Stephanopoulos: McCaskill Says McCain’s Age, Melanoma ‘A Reality’

Well McCain is too old to be president.

The McCain campaign is desperate to change the subject. False controversy takes the emphasis away from a candidate who was so uninspiring that only 20% of his supporters were enthusiastic about him. Tiny crowds of bored people were the norm for McCain. Palin was selected by the same folks who brought us a “compassionate conservative” from Texas, who, like Palin, has turned out to be anything but what they sold.
She brought home more earmarks per person than any other state, 10 times higher rate than Illinois.
Meanwhile, hard working Americans are slipping into the mud in this economy. Our real incomes have dropped while everything costs more. Can you tell me one thing McCain has done to help uninsured Americans get health care? Can you tell me what McCain has done over the last 26 years that will help us transition to a renewable energy economy? McCain agrees that global warming is influenced by the burning of fossil fuels. But you know what his solution is, you heard it at the convention: Drill, Baby, Drill.
Drilling. That was the answer in the 1970′s, 1980′s, 1990′s and most of the first decade of the new century. Don’t you think it’s time we actually did something different?
Barack Obama authorized incentives for renewable, green energy in this country. Barack Obama authorized a program to help 150,000 people in Illinois get access to affordable healthcare, and he voted to cover uninsured children in the CHIP program. Barack Obama will cut taxes for 95% of American working families, and everyone making less than $250,00 will see large decreases in the taxes they pay across the board: Payroll, income, capital gains taxes, etc. will decrease for hard working people and we will be able to begin to get ahead once more.
McCain voted against healthcare for children. McCain voted against renewable energy. But McCain emphatically supports tax cuts- the biggest rate cut going to those who make over 2.5 million dollars a year.
Barack Obama will lower taxes for those making less than $250,000 per year to the lowest levels in 50 years. Those making more will be taxed at the same rate they enjoyed in the Reagan years. Senior citizens making less than $50,000 will pay NO TAXES under Barack Obama.
Barack Obama: Lowest tax rates for working families in the last 50 years, affordable healthcare for the uninsured, clean renewable domestic energy.
McCain wants to continue the Bush policies in each of these areas.
And I still haven’t heard anyone ask McCain how he plans to pay for continuing Bush’s failed policies. Perhaps China still has some money to lend…..

And BHO is NOT qualified to be POTUS.

Age is an important factor. Whether too young or too old. The pressure of work being President, results in a quick shrinkage of the brain.
McCain’s VP must be a standby President who must be ready all time, to step in if need be.

You libs in the media keep complaining about McCains campaign and have no prblem with this kind of nasty comments like this loser McCaskill. Should we be worried Obama is going to get lung cancer while in office from all the smomking he does? She should be in Missouri trying to stop the beating Obama is going to get in her state in Nov.

Has Obama quit smoking cigarettes yet?? For over forty years now, we have known that smoking leads to diseases, which cause death. Could someone – anyone – is the press alive? – look into Obama’s medical history? That one letter from his doctor isn’t quite the same as his ENTIRE medical history.

JUST TALKED OBAMA,S MUSLIM, LAIRY CHARGE AND DRUG USE.

Obama’s belief in the hateful Black Liberation Theory is important and speaks volumes of his character and judgment. This scares me, and the fact that his followers NEVER have a good reason why he followed this belief says that there is no excuse for it.

777,you are a liar..Obama does not subcribe to Malcolm x’s philosophy. you paid bloggers would stop at nothing to get your lies and propoganda across. Heaven help us all and save us from those Republicans

hes old he has cancer, and palin has no experience and no clue

Stanley-
I am not a liar. Black Liberation Theory is followed in Trinity United, Obama’s church. That is no secret. Don’t want to believe it? Look it up.

Reagan WON the Cold War at age 77. Case closed

“But what of Senator Obama’s Health? Smoker 21 years. It’s not as if once you quit smoking, all the health effects immediately disappear. In fact, after enough smoking, some health effects are irreversible. Consider just the arteries and lungs.” (Jeff Stier, huffingtonpost.com)
“A 1998 study in the Journal for the American Medical Association reported that the amount of fatty deposits in the carotid artery depended on total pact-years of tobacco exposure, not whether the patient currently smokes. AND A SMOKER’S EXCESS RISK OF A STROKE DOESN’T RETURN TO THAT OF NONSMOKERS UNTIL AT LEAST FIVE, OR A LONG AS TWENTY YEARS AFTER QUITTING. SEN OBAMA WOULD HAVE TO SERVE A HYPOTHETICAL FOUR SMOKE FREE TERMS BEFORE HIS STROKE RISK RETURNED TO NORMAL.” (huffingtonpost.com)Obama family history includes cancer…
Please find another issue. Perhaps policy..

I agree entirely with McCaskill!!!!! Sarah Palin is a family values fraud and is TOTALLY unqualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. She is the devil in a skirt….with lipstick.

Jose,Reagan also left us with the worst defecit we’ve ever seen up until that point. But why would repuglicans think about that right?? Lol. Learn your pollitics please…

The risk of getting lung cancer after 20 yrs of smoking: 1 in 7

there is no jealousy, god you republicans just don’t get it do you? mccain votes 90% bush, is run by lobbyists and we are in the worst time of our nation, brought to you by bush and company. what is so attractive about voting for these people again? where do you win? or is it that you were so STUPID in voting for the man twice, that you have made it personal, you will not admit your mistake and now intend to cut off your nose to spite your face and vote for mccain. but you’re also cutting off everyone else’s faces in the process. you people are morons and don’t deserve the right to vote.

How can people vote for a party that have us in an economic pit. People have lost their homes to forclosures..jobs losts by the thousands..unemployment rate the highest in years..gas is $4.00 a gallon..4000 troops die in an unjust and stupid war..30,000 incapacitated and would never enjoy life as we know it(family,marriage etc) thousands of the troops come back changed with PTS post traumatic syndrome..husbands who were once loving are now beating their wives a few have killed their spouses..many are behaving crazy…veterans live on the street…and it goes on and on..and people are contemplating voting for McCain and his Party who are responsible for getting us in this mess. Can someone tell me when last have you heard McCain talk about the economy? All he talks about is Iraq, Iraq, Iraq and when he’s tired he talks about his experience in vietnam..I’m sick of it! The Republicans have no plan so they are attempting to steal Obama’s mantra of change..With all the mess the Republicans have placed this country in..these people still had the nerve to hold up signs in their so called convention which read “COUNTRY FIRST”. Heaven help us all and save us from the Republicans!

THE HATRED OBAMA SUPPORTERS COME OUT TO DISRESPECT A GREAT HERO. THEY DISRESPECT HILLARY, BILL, THEY JUST KISS THE DIRTY CHICAGO POLITICIAN.
HILLARY SUPPORTERS WILL SUPPORT MCCAIN/PALIN. OBAMA SHOULD FIRST CLEAR UP CHICAGO.

John McCain has already lived past the age of every older male McCain relative. His physical body is not in good shape (I’ve seen him in person at campaign events). He seems to have a problem remembering things (like Palin getting earmarks for Alaska). So my conclusion is that his age is an issue because of who he picked as a VP. No one would be saying anything about his age if he had picked Kay Bailey Hutchinson for VP. So I think it’s a valid issue.

McCain is Insane.

And Obama voted 95% of the time with his liberal dems???? So what’s your point??? McCain in republican and Obama is democrat…..BTW, vomiting insults only entrenches the competing side..

McCain smoked for years.

Paid Obama bloggers, Can you find the answer from your employer?
Does Obama believe in “BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY”
African American supporting
McCain/Palin

John McCain is old as dirt….Did you ever notice how Cindy has to take his hand when he gets off of stage? He’s a doddering old fart.

THe only reason McCain’s age is a legitimate talking point is that he picked Sarah Palin as VP. THere are good things about her, though I am a democrat through and through, but she is not ready to be leader of the most powerful nation in the world. She just isn’t. She is not well enough informed. Period.

adam—-must be ADAM ant. {loser}

Jose…please cite your sources, as I do…otherwise it’s just an opinion and here say and means nothing…Independents read contracts before buying……

777,Adam, time to put those hoods away,get baptized.. this is 2008! We are not buying your crap! time for a change! put the spiked koolaid away and get ready ready for President Obama and a new America! Obama will invest in America and we will again be respected around the world. Heaven help us all and save us from the Republicans!

The only jobs John McCain could get Senator, Congressman, President, Vice President and Walmart greeter….

I am married to a 71 year old man and I don’t want a 72 year old man president of our country. John’s old – nothing can change that. Crying ageism etc is just another Republican WHINE.

I have 88-year-old parents who feel that John McCain is too old to be president of the United States. All those of you who talk about McCain’s good genes from his mother are not acknowledging that his father died at 70. He also has had serious health problems – melanoma. He has not released his medical records, and I wonder if he has the same cardiac issues that his father had. At his age, he mightg not survive a heart attack, or would be greatly disabled as a result. He also was not very bright to begin with, and I have to wonder about his decision making abilities.

777,
Stop your coded racist rants. Get over your bruised ego.
McCaskill is right. McCain’s age should be an issue. The MSM has no problem making Obama’s race an issue. Why not put everything on the table. Someone as old as McCain should not be seeking the highest office in the land. Reagan was the exception, because unlike McCain he had class.

I think that this is a very real concern. I am a physician, and the hospital(a hospital on the list of 100 Best Hospitals by US News and World Reports)that I work at does not allow anyone over the age of 65 to be a Chairman of a Department- you must step down. Pilots are no longer allowed to fly commercial aircrafts at the age of 65. Why is this? Because the physiology and psychology of aging suggests that there may be concern about physical and mental ability in a high stress, physically demanding job. This is a very real concern with McCain given that he is melanoma survivor.
Just as the country is talking about race and gender in term of voting, the country must consider this fact in their decision. To suggest otherwise is ignorant.

The answer is NO to does Obama believe in Black Liberation Theology. It was in his book, “Dreams of My Father”

Frieda, you must not have heard the latest reports that Reagan might have been suffering from his Alzheimers as early as the beginning of his 2nd term….Dn’t quote me, but it was an actual article. Obama is more in tune with the times now. Any fool can see that McCain-Palin want to take the world back to the Cold war….

Ok, think real hard. If your medical file has 1000 pages in it, is that a good thing or a bad thing? My file is maybe a page or two long, because I’m healthy. If you’re very, very ill, often over a long period of time, you would accumulate 1000 pages of medical history. That doesn’t mean McCain is healthy, it means he’s not.

Choose wisely.
Obama/Biden 08

Wrong oracle…look up the facts, as I cited my source….McCain chance of re-occurance has diminished as he was diagnosed in August of 2000 (12% up to five year window) he is now a survior and not a victim.(2000-2005)so if he becomes President his chance of dying his first term from cancer is non-negotiable..Obama has at least a 1 in 7 chance, your figures not mine, (14.2%) of suffering a stroke because of his long time smoking habit…for the 16 years or 4 smoke free terms….(American Medical Association.)Do the math….

Yea Stanley, you notice that right?? They say they’re for life…But in the same breath, support a war that displaced millions and killed millions more….I think its time to stop letting repugs talk about morals…Cuz they have none….

curious, I’d like to talk to stay in touch with you. I’d love to see whos more healthy in 2016. McCain or Obama?? If you were a betting man who would you bet on?? As far as cancer survivors goes, I know my mom is a cancer survivor. The doc has told her no one EVER completely beats cancer, it ALWAYS can come back. So should we take the chance with someone who has ALREADY had bad bouts with deadly cancer?? Or the man that is healthy?? I’ll let you make the call…

You forget curious, McCain has already had more than one re-occurance. Maybe if you were talking about Prostate cancer that would make sense as that is not a very deadly cancer. But you’re talking about melanoma….

Sean…McCain has a 26 year military record..ask anyone who is in the military, especially if you are on flight status 1000 pages,???? I don’t you didn’t cite your sources, is NOT UNUSUAL….

How bad does it have to get before they wake up?
The Republican base is the backwash at the bottom of the glass. They will support any RNC PIG no matter how immoral and deceitful they are.
The RNC policies have WRECKED our economy and yet they are running McCain who will give us 4 more years of the same failed economic policies.
McCain’s age and health history means (per widely used actuarial tables – if they were wrong insurance companies would not make a profit) show he has a 1 in 4 chance of dying during his term. For this reason the VP pick is less than the typical heartbeat away from becoming President.
Sarah Palin LIED about visiting the troops in Iraq, a spokesperson for the Republican vice presidential nominee confirmed Saturday.
If Obama did such a thing his campaign would be over.
Palin is an AIP supporter and her husband was an AIP member who would REMOVE A STAR FROM THE US FLAG.

