I’m surprised you get ageism vibes from my comment.

First of all, I’m somewhat of an OF (old fart) myself.

Secondly, I don’t think age disqualifies. I just am surprised, because I know that a lot of people do think that.

Some pretty hale and hearty youngsters entered what is considered to be one of the toughest endurance races in the world – the American Presidential primary race. After what is generally considered to be a grueling race, we have two winners.

While one is allowed to have whatever opinion one wishes to have about fitness and ability, I would say that those who have won the actual race have a leg up on who is the fittest. Therefore, I get ageism vibes from comment like this:

Mayan says: “It seems odd to someone living across the Pacific to have two roughly 70 year olds campaigning for what is likely to be an 8 year gig.”

neo-neocon Says:
September 14th, 2016 at 5:57 pm

“Mayan:

It certainly seems odd to me.”

I’m not sure how old you are, but at Hillary’s age a lot of people have had a lot of random health problems. She most definitely has a lot of random health problems. But they don’t necessarily add up to all that much, actually. That’s not to say she doesn’t also have some disease or bigger problem. But I have not yet heard a single diagnosis that unifies her symptoms, or a single new disease diagnosis that makes sense.

This is what we know about her; the rest is rumor.

(1) She has a tendency to blood clots and take anticoagulants for that. Blood clots can be relatively minor (in the calf, for example) but they can turn deadly. It is not a sign of good health, but it is not necessarily a big deal, and not altogether uncommon in people her age. It can lead to more serious cardiovascular problems, but not necessarily, and in her case so far it has not led to them.

(2) She has gotten dehydrated twice and both times it has led to bigger problems (word is that she—like many people, and particularly those who are getting on in years—doesn’t always drink enough water). The first time she had an intestinal flu (probably diarrhea), got dehydrated (this is not all that unusual if you lose enough liquid), fainted and sustained a concussion (December 2012). After that a blood clot (in “the vein that is situated in the space between the brain and the skull behind the right ear”) as well as double vision were diagnosed. That is probably the most serious health problem she has had that we know of. She was recovering for about 6 months.

Some people are subject to fainting more easily than others. I know several completely healthy people who have fainted several times for a number of reasons that are innocuous. Fainting is a very non-specific symptom that tells us next to nothing. Nor is it clear that she has fainted many times; she certainly has not done so publicly. In fact, the only documented time (and I don’t think it was publicly) was when she sustained the concussion.

(3) She has a chronic cough which her doctor has said is allergic in nature. This is tremendously common and usually an innocuous although annoying symptom. It is common in people with allergies, and it is common in people with GERD, and both allergies and GERD are also common afflictions in the healthy.

(4) She has an underactive thyroid, which is also a very common problem in post-menopausal woman in particular, and is easily controlled with thyroid replacement, which she takes.

That’s it, folks. Not a picture of health, but nothing much that would disqualify her from holding office. At almost 70, nearly everyone is at risk for cardiovascular problems, which appears to be her most serious risk factor based on her history. People keep using words like “seizures” and “convulsions,” and I’ve watched videos of these so-called seizures or convulsions and that’s does not appear to be what’s happening.

No signs of Parkinson’s, either, as I’ve written before.

Yes, it can be consciously controlled in the early stages at times. For a while. But not all the time. Hillary has never been observed to have a hand or foot tremor, not that I’ve ever seen reported. And this woman is in the public eye constantly, videotaped constantly, and watched like a hawk constantly by the opposition.

She doesn’t have a tremor.

If every now and then she puts her hand in a position that’s a bit odd—for a few seconds, when someone is poring over hours of tapes looking for the moment or a moment like it—then everyone would be observed at times going through an odd gesture or two if their every movement were to be similarly scrutinized.

Look, Clinton might have something or other. She might even develop Parkinson’s some day, as might many people (unfortunately, the illness is not all that uncommon). But she does not have signs of it now.

I have no idea why people want to give her that diagnosis. Is it just a case of lemmings, following the leader? The leader being a few pro-Trump blogs and Dr. Noel, who made a video about it that is completely unconvincing, in my opinion?

Was your stepfather never observed to have a tremor? Was he always able to hide or control it? And did he have none of the three other cardinal signs of Parkinson’s? Somehow I doubt it.

BTW, not voting for djt is not voting for hrc unless one actually votes for hrc. That is something I would not do. Vote for the donald or else its a vote for hrc when your state’s electoral votes are not in question is, frankly, illogical unless one is a die hard trumpian. Voting for djt in NY will be pissing into the wind. It might make a resident of NY feel good, but its still pissing to a whirlwind.

Dad told me to never piss towards an approaching tornado.
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