Has Hillary’s Health Hit A Wall… Or The Bottle?
Patti Solis Doyle of Solis Strategies told Huffington Post that “[Hillary] likes to hang out and drink and gossip.” Doyle was asked, “what’s her drink?” She replied, “Well…when I drank with her it was wine and vodka.”
Clinton was previously seen in Cartagena, Columbia for the Summit of Americas. The bartender said she and two other women ordered 12 beers and two shots of whiskey. She’s seen in video screaming and partying, flush in the face, with a beer in one hand and a shot of whiskey in the other (standing at the bar – downing in like a drunken sailor).
Could these episodes explain why she passed out in 2005 while giving a speech? Perhaps alcohol could explain her fractured elbow from a fall in 2009. Drudge Report reminded us last week of her fall as she was getting onto a State Department aircraft (while serving as Secretary of State). She had the ‘mother’ of all falls in 2012 resulting in a concussion. She spent six months working from home after that episode.
Since the concussion, she has taken prescription Coumadin for a cerebral venous thrombosis. This is otherwise known as a blood-clot near her brain. Coumadin’s side effects (used as a blood thinner to prevent strokes and heart attacks) include dizziness and can be worsened by excessive alcohol. Could this explain the campaign trail “short-circuits?”
In the 2012 White House correspondents dinner, Pres. Obama jokingly said, “I was locked in a brutal primary battle with Hillary Clinton….four years later she won’t stop drunk texting me.” We all know there’s a little truth in every joke – if not a lot.
New York Times reporter Amy Chozick says, “we were on the campaign trail in 2008 and the press thought she was just taking shots to pander to voters in Pennsylvania. Um, no.”
Finally, there’s all the coughing fits at various campaign rallies. What does that have to do with alcohol? Alcohol is one of the worst substances known for setting off allergies. One of her favorite drinks, wine, is chocked full of histamine. Some people cannot metabolize histamine as well as others which can set off a chemical chain-reaction throughout the body. The symptoms of this histamine intolerance can be scratchy throat, congestion and coughing.
I discovered this about two years ago after a series of allergy tests that proved nothing. I began reading about various foods that were high in histamine and realized that even two glasses of wine in the evening can create congestion and coughing the following day. Over several days it can become debilitating. Testing my findings, I stopped drinking wine and my allergies became almost one-hundred percent better after just a few days.
Let’s compare the presidency to being the captain of a sailboat. When I’m in the ocean (and the sailboat captain), I have a simple rule: no drinking (open ocean, calm weather, auto-pilot or not). If I plan to have drinks while sailing, I hire a captain (yes, I normally charter the boat with a captain). As captain, you must accept that something can go wrong at any moment. If I’m impaired at the helm, not only could my sailboat sink, we could all perish as a result of my inability to make sound judgments.
It is a vast understatement to compare being the captain of a 50 foot sailboat to being the president of the United States. The latter has far higher stakes.
Clinton’s pattern of raging outbursts, public-falls, health conditions and public drinking displays a person who lacks the discipline to put her service ahead of pleasure.
Imagine President Hillary Clinton innocently having a few glasses of wine at a State dinner, followed by a couple more shots of vodka (or whiskey), before bed, and the phone rings at 3am. It’s a military crisis where a split-second decision is needed. American lives are on the line. How will she do?