Oh here we go – now it’s the ageism card!
Don’t put up with this crap people. The man has cancer and is 72 years old. What is the average life expectancy in America for a male?
“Male life expectancy hit a record 75.2 in 2004, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced.”
Add having cancer – FOUR BOUTS – to the picture and it is a LEGITIMATE concern.
According to this campaign, the VOTERS are not allowed to ask questions or have concerns.

Oracle, keep up the good work. We got to make sure that these Republicans don’t continue to take our country down the tubes..these people are nuts! McCain own 9 houses! how in heaven’s name can he identify with the struggling middle class American? I read just yesterday that his wife wore and outfit which cost $300,000 and Michelle Obama wore a dress for her speech which cost $150.00 now go figure who is the elitists..yet they call Obama(a man who worked in the community to help change the community) an elitist. These people are nuts! Republican conservatism is mental illness! Keep up the good work Oracle! Heaven help us all and save us from the Republicans!

curious indep, Lol. Cite what sources?? Common sense?? Simply put, Obama has NEVER had cancer?? Do you agree?? McCain has had cancer, the bout you speak of almost killed him. Do you disagree?? So why don’t you show mw the sources that say a person without cancer has less of a chance of survival then a man who is 30 yrs older and is a cancer survivor…Come on man, I understand what you’re trying to do, but it doesn’t make sense…Show me anything that proves that McCain is healthier than Obama and I’ll shut up. You talk about chance of survival with smokers right?? Well you cvant use that for this argument unless you can tell me exactly how long Obama smoked. But I can tell you for a fact McCain has had a hard time with Cancer. Or do you need citations for that too??

Ageism? Is that the new defense catchall that will go along with the sexism charge used by Palin?
Ask any 72 yr old if they believe they should be President and they’ll all tell you they are not. They know their energy levels and their “senior moments”, and furthermore then know friends who have died younger are are slipping into Alzheimers (if not already there).
Quite frankly McCain made this an issue when he chose supremely unqualified Sarah Palin to be his running mate. If he had picked Tom Ridge this would have never been an issue because he would have did what any presidential candidate is supposed to do – choose a running mate who is ready from day one should the need arise.
Joe Biden is 66years old himself and has had two brain surgeries – tomorrow is promised to nobody, not Barack Obama, not Joe Biden, not John McCain, not you or I. John McCain put the country at great risk when he chose Sarah Palin to be his VP.

I’m not worried about McCain being too old to be president. I’m worried about Palin being too young – in experience, critical thinking, education in global matters, knowing how to manage a budget where revenues are shrinking not growing, knowing that the truth matters, etc.

John McCain’s age is only an issue in that he chose such an obviously unqualified person to be his running mate. If McCain had considered the security of America people when he chose his vice-presidential nominee, and if he had chosen someone competent to be president, then his age would not be raised as an issue by Democrats. It’s not ageism, it’s reality. For certain situations, you do have to take age into consideration.

I appreciate the debate though curious independent. Its good to actually have a respectable debate..

Seriously, can anyone of the McCain supporters on this blog tell me when was the last time you heard McCain talk about the economy and what he would do to invest in, and stimulate the economy so that America can be the economic power that it once was? The Republicans have no answer to the problems they have created for this our country. Heaven help us all and save us from the Republicans! All of them! Even those who pretend to be rich!

Well I bid adieu. it was fun…Ya’ll be safe….

Please…I hit my 65th this year and sorry folks, but the skill sets do diminish in a palpable manner. There is nothing ageist in discussing a reality. Carly Fiorina is looking for a new job given how HP bounced her from her old one because of her lack of ethics.
Am I smart, sure, but do I now forget words in the middle of a sentence. Does it take me a day to pull it out of my brain cells? duh? Always a great speller, I have to pick up a dictionary much to often to confirm the spelling on a word. Has that knee sprain from high school, which disappeared for 45 years, just reappear? Do I leave my keys in my car because I was distracted for a moment. Everybody is going to get older or its alternatve…that is the reality and to attempt to pretend that a 72 year old who has undergone heinous torture is not going to feel the impact of that torture in his older years is simply a lie. I feel every whack my body took as a 20-30 year old in my 60′s. McCain is not my pick for President, but those who support him can not deny the actuarial charts on a 72 American male tell us more truth than perhaps some want to hear!

McCain is old, old, old! too old to be president!He’ll soon be forgetting stuff, if he’s not already! Palin have 5 children to take care of and the little boy needs hands on mother’s care..Allow these people to go back to their rightful positions. McCain needs to retire and rest, and Palin needs to take care of the little boy! We have had enough of the Republicans and their war nonsense! PUT COUNTRY FIRST and vote Obama/Biden. Heaven help us all and save us from the Republicans!

OBAMA: FULL MELTDOWN 2.0.0.8
is almost complete!
McCaskill’s statements are out of line and not becoming of a US Senator or American!
OBAMA.
ANGRY.
AND.
DESPERATE.
NEVER VOTING FOR BO!!
McCain-Palin ’08
Hillary 2012

The last time we had a president this old he caught a case of alzheimer’s in office and couldn’t remember if he traded arms for hostages, or not (he did)!

Republican conservatism = mental illness
John McCain/Palin = more war and continued economic slump. Heaven help us all and save us from the Republicans!

Oh yes bring out Reagan – the man who ended up raising our taxes 3 times while in office because his trickle down economics didn’t work. Reagan who was in early stages of alzheimer’s before he left office. One good thing about Reagan was that he had a smart VP. I may not have liked George the 1, but he sure is a heck of lot smarter than his son, McCain and Palin put together. McCain’s selling his soul to the devil – Karl Rove.

Stanley,
I pray for the same thing every night. Save us Lord from those hypocritical Republicans. Save us from those hypocritical Christians.

It is a fact that McCain has had multiple bouts with Melanoma, one of cancers that has a high probability of spreading. He is already showing signs of dementia, confusion and memory lapses. It might be age or equally likely that the cancer has spread to his brain. Sadly, there is a 50-70% chance this man will either lose his faculties or die in the next five years. In a time when this country has so many serious problems, I question the patriotism of his handlers and the republican party. Wrapping themselves in the american flag and chanting USA-USA makes good visual TV, but do they really put this wonderful country ahead of ambition and their party? If McCain wins, Sarah “Appalin’” will be president. Her experience may suffice if one believes her followers, but how can “experience” matter if it is not based on a depth of knowledge on the issues facing us? At least Obama / Biden and other party nominees start out educated and knowledgeable, this woman is proud of her “willful ignorance”. I am a member of the medical community and a woman who lived under Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi and Margeret Thatcher, so will not buy questioning Palin’s qualifications as “Sexism”. As a democracy I realize even idiots get representation, it is indeed a shame that Bush set the bar so low! The McCain campaign is a testimony to mediocrity, this election will indeed show where america’s future wants to be.

Heaven help us all and save us from George Bush, Cheney, McCain and their followers! We need our country back! Can you Republicans just go away for a while then come back after 5 years and see the difference! Peace in the world, revived economy, people being able to purchase a home, vets taken care of..no one’s laughing at community organizers..Respect from the world for America once again..Diplomacy before senseless war/s..A president who will make us proud when he travels overseas..(Bush/McCain are comedy relief on the world stage)..I am tired of people around the world laughing at our choice of president..I laugh too..The world is hoping that we choose Obama because the world senses a different approach to world peace and economic growth. Heaven help us all and save us from the Republicans!

Age is an issue that is important! We need limits to running for presidency, period. 70 is a good limit to run, 75 a good limit to be in office….. let’s use our heads here. I teach anatomy and physiology….. this is not discrimination it is thinking realistically. I cringe when I think of Ted Stevens and the WV senator in their 90′s, seemingly half senseless, yet we think they can offer a quality service to our leadership…. uh huh… think about your own 90 year old grandpappy.

Source: Mudflats.wordpress.com
This is a really great Alaskan blog site.
Here is a story about how the McCain operatives in Alaska to help Mrs. Palin are changing how Alaskans lived and worked together…
“Please give a big Mudflats welcome to our guest poster for the evening, Les Gara. Les is a Democratic State Representative from Anchorage. He’s also a former Assistant Attorney General (Exxon Valdez Litigation Section), and has been in office since 2003.
I took that photo of Les at the Primary Night festivities at the Egan Convention Center in downtown Anchorage. That’s him being interviewed for a local news cast. He had the best signs, I thought. You can only do so much with red, white, and blue.
Here’s Rep. Gara’s take on McCain’s spin and interference with the bi-partisan “Troopergate” Investigation.
Politicians are good at spin. The McCain camp has brought a whole new level of it to our small state – in what looks like an effort to show they can play the same Karl Rove-like political games that have haunted this country for the last 8 years. I like Governor Palin on a personal level. But I don’t like what the McCain campaign is doing to our state. I don’t like deception. And I don’t like politics as usual.
Alaskans are starting to see evidence of a Karl Rove-like effort to stonewall what started as a non-controversial, bi-partisan ”Troopergate” investigation. A little deception here. A few personal attacks there. And the kind of spin you see at an amusement park tilt-a-whirl station.
This investigation was started by a Republican-dominated Alaska Legislature to look into Governor Palin’s conduct in seeking the termination of a State Trooper, once married to the Governor’s sister, Trooper Michael Wooten. The McCain camp wants to stop it by saying it’s a “democratic” investigation. Apart from facts, and the reputations the McCain folks don’t mind destroying, there’s not a lot standing in the way of this strategy.
Until August 29 “Troopergate” was a small state investigation Governor Palin, and every Republican and Democrat in a Republican-led Legislature had agreed was appropriate. But things changed the day Governor Palin joined the McCain ticket. His handlers went ballistic that the Governor agreed to an investigation they now needed to stop.
I know Senator McCain is now running on a political platform of ”change.” Leave aside how he’ll fight to change what he’s voted to do to this country for the last 8 years. If you ask me, the only thing he’s changed so far is Governor Palin’s position – her decision to cooperate with this once-small investigation.
This is one of those cases where there’s a clear truth. It’s a clear truth – about a bi-partisan investigation – that I hope McCain’s operatives will ultimately fail at spinning into a “partisan” plot against his running mate.
To get their way, and prevent sworn testimony from leaking out on what I suspect was probably a minor breach by Governor Palin, McCain’s operatives have come to Alaska to add invective in a state where people generally get along. They’ve chosen to vilify: 1) one of the state’s most respected public officials, Senator Hollis French; 2) the state’s most respected law enforcement official, Walt Monegan; and 3) a highly respected former DA and Victims Rights advocate a legislative committee voted 12 – 0 to hire to conduct the investigation, Steve Branchflower.
It’s the ghost of Karl Rove. Say something untrue enough times – like that Al Qaida is training with Saddam Hussein’s help – and people will believe it. Not this time. I’m not sure if I mentioned a few important facts.
Did I mention that no one ever attacked the Troopergate investigation by Alaska’s Legislature – started long before Governor Palin was placed on McCain’s ticket – until August 29? That was the day Governor Palin joined the McCain bid for the White House.
Did I mention that before the McCain camp got involved, the Governor stated of the Legislative investigation: “That being the route they choose, so be it. I’m happy to comply, to cooperate.” (KTUU.com, July 24, 2008). She repeatedly stated she’d comply, and that it was the right thing to do.
Did I mention the personal attacks against our local public officials only started after Sen. McCain sent his flacks up to our small state on August 29? They came with a mission to make America believe a Republican-initiated investigation, started with a unanimous committee vote of 8 Republicans and 4 Democrats, was a “partisan” plot. That’s only a tough sell if people know the facts.
Did I mention they now claim the Legislature cannot legally proceed with an investigation into government misconduct (I thought Republicans didn’t like attorneys who made frivolous arguments), and that they are threatening to to go to court to stop it? The Governor’s attorneys started writing those letters on – you guessed it – August 29. Before then they agreed the investigation was proper.
Oh, and what about this. Last week the McCain camp put our Governor in a bizarre position. They told her to file an ethics complaint against herself! Yup, again after her VP nomination. Too weird? What’s behind this move? You guessed it. Lawyers.
To create the legal argument that the Legislature cannot investigate government misconduct, the McCain team has had her file a complaint against herself before something called the State Personnel Board. That’s a 3 member group of Republican Gubernatorial appointees – that, if it started this week, wouldn’t get an investigation done, and reported to the public, until after the November election. Convenient.
Hmmm. The Legislature has announced they’d have their investigation done – if witnesses would cooperate like they were until August 29 – by October 10. I can’t imagine why the McCain camp would prefer an investigation that doesn’t get finished until after November. Any ideas?
So what about the claim that this investigation is some sort of partisan plot against a Republican ticket? A legislative committee of 8 Republicans and 4 democrats asked former Assistant District Attorney Hollis French, a Democrat – to hire a legislative investigator in July. He did. He’s not doing the investigation. So the complaint that he’s a Democrat who supports Barack Obama is, well, weak. He’s a Democrat who supports Barack Obama, who was appointed before Governor Palin was a VP candidate. More importantly, he’s a Senator who has the confidence of a majority Republican Senate.
He once said to the press the results of the investigation are likely to be troubling. He shouldn’t have said that. But the Governor’s said it too. The newspapers have said it. We all know it. The public record already contains evidence that the Department of Public Safety was contacted roughly 20 times by Palin senior staff, and her husband Todd, about firing Trooper Wooten. The Governor has conceded that based on this evidence, the public could conclude the Department could have felt pressure from above to fire Trooper Wooten.
The investigator, Steve Branchflower, is a former DA and Office of Victims Rights head (a job he was appointed to by a Republican Legislature). He’s actually conducting the investigation. Attacking Senator French doesn’t really work if he’s not investigating the case, or making any findings. So the McCain folks have attacked Mr. Branchflower. And they’ve tried to stop him from issuing subpoenas to the witnesses now directed not to talk. Today the McCain folks suffered a setback. A bi-partisan committee of Republicans and Democrats authorized Mr. Branchflower to move ahead to subpoena those witnesses.
And for good measure – the McCain folks are attacking Walt Monegan – the Public Safety Commissioner Governor Palin fired. The Troopergate investigation involves claims that Monegan was fired for not agreeing to fire Trooper Wooten, the Governor’s brother in law involved in a very ugly custody dispute with the Governor’s sister.
I don’t begrudge the Governor for not liking her brother-in-law. I don’t really like him either, from what I’ve read. I do begrudge those who’d attack Commissioner Monegan, a quintessential public servant who’s worked for both Republican and Democratic heads on the state and local level.
These three public servants deserve better. What they’ve received so far, is a little dose of ugly Washington politics in a state where we don’t see that stuff too often.
I stood on the sidelines when this investigation started. When Governor Palin fired Commissioner Monegan, my advice was to end the flap and just hire him back. He does good work. He’s well respected. Unfortunately, my advice sometimes isn’t that good, and the Governor didn’t agree.
Then McCain’s staff of outsiders came to town. And they began to launch personal attacks on people I respect. They started proving that the same old politics that have caused dissatisfaction with Washington insiders these past 8 years are going to be the bread and butter of the McCain campaign.
So – here I am today. I support an Obama presidency because he shares a vision I believe in. I’ve publicly supported him since the race started last year. I also think Governor Palin originally did the right thing in agreeing to take some small lumps by proceeding with a legislative investigation Republicans and Democrats, and much of the public asked for.
But unfortunately Alaska is the bull’s eye in a national presidential race today. When told by the McCain folks that she needed to change her position, she did, as a loyal running mate. I understand that.
As an Alaskan I’m not really angry at our Governor for this mess. I do blame John McCain for the ugliness he’s brought to our state this week. His folks have come to my small state to attack my friends, and people I respect, for political gain. In my book, that’s not OK. We all mess up time to time. But this crosses the line.
In small states, like small towns, people who act like the McCain folks apologize. Until that happens, I’ll keep defending 3 public servants who deserve better.”

