Election in Usa. Oil and honey : grandmothers' medicine for the candidates' voices

John Mc Cain was saved from embarrassment thanks to some spoons of olive oil. Barack Obama uses a mixture of hot water, lemon, honey and ginger. The candidates for the White House are running out of voice, because of an exhausting campaign, and just like successful tenors (or soprano, in the case of Hillary Clinton), they all have a specialist who takes care of their vocal chords, with old methods borrowed from our grandmothers'. The exhausted candidates' terror is that, because of their daily public events or interviews, somebody can repeat "Pete Wilson's case". In 1996 he was the governor of California who was obliged to give up the White House rush because of his vocal chords damaged by political over activity: Wilson tried everything; he assumed a vocal trainer and gargled all day long, but all was useless. The doctors ordered him three months' absolute silence or he would become dumb. His campaign was condemned. With 32 primary elections for the first time compressed in a very short time, from 3rd January to 5th February, the candidates are running these risks. The Wall Street journal has investigated their oratorical habits and they have found out that they all have a throat - ear - nose specialist in their teams, or methods to recover voice, or habits to save it as Mitt Romney's car voyages in absolute silence.
His staff worried about Obama in New Hampshire, when his voice turned into a whisper two days before the vote. A doctor who visited him in those days, recommended him three days' silence: an advice soon ignored. Tommy Vietor, one of Obama's spokesmen, explained that the senator of Illinois cured with his favourite remedy, a honey cocktail. Some days ago in South Carolina the same happened to seventy-one-year - old Mc Cain. In his case the olive oil was providential, as those who over use voice know. And now the senator of Arizona travels with his bottle of olive oil always ready. Hillary Clinton instead, can count on this aspect, as on many others, on his husband's experience. The ex- president has always used, since 1992, the date of his rush to the White House,a method developed by his personal expert, Dr. James Suen: humming. The secret agents are now used to listening Bill Clinton while humming before an electoral meeting or any other public event.