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He is kicking McCain's butt and wiping the floor with him. Now THAT is the Obama I like to see!!!!
WOOOO HOOOOOO!
tonight would be a good night to see this clip on the air.
I heard not being to control one's anger causes stress that might cause a reoccurence of cancer! Stress also is not good for people trying to recover from cancer. Its time for the old man to retire.
When I compare any tally of those who have had grisly diseases against those whom I think actually would have deserved them, I find they never ever match.
Repression = Cancer, though a tad dated and one-dimensional and amusing, cannot even apply in this case
Even so, some people are just made to be nasty SOBs. That's who they are. They are healthy that way as that's their natural state. Being nasty keeps them fit. Irritating or getting one-up on the next guy is what they live for. I don't, but I have seen it in others. I think McCain is one of those. However he is susceptible to the UVA rays of light and has already dosed himself fatally and is a ticking time bomb to President Palin if elected.
Then cancer(s) will be the least of our worries.
I agree with you in another post: I hope a lot of these people just don't vote. I also hope African Americans turn out in record numbers to vote for Obama.
Everybody needs to check their registrations to make sure they're valid! [In Florida the deadline for registration and changing address / precinct for registration is 29 days before the election.] And double check their voting machine and keep an eagle eye on the balloting. Nothing is beneath a Rovepublican. I go to bradblog.com to check the ballot news, not as aften as I do this site because it just gets too damn depressing.
Did he mean to say:
The steps they took were uncommon unless...
Two bouts of MELANOMA, the last stage IIa, but possibly IIb because of the lymph nodes removed, their pathology NOT GIVEN in the crap he has released to the press. This is UNACCEPTABLE.
Interesting months old intro article, full of other links here: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/NYT_Few_mention_M...
And a very long but interesting article written by an actual melanoma survivor regarding McCains oddly poor choice of lesion prevention here: http://www.counterpunch.org/mckenna07102008.html
Enjoy. (Lol, sorta, it's really not enjoyable.)
The following is lifted from another site on a discussion of the upcoming debates. This is a doctor relaying his concerns re: McCain’s health (or lack of). It is a big concern because of Palin’s grade school guidance system.
DrDan
How much do you want to bet McCain will make sure the cameras face the right side of his face?
The left side of his face is horribly swollen and disfigured after his last melanoma surgery cut deep into his face, temple, and neck to pull out 35 lymph nodes.
I looked up the report from May when his medical records from the last ten years at Mayo Clinic in Phoenix were opened to a small group for a few hours. This fellow is sick.
66% chance of recurrence of his malignant melanoma. And they didn’t even do an MRI scan of his brain to see if the cancer had already metastasized. I guess he didn’t want to know. Or he didn’t want you to know.
Or didn’t want to see the evidence of the brain damage from all his accidents or the cortical atrophy that goes along with his progressive dementia.
In addition to five malignant cancers, McCain has chronic arthritis, chronic pain, insomnia, thyroid nodules, bilateral cataracts, fibrotic shrinkage of his left lung, a tumor in his right lung, high cholesterol, hypertension, and strong family history for risk of stroke and sudden death from cardiovascular disease.
He sleeps with Ambien at night and there is no workup in the last ten years to evaluate whether he has chronic PTSD or not. His past alcohol consumption was not recorded and liver and brain degeneration from alcohol was not assessed.
McCain takes a fluid pill, HCTZ - hydrochlorothiazide - either for blood pressure or to keep the swelling in his face down. No one would want the candidate to be cat-called as “elephant-man.”
With over 1200 pages of medical records I can say, as a physician, that this man does not have a “clean bill of health”. Unasked questions: does he take pain pills? Does he take narcotics for pain? Where is the Pain Clinic or pain specialist evaluation?
Why did he choose not to have his shoulders repaired - as he could any day - for the bilateral fractures to the top of the arm bones that occured when he ejected from his jet but failed to keep his arms tucked in. McCain’s arms broke in a “flail” injury pattern due to his mistake on ejection --- not due to “torture” in vietnam.
Do you think anyone will ask him at the debate why he allows people to think his obvious arm limitations were torture-related, rather than an ejection-related mistake?
