Hillary needs a vocal coach

[TrogL]

The reason she was coughing for four minutes the other day and barely made it through her speech today is she's abusing her voice. She's using the same technique as cheerleader yells but you can't keep that up for very long without doing vocal chord damage.

In her present condition, if she were a singer, she'd need to immediately take 2 weeks off.

[HipChick]

1. Maggie Thatcher hired a voice coach

[Peregrine Took]

2. My SIL is a retired opera singer who teaches the bel canto method of voice.

Very difficult to learn but, once mastered, shows you to breathe properly and sing well into old age.

[Control-Z]

3. A little embarrassed to say,

I was a cheerleader. On day one we were taught how to yell properly, so as not to damage our vocal chords. It's difficult to believe that her organization didn't hire a vocal coach a year ago.

[TrogL]

15. That's a good thing

I've met women in their 20's who sound like Janis Joplin on a bad day. They've got permanent vocal chord nodes from pushing their voice cheerleading.

[tinrobot]

4. Bill had the same problem when he was campaigning

I remember his voice giving out in the last few days of the '92 campaign

[democrattotheend]

9. Me too

For some reason, I remember a rally a few days before the election where Hillary introduced him and explained that he was losing his voice.

[bettyellen]

5. There's a ton of ragweed out and it's got lots of us coughing

[pnwmom]

8. +1

[meow2u3]

12. I was coughing up a lung until I picked up some allergy meds

I was using my asthma inhaler a lot more often than usual this summer, even though I didn't go out much because of the heat. But the generic version of Claritin helps me keep the coughing to a minimum.

So HRC isn't the only one coughing up a lung due to allergies. Many people are suffering.

[bettyellen]

14. My doc said he'd never prescribed so many inhalers before!

[shopgirl]

6. Seriously?

I have awful allergies and I cough practically nonstop. With all due respect, I find this whole thing ridiculous. Trump can't string together a complete sentence, is completely out of his depth on every issue, but we're going to talk about Hillary's coughing? Unbelievable.

[DURHAM D]

13. Thank you.

Could not have said it better. I am coughing right now because I worked outside all afternoon.

Hillary doesn't need a voice coach she needs to stay inside in conditioned air and so do I.

[DawgHouse]

7. I thought she sounded fine in today's speech.

I believe what she needs is stronger allergy medicine. It can be difficult because those meds usually cause drowsiness.

[MohRokTah]

10. That's as much "long distance doctoring" as the Repugnant health claims made by Trumpites!

[etherealtruth]

11. I was prepared to disagree with you when I read the subject line

When I read your post, I agree with your rationale completely.

(I was MISTAKENLY thinking this would be a post about the way her voice sounds ... tRumps voice is like nails on a chalk board to me)