It’s so funny to see these neocons trying so hard to convince the grown-ups. Do you really think, that if you stay true to the party, one day you too, will be an oil millionaire? Guess what – ain’t gonna happen! Keep voting neocon, and your precious little white grandbabies will be paid $3 a day to make shoes for the massive Indian middle class!
9/11 happened on the Republican watch! Never forget!

His age would not be a focus issue until he made it such. If he had chosen a fully capable running mate, it would have been ageism to bring up his advanced age. His health would and should be an issue because the chances of someone getting a recurrance of malignant melanoma when they have had it 4 times previously is almost a given. He will get it again and there is a good chance it will be within the next 4 years putting someone who is has ridden a toy choo choo train as the conductor of the worlds most advanced and largest train with many peoples lives at stake. Someone who by her own accounts never blinks before responding in her hubris of her minor accomplishments.
Palin is not even remotely qualified and that is what makes his age, his judgement and his health a HUGE campaign issue.

John McCain smoked 2 packs of cigarettes a day for 25 years, he has high cholesterol, arthritis, kidney issues, he takes 6 different medications a day for various ailments, including ambien, which reports are abounding about the potential risks of disorientation, confusion, etc. He has had 4 bouts of cancer which can reoccur at any time. He did release his medical records – over 1000 pages- to a small, invited group who were only allowed to view them for 3 hours and not record them in any way. In that short time much was learned, including all the ailments I describe above. But, what else is hidden in there? What is the guy hiding? We now know he had some kind of melanoma surgery as recently as February of this year, that kept him off the campaign trail for days – but his campaign won’t tell us what happened. Do we really want a president incapacited for days at a time, and leave the country in the hands of an imbecile? It’s not sexist to question Sarah Palin’s viability for the most powerful job in the world when she repeatedly lies about the little qualifications she has to begin with. I’m terrified about these two. His age and frailty and her stupidity are not even at the top of the list, but they are nonetheless relevant and important issues to discuss.

I only care about one thing, MCCAIN IS GOING TO START THE DRAFT, HE MOST CERTAINLY IS!
THEN HE’LL BORROW MORE AND MORE MONEY FROM CHINA FOR HIS WARS WITH IRAN AND RUSSIA!
Russia, in case you don’t know, is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, OIL!
They also have more nuclear weapons than we and our allies put together.
McCain, JUST CAUSE RANDY ONE OF YOUR MILLIONS OF LOBBYISTS FOR YOUR CAMPAIGN, MAKES MILLIONS FROM LOBBYING FOR GEORGIA, DOESN’T MEAN THE U.S. NEEDS TO GO TO WAR WITH RUSSIA, FOR CRIMANY SAKES.
MCCAIN WILL DRAFT WOMEN TOO, HE’LL HAVE TO! Not for combat, but back your bags kids, you are goners!
McCain, what are you going to do about the economy? I’ll take Clinton any day, and I couldn’t stand him, BUT, I did really well in the 90′s and so did everyone I know!
Palin is the American Taliban, and she will legislate us back into the stone age.
If Bush hadn’t ruined my 401k, I’d try and move to Canada.
INSANITY IS: DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER, AND EXPECTING A DIFFERENT RESULT! Even my dog knows, that if he keeps putting his hand down a gopher hole, it’s gets bitten!
You fools will vote for McCain, and wonder why you’re all living under freeway overpasses, right when he wants you. Uneducated, unemployed and homeless.
Perfect electorate! The kind that have no choice and no address so they can vote!
Why did so many women show up to PROTEST PALIN IN ANCHORAGE? COULD BE, SHE ISN’T A POPULAR AS THEY SAY, hhmmmmm!
YOU’RE NOT DRAFTING MY KIDS MCCAIN!

What is all this stuff about Obama smoking? Have you all forgotten that the GOP guy smoked heavily for decades??? Remember the video of him smoking in the hospital bed after his release?
Don’t think that could still have an effect? Yeah, his mom has lived a long time, but neither his dad nor his dad’s dad made it to 73. Who says he’s got his mom’s longevity genes?
His age is an issue, period, especially with Palin as his pick.

Karl Rove’s “J’accusism” is a belligerent bully-tactic to oppress free discussion. There’s only seven words that are out of bounds for political media:
If George Carlin could say it, or ask it, so can journalists.
The Truth is always a sin for Republicans

777….Didn’t you mean 666?? You ignorant, bigotted, disgusting excuse for a human being. You probably say you’re a Christian, too…don’t you? Guess what? You’re not. Don’t smear their good names. Ignorance is NOT bliss.

Let’s not forget what Obama has been listening to for the past 20 years.
Malcolm X’s statement on Black Liberation Theory:
“Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community … Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy.”
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Malcom X? Where did you get that lie from? Oh, I forgot that is what Chirstians in today’s world do best.
I can’t wait to see what Jesus has in store for the false prophets stealing his identity and ruining his credit.
Black theology, kill a God? Wow, how far would you go?
McCain’s age and health is very important to this race, he wants to be the President of the USA, a public office of the highest and you all complain about tha?
It is amazing that the Republicans would select a dog to run the country as long as it is not the black man. Give me a break.
Your convention was full of white people, truly the ones you will serve and forget about the rest of the country, just serve the whites with money. Is this white theology?
No one is blind, you bigots! racist bigots at that.

You convention was full of white people,……
posted by Angel.
Yeah,,,because those black people almost 90% support Obama.
Think about it!

According to US actuarial tables, a 72-year-old man has about a 14-16% chance of dying in the next four years. This does not factor in previous melanomas or whether the person has already outlived their father and grandfather.
Of course, there are odds of stroke, dementia and other mental impairment that would arise over the next four years.
So, those of you who love Governor Palin, rejoice! There is a 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 chance she will be acting President, should McCain win, before the next Presidential election.

The American People have the right to ask for medical records for our candidates – including tests for dementia – at whatever age. For the Republicans to call this ageism is simply a lie. LIE. LIE. LIE. It is time to fish or cut bait with the medical records, McCain.

Listen, all of you. I am 55 years old, and I AM TOO OLD TO BE PRESIDENT!
RONALD REAGAN, WHO RAISED PAYROLL TAXES 3 TIMES, WAS LOSING IT, TOWARDS THE END, DEMENTIA. HE COULDN’T REMEMBER, WHEN HE WAS ON TRIAL FOR IRAN CONTRA, do any of you remember that.
McCain of 2000, wouldn’t vote for this McCain, ever!
I WAS a McCain supporter, until he picked Palin.
My mother died from melanoma. It usually kills the first time, McCain has had it 3 times, it spreads.
TRY LOOK AT MCCAINS PICTURES FROM 4 YEARS AGO, HE HAS AGED 20 YEARS. HE IS NOT WELL, RIGHT NOW.
PALIN IS CHENEY’S PICK, AND DON’T THINK SHE’S NOT. CHENEY WANTS HER IN AS PRESIDENT, AND TO CONTINUE HIS SECRET ENERGY POLICY. HEY, WHY AREN’T WE ENTITLED TO KNOW WHAT THE ENERGY POLICY OF THIS COUNTRY IS??
NO TO PALIN AND CHENEY, NOT AGAIN!
MCCAIN IS GOING TO START THE DRAFT, YOU BET HE IS!

John McCain has been raising his age for months, using the Regan example of dampening the issue by using humor. He is constantly telling us how old he is, hoping that we will become used to it. Well Senator, now we are paying attention. Had you selected someone who is competent to be President as your running mate it would be one thing. But let’s face it, you selected someone who is not competent to serve in that role.

It must be okay to discuss John McCain’s age – NOT because age interferes with Senator McCain’s intellectual functioning (studies have shown that such functions DO slow down with age, but we should discard these out of a sense of basic decency), but because the combination of his age and his earlier conditions make him vulnerable AND make his VP pick that much more important.
Besides, who among us has said we shouldn’t discuss Senator Obama’s race?
IN FACT, what topic has been discussed MORE THAN Senator Obama’s race during this campaign.
AND, posts by our Nazi and KKK friends aside, who among us believes that race should be a factor in determining who should be president?

Watch what Doctors have to say.
http://therealmccain.com/doctors/

To the idiot who wrote that Reagan ‘WON’ the cold war at 77 y/o. When is the last time you’ve read a paper?

First, Obama is not a muslim, but, secondly…Why would it be an issue if here were? Oh, i guess b/c there are “terrorists” that happen to be muslim, this would somehow align him w/them? HUH??? Based on that logic, every white “christian” would have to be associated with the KKK…GET A GRIP YOU FOOLS

He is old..and he picked an incompetent vice presidential candidate…so if we are going to be honest, we have to decide if the old man is going senile

Black Liberation theology is christian whereas Malcol X was Muslim. There is no connection between the two. Deliberately mixing the two in order mislead and distort facts has become a GOP staple. For a party that prides itself of being guided by christain principles (religious right) it is a shame at the depths they will go to lie. What happened to GOP’s morality? Is this what the evangelicals stand for?

McCain having chosen the inexperienced Palin as VP makes his own age more relevant.

