Deplorable: Hillary Clinton Stumbles
Much is being made about the Democrats’ presidential nominee having to prematurely leave the 9-11 Memorial Ceremony on Sunday, 11 September 2016. As she was walking to an awaiting SUV, supported on each side by aids trying to assist her into the vehicle, her knees buckled and she appeared to have fainted, losing a shoe in the process, according to eye-witness reports. After two hours, her campaign spokesperson indicated that she had become dehydrated and, after she had been whisked to her daughter Chelsea’s apartment, the former Secretary of State later emerged from the apartment smiling, waving and even stopping to sign an autograph for a young girl on the sidewalk. Later on Sunday, according to her physician, it was announced that she had been previously diagnosed on the Friday immediately before, as having pneumonia and was being treated with antibiotics and advised to take a break from her normal schedule of campaigning. There we have it- two explanations, within a few hours of each other, for a candidate who has been regularly taking weekends off, since the Democrat National Convention which nominated her to the nation’s highest office.
While faltering and stumbling is nothing new for the former first lady, as she has been shown many times being assisted up staircases and tripping and falling while entering jetliners, this latest episode of foundering has renewed suspicions about the overall health and well-being of the former first lady, who suffered a serious fall and concussion in December of 2012 which, according to her husband, required six months of convalescence just “to become herself” again. Nevertheless, the Clinton campaign has stuck to the mantra that she is in perfect health. If this is so, why is it that she seems to be constantly accompanied by another physician, with a pre-loaded injection at the ready?
While public concern for the health of presidential candidates is a relatively-recent phenomena (remember the absolute secrecy surrounding John F. Kennedy’s suffering of Addison’s disease and the medicine cabinet full of daily prescriptions he was required to take for this, as well as his spinal troubles), it is nevertheless a legitimate question about which, and the right of the electorate to know, the general health of those they elect to public office. Once again, the Clinton campaign answers these concerns with multiple, varying answers which only serve to feed lingering suspicions that all is not well with the Democrat candidate for president.
Yet, even on the very evening of the reported diagnosis of pneumonia, according to her doctor ex post facto, Mrs. Clinton seemed to be in good enough health and spirits to read the following prepared remarks at an event hosted by Barbra Streisand, and they were very well-received, with laughing approval, by the wealthy fundraisers in attendance:
“To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables…right?… racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it…and unfortunately, there are people like that, and he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric…these people are irredeemable and not America.”
-Hillary Rodham Clinton, speech to LGBT Fundraiser, New York City, 9 Sept 2016
The tens of millions of Trump supporters, half of whom were so maligned and slandered by this comment were not so amused, and even many Democrats who intend to vote for their party’s nominee, were appalled that she would make such a statement in the first place. Mind you this was not an aside caught in an unscripted moment on an open microphone, as was the infamous “47 percent” comment of Mitt Romney in 2012, but rather scripted in a vetted speech delivered on teleprompter thus indicating a categorical imperative to besmirch a very large segment of the American populace. To make matters worse, her feeble attempt to walk this back, indicating her single regret in using the term “half” to describe those she insulted, seemingly cemented in the minds of voters her utter contempt for the working people of all walks of life who only seek to make this country better, safer and more prosperous, by supporting a candidate who just happens to be running against her in a presidential election.
In short, Mrs. Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” is but a basket filled with the fruits of her own undoing…the repeated lies, the endemic deceit, the record of dishonesty and, yes, the utter contempt she holds for the American people, and this is where Hillary Rodham Clinton has most egregiously stumbled in her quest to become President of the United States.
-Drew Nickell, 12 September 2016
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