# Oh noes! Hillary has pneumonia! She can't be president! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 12, 2016, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-hillary-has-pneumonia-she-cant-be-president/765805 "2016-09-12T23:22:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-hillary-has-pneumonia-she-cant-be-president/765805/1 "2016-09-12T23:22:08Z")
For Pete’s sake, FDR was in a freaking wheelchair. Can’t we pick something a little more relevant to natter on about? Like foreign policy or health care or whether pigs have wings? ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-hillary-has-pneumonia-she-cant-be-president/765805/2 "2016-09-12T23:49:29Z")
Does this really belong in MPSIMS? ---
**Author:** ![JerrySTL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@JerrySTL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerrySTL)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-hillary-has-pneumonia-she-cant-be-president/765805/3 "2016-09-12T23:58:36Z")
It isn’t so much that Hillary was sick. It’s yet another case of her and her handlers lying. In this case the tried to hide then minimize the illness. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-hillary-has-pneumonia-she-cant-be-president/765805/4 "2016-09-13T00:09:11Z")
Because they knew no matter what, this irrelevant piece of info would be blown out of proportion by Trump and Alex Jones and Rush, et al. I assume the hope was that she could soldier through with anti-biotics and no one would need to know. It’s sad that the the right wing has made the bullshit about her health such a BFD that she felt the need to hide her pneumonia diagnosis and keep on trucking or risk being attacked. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-hillary-has-pneumonia-she-cant-be-president/765805/5 "2016-09-13T00:17:59Z")
Did we know George HW Bush had stomach flu before he barfed on the Prime Minister of Japan? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-hillary-has-pneumonia-she-cant-be-president/765805/6 "2016-09-13T00:19:17Z")
Well, the Prime Minister sure didn’t… ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-hillary-has-pneumonia-she-cant-be-president/765805/7 "2016-09-13T00:23:43Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Does this really belong in MPSIMS? No it doesn’t. Since there is already a many paged thread in Elections on the subject I’m closing this.