As a republincan I am sick and tired of the McCain palying the sexism card, the agesism cards, my god we republincans are becomeing a joke and talk about whiners. The fact is that McCain’s age should be a huge concern to all Americans, period. He has had many bout with canncer and Milonoma is a very serious form of cancer. I for one belive that the americans have the right to know. He needs to make available his medical records no just for the few, but for all. What is he so worry about??? What I worry is that may be something more and Plain may be a heart a way from being the next president, now thats a scary scenario. Look I am an elderly person and it does not bother me if someone whants to now what in my medicl record. The McCain is the desparation campaing now!!! His polls numbers are falling. Palin interview showed that shes is not ready and it was a disaster to say the least..Folks this is reality. We have to me carefull who we end up with. I belive that if McCain had a wining campaing this kind of negativity will no paly a role, the reality is that McCain is loosing and this is his last hope. Take it from a republincan Americans are tired of..BUSH, CHANEY AND Karl Rove. Republincans need to start acting like adults and not like teens jumping up and down for this Palin.

McCain’s defenders, regarding his age, all point to his 90 year old mother, but in truth McCain favors his father. He looks like his dad and is built like his dad. His mother is a bean pole and his father was chunky just like McCain. His dad died a long time ago. Deal with that peice of information.

I’m a 70 year old Ohio republican on the edge of voting for Barack Obama. I like John McCain but I think he made a bad judgment on picking Sarah Palin. I don’t think she is ready to be president on day one.
John McCain says we should put our country first.
Well I think if John McCain was putting his country first, he would have picked a better prepared VP to take over in the event something happens to him.
I’m sorry to say but I think John McCain was putting his campaign first instead of his country first.

It is a fair question to ask. The Presidency ages people. Look at how young Bush and Clinton looked before they took office and how much they aged in 8 years.
Especially given McCain’s age, I thought he would pick a competent VP.
He has melanoma, one of the deadliest cancers out there.

First of all isn’t it time for the media to do their job and say the truth? Palin is utterly unqualified to be vp, she didn’t even know what a vp did 3 weeks ago. She knows nothing zero zip nada about foreign policy or national security (despite seeing russia on a clear day from her home) or the economy of the nation (google her fanny and freddy comments for proof.) She even outsourced some of her responsibilities as mayor of the 5000+ populated town of Wasilla. She is all about pushing a radical right wing born again agenda (google assembly of god.) McCain is putting his campaign first. He’s proven he’d rather win an election than do what’s right for this country. He’s sold his soul to Karl Rove and the religious right.

http://therealmccain.com/doctors/?utm_source=rgemail For the rest of us that think McCain has an OBLIGATION to reveal his health records, in totality, to the public…please sign the petition and pass it on.Thanks!

Wow!!! I am so gald that America is seeing threw this false of Palin. I am a huge supporter of Hillary Clinton. I was very ofended when McCain thought I was going to run to him once he picked Palin. The reality is that she stand for far to radical and extreme views. I agree with FACT CHECK. Her views will but women back in the kitchen. We must move forward not backwards.
NO WAY!!! NO HOW!! NO McCain/PALIN

Lets not forgete that mcCain is pro child molestation and chose to stay behind as a POW knowing that his guards were homosexual and would work him over ‘real hard’.

Given Captain McCain’s previous cancer, not to mention his prior deteriorated medical condition – that’s the freaking elephant in the tea room. Moreover, when is this man going to release his mental health records as it is obvious he is a probable post traumatic stress syndrone survivor. Then there is the other discussion about the suitability of the rookie Alaska governor to take his place. What a nightmare this man proposes to leave the nation should McCain-Palin succeed in November!
PS And Fiorina raises the ageism issue? She has phony written all over her face. Old guys like McCain would have been the first out the door when she bragged about “right sizing,” i.e. firing thousands of dedicated workers at Hewlitt-Packard.

Im a bit concern about Sarah palin views. She brings some exciment to our republincan base and that all good. I just dont know if she even belives her own lies. For crying out loud what happened!! Yer speech should have been an indication that she was not going to talk about whats really happening with us not so rich republincans. I had hope, but its all gone. The interview she gave with ABC charlie Gibson was a disaster. She is not well prepared. Its was stange.

Wow! There is a lot of off topic blatant hatred in this comments section.
John McCain is suffering from afflictions common with old age. Being a POW does some nasty things to a persons psyche. He’s a true hero for serving as long as he has. However it’s obvious he does not past muster for POTUS.
It is a serious issues that he could pass away, God bless his soul, during his presidency. This is in an off itself not a huge issue. We would have a wonderful memorial for him and recall how much good he did for our country.
The issue with him passing away is that the torch automatically gets passed to a dim witted, barbie doll beauty queen, failed parent, narcissistic, 6 colleges in 5 years, hardly graduated manipulator.
Now I’m sure Palin has her good points but lets be honest here. She is not presidential material. She should not be given a free pass like this.
Unfortunately people cheer her every word. Who cares if the facts of that matter are that Obama will reduce taxes for 85% of us by ~$2,000 and raise it on the top 5% by $19,000 where as McCain would raise it by $1,400 on the 85% poorest amongst us and credit back $(I can’t remember the figure, I want to say $135,000 but might be wrong) to the richest amongst us. yes Palin and McCain lie about Obamas tax plan and say they will reduce taxes.
McCains own economic advisor said they will have to raise taxes. When asked why they will raise them after saying they wont he replied with something along the lines of, “well of course we’ll have to raise taxes,… but we can’t dilute the brand”.
I’ve spoken with my father and brother about politics. Both are staunch republicans. I love them both ery much but let me give you some facts about them,
neither were stellar students,
neither went to college,
when pressed on the views neither could give specific instances,
both resort to wishful thinking,
both shout party mantras but don’t understand the history or have accurate information.
At this point I believe the republicans are purposefully lying to manipulate those among us to busy to gather the facts, unable to think for themselves, or easily manipulated.
And just for the record. Our founding fathers were liberals.
And Adam Smith who described the invisible hand and efficient markets, also describe moral responsibility because he recognized….
WE ARE NOT INDEPENDENT INDIVIDUALS,
WE ARE AUTONOMOUS INDIVIDUALS IN HIGHLY COMPLEX SOCIAL NETWORKS.
Republicans,
the only people who don’t want to participate in government, who don’t want to pay taxes for the good of the group, are the rich who steal the shirt of your back and wipe their asses with them. That would be McCain.
I’m liberal, duh.
But I don’t want to pay taxes for BS reasons. I agree completely. But I’ll gladly pay taxes to provide for firefighters and a police force. I’ll gladly pay taxes so your child can get government backed student loans and be a smarter and better person than you are. I’ll gladly pay taxes to field a military.
PS The military is liberal. The last thing they want is someone who won’t pick up a rifle themselves telling them where to go fight. I’m a veteran. Our lives are not your to throw away on a whim. Lead us or leave us alone.
I apologize for the rant but hopefully I have touched some hearts, and even better hopefully some minds.
Only 24% of Americans read the news. Get out there. Honor our first amendment right and see whats going on in this group of our. leave wishful thinking to the children and be a responsible adult. Educate yourself on the facts behind the issues. We have enough experts to clearly show where we need to head at this point.
John McCain and Barbie ain’t it.

“no one should sit in this office over 70 years old,and I know” Ike
My father walked across France in 44 and 45 for the USof A not a political party.
Lets not pretend to be a honest patriot voring for the best candidate without regard to party while persisting that Palen has the intellect,experiance and guts to go toe to toe with the likes of Putin.If this was reverse Id put up with other party before selling our war dead going back to the revolution down the creek.

@Lee:
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I heard yesterday on CNN that their staff doctor was provided with 1,000 pages of doctor’s health records from John McCain, and that everything looked good..
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Then you need to clean your ears. They were “allowed” to look through the 1000 pages of medical records ONLY for 3 hours, with no photocopies, no internet, no communications at all with the outside world.
1000 pages, 3 hours. And in that time, they have raised enough questions, such as the very high probability of McCain dying in office from a reoccurence of his melanoma. Imagine what they would have found if McCain had *actually* released his medical records.
It was a sham; what does McCain have to hide? Simple fact: McCain is far too old to run for president: he said so himself, before he flip-flopped once again.

John McCain is not too old to be President. But is too old and has too many health issues to pick an inexperienced running mate whose track record of adminstration is shaky and experience in foreign affairs is nonexistent. This during a war that up until the Palin selection was routinely trotted out as a reason to question Barack Obama’s experience. The choice of Vice President this year is every bit as important as the choice in 1944. Thank God we got Harry Truman. And Sarah Palin, you’re no Harry Truman.

Obama should get back to his central message of getting everyone to work together. These negative attacks by him and his surrogates are wrecking his campaign – and America. His original message was up lifting. Let get back to that.
I am extremely disappointed in the tone of the campaign. I thought once the creepy Clintons were out of the race the tone would improve. That brings one to the notion that having the creepy Clinton caravan as part of your team is just a way to remind the 3/4s of America that dislike the Clintons that there may be some creepy Clinton face in the Obama government.
The creepy Clinton oddities argue that it is not 3/4s – add it up – all of the republicans and half of the democrats. A large part of Obamas appeal was an anti-Hillary vote.

I have heard the chance the melanoma might come back is about 43%. One website said you are never cured of it. That plus the fact that older people sometimes have slower mental faculties. I definitely don’t want Sarah Palin as President and there are times I don’t think he is cabable.

McCain smoked 2 packs a day for 20 years, spent 5+years as a POW, has had 4 bouts of skin cancer, yet he only let a handful of reporters view 1100+ pages of med records for 3 HOURS? What is he hiding?

I don’t worry about McCains health at all
because he’s not going to be president

McCain’s age and health are an issue now that he’s selected Palin for his running mate. If he had made a sensible decision — for governing, not just in an attempt to win the election — his age and health would not be that much of a problem. He has brought this on himself. Everyone is thinking about it. McCaskill was just being straight.

Age would not be an issue if there is reason not to make it one. but Lord! McCain can’t remember that his main cheerleader got earmarks, he can’t distinguish shiites from sunnis, he can’t remember boarders. These are reasons for us to be concerned.

8 years have passed, (95 of melanoma return in 10 years, and his was one of the worst. The Repugs are counting on him hitting the dirt nose first and having Palin in the top seat, then they will have it their way as she will do what they say and what they have taught her, banned books, crazy religion,no choice, no birth control got to have those babies to grow up and fight wars, got to have millions of poor to work and support big government, how many blacks are in top government, how many did you see at the RNC? they are racists of the worst kind, think of the Obama Waffles they let those two guys sell, dirt, scum of the land to do that.

h lash, women are known to live longer then men. Family age and history doesn’t matter when the person in question already has a serious history. If we wanted to compare history, his mother would need to have Maelanoma 4 times! think about it! OK, Obama Obama was a smoker. He’s also a proven athlete! OK, Biden Jr. was a lobbyist.. How does that compare to McCain having 7 big time corporate lobbyist (some represent Fannie & Freddie) running his campaig?

I only have one question for all those that say age is not an issue:
If McCain was 47 and Obama 72, would you not question his age, especially if Obama had chosen a political neophyte? I think we all know the answer to that question.
Is it too much to expect the Commander-in-Chief to be in good health, mentally and physically and to be, gasp, intelligent and well-versed in foreign policy, the economy and national security.
It’s frightening how far down the rabbit hole this nation has climbed. I don’t want to be friends with my politicians, I want them to be smart and critical thinkers and curious about what’s going on with the world. We all deserve that, hell the world deserves it too.

