Biden Did Not Have Follow-Up MRI After Brain Surgery, Had Other “Tests”

So, Sarah Palin’s advisors decide that it is time for her to meet a bunch of serious world leaders. They head to Europe, where, first up, she has an appointment with the Pope. The Pope and some of his Cardinals invite her for a boat ride on the Tiber. As they are sitting in the gondola talking, a wind starts up and blows the Pope’s hat into the water. Palin looks around and realizes that no one is going to do anything about it, so she calmly rises, takes off her her high heels, and steps off the side of the boat. Instead of diving into the water, however, she walks across it, to the hat, picks it up and walks back across the water to the boat. She climbs in, hands the Pope his hat and continues discussing whatever it was they had been talking about. The Cardinals are open mouthed in astonishment at what they have just seen. The news media, in nearby boats are busy discussing among themselves how to report it. Headlines the next day at the New York Times, The Washington Post and the networks all blare: New Revelation: Sarah Palin Can’t Swim.

Lil – and what Johnny Sidney McCain belong too.Johnny Sidney McCain sat on the board of a very right-wing
organization, it was the U.S. Council for World Freedom, it was chaired by a guy named John Singlaub, who wound up involved in the Iran contra
scandal. It was an ultra conservative, right-wing group. The Anti-Defamation League, in 1981 when McCain was on the board, said this about this
organization. It was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League the parent organization which ADL said has increasingly become a gathering
place, a forum, a point of contact for extremists, racists and anti-Semites.

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Twice last weekend, Biden grimly warned at closed-door meetings that a great crisis is coming early in the term of President Obama:
“Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. … Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said … we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
A “generated crisis”? By whom? Moscow? Beijing? Tehran?
This is an astonishing statement from the CHAIRMAN of the Foreign Relations Committee who has access to the same intelligence as President Bush. Was Joe warning of a crisis like the Berlin Wall of July 1961, where JFK called for a tripling of the draft and ordered a call-up of reserves, or the missile crisis where U.S. pilots like John McCain were minutes away from bombing nuclear missile sites in Cuba and killing the Russians manning them?
Is Russia about to move on the Crimea? Is Israel about to launch air strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites? What is Joe talking about?
If one assumes Joe is a serious man, we have a right to know.
Instead, what we got was Obama’s airy dismissal of Joe’s words as a “rhetorical flourish” and a media – rather than demanding that Joe hold a press conference – acting as Obama surrogates parroting the talking points that Joe was just saying that new presidents always face tests.
Had John McCain made that hair-raising statement, he would have been accused of fear mongering about a new 9/11. The media would have run with the story rather than have smothered it.
Has anyone ever asked Joe about his own and his party’s role in cutting off aid to South Vietnam, leading to the greatest strategic defeat in U.S. history and the Cambodian HOLOCAUST? Has anyone ever asked Joe about the role he and his party played in working to block Reagan’s deployment of Pershing missiles in Europe, and SDI, which Gorbachev concedes BROKE the Soviets and WON the Cold War?
Is Joe’s record of having been wrong on Vietnam, wrong in the Cold War, and wrong on the Surge, less important than whether Sarah Palin tried to get fired a rogue-cop brother-in-law who Tasered her 10-year-old nephew to “teach him a lesson”?

Yes, I am afraid of McCain/Palin, he loves war and she too.
We leave in the same planet.
McCain is a little soldier who killed innocent people in the Vietname war. The american people forgot the Vietname war, but the world not. McCain is not a heroe he is only a soldier who lost de war, a war far, far way he never defend his country, he attack others country.
Palin is a religious fundamentalist who believes in criacionism and can be prepare to kill for hers believe, well she kills animals from a plain for pleasure. What terrible person she must be.

What’s the story here? It seems that Biden had whatever tests were recommended by his doctors, and an MRI wasn’t it, because the treatment he had received wasn’t compatible with an MRI. So what…?
Since this happened 20 years ago, don’t you think if there had been an outstanding problem that we’d know about it by now?

I hope Joe is ok, I like Joe Biden
http://www.congratstothewinners.com/labels/Joe_Biden.html

If Economics is a big issue then why is it mostly the blue states that are recession? The rocky mountains which is run by conservatives appear to be doing ok with the recession.

Is Joe Biden is coky, and sick, just like Dic Cheny? Barack Obama’s “Bottom-up econonmy” is socialist , a big well-fare system, with big government-control, bigger spending, more regulations, and less and less freedom for people. Thoss who work will be punished, or taxed, to finance big spending and well-fare. Barack Obama reminds us of Jimmy Carter, he will cause deeper recession, or even another Great Depression.

This is the most non news story I’ve seen today. 20 years ago and he couldn’t take one anyway? Stay focused Obama supporters. The McSames will do anything at this point!!

Twenty years ago, a non issue. He is obviously in good health. Where are the complete McCain and Palin records? What are they hiding? For those of you with socialistic paranoia for Obama you obviously do not understand the term. It is the right wing of Bush that just nationalized the banks. You don’t like socialism send back you social security check, send back your unemployment check, send back your Medicare and Medicaid check, send back your disability check, take your kids out of public schools, cut food stamps, stop medical care for kids, etc… You are all tough talk until it is your turn, you loose your job than you see the light and cry like babies.

