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When it comes to politicians and their ill health, Fetterman is in very famous company. Let's review some other well known politicians who had rather serious health problems, yet still were able to do their job while in office.
Winston Churchill
There is a book published by his physicians that is 1 1/2" inches thick about all of his illnesses.
In his 1966 memoir, Churchill’s personal physician Charles Wilson, the first Baron Moran, revealed that “Black Dog” was the name Churchill gave to “the prolonged fits of depression from which he suffered”. During his second term as prime minister from 1951 to 1955, Churchill was, in the words of his biographer Roy Jenkins, “gloriously unfit for office”. Ageing and increasingly unwell, he often conducted business from his bedside. He had suffered a stroke while on holiday in 1949 and, while in office in 1953, suffered another. Despite being paralysed down one side and doctors fearing he might not survive the weekend, he conducted a cabinet meeting without, it is claimed, anyone noticing his indisposition. News of this stroke was kept from parliament and the public, who were told that he was suffering merely from exhaustion. He left office in 1955.
John F Kennedy
When JFK was elected US president in 1960, he seemed, at 43, healthy and vibrant. In reality, he suffered various problems controlled by doses of steroids and other drugs. Among those problems was Addison’s disease or autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 2. The disease causes the adrenal glands (which produce adrenaline and other hormones) to wither and results in symptoms such as fatigue, dizziness, muscle weakness, weight loss, difficulty standing up, nausea, sweating, and changes in mood and personality. Kennedy collapsed twice, once during a congressional visit to Britain, as a result of Addison’s disease.
Franklin D Roosevelt
In 1921, at the age of 38, Roosevelt suffered a severe attack of polio, which resulted in the total paralysis of both legs. The previous year he had run as vice-president on Democratic candidate James M Cox’s ticket. His illness seemed to threaten his future political career, but it did not. In 1928, he was elected governor of New York and in 1932 defeated Herbert Hoover to become president, in which office he served until his death in 1945 – becoming thereby the last president to serve more than two four-year terms in office. In 1944, hospital tests revealed that the president, a lifelong chain smoker, had high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease causing angina pectoris and congestive heart failure, but his declining health was hidden from the public. He died during his last year in office.
François Mitterrand
The French president died of prostate cancer in 1996, a year after the end of his two-term, 1981-95 presidency. During those long years in the Élysée Palace, he and his doctors concealed his condition from the French public. David Owen, in his book In Sickness and in Power: Illness in Heads of Government During the Last 100 Years, reveals the lengths they went to to conceal his condition.
Harold Wilson
During the British prime minister’s second term of office from 1974-76, he suffered symptoms that were later diagnosed as colon cancer.
Tony Blair
He was found to be suffering from supraventricular tachycardia,
Data source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...nia-leaders-illnesses-jfk-mitterand-churchill
And....
U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen suffered a stroke during office
U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan suffered a stroke this year.
And, the above was only a cursory search, I'm sure if I dug a little harder, I could have found scores of Senators, Congresspersons, Governors, etc., who had health problems and people have a problem with Fetterman?
Vote character and policies, but Fetterman's cognitive difficulties aren't that severe, compared to other famous politicians who have had conditions of one kind or another.. But, of course, no doubt Republicans are not going to let anyone forget Fetterman's condition though they would have in prior years. Reagan was exhibiting signs of senility before he finally left office, did anyone raise a big stink about it?
But Oz shouldn't be a doctor, let alone Senator:
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Winston Churchill
There is a book published by his physicians that is 1 1/2" inches thick about all of his illnesses.
In his 1966 memoir, Churchill’s personal physician Charles Wilson, the first Baron Moran, revealed that “Black Dog” was the name Churchill gave to “the prolonged fits of depression from which he suffered”. During his second term as prime minister from 1951 to 1955, Churchill was, in the words of his biographer Roy Jenkins, “gloriously unfit for office”. Ageing and increasingly unwell, he often conducted business from his bedside. He had suffered a stroke while on holiday in 1949 and, while in office in 1953, suffered another. Despite being paralysed down one side and doctors fearing he might not survive the weekend, he conducted a cabinet meeting without, it is claimed, anyone noticing his indisposition. News of this stroke was kept from parliament and the public, who were told that he was suffering merely from exhaustion. He left office in 1955.
John F Kennedy
When JFK was elected US president in 1960, he seemed, at 43, healthy and vibrant. In reality, he suffered various problems controlled by doses of steroids and other drugs. Among those problems was Addison’s disease or autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 2. The disease causes the adrenal glands (which produce adrenaline and other hormones) to wither and results in symptoms such as fatigue, dizziness, muscle weakness, weight loss, difficulty standing up, nausea, sweating, and changes in mood and personality. Kennedy collapsed twice, once during a congressional visit to Britain, as a result of Addison’s disease.
Franklin D Roosevelt
In 1921, at the age of 38, Roosevelt suffered a severe attack of polio, which resulted in the total paralysis of both legs. The previous year he had run as vice-president on Democratic candidate James M Cox’s ticket. His illness seemed to threaten his future political career, but it did not. In 1928, he was elected governor of New York and in 1932 defeated Herbert Hoover to become president, in which office he served until his death in 1945 – becoming thereby the last president to serve more than two four-year terms in office. In 1944, hospital tests revealed that the president, a lifelong chain smoker, had high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease causing angina pectoris and congestive heart failure, but his declining health was hidden from the public. He died during his last year in office.
François Mitterrand
The French president died of prostate cancer in 1996, a year after the end of his two-term, 1981-95 presidency. During those long years in the Élysée Palace, he and his doctors concealed his condition from the French public. David Owen, in his book In Sickness and in Power: Illness in Heads of Government During the Last 100 Years, reveals the lengths they went to to conceal his condition.
Harold Wilson
During the British prime minister’s second term of office from 1974-76, he suffered symptoms that were later diagnosed as colon cancer.
Tony Blair
He was found to be suffering from supraventricular tachycardia,
Data source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...nia-leaders-illnesses-jfk-mitterand-churchill
And....
U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen suffered a stroke during office
U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan suffered a stroke this year.
And, the above was only a cursory search, I'm sure if I dug a little harder, I could have found scores of Senators, Congresspersons, Governors, etc., who had health problems and people have a problem with Fetterman?
Vote character and policies, but Fetterman's cognitive difficulties aren't that severe, compared to other famous politicians who have had conditions of one kind or another.. But, of course, no doubt Republicans are not going to let anyone forget Fetterman's condition though they would have in prior years. Reagan was exhibiting signs of senility before he finally left office, did anyone raise a big stink about it?
But Oz shouldn't be a doctor, let alone Senator:
Dr. Oz Shouldn't Be a Senator--or a Doctor
His brand of misinformation has already tarnished medicine. In the halls of Congress, he’d do much worse