Idiots like Stephanopolis and McCaskil should continue to blast Palin and McCain as they have in the past. Every derogatory remark helps the McCain popularity. Since the Dems have no platform, their only plan is to criticize McCain which increases McCains popularity.
Remember this is the same press especially Stephanopolis that claimed Hillary had a 60% lead and could not be stopped; enough for his credibility.
How much better can it be when Dems like David Letterman make jokes about family values. He has a great record as a father and should be a role model for the Democrats.
Comments by Sandra and Monet above show what a bunch of idiots the Democrats have recruitted.
Stephanopolis, Oberman and Charles Gipson are all lumped togeter and should be taken of the air. They do not relate with the majority of Americans.

jk, obama also has ties to the whole fannie&freddie thing,to said he does not is like saying joe biden represents the working class.he and his son are washington insiders.how can obama stay on his message of change if these are the moves he makes. to say obama is not ready to be president is a understatement

The reason that John McCain has thousands of pages of medical records is that he has had lots of medical treatment over the years.
The most likely reason that Barack Obama has released only a paragraph is because he has nothing significant in his medical record and not because of some conspiracy to keep a secret illness, well, secret.
As a physician with more than 3 decades of experience I have treated many 47-year old men who have smoked for a long time. Some have developed emphysema and heart disease. A few have developed lung cancer. But most have not. They can greatly reduce or even eliminate their risk of developing these serious health problems by quitting when they are relatively young, something Obama has done. It’s also a testament to his willpower and being able to handle stress that he has quit in the midst of such a grueling campaign. How many smokers could say the same thing?
Watching him play basketball has convinced me that he has no significant lung or heart problems. In the absence of him having a problem there is no reason for him to have undergone lung or heart testing. So no testing, no medical reports and so nothing to disclose. And I doubt there will be a public demand that he undergo pulmonary function tests or a cardiac stress test either.
Even if Sen. Obama continued to smoke he has a 5% chance of dying in the next 4 years, which needs to be contrasted with Sen. McCain’s 20% chance. The reality is that he is a 72-year old man with a lot of serious medical problems.
While the media is largely focused on the celebrity aspect of the Palin pick (pit bulls, hockey moms, and pigs with lipstick) and the Obama campaign wants to stick to McCain, I’m very concerned that in this election we may be actually voting for Sarah Palin for president. In a very real sense there are two people at the top of the Republican ticket. As a result, the focus on McCain’s age and medical status is not ageism, any more than the focus on Palin’s fitness to occupy the Oval Office is sexism. It is our duty as American citizens to carefully pick the leader of the free world.
Fulfilling that duty means not turning a blind eye to such important matters.

I don’t hate John McCain, but his reckless choice of such an inexperienced running mate who just got her passport last year and knows virtually nothing about the national and international affairs is beyond comprehension. Especially for a 72-year-old man, with a history of cancer, taking on one of the most stressful jobs in the world. (I would have the same criticism of Obama if he made the same choice…and don’t give me this BS that Obama has the same level of experience as Palin…Obama has travelled and lived around the world, is highly educated, a Constitutional Lawyer, Senator, etc. He was perfectly at ease during his trip to the middle east and europe this summer.)
McCain claims he puts “country first”. With this choice, McCain has put his political interests first, not the country.
Sad, very sad.
John McCain=

According to McCaskill’s logic 1/3 of US Senate should be send home… And Pelosi, I assume.

We are spending 10 billion dollars a month in Iraq, certainly not because of any verifiable link to the people who are responsible for 9-11 in which some 3,500 people were killed.
Right now the United States ranks 37th in Health Care Systems, 72nd in Health Care System Performance, 42nd in Life Expectancy, 37th in Infant Mortality Rate, 18th in overall Education with a ranking of 24th in Math and Science. We do rank number 1 in debt.
On a federal level we spend 5 billion a year trying to cure cancer. Cancer which kills 1 person every minute, over 525,000 people a year. Our infrastructure is failing, 25% of the bridges in the US need repair, and the bill is about 140 Billion Dollars, but we don’t have it . . . we spent it on Iraq. New Orleans is another example, the 9th Ward still looks like a disaster, which it is, in more than just terms or real estate, but how we treat and look after our citizens. 3,361 Dams in the US need repair at a cost of over 10 billion dollars, but we don’t have it . . . we spent it on Iraq.
Part of the legacy of George Bush is an addiction to the Military Industrial Complex, and spending money in an empire-building excursion in the Middle East. And as far as I can tell, McCain, a ex Military Jet Jockey who finished 895 out of a class of 899 at the Naval Academy, and is now a US Senator, along with the former beauty queen, turned Mayor, turned Governor does not represent a change from this insanity.
On the other hand Obama does represent a change, an intelligent well-spoken man who graduated Harvard Law with honors, and also was the President of the Harvard Law Review, a community organizer, who also taught Constitutional Law at Chicago University, a former state legislator, and now US Senator. Joe Biden graduated with a J.D. from Syracuse, and also taught Constitutional Law, and is also a US Senator.
So, your choice is simple, if you want to see your country continue down a path of self-destruction vote for McCain/Palin.
If you want to see the United States come back and be a dominant Country in the World. A country where we diplomatically solve problems between countries rather than go to war, where people are healthy and well educated, driving vehicles running on clean energy sources on safe highways and bridges, drinking clean water from behind safe damns, breathing clean air, living longer because we are controlling if not curing cancer, a world where we are consistently acting in our best interests. If this is the United States you want, vote Obama/Biden.

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h lash: apparently you read a different version of Doctor John’s post then I am reading. He is stating his medical opinion. Facts are facts – even when you don’t like them. Putting politics aside, McCain has a fairly significant chance of dying or being physically/mentally impaired over the next four years. So, he chose Governor Palin as his successor-in-waiting. If you like her, then McCain’s age should not bother you in the least and, if you really like her, then it will make you want to vote for her even more.
If, however, one does not care for her – then a problem arises.

Hey H lash, the amtrack rides make me respect Joe Biden even more. Just like the Obama’s chose to raise their daughters in a stable environment in Chicago and not move them to DC, Joe Biden chose to raise his kids in Delaware and not in DC. Barack can’t take a train home every night, Joe Biden can (It has to be at least a 1-2 hour ride..) I consider that a sacrifice. He could of easily rented an apartment in VA and gone home on the weekends.

I am an Independent, and whether it is politically correct or not, McCain’s age is important, especially in light of his VP choice. Despite the media’s focus on his mother, McCain’s father died in his early 70s; he has a history of a deadly form of skin cancer, and his body is probably riddled with painful arthritis.
This isn’t ageism…no one is saying McCain’s age makes him incompetent; although, I do believe he should be screened for Alzheimers.

hey wilma, i was on those train rides, they are not that hard.most working people do it and make no big “deal” out of it. and it is amtrak,not amtrack

McLiar’s age becomes a factor because he has made it one, by seeming to dodder in public, being unable to articulate anything like an agenda if elected — beyond the usual Republican “cut waste and spending” generalities.
After 6 years of Republican control of Congress and the White House, we have a crashing economy, failing financial sector, soldiers dying abroad with no end in sight, a huge Federal deficit and a Republican candidate who promises to keep Bush’s economic, military and budgetary processes in place.
If you can’t remember anything else, remember that the only time since 1980 that we have had a balanced Federal budget, in the black, has been during the years of the Democratic Presidency, 1993-2000. If you want your country back on an even keel, vote Democratic in November.
Thanks.
mp

I agree with jk as too…
Im a 68 year old Virginia republican woman. Ive liked John McCain since the primaries. But his VP choice shows me he picked her for political reasons. Even though I’m pro-life, I have to say I’m not too impressed by Sarah Palin.
I’m just a simple woman who wants to know that there is someone with a head on their sholders in the white house and they are fighting for me.
I don’t understand all the commotion she causes.
I think that questioning his health is important to make sure that we are choosing the right candidate.
I agree that if John McCain was really putting his country First, he would of picked a better VP.
I’ve really started to look at Obama. I saw him when he came to VA. He speaks to what I’m lookin for. I can tell he’s honest and sincere bout what he’s gunna do.

My mom died from melanoma, so I learned quite a bit about it, fast! It’s normally fatal, the first time, let alone, the 3rd time.
I have seen pictures of Senator McCain from several years ago, just now, I looked them up, as suggested by someone in a comment, he does look 20 years older!
Cripes! I was a McCain supporter 8 years back. I hadn’t voted Republican before, and I’m pro choice, but I really liked him. His independence from everyone else was a magnet for me.
People say these days, “The McCain of 2000, wouldn’t vote for the McCain of 2008″! Well, I can honestly say, they’re correct.
I don’t even know the guy anymore.
He seems like he’s always ready to explode any second, which is scary for a guy who can push a button and blow the world up.
Also, because he picked Palin, at his age, and his ill health, and yes, he is ill, (melanoma never leaves you, it’s always there, waiting), I can’t vote for him.
If he was more independent like in the past, and had chosen Ridge, maybe. Maybe I’d have thought about it, but not now.
The more I read about Palin (NY Time, Wash Post, Boston Globe, LA Times) just today, she is a certifiable liar apparently.
Let’s just say, I think Palin will be worse than Cheney, and that’s saying a lot!
show us your records senator mccain. then we can make an educated decision.
ACCORDING TO INSURANCE ACTUARIES, MCCAIN ONLY HAS A 12 – 16% CHANCE OF LIVING ANOTHER 4 YEARS, and that’s only his age. That’s not considering his ill health!
AND I SURE AS HECK AM NOT VOTING FOR PALIN FOR PRESIDENT, NO WAY!

It isn’t McCain’s age that I care about. If he had chosen ANY more qualified V.P. it wouldn’t bother me if he won (yeah, not really), but to have this woman so possibly the President is very very frightening

attack,attack,is that all there is.oh yea, stay on message.change,change.but the is that connect to the freddie and frannie thing for obama.if there where none,where is the attack?oh yea, how about age?that might work

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/14/doctors-call-on-mccain-to_n_126285.html

not ready?
Suppose you had to choose between two Presidential candidates, one of whom had spent 20 years in Congress plus had considerable other relevant experience and the other of whom had about half a dozen years in the Illinois state legislature and 2 years in Congress. Which one do you think would make a better President? If you chose #1, congratulations, you picked James Buchanan over Abraham Lincoln
give me a break with the not ready crap

How is Palin different from the old age McCain? NOt much – nbc has uncovered some more facts to show how she does business in the political office:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26691018/
Of course putting second in line matters not – McCain health is an issue – the time as a POW, his cancer, not to mention his age. but eh democrats don’t need to focus on Palin – stay no mccain and his policies (bush’s policies) and let he media uncover the truth about Palin

obama can not even stay on message in the run for presedent,what happens if he gets there?obama is all over the place.are you missing something?

Why do Republicans find a true comment about McCains age and health a concern so offensive.
Yet the out and out lies about Obama is quite alright in your eyes?
And you claim to be religious? Evangelical?
There are two commandments you break constantly.
Thou Shalt Not Lie
Though Shalt Not Bear False Witness against Thy Neighbor.

jk: Obama isn’t ready to be President
on day one! Palin has room to learn
the job. Obama doesn’t!

So reaganfan answer this question:
Suppose you had to choose between two Presidential candidates, one of whom had spent 20 years in Congress plus had considerable other relevant experience and the other of whom had about half a dozen years in the Illinois state legislature and 2 years in Congress. Which one do you think would make a better President? If you chose #1, congratulations, you picked James Buchanan over Abraham Lincoln
with Biden beside him, he’ll be able to actually do the things that need to be done to attempt a fix of this crap that you repubs have put us thru and McSame has agreed to 90% of the time

i thought biden resigned,oh no that was biden jr.change,change here it comes.great pick obama.more to come? it is too easy.make it somewhat harder and i’ll make do.

there is no age or race problem here, pure and simple obama is not ready.most amercians see that.

I agree with MaCaskill, it needs to to talked about. This is highlighted by his choice of Vice President. I don’t know if I could sleep at night if Palin were in charge due her her foreign policy (the blend of hawkishness and lack of knowledge). So I want to know if elected, McCain will be alive or not or if he will be incapcitated by treatment for melanoma.

regan-mccain see the connect?obama is going to fix all of our problems and change everything? who is running on that?carter-obama, now that makes more sense.

If Fiorina thought Palin was ready and right for the job, she would have said “Who cares, Palin is ready.” She didn’t say that and instead cried “ageism”. The problem is Fiorina knows what we all do – Palin is not ready.
So instead the GOP whines like Democrats about sexism, racism, ageism or whatever-ism. Face it, the current batch of “Republicans” have become the thing they hate – wasteful spenders more interested in flash over substance. And I already voted against that idiot Lieberman once, and McCain is going to put him in the cabinet? And the morons on here saying in the same breath that “Palin is great and energizes me”, but “Don’t worry she’s not really going to be doing anything.” What the heck is that BS?
And what will McCain accomplish by winning like this? Nothing – he’ll be President but has no sound economic plan, no sound plan on healthcare or Medicare reform, no sound plan on Social Security and no real chance of changing anything while the dems hold congress.

abraham lincoln is a pic on the wall, do you think obama is being lincoln like? this whole process is way out of control,you have to read 7 news papers and hear all of the reporter’s with there spin and how they feel about everything mccain-obama.so do not even bring up lincoln.as for ready,there is no way obama is close to ready.what makes anybody ready for president, not this process.it is time for real change

now that is a laugh, McCain is change damn that is funny
The policy prescriptions in John McCain’s acceptance speech were nothing but retreads of the failed policies of the Bush-Cheney years:
He promised tax cuts for the rich and the corporations.
He promised “free trade” deals that hemorrhage American jobs.
He promised vouchers for people to pull their kids out of public schools.
He trashed the teachers’ unions.
He promised more deregulation of big business.
He promised more privatization of government services.
He promised judges who will curtail consumer protection, worker safety, and women’s reproductive rights.
He promised to continue the saber rattling and threats against Iran, Russia and any other country that defies U.S. hegemony.
He promised more militarization of our foreign policy.
He called for peace through war.
“there’s no such thing as presidential experience outside of the office itself.” The quality we ought to seek “is leadership.”
James A. Baker III

as for age, biden has hair plugs and bleached teeth, you are only as old as you appear.is it me or is obama starting to look older. this whole process is taxing.the media is eatting it up with a spoon and we are allfalling for it.

