It’s been a odd campaign season.
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“He clearly meant pneumonia”, Angel Urena clarified afterward.
Former President Bill Clinton takes a group photo with employees and well-wishers at a coffee shop while campaigning for his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016, in Los Angeles. The former president said he did not believe that was the case.
Hillary’s stop in Southern California that was scheduled for the previous week was canceled after she abruptly left a 9/11 ceremony in NY.
Hillary Clinton tried to campaign through a bout of pneumonia, but she was sidelined by her doctor after getting dehydrated and dizzy while attending a 9/11 memorial in NY on Sunday. He also said that if she has any serious health problems, it’s a mystery to him and to her doctors.
Now this, obviously, is an attempt to downplay the harrowing episode everyone in the world witnessed with the Democratic Party’s nominee losing control of her extremities and needing to be tossed into a waiting van to be rushed away from onlookers and pesky citizens with smartphone video cameras.
“She’s worked like a demon as you know as secretary of state and senator and the year since”.
“She’s doing fine… she just got dehydrated”, he said.
But if Clinton is trying to change the subject away from her health, Trump may make that hard. Admitting weakness (or a real reason for a whooping cough) is hard for a woman running for a traditionally male job (or even just admitting weakness in general).
After grudgingly following her doctor’s orders to slow down and rest to recuperate from pneumonia, and watching Donald Trump seize the spotlight and pull even or ahead in some key swing states such as OH, the Democratic presidential nominee has signaled she is eager to make a feisty comeback at a crucial moment in the election.
If anything, it shows that Clinton isn’t great at taking care of herself. “So I just want to get this over and done with and get back on the trail as soon as possible”. That story changed within hours as Clinton’s personal physician Dr. Lisa Bardack announced that the ex-First Lady actually had been diagnosed with pneumonia on September 9, a day full of events and a Barbra Streisand singing fundraiser for the candidate.
It’s not a thing we pay attention to in males.
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Clinton has defended her family’s philanthropic organizations against accusations by Donald Trump, her Republican rival, and others that wealthy donors, including foreigners and corporate leaders, might expect favorable treatment from the USA government.
