SpinnerBait_Nut
Honorary Moderator Emeritus
- Joined
- Aug 25, 2002
- Messages
- 17,651
NBC News and news services<br />Updated: 1:57 p.m. ET Jan. 31, 2005BUFFALO, N.Y. - <br /><br />Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton collapsed Monday during during a speech but aides said the former first lady quickly recovered from what they described as a fainting spell triggered by a 24-hour flu and planned to appear at a second public engagement. <br /><br />"She's fine," aides to the junior senator from New York told NBC News. <br /><br />An aide to the 57-year-old Clinton, who spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said the senator had been suffering from a flu bug but pressed ahead with an appearance before a group of women voters. <br /><br />She was speaking about Social Security in a warm room in the Saturn Club in front of 150 people when she briefly lost consciousness, according to the aide. <br /><br />"She was weak and needed to sit down. She fainted," the aide said. <br /><br />Colleen DiPirro, president of the Amherst Chamber of Commerce, told WBEN radio station that Clinton told the audience she was feeling weak from a stomach ailment. She then began speaking and collapsed, DiPirro said. <br /><br />The radio station initially reported that Clinton had been hospitalized, but it later corrected the report to say she was treated by an emergency crew at the scene and declined to be taken to a hospital. <br /><br />Vincent Tracy, general manager of the private Saturn Club, said the senator walked out of the building a short time later. "I saw her walk out the door by herself; she smiled and said thank you,'" he said. <br /><br />Aides said Clinton planned to press on with a second speech scheduled at a nearby Catholic college.<br />________________________________________________<br />hello she had the flu, what was she trying to do, give it to others? 
