Bill Clinton and various states of mind

Here's a couple of dueling Bill Clinton articles for you having to do with certain states of mind. You'll understand...

First, from the Associated Press:

A man was accused Wednesday in an indictment of making threats against former President Clinton. Three employees at the Edwards Chiropractic Clinic told investigators they heard Williford threaten to "bust a cap," or shoot, Clinton, according to an affidavit.

During an interview with Secret Service agents, Williford denied threatening Clinton but said he believed Clinton was "a communist mole for the Red Chinese..."

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1151AP_Clinton_T...

Second, this from the Arkansas News Bureau, on Bill Clinton's mental condition:

A psychologist who teaches at Johns Hopkins University came to Little Rock last week to work on his book that will propose that Bill Clinton has a mental condition that's actually an element of historic greatness.

The author, John Gartner, contended in a previous book that Americans have achieved inordinate wealth because ours is a nation of people who had the gumption to take chances. From that heritage, his theory goes, we have seen the spread of a gene that causes the occasional person to have chemical and brain wave actions called hypomanic.

That means low manic, and it is not considered a disease, like manic-depressive. It's just a thing, like a hot temper or grouchiness.

The hypomanic person, as Gartner explained, lives in a place of high brilliance with low insanity not far away. His condition impels him to invention, innovation, entrepreneurial venture, maybe even the presidency.

He tends to be charismatic. He also tends to have a stuck accelerator. He's impulsive, risk-taking, perhaps sexually indiscreet, given to grandiosity, unconfined by convention and consumed excitedly with ideas, some great, some absurd.

http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2006/07/20/JohnBrum...

Others with the "condition" have included Christopher Columbus, John Winthrop, Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Carnegie, Louis B. Mayer and human genome discoverer Craig Venter.