How a Medical Mystery Tilted the 1992 Election in Bill Clinton´s Favor
Politico Magazine,
by
Susan Page
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
4/2/2019 4:35:10 PM
Soon after her husband was sworn in as president of the United States in 1989, Barbara Bush began losing weight, 18 pounds in all, sudden progress after a lifelong struggle. “I convinced myself it was because I was eating smaller portions and working so hard,” she said in her 1994 memoir. But she also was having trouble with her eyes. They were inflamed and bulging, and sometimes she was seeing double. Aboard Air Force One in February 1989, heading back to Washington after a trip to China, she sat down beside White House physician Lawrence Mohr and described her symptoms. Mohr
Reply 1 - Posted by:
columba 4/2/2019 4:41:35 PM (No. 21346)
All I remember about Mrs Bush is that she was Pro-Choice.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
TrueBlueWfan 4/2/2019 4:46:37 PM (No. 21350)
I seem to remember that some suspected the VP residence had lead or galvanized water pipes, and that had something to do with the Graves disease.
Either way, George HW Bush would have lost that election. Perot spoiled it.
Barbara lost my respect when she bad-mouthed Sarah Palin, and then the whole family hated Pres. Trump.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 4/2/2019 4:50:17 PM (No. 21358)
Let the Politico believe whatever they want along with tremendous voter fraud the president gig was in the bag for the horn dog Bill Clinton.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 4/2/2019 4:54:24 PM (No. 21351)
Maybe Babs lost weight because she knew he hubby was cheating on her with his lovely new "assistant."
Pfoooey on all Bushes - - they´re all globalist traitors.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
plomke 4/2/2019 4:57:57 PM (No. 21362)
So...it was galvanized pipes that gave Mrs Bush a disease that gave us "No New Taxes-Read My Lips".
Okaaaay...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Donna M 4/2/2019 4:59:14 PM (No. 21354)
This book has the supposed revelation that Barbara was near suicidal based on HW´s relationship with another woman. Please, can we spare the personal details now that they are both gone? One, it´s between them and two, it wasn´t germane to either the election or how he governed. This is quite unlike FDR where his personal life influenced how he governed and a change in the First Lady´s role.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/2/2019 5:00:01 PM (No. 21345)
Susan Page, flogging her book and trying to gin up sales. I don’t see it being a bestseller.
That said, there is really no mystery about Graves disease, and a genetic predisposition to autoimmune disorders. Sometimes it goes the other way and one can be diagnosed with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, hypothyroidism.
There shouldn’t be a big oogly-boogly about how they contracted it.
Page wil need more than that to sell her book.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/2/2019 5:02:25 PM (No. 21356)
“They didn’t want people to think that they were going to elect a damaged president,”
Ah but the people did anyway, one far more damaged than they knew.
Sentimental drivel aside, the thing that most strikes me in the article is the level of medical attention given VIPs compared to what the average taxpayer gets. Yes, the President is important, no, his life is not worth more than anybody else´s.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/2/2019 5:02:50 PM (No. 21343)
Re #6, that information on his affair was expounded on by Barbara Bush in long interviews with Page. This was an authorized biography, not a gossip hit piece. Page was even given Bush’s diaries.
I believe Barbara wanted her personal story of his well-known affair out there. It had been talked about in Washington DC circles for more than a decade. It was her turn to tell her story.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
StormCnter 4/2/2019 5:06:27 PM (No. 21355)
Nope.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 4/2/2019 5:44:53 PM (No. 21348)
It´s Politico.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Dukester 4/2/2019 6:22:26 PM (No. 21347)
I´ve got two words that explain the defeat of the incumbent in 1992: Ross Perot.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
ginadee 4/2/2019 6:25:51 PM (No. 21359)
I agree #12. One cannot ignore the influence
he had on that election.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
snapper451 4/2/2019 7:15:29 PM (No. 21360)
I always had the feeling Bush 41 "threw" the election anyway. He was afraid to take Clinton on about the womanizing because he had skeletons in his closet. It was less than a stellar effort on his part and I agree that Ross Perot was a huge factor as well. Do I wish we never had 8 years of the Clinton´s and their thievery - absolutely - the world would be a better place.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
red1066 4/2/2019 7:20:10 PM (No. 21352)
Who cares.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
harleynyc 4/2/2019 7:31:14 PM (No. 21364)
Here´s a better excuse: It was the Japanese. Nobody gets to throw up on the Prime Minister without paying a price.
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Ross Perot had more to do with GHWB losing in 1992 than anything else.
Most Perot voters pulled from GOP side.
And, as far as people´s personal lives, I could care less, it´s really up to them, their conscience and the people directly in their lives.
We don´t elect saints for political office.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
jar 4/2/2019 9:23:22 PM (No. 21353)
Just saw Susan Page interview on Martha McCallum show. Someone please tell Susan Page that Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush did NOT go to the same college. Nancy is a Smith graduate and Barbara went one year to Wellesley (quit to marry George). Just trying to get the facts straight.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
jorgecito 4/2/2019 9:29:26 PM (No. 21361)
But, #7, it is very unusual for both husband and wife to get the disorder.
And their dog Millie acquired an autoimmune disease around the same time, too.
I´m not saying there was any contamination or sabotage of their living quarters. But it is a very odd coincidence.
In yet more [coincidental] thyroid news:
MSM personality Deborah Norville has just announced she has a thyroid cancer. She seemed to think surgery would take care of it, and didn´t believe she would have to drink the radioactive iodine (as both Bushes did); but wasn´t sure. I never much liked her, but wish her well.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
jimincalif 4/2/2019 11:10:42 PM (No. 21342)
It’s obvious, the RUSSIANS did it.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 4/2/2019 11:22:25 PM (No. 21344)
#12, has the real answer. He hated Bush, Sr. and did it to prevent him from being elected, at whatever cost.
At this point, Perot wasn´t entirely wrong, but my gosh BillyJeff was a hell of a price to pay.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
fishbone 4/3/2019 1:10:54 AM (No. 21349)
What I got from this article was thatthey was so narcissistic that they would rather taint the Republican choices and virtually GIVE the presidency to a Dim than gracefully bow out.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Smart11344 4/3/2019 2:36:40 PM (No. 21357)
Does anyone else remember, the white house doctor, who was fired almost immediately when Clinton took office, because Bill wanted an injection. Clinton would not disclose what was in the syringe. The doctor said NO. He was dismissed almost immediately.
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