DISQUS

JerryP · 1 year ago

You think that cancer was bad, you should look at the 300-pound Hageeboil he lanced yesterday.

tlsintx · 1 year ago

ugh. THAT's gonna leave a mark. :)

Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago

I want psychiatric files going back 35 years.

PeteWa · 1 year ago

What a frail, amoral and angry old man McBushlover is.

jr · 1 year ago

"everything republicans do is fine"-millionaire cable news anchors

sittenpretty · 1 year ago

Paul Tsongas??????anyone

devis1 · 1 year ago

This troubles me a lot less than everything else he does. This skin surgery is usually done at the dermatologist's or plastic surgeon's office. It's not melanoma.

Aanya · 1 year ago

While we are at it, how about Cindy McCain's financial records? This is very alarming. Bush/Cheney has been the most secretive of any president ever, and it appears that McCain is already in that same mold! Anyone in this country who is stupid enough to buy into the McCain bullshit, deserves to be hung! I can't believe anyone could be that damn stupid after the last 8 years.

devis1 · 1 year ago

What is more to the point as Sanjay Gupta said on CNN is that he's seen eight doctors this year and it's only May. It speaks to his age--that's THE issue.

tlsintx · 1 year ago

and notice how all his ads and videos show him as a vital, young, smiling, saluting warrior?

KansasModerate · 1 year ago

I can't vote for McCain because I don't want another Scalia on the Supreme Court, but I still believe in decency and fairness.

He probably did not announce his outpatient surgical procedure in February because he knew people who hate him, and you fit that bill, would distort the situation and blow way, way out of proportion a very common, very minor procedure. And you have proved him right.

devis1 · 1 year ago

I stand corrected--he had 4 malignant melanomas removed since 2000. That is alot more troubling in my book.

fostert · 1 year ago

My experience with friends and family tells me that cancer never really goes away. Until you die, of course. I'm not surprised that McCain had a little relapse.

Chris From Maine · 1 year ago

so lemme get this straight.. the media can find out everything about Democrats, but cant find out that McCain had surgery in February? Trust me, they knew and they wanted to cover up the story so their candidate would have an easier ride.

devis1 · 1 year ago

Jeez, I just made it down to the 9AM post about the 3 hour marathon peek he's allowing reporters. Why do I even allow a semblance of understanding to these idiots? Think I'd have learned by now.

tlsintx · 1 year ago

and look who else hates McBush...it isn't just us lefties.
even the wingers think he's an outright liar.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_suffers_ri...

dcguy202 · 1 year ago

Beg to difer with Devis1. If it's malignant, it's considered melanoma. I have a nice big scar on my right forarm from the same thing. Since I've had malignant melanoma in the past, I'm considered at risk to develop in again and have to visit a dermatologist annually to have her go over every inch of my skin and check every suspicious coloration or "mole". After five "clean" years, then and ONLY then, will I be classified as cancerfree.

dcguy202 · 1 year ago

Please excuse my typos in my previous post. I usually proofread before submitting.....

JMOHR · 1 year ago

McCain should not be given a break on his medical records. He is of an age that both physical and mental health become a very real issue. The McCains have already shown a propensity to hide relevant information, i.e. spouses tax records.) The three hour time for selected reporters to review medical files would simply be inadequate.

baz_atl · 1 year ago

Whoa, John... and the commenters. You guys need to queue up the WebMD or something similar and read about skin cancer. I'm very much anti-McCain (he's truly awful) and all for making fun of his age, etc... but you're all very misinformed regarding skin cancer. Skin cancer is surprisingly common, believe it or not. Most very light-skinned people (like McCain) will develop one of the types of skin cancer once they reach their 60's or 70's. It's *almost* a given, unless you slather on the sunscreen or spend a lot of time inside.

I work for a skin cancer surgeon and I can say, pretty definitively, that having a squamous or basal cell carcinoma removed does not mean that you "have cancer." Skin cancers, aside from melanoma (which McCain has had before and is supposedly free of, AFAIK), are lesions, _local_ problems to the precise place on the skin where they develop. That's not to say that aren't still serious, because they would (if not removed) continue to grow and eventually would result in a surgeon having to take a huge chunk out of your face (wonder why McCain's face is so scarred?), leg, whatever. Melanoma is the *really* nasty one because if it starts to metastasize (spread and set up shop elsewhere) inside the body you could be in _very_ serious trouble. If McCain has melanoma that's doing that, sure, you can say he "has cancer" and there are serious implications as the cancer could lead to his death. Being predisposed to getting skin cancers (he has a very light skin type) and having spent a lot of unprotected time in the sun (he was in the military), John McCain will _continue_ to develop squamous and basal cell carcinomas on a regular basis. Seeing as he's a known high-risk patient, he's going to be checked *very* regularly and have anything even precancerous frozen off with liquid nitrogen. It's pretty likely that if he's completely melanoma free now, his doctors are going to stare long and hard at his naked body (Oh man, I just threw up...) at _least_ every 6 months. This means that the skin cancer revelations regarding February are about as medically significant to his overall health as saying that he failed to disclose a paper cut.

Cheers, Basil

ELLL · 1 year ago

Much as I want to see McCain lose, squamous cell cancer is not at all like melanoma. Melanoma is deadly and can metastasize early. Squamous and basal cell cancers are common, usually stay localized or metastasize very late in the process, and are easily dealt with when found early. I would (regretfully) give him a pass on this one. But then there's so many other things to go after him on...

MNUSA · 1 year ago

What we don't know about our President's health is probably more important than what we do know. Anyone can die of cancer of any age - it's not just an older person's disease. But I wonder how Cheney's heart disease medications affect his thought processes. Other medications can also drastically alter a person's personality and thinking. McCain is an example of why we all should be wearing sun screen routinely and stay out of the tanning parlors.

bunnyjump · 1 year ago

It's all about the vice-presidency.....