I’ll tell you what is tired Brad
8 years of lies and secrecy
record deficts
a war which we should have never started and started by lies
job losses
high oil prices but record profits for oil companies
a government ran by lobbists
watching our government step on the bill of rights
but mostly LIES just like what we are seeing today for the McSame camp

I can not support Obama, as I don’t trust him at all. He went to a BLT church, the pastor is so antiamerican, and racist. He hung around with terrorists who blew up buildings, etc. I know McCain is older, but Palin would be a much better president then Obama, and has the guts to stand up for us. Obama shows no courage.

“is that like bailing out Freedie and Fanny so teh rich can stay rich while the middle class get to pay the bills?”
You really don’t get it, do you? Who do you think this helps? Lordy, lordy….where do these folks come from.

h lash, what are you smoking? Are you sure you are not GW, you write like he speaks.
“take about the tower of babble.here it is, i mean here it is” What does that mean?
Let this serve as an example of why we need to improve our educational system, why no child left behind does not work.

obama, home resting, still looking for his footing in the election,what is his real message. now that is a senior moment

still making do here. keep the spin going

oh no, here comes ike, no snl for me, got to go fix my web site, donate here.did you see obama working hard to talk over bill clinton the other day.just not working. people are not buying it.

Take a look at this picture [see link]. I think that’s the reality of what’s going on – seeing Obama do his stadium speech to 85,000 – whatever McCain thought before and whatever he was doing before – he knew it wouldn’t work anymore. He had to do something drastic – and that ended up being Sarah Palin. The women could do their knitting and vote for her – hide the more stranger aspects of Palin’s church and she fits in neatly with the Christian Right – who are okay that she wants to rule by divine providence.
http://files.myopera.com/Cole2/albums/594898/2r-MACP-huge.jpg
If he gets in – she’s President!
Foreign policy agenda- you know things to do with those pesky countries outside of the US – will focus on oil and war for oil and diplomacy for oil and war.
Youll love it!
Where you take the oil from – you’ll leave democracy behind and that’s got to be good! The economy that can’t get any worst – McCain’s going to Washington to change Washington and besides he was a war hero!
Reality is in the knitting!

Larry, please note the First Amendment to the Constitution: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government of a redress of grievances.
How much of the rest of the Constitution do you not support? Your failure to support this document would seem to be the antithesis of your supposition that you are somehow American and others are not.
Additionally, while teaching Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago, Obama was a part of a committee that also included a man who claimed to be a part of a group that had committed 25 bombings in the United States, these crimes against the United States occurred when Senator Obama was 9 years old. It would occur to me that “he hangs out with” is a severe extension of any form of reality.

Sally, right now the United States ranks 37th in Health Care Systems, 72nd in Health Care System Performance, and 42nd in Life Expectancy, 37th in Infant Mortality. Is this acceptable to you? The countries that have rankings above us tend to have some form of “socialized medicine” and it seems to lead to better results than we are experiencing.
I would rather be a living socialist moron here, than a dead supporter of some very wealthy insurance companies. But you have your own choice.

“I would rather be a living socialist moron here..”
One word. Move.

777,
You are an idiot… What have you been listening to for the past 20 years? White Supremacy??? It is one thing to disagree with a policy, but to just at plain ignorant???!! Get off the blogs and go read a book! I get so sick of “white people” like yourself putting down any race of people other than whites. Hispanics, blacks, etc. are here to stay and you need to get over yourself. This country belongs to them as it belongs to you. They pay the same taxes that you pay…get over yourself!!!

I was an undecided voter until Obama’s comment about the selection of Gov. Palin being same old Washington politics.
Let’s take a look at Obama’s “new Washington politics”. He runs with Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid and Joe Biden (life long Washington politicians). He degraded Hillary and called Bill Clinton a racist in the campaign. But now with the polls showing him behind he wants to buy his way into the White House by bringing Bill Clinton into his campaign.
Senator Obama might have started his campaign 19 mths ago as a common decent mid-class American but he has turned to the other side just like most greedy and selfish politicians. In the past 19 mths Obama has become a multi-millionaire personally. He has spent millions of the American citizens dollars in this campaign. He signed up for a fixed campaign fund but decided not to adhere to his word. To me that means he may not be able to balance a budget. He is spending away all of the campaign funds. He reported record donations in May/June, strange because that’s when the Tax Rebate checks were mailed. He accepted the poor peoples rebate donations instead of encouraging them to buy the necessary personal items they needed for their families. The rebate was to stimulate the economy not fill Obama’s pockets.
Fellow citizens/voters take a hard look at who is actually demonstrating “change” and true to his word. McCain said he wants to shake up Washington and break the politics as usual. He did that with his VP choice, he brought in a fresh middle class perspective.
Gov Palin’s reference “difference between hockey moms and a pit bull is lipstick” was a wonderful reference to those tough women who manage a family. Obama’s reference “lipstick and a pig” is a despicable comment towards those hard working women.
I have made my decision and will continue to pray the American people will make theirs by truly evaluating what political team will do the best for all of us.

news flash biden resigns, that’s biden jr has a lobbyist, i mean was a lobbyist

As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society…Our society is being seriously challenged by people who claim to be “Christians” and yet who lie, cheat, abuse, distort, and repeat their lies (propaganda) like Hitler and other great deceivers. McCain and Palin are hypocrites, pharisees, who say god, god, god and yet whose hearts and minds are wicked.

hjpowell, then why resign. talk about hypocrites.keep pointing the finger

Remember that the Obama campaign is getting SIX TIMES more CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS from TROOPS DEPLOYED OVERSEAS than McCain’s campaign.
http://www.opensecrets.org.
Thank you for listening.

Shame on McCain for being old and still alive! Shame on McCain for getting cancer. Shame on McCain for being a POW!
Shame on McCain for serving his country!
Shame on McCain for being wealthy! Shame on McCain for not being a community organizer! Shame on Mccain for being a white male!
These are the “issues” Democrats are running on. Okay…good luck with that!

McCain, half a century ago – wild young man – caught up in a war that killed millions. Half a century later the natural processes of life have taken hold. At the beginning of this campaign when he was carrying his own bags to the aircraft, running out of money – a fair comment would have been ‘silly old fart’, near the campaign John has really aged and to be kind he is now just an ‘old man’ going nowhere.

John McCain released 1173 pages of his medical records for ONLY 3 HOURS to a small group of journalists who were not allowed to copy them or have any electronic devices with them. In addition to the recurring skin cancer he also has high blood pressure and cholesterol, smoked 2 packs of cigarettes for 25 years and is on 6 different medications. We have a right to know more about his health.
http://therealmccain.com/doctors/?utm_source=rgemail

bill clinton will always be on obama’s side.McCaskill does not have to apologize, she is just apart of a machine that will stop at nothing to put obama in office.what is next, special ed funding? oh thats been done.obama is raising the bar. lower and lower

I want John McCain’s health records released. Sarah Palin will be too close to becoming President if he is selected. This has gone from becoming just an issue about ageism, this is an issue of national security. We need to know that we won’t be electing one person in office and getting another one soon thereafter by default.

As a retired guy in his 60s, I don’t know two people my age who think they are as sharp as they were ten years ago nor have the energy they did. Plus, knock on wood, I have not had four bouts of melanoma to fight like McCain has. If he would have picked a QUALIFIED woman to run with him,like Condi Rice or Kay Bailey Hutchinson, I might have voted for him. His choice of Palin just sealed the deal for me because Obama-Biden is a clearly superior ticket. Palin is a lightweight beyond belief and it shows me that despite his slogan, McCain put “politics about country.” The McCain of 2000 would not vote for the McCain of 2008.

Ed, putting words in people’s mouths again – this is no personal vendetta against McCain – its just the truth, the guy is gonna croak, and croak probably within the next 4 years – it happens – but don’t worry he will be back in fighting trim when the rapture comes and takes you all up to glory in to live out eternity in your white cloud la-la land!
Cheers!
Mitch (AF Vet)

Why should McCain’s age and health status be off limits? Are you saying that is irrelevant? The man has had 3 bouts with melanoma. The deadliest form of skin cancer known to man. There are doctors right now that have a petition to make McCain release ALL of his medical records. He has only release a quarter of his medical records and had all these “rules” in place when he “allowed” selected doctors to review them in THREE hours: no copies, cell phones, internet etc. There is no real cure to melanoma once it has spread. He has had melonama FOUR times since 2002. He smoked 2 packs a day for 25 years and is taking 6 different types of medications but this isn’t an “issue” but “lipstick on a pig” is? America. We are better than this.

McCain’s VP must be a standby President who must be ready all time, to step in if need be….
Well, that’s not going to work now is it.

McCain is so old that he has thrown his honesty and integrity away and joined the hateful lying smearing Bush people. McCain is too old to face the challenges that Bush and Cheney have left the country with. We don’t need another old republican who surrounds himself with other old republicans to mess the country up any more than it already is. It is time to fix the problems and correct so much of the wrongdoing. People are repeating some outlandish lies that they are obviously hearing from the McCain campaign.

vicki, all the stuff coming from the obama campaign is true? come on.it is now who lies the best, and sprinkle in a little truth

H LASH!
I have read a lot of the comments on this site, it looks like you’ve been on here all day, blah, blah, blahing.
it’s not spin, you dope! it’s educated voters making an educated decision!
Is it ok, do you mind, you’re having a conversation with yourself! Everyone else here is concerned about Palin being an idiot, she is a liar, obviously, she may be pathelogical.
IT REALLY IS OK, FOR OTHERS TO POST A COMMENT HERE REGARDING THEIR CONCERN!
GEEZE, WHAT A RIGHT WINGED MORON!

is this all there is? just making do. oh yea, watch wall street on monday,down,down,down.obama is going to fix that too

I am 70 and with fine genetics (father died at 90)but my mind is less crisp even though I have lived a life as a non smoker and with very little alcohol and no addictive drugs. I would not feel that my mind is prepared to take on international challenges presently. The Cuban missle crisis required the accuracy and youth of a special highly educated younger mind. A limited governor whose education included attending 6 schools of higher learning to gain a degree in journalism is hardly equal to a degree in political science from Columbia U. and someone who has served as president of the Harvard Law Review, and graduated from Harvard Law School with Magna Cum Laude Honors. We have such low standards for evaluating jobs for some reason now. Bush classic vetting, “you’re doing a fine job Brownie.” Did Bush’s low grades and use of coke over the years cause his condition of having no curiosity and lack of political judgment? Its my question.

it’s voters eating up whatever is thrown there way.this whole thing, all this talk, all this street money,clintons,palin,biden,sling whatever.it is all going to come down to what, ohio .what a system.it is way broken.please stop the name calling.it is not the third grade

i see it now, bring obama out in front of two amercian flags behind him, try as they might to make him look presidential,addressing this whole wall street thing.he is going to fix it all.joe biden has some good lawyers in his home state of delaware. no problem

what do you call pentecostal,guess what that is now.useless rhetoric. nothing has become something.thats how it all works now.who has more nothing wins.i am not making this up.

Palin and Obama are inspirational? Have you lost your mind? They are both frightening!!

