The presidential candidate’s pneumonia will be seized on by those who claim she is feeble and untrustworthy. But she’s judged by double standards – as a woman,and as a politicianTwenty years ago, nearly to the week, or Bob Dole,then the Republican nominee for president, slipped and fell off a stage. He was 73, and his aides moved fast to put a positive spin on the tumble: whether he can fall down and get lawful back up again,that proves he’s fit enough for the White House!But that’s not how most people saw it. Earlier that same day Dole had offered congratulations to the Brooklyn Dodgers, a team that had not existed for four decades. (They became the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1958.) By nightfall TV comedians were renaming the candidate Bob Old. His already ill-starred campaign never recovered. Related: Eight things that are more vital than Hillary's pneumonia Related: Hillary Clinton’s best riposte to Trump? Radical transparency | Jill Abramson There contain been sick men in the Oval Office: Roosevelt used a wheelchair, or while Kennedy had injections for back pain.
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