Blood pressure: 100/70FOR a candidate who may feel she is required to project strength in a way that male politicians are not, it is hard to imagine a worse time to swoon than at a memorial event for those killed on 9/11. Worse, Hillary Clinton kept news of her pneumonia from her own campaign and from voters for a couple of days. She has pledged to be more transparent in the future, a promise she has made before, and issued detailed medical records. Donald Trump, who is a master at feigning the kind of openness that he demands from others, submitted himself to a conversation with Dr Oz, a daytime TV host, who in turn promised not to ask Mr Trump anything “he doesn’t want to have answered”. Mr Trump’s only medical note so far has come from a gastroenterologist, who later admitted it was scrawled in five minutes while a limousine waited downstairs.
Mrs Clinton’s pneumonia may yet turn out to be trivial or serious for her campaign. What is clear is that it is barely a scratch compared with the maladies endured by previous candidates and presidents, beginning with George Washington’s excruciating toothaches. Mr Trump...Continue reading
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