Hillary's Obsession with the White House Overrides Her Concern for America and Even Her Health

There may still be hope for truth to prevail in the 2016 US presidential campaign. One positive sign is that Hillary Clinton's odds of winning the election have nose-dived 14 points since Friday, after her controversial "basket of deplorables" comments and her physical collapse caught on video. CNN's Political Prediction Market had Clinton's chances of winning at 72% Friday. It was down to 58% Monday afternoon. Republican Donald Trump rose from 28% to 42% at the same time. Clinton's "basket of deplorables" comment Friday initially cost her 2% in the CNN system. The outrage that followed led to an additional drop, and combined with her phwsical collapse and delayed announcement that she was "dehydrated," later changed to her personal doctor's diagnosis of pneumonia, after she abruptly left a 9/11 memorial, led to her numbers continuing to fall. Before those two negative Hillary incidents, a CNN/ORC poll last week showed Trump had a 2-point lead over Clinton, 45% to 43%. ~~~~~~ Dr. Ben Carson, reknowned pediatric neurosurgeon and former presidential candidate who now supports Trump, may have hit on the appropriate step Clinton needs to take to assure America that she is in good health -- if that is, indeed, the case. Ben Carson would like to see Hillary Clinton have a "specialized MRI" and then release the results. Carson said : "because she has had a brain injury in the past, and there is a question of venous sinus thrombosis, the result of a recent specialized MRI would be very helpful. The stakes are too high for us to blindly elect someone to the presidency of the United States when we have the possibility of examining real evidence upon which to make a decision." Carson also noted : "The fact that the security detail -- assisting her as she clumsily attempted to enter her vehicle after abruptly ending her participation at a 9/11 event -- did not appear surprised, as if dealing with something new, makes one wonder if such awkward moments are something they have become accustomed to." ~~~~~~ But, Top Dog has spoken. Former President Bill Clinton brushed aside speculation about his wife's health Monday, talking to CBS's Charlie Rose -- with some prompting from Rose himself to make the favorable points Bill left out -- told Rose she has suffered from dehydration before : "Rarely, but on more than one occasion over the last many, many years, the same sort of thing's happened to her where she got severely dehydrated....Today she made a decision, which I think was correct, to cancel her campaign day to take one more day to rest." ~~~~~~ Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh suggested Hillary might be aging more quickly than the average person, and that might be the explanation for her recent health woes. Limbaugh said : "We know what we saw, and the poor woman, I'm telling you, is sick," Limbaugh told his audience. "She's not well. I don't know what it is." He then noted some people "just get old fast...and it makes them more susceptible to things. Maybe it's nothing. Maybe she doesn't have anything. Maybe it's just age. Who knows? That's the point. We don't know who to believe. And this is serious. We're talking POTUS here. President [of the] United States." ~~~~~~ A lack of transparency about her health has become a huge problem for Hillary Clinton that could defeat her on November 8. One unnamed ally talked to Newsmax, describing the events that ended in Clinton leaving a 9/11 memorial early as a “self-inflicted f---ing nightmare.” And, very importantly, David Axelrod, who served as a senior adviser to President Obama, criticized Clinton and the campaign for unnecessarily withholding information from the public : “Antibiotics can take care of pneumonia. What’s the cure for an unhealthy penchant for privacy that repeatedly creates unnecessary problems?” We might take that as a proverbial kiss of death from the Obama White House. A second ally told Newsmax : “She got sick. Tell people she’s sick and move on. I know they thought it would give the right-wingers something to pounce on, but who cares?” ~~~~~~ But, Trump had the last word, telling Fox News : "I hope she gets well and gets back on the trail and we’ll be seeing her at the debate." Then, Trump turned to Hillary calling Trump supporters a “basket of deplorables” : “Hillary Clinton is an insider, supported by powerful insiders, attacking Americans who have no political power.” One Clinton insider said Hillary has a : “chronic problem of lack of trust in the media” that leads to the secrecy, which has also hurt Clinton with voters. Polls repeatedly find that a large majority of voters do not trust Clinton or find her honest. And, Hillary’s pneumonia diagnosis comes after repeated coughing fits that both conservative and mainstream media are focused on, according to an NBC report. On Monday, Clinton's spokesman insisted that she was suffering from pneumonia but that there was no other condition or illness. He said it had nothing to do with a concussion Clinton suffered in 2012 : “There’s no other undisclosed condition. The pneumonia is the extent of it.” However, after the 2012 concussion, doctors found a blood clot, and Clinton is still treated with blood thinners. Hillary told People Magazine in 2014 :“I did have a concussion and some effects in the aftermath of it, mostly dizziness, double vision. Those all dissipated. Blood thinners are my continuing treatment for the blood clot.” Even Clinton allies say the details about her health “will need to be provided sooner than later,” as one put it. ~~~~~~ All this turmoil in the Hillary campaign led Dick Morris, a Clinton White House advisor hwo has since become a GOP analyst, on Sunday to write : "Hillary would not have left the 9/11 ceremony unless she absolutely had to. She has always made 9/11 her signature issue and, amid concerns about her health, she would not have left unless she had no alternative. As she got into her car, she appeared to faint, losing a shoe as she was virtually carried into the car. She won't withdraw unless