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The health of our candidates

During ceremonies at the 9/11 memorial, Hillary Clinton fainted. Democrats and their media comrades have been waxing indignant at questions about Mrs. Clinton’s health, due to reports of her needing help to go up stairs, her coughing fits, and various other alleged signs of bad health. They called such concerns “conspiracy theories,” though it wasn’t clear what was conspiratorial about them.

Now, though, due to this public breakdown, even her supporters (such as the Washington Post columnist quoted after the jump) are admitting that the candidates’ health has to be an issue.

Her campaign now reports that she has pneumonia.

I recall Ronald Reagan, who was up there in age, getting a physical and releasing his “bill of health” to the public. I’m pretty sure that other presidential candidates have routinely done the same. Both Mrs. Clinton and Donald Trump are in their 70s, and it is perfectly reasonable for voters to desire information about their general health. Shouldn’t this be forthcoming?

From Chris Cillizza, Hillary Clinton’s health just became a real issue in the presidential campaign – The Washington Post:

Hillary Clinton falling ill Sunday morning at a memorial service on the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks will catapult questions about her health from the ranks of conservative conspiracy theory to perhaps the central debate in the presidential race over the coming days.

“Secretary Clinton attended the September 11th Commemoration Ceremony for just an hour and thirty minutes this morning to pay her respects and greet some of the families of the fallen,” spokesman Nick Merrill said. “During the ceremony, she felt overheated, so departed to go to her daughter’s apartment and is feeling much better.”

What that statement leaves out is that a) it came 90 minutes after Clinton left the ceremony b) reporters — or even a reporter — were not allowed to follow her and c) the temperature in New York City at the time of Clinton’s overheating was in the low 80s. (A heat wave over the eastern United States broke last night/this morning.)

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