Is Hillary Too Old (Or Brain Damaged) To Run For President?

I doubt you could find any candidate on the Left who ISN'T brain damaged. Hillary may, indeed, be the best brain damaged candidate your party can offer.

 

Obama/Obama '16

 

Following your "logic" the same can surely be said for the right Coin.

 

No, I don't believe anyone on the Right who may be planning a presidential run has suffered a similar traumatic brain injury that Hillary suffered in her fall (which caused her to have to wear the Fresnel-prism glasses due to the concussion/double vision). I feel sorry for Old Sniper Fire that she suffered such a traumatic brain injury, but the fact remains that she... well... suffered a traumatic brain injury.

 

Lewinskey/Clinton '16

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Really, so instead of a rumor with absolutely no medical evidence to support it, it is now a "traumatic brain injury that Hillary suffered in her fall". And what's more, you are now declaring it a "fact". That's exactly how Karl and the Right-wing works. Take a rumor with absolutely zero evidence and start referring to as if it were true. Show me the medical evidence idiot or shut up your face. Idiot! Tool! Moron!

 

I'm not a doctor. You're not a doctor. How about we hear from someone who IS a doctor?

The legitimate concerns about Hillary’s concussion

May 19, 2014

Karl Rove created a stir with his recent suggestion that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton may have suffered traumatic brain injury in December 2012.

Speaking at a conference in California, he noted, “Thirty days in the hospital? And when she reappears, she’s wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury? We need to know what’s up with that.”

Let’s ignore the media hyperventilating and look at what Rove actually suggested.

According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, traumatic brain injury, or TBI, “occurs when a sudden trauma causes damage to the brain.”

Clinton reportedly “fainted, fell and banged her head,” as The Daily Beast put it, suffering a subdural hematoma, or a hemorrhage between her brain and skull.

While surgery is sometimes needed in such cases, Clinton was “treated with blood thinners on Monday at a New York hospital to help dissolve a blood clot in her head,” CNN reported.

What is the prognosis after TBI?

“Disabilities resulting from a TBI depend upon the severity of the injury, the location of the injury, and the age and general health of the individual,” says the NINDS.

And following TBI, “common disabilities include problems with cognition (thinking, memory, and reasoning), sensory processing (sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell), communication (expression and understanding).”

In other words, Rove raises legitimate concerns: Such disabilities would be of great concern in a potential commander in chief.

Rove didn’t have it quite right on Clinton’s eyeglasses: She has Fresnel prism glasses, used to correct double vision, but not only for TBI cases.

Still, according to the Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation Association, “It is not uncommon for a visual field loss to occur as a result of a CVA or traumatic brain injury.”

Indeed, over a third of TBI patients have visual field defects.

If Clinton suffered vision loss after her injury, could she have also suffered other disabilities — specifically in the areas of cognition or communication?

That’s what Rove is questioning. Not accusing, but wanting assurance that Clinton’s mental facilities are up to the job she’ll presumably be seeking come 2016.

Is it beyond the pale to question Clinton’s injury and long-term effects?

Well, countless media outlets had no problem questioning John McCain’s health and age when he was running for president. Or Bob Dole’s when he was running.

Clinton didn’t just bump her head. Her husband said last week that her injury was “a terrible concussion that required six months of very serious work to get over.”

That is indeed a long recovery — much longer than the State Department suggested at the time.

Where else have we heard about the long-term effects of concussions? In NFL players, there is justified concern about the consequences of concussions.

Clinical depression and cognitive impairment are three to five times more likely in players who suffered concussions. Ask Broadway Joe: Namath has blamed some of his own health issues on on-field concussions.

President Obama is sufficiently concerned about youth sports concussions that he is hosting a summit to address the issue.

Last year he told The New Republic, “‘I’m a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I’d have to think long and hard before I let him play football.”

How does he feel about a hypothetical sister named Hillary, who already suffered “a terrible concussion,” succeeding him in the Oval Office?

Rove raises legitimate concerns.

Will the media, in the interests of disclosure and transparency, make sure Clinton’s injury and potential long-term consequences are disclosed and analyzed? Or will they ignore the story, blame the messenger and adopt Clinton’s response, “What difference does it make?”?

Brian C. Joondeph, MD, MPS, is a Denver-based physician.

http://nypost.com/2014/05/19/real-cause-for-worry-facts-on-hillarys-concussion/

 

Bill Clinton said it was serious and took her six months to recover. Or are you calling him a liar?

 

Rumor mongers. The sad state of the political Right.

 

You certainly are NOT a doctor and neither is Karl and your doctor source didn't examine Clinton. So you're all talking out of your asses.

 

LOL.. OK, whatever Little Joe. Hillary's traumatic brain injury is cause for concern should she decide to run for president. That's all anyone is saying and I believe you would agree with that, correct?

 

Hitting your head does not constitute a "traumatic brain injury" in spite of what you and Karl say. Although it does explain your Right wing beliefs. Has your bump gone down yet? LOL!

 

OK, go back to hiding your brain-damaged head in the sand. According to Bubba, Hillary suffered “a terrible concussion that required six months of very serious work to get over.” That plus the Fresnel glasses indicate more than just a bump on her head. Should she choose to run, the American people deserve a full account of her traumatic brain injury.

 

I don't remember any conservatives here asking for a psychological evaluation of McCain when he was running. I mean, being shot down and then brutally tortured by combatants for years on end must have been a psychological trauma, probably worse than any brain trauma caused by a simple concussion. Funny how that never once came up. Not one time.

 

Yes, "my head is in the sand" but yours is in your butt.

 

Maybe not the Republicans, but the Democrats did and it was released along with all the rest of his medical records. Both in 1999 and 2008.

 

In 2008, the Huffingtop Post demanded that McCain's medical records be released. Should Hillary run, will you agree that her medical records should be released?

 

OOPS!

 

I would agree to that OKC.

 

I spoke to a surgeon, here at the hospital, and he said if Hillary's injury was serious enough she had to be hospitalized for a few days the injury would be classified as a "major traumatic injury" especially considering her age. He also said the chances are that she's still being seen by a specialist and her most recent reports would tell more about long term damage than the original records from the time of the injury or hospital stay.