As a physician I think McCain has been making impulsive decisions that are likely related to brain dysfunction. His memory is poor - but again, untested, according to the Mayo Clinic records.
My hunch is that he knows he is dying - and that is why he has thrown caution to the wind, compromised his principles, and gone all out with decisions - like Sarah Palin - that he won’t have to be around to take care of.
Why doesn’t someone ask John McCain what he would do if right now he knew he only had one year to live?
I don’t think he has the honor to step aside due to his health - and let someone else carry the burden and responsibility.
Why doesn’t someone ask him how he can reassure the American people he is not losing his mind if he won’t go for an MRI exam to rule out brain cancer?
Why doesn’t someone ask him if he knows what the rules are for the White House Doctor if he feels the President has become incapacitated?
Why doesn’t someone ask him if he knows whether or not Ronald Reagan was impaired by Alzheimer’s disease while he was president. And if so, was that good for national security?
As president, if he found his mental abilities compromised, would he let the country know and step aside?
"Won't care...?" These guys will HELP him along!
Sarah is supposedly a GREAT shot. If I were McSame, I'd watch my back. And never, ever go hunting with her! Or even visit to see her gun collection.
17 sign holders show up in Iowa to watch the spectacle.
M A V E R I C K C A N D I D A T E....
Palin gives her speech the crowd goes wild...!!! Palin bows to McSame and a third of the crowd dissipates including those Palinamiacs holding M A V I C K.
What's left? a satirical politcal truth.
E R C A N D I D A T E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxE2JW9tVXU
They are disengaged and allow the personality of the candidate to overwhelm their logic of what particular party the candidate comes from, along with the very fact they don't have a clue or are proudly uninformed about the candidate's history.
So: if you are still capable of hope - Obama looks less fake. If you are not, they default to gramps.
People pay big bucks to cook up poll questions that are supposed to prove these type conclusions, drawn up in advance of course. (LOL.) Where's my thousands of dollars consulting fee? I guess I didn't add that rocket science dash to it and bother 100 or so people on their land lines in the middle of the day or at dinner time to have them screw with my multiple choice pester-test.
I have talked to a few folk who (say they) are undecided, and this is what I glean from them. I sure hope to hell they DON'T VOTE. I think it is perfectly OK to NOT vote if you really do not know what you're doing. We don't encourage people to drive on the roads without knowing how their car works or where they want to go - voting is much more important.
As long as McCain doesn't have that stroke until Nov 5th, after being defeated by a real 5 - 7 % margin (to account for all the RePuke cheating) he's healthy enough for me.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?v...
The video should have a disclaimer:
"WARNING: The people you are about to see were stupid enough to break for Bush in the last election and handed us all four more years of disastrous Bu$hco. policies. Thanks "undecideds."
Favorite part was when Samantha Bee asked how they dressed themselves in the morning!
Look what the fourth story on CNN.com
# Rollins: McCain, Obama botched crisis
# Ticker: McCain trails in key states, polls say
# McCain denies 'gambling' with Social Security
# Palin's town charged women for rape exams
Why don't they have this as a chyron every time he opens his yap on national tee vee?
If John McCain can NOT find Vicki Iseman then how the hell is he going to find Osama bin Laden?
"That's at another house, John. Remember I told you about an hour ago that we're not at a house with a pool. Now leave me alone, the Vicodin is kicking in."
Remember that? Its from the Tootsie Roll commercial where the voice over asks "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a toosie roll tootsie pop?
Then an owl licks it and says, "One, Two, Three... CRUNCH!"
"The world will never know..."
LOL
McCain must release his records or at least allow folks like myself, not journalists, to review the pertinent aspects without a timer. Heck, I don't need to make copies...just let me or someone else who knows melanoma have a look at all the records. Hardly asking too much, eh?
Remember the recent article:
'Conservatives Scare More Easily'
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/fear...
This information on McCain's very serious Cancer history would undoubtedly sway many a Conservative and Swing Voter on their decision for President.
Obama should make an ad: Scary as Hell.
In fact all OBAMA ads...here on out should be SCARY!
I have sent this link both to national new as well as my local news outlets, encouraging them to investigate and raise the kinds of questions the dermatologist does here. Perhaps your other readers could do the same to bring this issue the attention it requires.