THE LEGITIMATE HEALTH ISSUE – AT 10:18 A.M. ET:  It seems ridiculous to argue over whether Hillary Clinton's health is a "legitimate" issue.  Of course it is.  Presidential health has been a legitimate issue ever since Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke during his second term, a fact hidden from the public, with his wife essentially running the presidency for many months afterward.

It was an issue in Washington in 1944 when visitors to President Roosevelt were horrified by his obvious deterioration...also kept from the public.

It was brought up by liberal deity Adlai Stevenson when he ran for president in 1956 against incumbent Dwight D. Eisenhower, who'd suffered a heart attack during his first term.

It was an issue, although whispered, in the 1960 campaign, when John F. Kennedy held back the fact that he had Addison's Disease.

And there have even been questions, although they were asked after he left office, about whether Ronald Reagan suffered the onset of Alzheimer's Disease late in his presidency.

It is a legitimate issue when there is an issue at all.  But some are trying to suggest that bringing it up in Hillary Clinton's case is "sexism."  That is rubbish, as Andrea Peyser points out in the New York Post: 

“Hillary Clinton Isn’t Sick. You Are.”

So reads a mind-blowing headline published in The Daily Beast over a column by feminist journalist, author and TV pundit Eleanor Clift — a piece so out of touch with reality, it could drive one of Clinton’s “deplorables” to lie down in a safe space to escape triggering microaggressions.

Clift dismisses the notion that the Democratic presidential candidate nearly passing out and falling on her face in public Sunday is proof that she may be ill.

Rather, she casts shame on anyone who worries, I think understandably, that America’s voters may soon elect a physical and possibly cognitive basket case as commander in chief.

She whines that “ageism and sexism can combine in a double whammy undermining her candidacy.”

So Clinton, 68, isn’t sick. You’re a knuckle-dragging, misogynistic, ageist creep if you think so.

Were it only Clift who felt that way. The Clinton Chick Protection Racket is working double-time.

Last month, BC — Before the Collapse — Glamour magazine declared: “Yes, It’s Sexist to Speculate About Hillary Clinton’s Health.” Now, AC, it’s gotten worse. My Facebook feed is littered with crazed dames and dumb dudes writing stuff such as, “The Media Owe Hillary Clinton an Apology.” For expecting her to do something completely alien to her DNA: tell the truth? Stunning.

COMMENT:  Eleanor Clift is one of the worst, a party liner posing as a journalist.  We must ask about Hillary's health, and it's entirely appropriate to ask about Trump's as well.

At least Trump has released the full results of his latest physical.  He should release his medical history, but only if Hillary does. 

If you watch CNN, as I am forced to do as part of my work, you'll find the usual suspects demanding full disclosure by Trump, but insisting that the Clinton episode is just a "blip."  If she died in office they'd probably say she was "biologically inconvenienced."

September 16, 2016