Bill Clinton wont hear your Hillary is too old jokes
Bill Clinton wont hear your Hillary is too old jokes Hillary Clinton has vowed to fight Barack Obama through the convention, even though shes essentially mathematically eliminat. Vice President...
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Is Hillary Rodham Clinton up to snuff? Is the former first lady, who served as a US senator and as secretary of state, fierce, feisty and fabulous? Or is Clinton, 66, a doddering, expectant granny better suited to knitting booties for her preggers daughter, Chelsea, than running the country and leading the free world?
Can she defeat global villains while chasing after her intern-loving husband, Bill Clinton, 67, with whom she may or may not have lived for years?
If Hillary Clinton runs for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016, which everyone save for a few Congolese Pygmies expects, then wins the general election, she would be 69 years and 86 days at the time of her inauguration as the nations first woman president on Jan. 20, 2017. This would make her the second-oldest person ever installed into a first term in the nations highest office, after President Ronald Reagan, who was 69 years and 349 days when sworn in on Jan. 20, 1981.
Reagan is widely considered to be one of historys greatest leaders. But behind the scenes, some doubted his fitness.
Reagans son Ron wrote in a his 2011 memoir, My Father at 100, that he saw signs of mental confusion from Alzheimers disease in his dad as far back as the 1984 debate with Democratic presidential challenger Walter Mondale, when Reagan was 73 and Mondale 56. My heart sank as he floundered his way through his responses, fumbling with notes, uncharacteristically lost for words. He looked tired and bewildered, Ron Reagan wrote. His father sailed to re-election anyway, and died in 2004, at 93, from pneumonia complicated by Alzheimers.
This brings up two names: Hillary Clinton. And Karl Rove.
The Republican strategist dubbed Bushs Brain, Rove, 63, served as senior adviser to President George W. Bush from 2000 until 2007, and as his deputy chief of staff from 2004 to 2007. At a May 8 conference near Los Angeles, Rove said that if Hillary Clinton runs for president, shell have to tell voters what happened when she suffered a mysterious fall at home in December 2012 while secretary of state.
At the time, a brief statement issued by the State Department announced that Clinton, dehydrated from a stomach virus, fainted, hit her head and suffered a concussion.
Thirty days in the hospital? said Rove. She spent three days in the hospital.
And when she reappears, shes wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury? We need to know whats up with that, Rove was quoted as saying in a May 12 piece by Emily Smith of The Posts Page Six, headlined Karl Rove: Hillary may have brain damage.
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Hillary Clinton will face questions on her age
Karl Rove isn't backing down on his comments about Hillary Clinton's health, rousing Democratic push-back. Will voters grow weary of front-runner Clinton this far ahead of the next presidential election?
Its political light years until we know who the major party candidates will be in the 2016 presidential election.
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But we know who they are today: Karl Rove vs. Hillary Clinton.
Clinton beats all comers Republican or Democrat in every mock election. Rove today is the major GOP surrogate for the Republican Party attack on the politically formidable former first lady, US Senator, and Secretary of State.
Its crazy, of course.
Clinton may well decide not to run. Shes known the pain of losing, as she did to Barack Obama in 2008 not just the end result, but the way-too-long and bruising gantlet of party primaries and caucuses. As a certified senior citizen, she may be perfectly content to dote on grandchildren one is on the way and continue writing books like the memoir Hard Choices out next month.
But like her husband, Clinton seems unlikely to retire from the political advocacy and action shes known since her student days at Wellesley and Yale.
So with Mr. Rove in the lead, Republicans are doing everything they can to discredit her professionally while raising personal questions regarding her competency and fitness.
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Hillary Clinton: defenders push back against Karl Rove on her health (+video)
Hillary Clinton's age and health status are "fair game" if she throws her hat into the race for the 2016 presidency, the Republican Party leader said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
I dont think theres a graceful way to bring up age, health and fitness for a candidate who wants to be president of the United States, said Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus when asked about reports that Republican strategist Karl Rove claimed Clinton could have suffered brain damage from a blood clot two years ago.
"It was fair game for Ronald Reagan. It was fair game for John McCain," Priebus added.
Reagan took office in 1981 at age 69, and McCain was 72 on Election Day in 2008. Clinton is currently 66 years old.
Rove questioned Clinton's mental ability at a conference, the New York Post reported Monday. The GOP strategist, on Tuesday and again on Sunday, denied that he used the phrase brain damage, as the Post headline said, but reiterated that Clinton will have to answer questions about her serious health episode.
And she would not be human if she were not if she did not take this into consideration. She'll be 69 at the time of the 2016 election. If she gets elected two terms, she'll be 77, Rove said on Fox News Sunday.
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Priebus refused to say on Sunday that Rove should apologize for his statements.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who has already endorsed Clinton for president, called Rove's comments a "cheap political shot," implying the the GOP is afraid of Clinton as a candidate. McCaskill added that although "we do not know for certain whether Hillary is going to run," the comments of Republicans wouldn't be what stops her.
Priebus contested McCaskill's assertions. "I actually doubt very much that she will decide to run in 2016," he said.
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Hillary Clinton's Health is 'Fair Game,' Says Republican Chairman
Hillary Rodham Clintons health and age are fair game for political debate if she decides to run for president, Republicans argued Sunday, even as Democrats called it pathetic for GOP consultant Karl Rove to suggest recently that she suffered from some kind of brain injury two years ago.
Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, echoed Roves remarks by saying that if Clinton decides to run for the White House in 2016, she should be questioned about a blood clot in her head that initially prevented her from testifying about the Benghazi terror attack of 2012.
Im not a doctor, Priebus said on the NBC "Meet the Press" program. But, he added, What I do know is that the issue is going to come up as it does for any person running for president.
Former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, who in the past was grilled about his failing heart condition, agreed that questions about a candidates health come with any White House campaign.
Thats going to be expected of anybody, he said on the Fox News Sunday show.
Rove raised a political firestorm in a speech earlier this month when he brought up Clintons health scare in December 2012. At that time, the then-secretary of State became dehydrated, fainted and suffered a concussion, according to her doctors and State Department officials. A blood clot was found in her head, and Rove wondered aloud whether she had suffered some form of brain injury.
Clinton has not personally addressed Roves remarks. Her aides, however, have characterized them as a political attack. They did not immediately comment about the Priebus and Cheney statements on Sunday.
But several Democrats on Capitol Hill did weigh in. Sen.Claire McCaskill, a Missouri senator, called the suggestions a cheap political shot and said Rove was merely struggling to be relevant after his years inside the George W. Bush White House.
Sen.Dianne Feinstein, said of Clinton: Shes in the prime of her political life. Speaking on CNNs State of the Union program, the California senator added: Shes got the smarts. She has all of the elements of a good leader.
Clinton would be 69 years old by Election Day 2016, and Rove, interviewed on Fox News Sunday, said he was only trying to raise questions about whether her age and health will have some bearing on her personal decision on whether to run for the presidency.
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