Over the last few weeks, the issues of John McCain’s age and health have been pushed, with much resistance, back into the heart of the political discussion. Prompted in part by the selection of Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential candidate, the topic crested with the release of a political advertisement calling attention to McCain’s history of skin cancer and the need for more information about his medical records. Cable news stations were too skittish to run the spot, produced by Brave New PAC. CNN refused to air it, Fox’s Bill O’Reilly called it shameful, and MSNBC, which initially aired the ad, reversed course and took it off the air. All of which has come to the anger and befuddlement of Democrats as well as members of the medical community, both of whom ask a very basic question: what more important information is needed to elect a president other than his fitness for office? “I don’t see anything wrong with opening up the discussion,” said Ronald Bronow, former chief of dermatology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. “What we want to know is, what stage is this melanoma? Particularly with the prospect of the vice president becoming the president… If you are an objective physician, you have to be concerned about this.” With just weeks before election day, McCain’s campaign says it has released all of the information needed to make a thorough assessment of his health, and then some. In late May, the Senator allowed the vetting of over 1,000 pages of his records that showed him in generally good condition despite having skin cancer eight years ago. But the process was far from transparent. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s medical correspondent who was one of only a handful of reporters allowed into the review, summarized the problems to the Huffington Post: “We were given three hours to go over 1,200 pages of records. That is a lot to go through. It was very sort of cloak and dagger and I’m sure they had their reasons. Given that I had my medical training, I was able to hone in on what it thought was important more quickly. But the pages weren’t numbered, so I had no way of knowing what was missing… As a reporter I can only comment on what I saw but I can’t say by any means that this was complete… As far as the secretiveness of it, what they said to us is that you can’t take anything out of the room, but you could make notes. So it was a lot to go through in a short period of time.” Provided with only a scant review of the information, questions have begun to rise as to the danger of McCain’s most recent bout with skin cancer. Bronow noted that there are two reports detailing the stage of McCain’s latest (his fourth) bout with melanoma. One report put it at a stage 2a, which has a relatively high five-year survival rate; another put it at a stage 3b, which is much more dire in nature. “As a dermatologist, if I hear about a stage three melanoma, I say ‘My God this guy is walking on nails here,” said Bronow. “There is that much difference between a stage 2 and a stage 3.” Asked to detail his notes, Gupta said the pathology report - which lists the size and other attributes of the cancer removed - indicated a stage 2a: “It was 2 centimeters across, 0.22 centimeters deep, and not ulcerated, which gives him a 66 percent survival rate over ten years. Melanoma is a particularly aggressive cancer. Mainly because skin is the largest organ in the body it can spread to the lungs, liver and the brain… Most of the occurrences will occur right away. I am reassured by the fact that it has been eight years now and there hasn’t been a reemergence of that melanoma.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/30/new-urgency-over-mccain-m_n_130298.html
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Barack Hussein …
Barack Hussein Obama is a United States citizen.
I notice that all …
I notice that all of the Obama haters can only use insults and obscenities to make their points. Nothing that can educate or inform the reader. If Obama isn’t a US citizen, then deport him legally…If he is a terrorist, then have him locked up and sentenced…instead all you do is slander and ‘BANG’.
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“There is …
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“There is no scientific proof for the big ‘BANG’ theory…nothing that ‘BANGS’ ever forms something good and organized. ”
This is very true! I BANGED your mom, you were the result. As you duly noted, NOTHING GOOD OR ORGANIZED WAS FORMED. Only YOU.
Why isn’t anyone mentioning the fact that BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA isn’t a US CITIZEN? HMMMMM??
There is no …
There is no scientific proof for the big ‘BANG’ theory…nothing that ‘BANGS’ ever forms something good and organized. How can Americans believe that this beautiful and organized world of ours with such intelligent people and other living things could have happened by accident? If man can create, then man could have been created by someone much more intelligent and powerful than us. CREATION is the only sensible thing for me to believe because it allows me to respect GOD as my loving Creator.
hot air again… …
hot air again… facts ?
so barrack is …
so barrack is qualified based on his ability to lie through his teeth?
Palin refused again …
Palin refused again to release her medical records! She says we should take her word on her health. NO WAY! Besides, a medical examination would show that she was not pregnant this year.
Palin is truly a …
Palin is truly a Moron. She cannot even lie well. Mccain chose a silly woman with no background, no intelligence, just a parrot of right-wing propoganda!
lowbottomranch, you …
lowbottomranch, you are too old to have an opinion. No one cares about people over 50, they are a waste of air.
Keokinoske, you are …
Keokinoske, you are right. We lost all our rights these last 8 years. We can no longer even travel outside our states without a permit, we are shot after speaking publicly negatively about out government with no trial. We are communist Russia now.
Palin…reeking …
Palin…reeking stinking nasty filthy dripping cunt!
I could leave a …
I could leave a very intelligent and informative comment about her lack of knowledge on almost all important matters..but no. That is one stupid bitch.
This country is …
This country is hypocrisy. We claim to go to other countries to establish democracy, when our country is missing just that: DEMOCRACY.
palin is a moron .. …
palin is a moron ….
Biden, “I know for …
Biden, “I know for a fact that Mr. Obama was tested for AIDS!” Wow what a choice. the first gay President with AIDS! Well at least we will have a white cristian MAN president! No wonder Hillary bailed on Obama and even his wife is missing. Sara’s family was at the debate! Mr. Obama did you beat your wife the way a true Muslim does?
rushie neocons are …
rushie neocons are sooo much like killers charlie manson and jefferie dahmer that i confuse the three .. they have sold their souls to satan and are liars .. sarah is saying that obama is palling around with terrorists who would target his own country … but that is what the rushie neocons did on 911 … murdering thousands then flying their business partner bin ladens out … diabolical .. the neocons spend $500M+ for show biz talk shows to dupe the dopes .. but they had to knock off russert
Palin gave her tax …
Palin gave her tax infor, approx 140,000 but her and her husband have over 2.2 million in assets. That sounds more like a high end callgirl than a hocky mom and Mr. Joe 6-pack
the only thing …
the only thing scarier than McCain in the whitehouse, is McCain dying in the whitehouse and palin taking over…. think about it.
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