What’s going on with Hillary Clinton’s health? That’s a question many people are asking these days. There’s a lot we still don’t know about the mysterious health scare Clinton suffered in December 2012, when she was hospitalized for what was later described as a blood clot on her brain.

The event was shrugged off as a minor scare, and Hillary eventually returned to work as secretary of state, sporting a pair of very thick spectacles. However, in 2014, Bill Clinton revealed that his wife’s “terrible” health episode “required six months of very serious work to get over.”

via HEALTH WATCH: Hillary Clinton’s Erratic Behavior Raises Questions | Heat Street

Joe and Hillary on the tarmac

via WATCH: Clinton and Biden share awkward hug | Washington Examiner

Or: Don’t Cry, Joe . . .

Dog Whistles, Walk-Backs, and Washington Handshakes: Decoding the Jargon, Slang, and Bluster of American Political Speech

Book title says it all.

It’s a full-scale treatment of my cameo treatment of same in this book:

Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters

See here for paperback copy of Illinois Blues.

via Dog Whistles, Walk-Backs, and Washington Handshakes: Decoding the Jargon, Slang, and Bluster of American Political Speech: Chuck McCutcheon, David Mark, Jeff Greenfield: 9781611686036: Amazon.com: Books

How to Talk Like a Politician

Extensive discussion here of topic examined cameo-like in my Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters.

See here for paperback copy.

Egyptian judo star refuses to shake Israeli’s hand at Olympics

Don’t do it, son, said the Egyptian father.

TV host Mataz Matar demanded that El Shehaby withdraw: “My son watch out, don’t be fooled, or fool yourself thinking you will play with the Israeli athlete to defeat him and make Egypt happy. Egypt will cry; Egypt will be sad and you will be seen as a traitor and a normalizer in the eyes of your people.”

So. Don’t even “play with” him.

Comment by Jihad Watch’s Robert Spencer:

A normalizer. Islamic supremacists are determined never to treat Israel normally. They want it destroyed. That is all. No negotiated settlement will ever mollify them. But Western leaders persist in their fantasies nonetheless.

Western leaders, not least of them nor the least fantastic in his thinking, Pope Francis.