Interesting! Did the gatekeeper not like my post on Claire McCaskill critiquing someone’s age, health, etc.? McCaskill has been pumping up Obama from the very beginning. Somehow, it doesn’t seem to do any good. Now, she chooses to disparage McCain’s age and health to see if that will fly. It won’t. American Voters are paying attention, and the polls show it.
Obama is green. It is laughable that anyone points the finger at Sarah Palin, and worries about the VP slot. Joe Biden has his own health issues, has been in Congress for 36 years, and he is “retirement” age. So, why doesn’t he? What is the retirement age for you?
Obama can survive by bringing in another Washington status quo, or he can pick a qualified candidate from outside Washington. That is a joke! He needs somebody inside Washington to prop him up.
Sarah Palin brings experience, energy, and a maverick stance to compliment that of McCain. I thought there was a law against age discrimination, gender discrimination, and race discrimination.
McCaskill should be ashamed of herself. With her crytal ball, she can ddetermine who is healthy enough to serve. Lightening could strike anybody at anytime. Her tactics on age are the vivid signs of real desperation.
McCain/Palin ’09
Real Leadership,
Country First!

higher level, just wait, this week both sides will take it to new highs.keep feeding us.its all a show,still do not know what act we are in.

Senator McCaskill, Ms. Fiorina and Mr. Stephanopoulos:
With respect to John McCain the issues are not how healthy and vigorous he is or his age, but rather, the issues are his mortality and the likelihood of his becoming incapacitated and not able to perform his duties as President if he were elected. I’m a 62 year old male and about one-fifth of the males born in my birth year, 1946, have died. John McCain is 72 years old. He was born in 1936, and about one-third of the males born in his birth year have died. There is about a one-in-seven chance that John McCain will die before inauguration day in 2013 and about a one-in-three chance that he will die before inauguration day in 2017. The chance of either his death or becoming incapacitated is higher; however, I haven’t been able to find a good source that discusses the issue of someone his age becoming incapacitated. I do know that in the decision making process anything that has the likelihoods above demand serious and thoughtful examination.
I think that I have done this, and the factors above have contributed significantly to my decision not to vote for John McCain as President. The election of John McCain as President creates too high of a likelihood that his running mate, Sarah Palin, would succeed him as President within the next four years.
So, Senator McCaskill, when someone tells you that John McCain is healthy and vigorous and that his age is not a factor, smile sweetly and say, “This is not about his health, vigor or age but about his mortality and the likelihood of his becoming incapacitated while he is in office.” There will be of course an outcry of ageism that you will have to withstand. I do believe there was a very famous Missourian who said, “If you can’t stand the heat stay out of the kitchen”.

Has anyone wondered if McCain is even insurable under the policies he’s pitching to us? He would be DENIED coverage by HMOs, long-term care insurers and life insurance companies. TOO RISKY with his four malignancies and that his grandfather died at 68 and his father at 76(longevity is projected from same sex parent). Too risky for them and too risky for us.

Obama and Palin are both very inspirational. A simple measure of that is the turn out when they speak. That should be a huge issue as America is suffering a crisis of lack of self confidence. We need to get the country going again – and working together.
Now some democrats just want to talk hate – whether it be Hillary is not in the race or some one does not exactly fit their physical description of a candidate. Penn of Penn and Teller talks about how the country has become divided with the republicans talking hate and the republicans talking fear.
I am for the candidate who can bring us together. We are in a bit of a mess. Lehman Brothers has gone under now after Bear Sterns. Fannie and Freddie Mac put out so many unsupported loans that they are also bankrupt. The political appointees who ran them made fortunes cooking the books. Jamie Garelick seemed to be one of the big winners on that one.
The bottom line is that we are importing all of our unskilled labor, all of our skilled labor, all our money, and inspiration. We are in a spiral and we need to get our act together as Americans. We will not be the generous country of diversity unless we reverse those trends.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13412.html
“We recognize it’s not going to be 2000 again,” McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said, alluding to the media’s swooning coverage of McCain’s ill-fated crusade against then-Gov. George W. Bush and the GOP establishment. “But he lost then. We’re running a campaign to win. And we’re not too concerned about what the media filter tries to say about it.”
McCain strategists now have became even more sure of themselves after the picture-perfect reaction — in the GOP’s view — to the decision to put Palin on the ticket. The choice provoked derision from elites, jubilation among conservative voters long skeptical of McCain and uncertainty from Obama about how to respond. If you are a McCain staffer, it doesn’t get better than that — so who cares that the candidate had met her only once and her chief foreign policy credential seems to be that she lives closer to Russia than other Americans.
With polls moving in their direction and a unanimous view in the political world that the fundamentals of the race have changed dramatically in the past few weeks, McCain aides aren’t about to drop a flood-the-zone approach that they believe has worked. “Most people would have been afraid to have called him out on race,” boasted an adviser. “And we’re not going to let sexism or denigration of her go unchecked now.”
On all three counts — their portrayal of Obama as a celebrity, outrage at his purported use of race and his flat-footedness and confusion on how to respond to Palin — McCain aides saw weakness and indecision.
It adds up to a campaign that is now unapologetically aggressive and aimed almost entirely at keeping Obama off-message, even if it means hitting him below the belt in the process.
“Clearly we intend to stay on offense,” Rogers said. “That’s what we need to do because the campaign is fundamentally about him. We feel comfortable about the ads we’re running and arguments we’re making.”
And, given their surge in the polls and Obama’s uncertainty about how to respond to the Palin phenomenon, they’re going to keep it up.
“Every day not talking about the economy, the war and how to fix a broken system is a victory for McCain,” said John Weaver, a former top strategist to the nominee who left the campaign last year. “They’re going to ride it as long as they can and as long as the mainstream media puts up every ridiculous charge.”
The negative and often exaggerated or misleading claims being made about Obama and Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, especially those playing on Palin’s gender, are just too irresistible for the process-consumed online and cable news media that now drives the campaign conversation, Weaver said.
“Unless there is a hurricane, they’re going to cover it,” he observed.
Added Terry Nelson, McCain’s former campaign manager: “It works in part because Obama responds to it.”

I have many friends who are older than John McCain who would be a great President, but his age is not the point. The point is he and his running mate Gov. Who embrace the failed policies of George Bush and that is what is wrong with everything they stand for, but alas I really don’t know what John McCain stands for because he is the biggest liar I know.

The Washington Post has an article on how Obama’s policies are beginning to match 2nd term Bush policies. OK, and that McCain’s match 1st term. The point here is that we have people ranting that some one is a liar (maybe the case) or whatever with no backing in fact. OK, I understand that people get emotional about these things.
We need to raise the level and talk about specifics.

Democrats live in the real world
Republicans live in some twisted bizarro world where everything is backwards.
case in point
if the middle class get tax cuts money will trickle up to businesses because 95 percent of america will have more money to spend.
but in the bizaro world the republicans give taxcuts to the welathiest who NEVER reward their workers but keep profits in the sr management in form of bonuses … they invest in real estate (mccain don’t know how many houses he have – proof) they ship jobs overseas or they just do like fannie freddy and lehman just did and look for the bailout.

Wow! How do the reasonable people here, tolerate the blatant ignorance, and assigned talking points supplied for distribution?
There is clearly only one person in this race that will provide us with any measurable change, and that is Senator Barack Obama. Arguments to the contrary are simply disingenuous.

“Reagan presided over one of the
greatest periods of economic expansion and growth in our history!”
Reagan tripled the Gross Federal Debt, from $900 billion to $2.7 trillion and who got to pay the costs?
How can anyone be a reaganfan?

McCain wants to tax health insurance benefits, rescind the tax benefit your employer receives for giving you health insurance. That means you will pay more for health insurance or your company will not offer it.
Instead of relying on what the extremes of either side are saying, go to factcheck.org and educate yourselves.
This is not the time to let any sort of -ism lead you to choose a candidate. Make a decision based on fact not fear.

Doug,
Very useful post. People also need to note the following:
Adm. John S. McCain – Died at 64
Adm. John S. McCain II – Died at 71
Sen. John S. McCain III is currently 72.

Age of the candidate for president is a big deal when a carelessly chosen, unvetted, radical, choice for VP has been made. How soon some forget that Reagan was suffering from Alzheimers while approximately McCain’s age, while in the White House. The final consideration, after McCain’s competence is his health and age. McCain comes up short of acceptable in all three categories.

this is hysterical – the right wing nut jobs are so desperate they will lie about anything and then of course, go to church and think their God encourages lying, bearing false witness and adultery as in john mccains case. they are the worst liars and hypocrites and if they thought they were really winning they would not stoop to these tactics of fear and lies. hahahahahaha

re: Malcom X
Actually, later in life, Malcolm X himself didn’t even follow the anti-white Malcolm X doctrine from his youth. He became an intellectual and a moderate voice for peace and change in race relations, before he was killed (by more extremist members of the black liberation movement?).
Anyways, that’s all so 1970′s. Anything the are likely to teach at Obama’s church has moved far beyond Malcolm X at this stage. You think black people haven’t been writing since the seventies?
Get a grip.

Reagan Fan, I resided in California when Reagan was Governor out there. He was responsible for seeking and achieving a cut in funding for the mental institutions in California that created a loss of custodial care for those who were unable to care for themselves. This put the burden on families or lacking families who were able, the individual who was institutionalized. These people became the homeless of San Francisco. If you go to San Francisco, and see people who cannot carry on a conversation except for with their shopping cart, who are starving in the streets, sleeping in Parks, doorways and shelters, thank your good buddy Ron.

Hello Anyone,
40 years??? So he started smoking when he was 7 ???? Stupid lies.
Pathetic

Do you really want to attack Ms Obama’s patriotism when Palin’s husband is a member of the Alaskan Independence Party?

Hey NINE-ELEVEN! Have you ever seen the Manchurian Candidate, about a man who was a former Korean War POW who is brainwashed by Communists, what if that is true? What if we vote for someone who was brainwashed by the Commies? Time to come to the Doc and get a dose of reality.

hjpowell, your have been on with your posts today. thanks, enjoyed the reading.

How would you like to log on into a single page were you find the most comprehensive information of Sarah Palin???
Please visit:
http://www.dailysource.org/palin
In-depth research, audio clips, videos, excerpts, and links to hundreds of articles, including many from newspapers and TV stations in Alaska. It has rare footage, including her telling the ‘08 convention of the Alaska Independence Party, whose aim is to give Alaska a vote on seceding from the U.S., to “keep up the good work.” The level of research is unparalled.

How would you like to log on into a single page were you find the most comprehensive information of Sarah Palin???
Please visit:
http://www.dailysource.org/palin
In-depth research, audio clips, videos, excerpts, and links to hundreds of articles, including many from newspapers and TV stations in Alaska. It has rare footage, including her telling the ‘08 convention of the Alaska Independence Party, whose aim is to give Alaska a vote on seceding from the U.S., to “keep up the good work.” The level of research is unparalled.

Do we have to face the reality of aneurysms?

kerri,
mcloser is old also let’s not forget that his whole body is mess,but because is was a pow we the people owe him the presidency is that right??? So no matter how old or how much CANCER CELLS he has in his body huh?? We should not talk about the very real chance that he maybe DEAD before his four years are over. THE PITBULL MAYBE GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU, CAUSE LET’S FACE IT WHAT YOU REALLY WANNA DO IS TO F**K HER!!!!
I say good look to you with your stupid dream,but you gonna have to do it in Alaska not in the white house.

McCaskill is right on the money about Mcaging – I’m sure from all my years and a (gut reading), working w/stoke victims that he’s had a couple of small ones – he won’t make half a term. Obama is the real deal! He’ll be fair and just. This is the last call, before we end-up w/the USA being a country like Mexico. Hope is my choice – flying far, far from fear.

Mccain does not speak up when Palin attends a it is god’s retribution when a Jew gets killed church event.
Like he said, honor is not apart of his campaign. PS: it looked like he fell last week.

McCain’s age IS an issue and even more so now. There is an above average chance of his dying in office which means SP becomes president.
What happened to “Country First”? If I’d been in his shoes, I’d have selected a safe pair of hands for the No. 2 spot and not just a politically helpful one.

oh i forgot biden is a politcally helpful one.he is right?

Palin as President if McCain passes scares me far less than Barack as President on January 20th 2009.
He has no experience. He is unprepared.

Barack Obama is qualified to be President. He actually has more years of experience in government (8 years in Illinois State Senate, 4 years in US Senate) than did Abe Lincoln when he was elected President (8 years in Illinois State Senate, 2 years in US Congress). Lincoln turned out to be a pretty good President (even though he had no prior “executive experience”), so the argument that Obama isn’t qualified is nonsense. Joe Biden is also thoroughly qualified for the Presidency, so if they were elected and anything unfortunate happened to Obama, we’d have an experienced person right there to take over. McCaskill’s right – McCain’s age and health are relevant in this race and must be taken into consideration. His mother may still be alive, but his father died at the age of 70. If McCain had shown good judgment and leadership by making a responsible choice for his VP, his age might be less of an issue, but he didn’t.

and who are those big dogs?joe/hunter biden take and spend. joe took what 116 million pork barel this year.hunter, who knows his story, i am keeping my job oh know i resign.get back on that amtrak train get back down there,more pork for you joe. rember you are for the working class and most of us are not buying it.

