzPAhUE5SYKHQwTDFEQwg4IGygA&biw=1280&bih=899#imgrc=MEnVx5WHcv8D9M%3A

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/09/07/journalist-asks-hillary-clinton-question-rolling-orange-front-plane/


21 posted on 09/13/2016 11:09:15 AM PDT by ctpsb
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To: upchuck

“”What’s your fav color?””

While smiling and rolling the questions on an orange.


22 posted on 09/13/2016 11:10:47 AM PDT by ctpsb
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To: upchuck

Awww, po’ lil’ Hillary .... dah sick wabbit unduh duh twee snorin’ sound, while that ol’ turtle Twump jus’ go on ahead!


23 posted on 09/13/2016 11:11:08 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Dilbert San Diego
She kept a low.profile during the summer?? The Times is overlooking why she did that.

Exactly. You have to wonder how many times she's suffered from coughing fits, or how many times she collapsed, in private, away from the cameras and the microphones.

24 posted on 09/13/2016 11:11:30 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: upchuck

The NYT spins this as if Hillary is a poor unfortunate victim of ...her own dishonesty (er, “lack of candor”) and bad campaign decisions. Massive dishonesty and having nothing positive to offer are just so inopportune when facts sneak in. The NYT ought to know.


25 posted on 09/13/2016 11:13:19 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: timestax

Yep!!


26 posted on 09/13/2016 11:15:11 AM PDT by ctpsb
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To: Pollster1
CLINTON'S EXCUSES
conspiracy theory
dehydration
pollen

27 posted on 09/13/2016 11:16:57 AM PDT by Ray76 (Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo!)
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To: jetson
So what will her next absence be due to...hemorrhoids.

I'm sure the media will just blow it off as "Hillary sat on a spilled a box of Raisinets".

28 posted on 09/13/2016 11:17:57 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (FUMSM)
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To: upchuck

As much as I despise her, I wish her a speedy recovery.


29 posted on 09/13/2016 11:19:06 AM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: upchuck

When a left of liberal rag such as the NY Times even needs to acknowledge that Hillary has a ‘health’ issue, it’s a very sad day indeed. And hil(l)ar(y)ious as well.


30 posted on 09/13/2016 11:19:54 AM PDT by jerod (Pro-Abortion Gun Control Freaks & Environmental Nuts who hated Capitalism? The Nazi's)
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To: sockhead
“Volumes of policy proposals”

Sounds almost like binders full of proposals...

31 posted on 09/13/2016 11:21:18 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: upchuck

She SHOULD splain’ her motivations.


32 posted on 09/13/2016 11:28:51 AM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: chajin

Binders of Huma pics...


33 posted on 09/13/2016 11:29:32 AM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: henkster; PhilDragoo

If she has pneumonia, originally referred to as highly contagious bacterial pneumonia, she transmitted it to a child she touched at the 9/11 observance, then went home to Chelsea’s and imperiled her two grandchildren. After Chelsea’s, she was on the street saying she was just fine. When/where did she go to get “diagnosed?” Chelsea’s secret medical facility in her apartment.

Everything about this woman is smoke and mirrors. NYT perpetuates the pneumonia meme. WSJ shifts he talk to health problems of elderly candidates, and Trump is older, so let’s focus on him. Social media limits search options. What idiots can fall for this anymore?


34 posted on 09/13/2016 11:32:33 AM PDT by ntnychik
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To: henkster

NYT should just come out and say that Hillary is “pining for the fjords”.


35 posted on 09/13/2016 11:37:23 AM PDT by spiderpig (does whatever a SpiderPig does)
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To: upchuck

NYT is trying to pretend things will get back to normal.

They won’t. Its amusing to see them twist themselves into pretzels trying to revive Hillary.

That doesn’t even work in Hollywood.


36 posted on 09/13/2016 11:57:18 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: TBP

I also wish her a speedy recovery. She needs to get back on the campaign trail.
I sure hope she didn’t break any bones when she collapsed.


37 posted on 09/13/2016 12:21:46 PM PDT by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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To: upchuck
Dear NYT: Here is a "cohesive theme" that got past you....

Having transient, convenient, and selective amnesia allows for a false plausible deniability and has apparently become an endearing quality to her supporters. She just claims not to remember, blames her memory loss on the 2012 concussion, insists that people accept that as an excuse, it then turns it into a false apology, and it's all GOOD. See how this works?

There has to be more to the story.

Can anyone help out filling in the tick-tock on the following time line? Where was Huma? Did Huma take medical leave? Is there a flight log as to what kind of aircraft the State Department assigned to her in this time frame? Did the State Department either damage a C-12 Huron or is there one missing from the inventory? Did she start negotiating with Iran on the nuke deal in this time frame? Will Assange have more "personal" emails in the Dec 2012-Feb 2013 time frame which may reveal more?

Regarding the "fall", there are conflicting reports. Some say it "happened at home". Which home? Was there an ambulance call? Some say the fall hapened in her 17th-floor office at the State Department. Was there an ambulance call? So which is it? At one of her homes, or in her office?



Helment given to Hillary from her staff "for the next time she flies".

Wiklieaks pertinent email from Clinton's server.

Huma to Hillary on article about brain injury.

Mills to Hillary, article on leaving hospital.

Stafff asking Senator Frist for help with PR.

Video January 2 ref Crd Job Price death (note his death went unreported until Jan 22.

+++++++++ https://eyreinternational.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/what-really-happened-to-hilary-clinton-and-us-navy-seal-commander-job-w-price-republished-modified/

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/27/politics/clinton-back-to-work/index.html

http://www.jerusalemreports.com/hillary-clinton-injury-from-iran-plane-crash-seal-commander-killed/

http://www.greeleygazette.com/press/?p=21848

http://defence.pk/threads/clinton-injured-us-navy-seal-killed-in-secret-us-mission-to-iran.227746/

http://www.hillarynme.com/2013/01/01/is-hillarys-blood-clog-the-result-of-severe-injuries-suffered-in-a-plane-crash/

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread913711/pg1

http://www.cashill.com/intellect_fraud/hillary_and_her.htm

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-clinton-clot-plot-thickens-or-thins.html

38 posted on 09/13/2016 12:33:38 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: PGR88

We have had a communist media at least since the 1930’s. The press and Eleanor Roosevelt loved Stalin and the Soviets.

The “progressive” (read: communist) takeover of our culture and government is nearly complete; that is why Soetoro is so determined to finish it: He wants to make sure that the damage can never be undone.


39 posted on 09/13/2016 1:15:40 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: ntnychik
Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Awakenings (1990). She has a medical secret and it's not pneumonia, overheating, exhaustion, allergies. The alleged concussion from the alleged fall did not cause anything--they were caused by her medical secret. Parkinsons hastened by cocaine abuse.
40 posted on 09/14/2016 1:22:41 AM PDT by PhilDragoo (Onambla: Marxist-Muslim crack-smoking closet queen Exp 1-20-17)
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