McCain got ***for being old but never to the extent Hillary is.
...you're kidding, right? All 3 major networks ran pieces on the nightly news openly questioning McCain's fitness for office based on his age and health problems from his time as a POW.
ABC:
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GIBSON: But he's 71 years old. What do the actuarial tables say about a man who's 71 years old?
JOHNSON: The actuarial tables say that if you make it to 71 in overall good health, your life expectancy is about 16 years. That would be age 87. I think that's surprising to many people. Much more difficult, of course, to predict any change in mental acuity. At age 71, there's about a 30 percent chance of developing serious memory loss or even dementia, but experts point out that with aging maybe some skills such as judgment get better. So, Charlie, the old cliche is certainly true in this case: Time will tell.
CBS had Sanjay Gupta on to speculate on McCain's mental health:
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What I didn't see I thought was interesting, as well. There was hardly any mention of his mental health. There was no mention of depression. You know, this is man who had two admittedly weak suicide attempts when he was a prisoner of war. There was no mention of post-traumatic stress disorder or anything that may have been asked, or substance abuse, none of that was even mentioned.
NBC, asking McCain's wife about how old he is:
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ANN CURRY: And she laughed when asked if she has any concerns about his age. You're laughing. Why are you smiling about that?
CINDY MCCAIN: Come spend the day with us.
CURRY: I mean there's never been an older president, at 71. So you've got, this, this is a fair question.
MCCAIN: It is a fair question.
CURRY: And you've seen, as a wife of a senator, what that job does to the men elected to it.
MCCAIN: I would challenge anybody who has a question about his age to come travel with us for a day, on the campaign, because I have to pull off sometimes. He's too much for me. This is about experience. This is a man, who not only has experience, but has the, the, the compass that his life's skills and his life experiences have given him.
CURRY: Can't take away the numbers. 71?
And that's only mentioning the major networks, to say nothing of the parade of questioners on MSNBC and CNN. It was enough of an issue that Meghan McCain is now asking the media why there's been such a double standard for her father vs. Hillary up to this point.
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She released her doctors letter and she's not obligated to do more.
A doctor's note from last year. Has nothing changed since then? Has a year of campaigning done nothing negative to her health wise?
There were animal protesters under the stage causing a ruckus. Right after you can even hear her say something like "you should be protesting with Trump", or some other dumb thing like that.
Good to know that a handful of rowdy PETA-style protesters rattle Hillary enough that she needs one of her medical staff members to rush up to the stage, reassure her and tell her 'you're all right, keep talking, you can handle it, keep talking, keep talking' before she can continue on. Petit Mal/Absence seizures can look exactly like she did - a period of stillness that lasts just a few seconds followed by a sudden return to normalcy once the seizure ends. The 'snap' and deep breath at 0:15 is very common at the end of absence seizures:
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It might be a seizure - it might not. But it doesn't look like normal behavior from a perfectly healthy 68 year old. It looks like the 4 year old in my Sunday School class who has these seizures and spaces out/snaps back to reality in just about the exact way Hillary does in that video.
Also, Clinton's doctor released this statement a little while ago:
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"Secretary Clinton has been experiencing a cough related to allergies. On Friday, during follow up evaluation of her prolonged cough, she was diagnosed with pneumonia. She was put on antibiotics, and advised to rest and modify her schedule. While at this morning's event, she became overheated and dehydrated. I have just examined her and she is now re-hydrated and recovering nicely.
Well we've gone from "Questions about her health are what evil kooky Alt-Right people would say, she is in the prime of her life" to "OK actually she has a prolonged cough that led to pneumonia and got overheated and dehydrated standing for short periods of time outside in sub-80 degree weather, but hey, remember when she opened that jar of pickles?"