Hillary will be the nominee two years hence. Not Warren. Not Sanders.

[Divernan]

31. Both Clintons have major health issues.

Look, we all know about Bill's serious, progressive heart disease and HRC's "fainting"/blood clot in the brain episode. I stopped by the library yesterday and saw Ed Klein's bombshell new book about the Clintons and Obamas, Blood Feud. The book was displayed in pride of place near the checkout desk. I started to page through it and ended up sitting down and reading for a good half hour.

Trash Klein as much as you want, but I truly doubt he would have published statements regarding HRC's health without factual backup - risk of being sued for defamation. First of all, I believe a campaign would risk her health, and her husband's. Secondly, I have no doubt that her health would be an issue she'd be forced to address were she the nominee. Here's what Klein had to say:

“The true story of what happened to Hillary, was radically different from [Hillary's personal spokesman Phillipe] Reines’s version [that Hillary had a stomach virus and was dehydrated]. Hillary fainted while she was working in her seventh-floor office at the State Department, not at home, as Reines told the media. She was treated at the State Department’s infirmary and then, at her own insistence, taken to Whitehaven to recover. However, as soon as Bill appeared on the scene and was able to assess Hillary’s condition for himself, he ordered that she be immediately flown to New York-Presbyterian Hospital in…Manhattan. When Reines subsequently released a statement confirming that Hillary was being treated…it naturally intensified speculation about the seriousness of her medical condition.

While she was at the hospital, doctors diagnosed Hillary with several problems. She had a right transverse venous thrombosis, or a blood clot between her brain and skull…

To make matters worse, it turned out that Hillary had an intrinsic tendency to form clots and faint [Klein goes on to recount several other past fainting spells].

…According to a source close to Hillary, a thorough medical examination revealed that Hillary’s tendency to form clots was the least of her problems…Put into layman’s language, her heart valves were not pumping in a steady way.”

The book also described earlier fainting spells from such blood clots. In 1998, she was treated for a blood clot in her leg. She fainted during a 2005 speech in Buffalo, N.Y., broke her elbow in an unexplained 2009 fall in the State Department garage, and collapsed while boarding a flight in Yemen in 2011.

Given their precarious states of health, if either of them truly cared more about the other than about political power, and/or if their daughter cares about how long they live, HRC will NOT run.