Oh he is not fit to lead. He needs to step down. How do we know he does not have a handicap in the brain that would better his judgement??. Typical Dem blogger response if it was McCain or Palin.

J-Rod, good point,
my question to you is, did you see the office last night?

HAHAHAH, that’s hilarious!! I forgot that it’ll just be McCain and Palin in the office if they win. Great Point! No one surrounding them as advisers and such.
This country is on the fast track to re-electing Warren G. Harding!!

I have two brain aneurysms that have never ruptured. I have MRIs and angiograms to study the size of my aneurysms. Are they hiding this too?

As for “leaving babies to DIE!!!”. That is a statement of misunderstanding. Babies left alive after “botched” abortions are not babies you and I could adopt and raise – they are so underdeveloped they have no chance of survival outside the womb. When the fetus is strong enough to survive, abortions are not done by law. These ‘babies’ die, and they die very quickly, with or without the medical intervention. The “care” in question is PALLIATIVE care.
The nurse who started the legal process held a fetus/baby in her arms, until it died, that’s how she got inspired. That’s an example of palliative care. I really understand where she’s coming from, and I respect her for doing so, though it probably ment more to her than it did to the baby. The question is not whether these fetuses’ lives could be saved, because they cannot. I think that idea is purposefully injected into the discussion to try and muddle up the issue, and make it a big deal when it’s not.
BTW, the whole issue is kind of moot. Since the ban on partial birth abortion, most hospitals stop the fetus’ heart before the procedure. This is obviously kinder on the fetus, IF they feel anything at all, which may or may not be, depending on when the abortion is done. It does pose some risk to the mother though, like infection, which could be serious. But the chance of ending up with a live baby are zero.

Cliff, I like your swagger. Let me ask you this… where do you think we should move to when the true colors of this country are shown and the Bradley Effect comes out in full force (and also if the youth remain high as anticipated and forget to vote)?
I’m going to camp out on top of the Empire State building and watch the race and hippy riots. When things settle down I’ll head to the ground and write up some more subprime mortgages. Everyone should have a house… Yipeeee!

“Posted by: Scott- Fed up with Reps&Dems | Oct 24, 2008 12:35:45 PM”
Listen, I hear where you’re coming from brother. Believe it or not, my support for John McCain is lukewarm. I’m truly disappointed in our choices this go-round. Both candidates advocate Big Government solutions and I think it just shows a lack of 1) respect for our Constitution and 2) creative thought.
McCain says he’s going to “name names”? That’s great but how’s he going to do that when the wolves in Congress are guarding the henhouse?
And don’t even get me started on Obama…

Can I write in LeBron for President on the ballot??

I had a fiance who died from a cerebral brain hemmorage at the age of 36. As I read this story I can’t help but be offended with Bidens judgement of not having follow up MRIs. I mean this in all sincerety. I wish my fiance had survived his aneurysm. I know he and I would have appreciated the second chance at life and used our better judgement and always had follow up MRIS. We would have insisted even if the doctors didn’t think it necessary. Especially if he had Bidens health insurance plan. I learned the hard way an MRI is sometimes the only way to monitor a brain hemorrage. It doesn’t even always show up in a cat scan.

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My neighbor, 59 years old just did of a brain aneurysm while hanging wallpaper…just like that! My sister in law has a an aneurysm and is monitored all the time…why not Joe Biden…just thinking that he MIGHT become potus is scary but what is scarier is PELOSI as POTUS….I think I’ll take that drink now!

Foot-in-mouth disease…LOL…good one.

As a physician that deals with MRIs ,daily, I would like to correct some of the misinformation advanced here.
Not all metallic structures are magnetic. We have long lists of which medical implants and devices which are MRI safe. Location of the metal is important. Small piece of iron from welding spark or machine shop in your eye could cause severe damage while a larger piece of shrapnel in the hip is safe.
Old brain aneurysm clips are not safe. Senator Biden should not have a MRI.
Senator Biden can and should have CT angiography which will show a recurrent aneurysm very well.
Recurrence of brain aneurysm is about 16% (Russian Roulette with 6 cylinders) which is not small, see following:
“We screened 610 patients who had been admitted between 1985 and 2001 for SAH by means of CT-angiography….With screening we detected 129 aneurysms in 96 (16%) patients, after a mean interval of 8.9 years. “ http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/128/10/2421
If Senator Biden has not have followup CT angiography, it shows bad judgement of either his physician or himself.

Can’t let the comment above by “Stump” go unanswered. He states: McCain is associated with “… a guy named John Singlaub … an ultra conservative, right-wing group…” Stump wouldn’t be referring to Retired Army Major General John Singlaub, the guy famous for parachuting into the Philippines in advance of the US invasion in WWII to free American POWs before they could be executed by their cruel Japanese captures, would it? Also the three war vet who served multiple tours in Korea and Vietnam. I’d much rather “associate” with the honorably retired General Singlaub than the unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers! How about you?