she has to. But anxious Democrats will be so worried if she fails to be able to campaign and her health escalates as an issue that they might bring unbearable pressure on her to step aside. If that happened, the Party rules state that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) -- two from each state -- would be empowered to nominate a new presidential candidate....Democrats are getting more and more nervous about Hillary's campaign now that she has blown her August lead and settled into a tie with Trump. If she is sidelined for much of the campaign, their worry is likely to reach a crescendo. In any event Hillary will now be forced to release her medical records, a step she has heretofore resisted and perhaps submit to a new examination." ~~~~~~ Cokie Roberts reported Monday on NPR's Morning Edition that Clinton's health scare Sunday is : "is taking her off of the campaign trail. It has them [Democrat leaders] very nervously beginning to whisper about her stepping aside and finding another candidate." Don Fowler, chairman of the Democratic National Committee in the mid-1990s, is calling for the party to come up with a more detailed plan on picking a successor to Hillary Clinton should the need arise, Politico reported Monday. Fowler told Politico that while rules currently exist to replace a candidate, he worries chaos could ensue if they are not made more clear. That plan should be put in place quickly, he said : "It's something you would be a fool not to prepare for....She better get well before she gets back out there because if she gets back out there too soon, it might happen again." Fowler said he expected Clinton, whom he has supported ever since 2008, to fully recover from what her doctor said Sunday is a bout of pneumonia, but the process should be streamlined just in case it is ever needed. Fowler's urgent call is reportedly mirrored by other party leaders, according to Newsmax. But, Clinton cannot be replaced against her will. She would have to voluntarily give up her role as nominee if she felt unable to continue. Current rules say the DNC chair must call a special meeting, in which proxy votes would not be allowed, to decide upon a replacement. Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned under extreme pressure for favoring Hillary over Bernie Sanders just ahead of the Democratic Convention his summer, so that role would go to acting Chairwoman Donna Brazile. Longtime DNC Rules Committee member Elaine Kamarck told Politico : "The locus of activity for all of those political questions would then move to the 447 members of the Democratic National Committee. And it's wide open, and all of the political concern would work out in the context of discussions among the members of the DNC." But, Fowler wants something more detailed, including requiring signatures for those nominated and nominations being made during the DNC meeting. That would give voters more confidence in the process and help the party rally around the replacement nominee, he said : "There should be a concerted, unified effort on behalf of the President and the Democratic leaders in the House and the Senate and from the officials of the DNC as well -- I think unanimity would be absolutely critical. The quicker that unanimity develops, the easier and better the process." Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has a loyal following and who fought Clinton until the convention, would have supporters. Others favor Biden. Some might feel Clinton's running mate Tim Kaine should get the nod. And, many states already have passed the deadline to have names on their November 8 ballots. Karmack says that should not be a problem : "After all, the President is actually elected in December by the Electoral College." But, normal procedure would be to conduct a write-in vote with stickers or names printed on slips of paper to be copied onto the ballot. Just telling Democrats to vote for Hillary and then letting Electoral College delegates vote for someone else would be certain to lead to a lawsuit in an election as important as the presidency. ~~~~~~ Dear readers, one thing America has learned about Hillary Clinton is that she does not go quietly without a fight. She has been accused of engaging in some of the most vicious tactics seen in modern American politics to preserve her path to 16 Pennsylvania Avenue. She has been labeled a liar, a murderer, a cover for sexual predation by her husband, a criminal who mishandled classified materials causing US security to be breached, and a public servant who used her office to sell official favors to the highest bidder. But, what is most astonishing about Hillary Clinton is her obsessive need to be President, to sit in the Oval Office, apparently just to be able to say, "I made it." This obsession is now driving her to ruin her health and divide her Democrat Party into those who see her disqualifying faults and those who are as obsessed as she is about moving her into the White House. Hillary Clinton seems not to understand the ramifications of lying about her health to the American people -- "I didn't think it was a big deal," she told CNN's Anderson Cooper Monday night. And, she seems to be perfectly content to be elected with the possibility of becoming so disabled that she would need to ask unelected cronies to hide her illness and and govern in her place -- Bill, Chelsea, Huma Abedin with her Moslem Brotherhood roots, perhaps even Barack Obama, who would certainly know the real status of things and decide to benefit from it. America and its people, its needs, its security and, above all, its Constitution -- none of these fit into Hillary Clinton's calculations. There is a name for Hillary Clinton's real illness. It is called obsession with power. It is the most dangerous quality a leader can possess -- in the 20th century, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, and the Apartheid rulers of South Africa were obsessed with power. It would destroy America, because once implanted, no reasonable act can remove it. Only war can dethrone it. Satisfying Hillary's obsession is not worth a civil war.