“I have had a strong and a long relationship on national security, I’ve been involved in every national crisis that this nation has faced since Beirut, I understand the issues, I understand and appreciate the enormity of the challenge we face from radical Islamic extremism,” Senator McCain declared. “I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn’t a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn’t a governor for a short period of time.”
so much for McCain’s real thoughts on Palin being president
but his good pal says:
“there’s no such thing as presidential experience outside of the office itself.” The quality we ought to seek “is leadership.”
James A. Baker III
now that is not dems bashing Repubs..it’s repubs saying what they think

If McCain had not been an Admiral’s son, he would have been ran out of USNA. And he never would have been in the Navy pilot program
Class of ’75 here

maybe the same way he became president of the Harvard Law Review and graduated MCL…

When will the strugles we face, not be the evil doing of George Bush. The last two years Democrats have had congress and things have went from bad to worse. Do people really think having a Democrate for president will make it all better. We have to work together, and stop blaming each other and GB. Half the people don’t even care about politics. That leaves a quarter left Democrats and Republicans. We need a canidate close to the center. Obama is unexceptable in that role. As a Republican I have many times called McCain a closet Democrate. He is as close to center as we can give you. Hillary was the closest that you could have given us.

The last 2 years Democrats have had Bush vetos and filibusters by repubs to stop all change. So lets not put the last 2 years on them..let’s put all 8 years where they belong on the repubs and McSame’s 4 years are just 4 more years of no change. Congress will still be ran by lobbists.
He has over 150 of them on staff. Do you think they are doing this for fun or for future profits? How is that change? he he he

Amazing how GOP has an issue with reality. REALITY IS:
John’s age is a strong factor, add in he does not speak on his own issues, his VP selection who took 6 yrs and attended 5 yrs to get a degree from a state college, his melanoma, his slip ups of Iraq, etc, his war mongering chants = USA disaster!
My 86 yrs old aunt of excellent health from head to toe is afraid of him. Asked why? She said even with the health I have I know given my age how hard it is to get going in the mornings.
McCaskill was truthful, and if GOP has a problem with reality and truth then that’s their problem, but shouldn’t be America’s problem, too!

Has anyone wondered about McCain’s first wife and three children? Her story is compelling evidence that McCain is not a man of honor.
Some of you might also want to check the “Vietnam Veterans AGAINST John McCain” site.
You need to ask how a man that abandoned his crippled wife to marry his multi-millionaire mistress, refers to that multi-millionaire wife as a “c*nt,” voted against every bill supporting veterans, blocked the efforts of POW families to gain information about their loved ones held in Vietnam, voted against equal pay for equal work, admitted extreme ignorance about the economy, has nothing in common with common Americans and endorses falsehood over honor is planning to use a young, vibrant mother of five to his own political benefit and agenda.
It is puzzling that Palin fights the “good ole boys,” then runs willy-nilly into their arms when asked to participate. If elected, I truly hope that she understands the scope of her usefulness in this campaign. Once her usefulness is no longer needed, she will be shut away and marginalized by the “good ole boys” then trotted out for a tie breaking vote now and then when necessary. Those “good ole boys” will not tolerate a “maverick” when it comes to their agenda. As long as she is useful, they will continue to exploit her. It could very well ruin her and her family. I do not believe that she understands or comprehends her role in McCain’s calculated, mean, selfish, and black-hearted step to attain the White House. He was not putting “Country First” when he collaborated under duress with the North Vietnamese or now with his choice of Palin for VP.
It is with regret that I watch this woman be used like a prize at a carnival to appease the tastes and appetites of the evangelical right.
I worry for my country. News is not good this morning on the business front. Our country needs everyone to think and choose carefully this election. Follow every link, look at everything, find the facts.
I would like to recommend http:\\www.factcheck.org
It is a non-partisan, non-profit organization doing everything it can to get the information right.

Pittsburgh is prime example! Due to an internal feud within City Council, a very young member(Luke Ravenstahl-27)who never held a real job after college was thrown into the position of City Council President. Shortly after that the nearly elected Mayor (Bob O’Connor), became ill and past away shy of 7 months in office thus elevating Luke to Mayor. Yes, there was excited about the possibility of young ideas to turn around a struggling Pittsburgh. The reality is, Pittsburgh has a Mayor caught up with Ethic violations and essentially an intern following in the shadow of the Allegheny County Chief Executive. The Mayor is a puppet to the backroom politics that really run the city. He’s real good at running around gittin’ his picture taken while the ethic violations mount.

h lash,
If you want to bring pork barrel spending into the picture….
Palin as Mayor requested $27 million for a town of 6,700 (at that time)…
Palin as Governor – requested over $550 million her first year in office – and this year =(still 3 months to go) she requested $198 million… This is in a state with under 700,000 people. This is in a state that has no state taxes and gives it citizens rebates. How did she accomplish that??? By requesting funds from you and I…. The rest of the 49 states paid for those rebates… Who are McCain and Palin going to borrow from when they start deficit spending; like every republican Pres over the last 30 years??? Deficit spending weakens the dollar and reduces your buying power… It only helps multi-national corporations…. When will the everyday Republicans realize big business is using religion to profit… Republicans politicians always claim to be fiscally responsible yet are always deficit spending… By removing the regulations around commercial banking – in what was supposed to save the federal goverment money by cutting spending – it cost us much more in the bail outs…. As I heard on the radio the other day – Republicans do it TO you; Democrats do it FOR you! Here’s to praying for common sense and for self-awareness prevailing.

Age is not a consideration in a presidential candidate only if you are foolish. There is a fine line to walk between using McCain’s age and past cancer treatments as a campaign tool and for these things to be in item of legitimate concern for the American people.
We’ve all seen how the presidency ages everyone that assumes it. McCain will be the oldest person to ever assume the mantle should he win, he has had 3 melanomas removed (and if you saw the service forum it looks like he has a new one coming), and he refuses to release his medical records, save to a select few and even then only an excerpt of the report.
It’s laughable that republicans continue to cry “ageism” when in all reality it’s only common sense to be concerned about this issue. Especially now that McCain has selected Mrs Palen as his running mate. That means that the United States is one melanoma, one heart attack, etc away from having a religious extremist in the oval office. THIS is why I feel conservatives have finally gotten behind McCain. It is not that he will do such a fine job, it’s their hope that he will have a trauma while in office and Palen will be automatically elevated to the office, or should McCain be victorious then Palen could possibly run when McCain is done. THIS, I feel, is the real reason for the surge of support.

Banks are failing, stock are falling, the middle class is hurting like never before, and we want to elect John McCain and Sarah Palin to lead our country out of it..Give me a break..If something where to happen to either Obama or McCain who would you rather see sitting in the oval office Biden, or Palin. I think this causes great concern and people need to wake up and smell the coffee that the Republicans have screwed our country up and its time to let the Democrats have their go around.

To 777:
Read the end of Malcolm X’s Autobiography. After he came back from Mecca he regretted most of his previous work and abandoned the Nation of Islam. That is the reason that the Nation assassinated him. He had this change of heart because he met blonde hair, blue eyed Muslims in Mecca and realized that Allah was no respecter of color. Here’s some advice for some of your future posts: if you don’t know that much about a person you quote, don’t quote them.

Let’s face the reality. We all have to die. You can die before McCain or Obama. Who to say that McCain will die before Obama?
McCain is out campaigning more than Obama. He is looking younger everyday. Obama is getting older and older. His hair even turned grey. He complained about jet lag. He has been on holiday more than McCain and Clinton.
The reality is both men are walking, living, breathing. None of them are in their dead bed. And one of them is not qualified to be president.
I’ll vote for the qualified candidate over a younger one who has no clue what to do.

I don’t think John McCain has anything to worry about in this department. If you look at John McCains mom, she is 95.
Barack Obamas dad died at age 46 and his mom died at age 54. His dad was a known alcoholic, research shows that children of alcoholics have a higher rate of becoming alcoholics themselves. Cancer can also run in the genetics of a family. Obama is also a long term smoker and a former drug user.

Sen. John McCain has proved himself to be unqualified and incapable of effectively leading the United States of America into the future by, among other things, his reckless, irresponsible, impulsive, and dangerous judgment in picking Sarah Palin as his running mate. Sarah Palin is a minor distraction not even worthy of discussion. However, Sen. John McCain has shown his contempt for the intelligence of the American people by making this unequivocally cynical decision to use an unknown, untested, and corrupt, serial liar like Sarah Palin to deceive voters into believing he stands for change. Sen. John McCain also disgraced himself by demonstrating a lack of courage in his choice of Sarah Palin at the last moment over much more qualified Republican men and women simply because she appeals to the base of the Republican Party, a group of voters he was going to lose. What Sen. John McCain doesn’t understand is that by appeasing the extreme right wing of the Republican Party, he is going to lose the voters that really count, i.e., moderate and independent voters, and, in doing so, certainly lose the election. Obama/Biden 2008!!!
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1043793620080910?feedType=nl&feedName=ustopnewsafternoon
According to the Pentagon, we are losing Afghanistan.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7610405.stm
“No victory in Iraq, says Petraeus”

Monet: If Obama is elected god will have to help us. Help us get out of the disaster he will cause as president. Hopefully that won’t happen because this country needs a president that has the experience and knowledge to run this country and that let’s Obama out on a rim. In fact, Biden is smarter than Obama. What has Obama done in his life besides drugs, booze, on the street organizer (I wouldn’t take bets on it) not for four years but four months. Do you think he would be walking the southside streets for four years. Get real. He didn’t even want to go into Philadelphia. And guess who would be coming to dinner, Wright, Father P., Ayers (his buddy)Rezko (if out of jail)and Farrakhan, all haters of America.

anthony: JFK was younger than Obama when he took office and what has Obama really done in his lifetime besides drugs, booze and on the southside streets trying to organize a community. What community are they talking about. He certainly didn’t go into the Englewood neighborhood and I don’t believe he did it for four years. I wouldn’t take bets on it.

Luke: Let go on record to say that Ronald Reagan was no young president and he did great for this country. o did George Bush, Sr. And if Obama is elected president who knows how long he is going to live, or Biden who is in his 60′s. I believe when it comes to knowledge and experience in running this country Obama doesn’t have either. And as far as politics is concerned he lacks experience in that. He missed the senate over 130 days. Where was he? He was against the war? He wasn’t even in the senate for the voting. He is what you call a sincere liar and people were eating it up. From what I understand he is losing ground. Minnesota is now a toss up state, was leaning towards Obama at one time. McCain is also surging in New York. Obama’s celebrity status is down and out. Palin took over and is doing great.

“Luke: Let go on record to say that Ronald Reagan was no young president and he did great for this country.”
Reagan tripled the Gross Federal Debt, from $900 billion to $2.7 trillion
how about going on record with that and the fact the last president that even came close to balancing the budget was a Democrat.
you call us democrats the tax and spent party but the truth is that republicans are the ones that are destroying the economy buy borrowing and spending.
Republicans with their record deficits and war mongering is what is destroying this country.

let’s look at some voting records:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/110/senate/vote-missers/
and some experience too while we’re at it since it seems to matter so much:
http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Info/experience.html

obama’s father passed away at what age?it makes no sense to do the age thing anymore.both obama and mccain have there ups and downs on this.

Hypertension, kidney stones, lung fibrosis, bilateral cataracts, two suicide attempts, insomnia, allergies, arthritis, high cholesterol, lung fibroma tumor, adenomatous colon tumors, thyroid nodules, dizziness when he tilts his head back, malignant cancer, malignant cancer, malignant cancer, malignant cancer, malignant cancer.
What part of this picture of terminal illness are we not getting?
How about the absence of an MRI of the head to rule out metastatic recurrence of melanoma in the brain?
66% chance of recurrence of melanoma and why hasn’t the MRI been done?
Because it would show brain damage from his injuries and cortical atrophy from his age.
A former POW with insomnia taking Ambien? Who’s going to wake him up at 4 AM with the football and two minutes to decide about launch-on-warning?

OK, so there’s this elephant the size of TEXAS in the room and every one is pretending to be polite by ignoring it and then suddenly the elephant rips a fart out the size of Oklahoma. What do you do?
You call that ol’ bag o’ wind McCain!
IF THE SHOE FITS, WEAR IT!
OLD MEN DIE SOONER, NOT LATER!

Nice view friend. I love the point you mentioned above.