The old soldier, McCain, deserves to just fade away
Chances are that George McCain will not even be the GOP candidate
picked at the Convention. He is too " flaky" for the party to risk
losing the White House. The leader****p will find an excuse such as
health to offer someone else to the delegates. Too bad. In 2000,
McCain had it together. Cancer can play tricks to the brain.
=93Confusion is an often too subtle sign of paranoia.=94
--- Anne Austin
His physical health has not been widely re****ted on during the 2008
campaign Yet, the senator may be ill from severe cancer treatment that
has slowly affected his brain.
It may lead nowhere if McCain chooses to continue to release his
records and he has a clean record. However, John McCain has been
treated for four instances of skin cancer, melanoma, and while he
released a huge file of full medical information in 1999 during his
first run for the White House, he has not done so since then. This is
pretty explosive and relevant.
New York Times re****ter Lawrence K. Altman, a physician, has a
fascinating piece that has interviews with various doctors who have
been discussing with re****ters the specific August 19, 2000 operation
on the Arizona senator's face and neck (clearly visible today -- he
has a long scar on his face and swelling in his left cheek) that they
feel deserves more scrutiny.
Since the 2008 campaign began, doctors not connected with Mr. McCain's
case have expressed intense interest in the extent of the face and
neck surgery that he underwent on Aug. 19, 2000, at the Mayo Clinic
Scottsdale in Arizona.
Some of these doctors have noted in e-mail messages and in comments to
re****ters that the surgery appeared to be so extensive that they were
surprised his melanoma was not more serious -- perhaps Stage III,
which would give him a bleaker prognosis. These doctors said they
would be surprised to learn that such an operation would be performed
without evidence that the melanoma had spread.
While McCain's age has been widely discussed (he would be 72 if he
assumed office; that would make him the oldest president), but his
physical health has not been widely re****ted on during the 2008
campaign until this piece. It's relevant because of questions about
survival rates after a particular stage of melanoma.
The melanoma on Mr. McCain's left temple was 2 centimeters in diameter
and 0.22 centimeters deep, and was fully excised with wide margins, 2
centimeters in each direction, his campaign staff said. ...To
determine whether the cancer had spread to lymph nodes in his neck,
the Mayo doctors injected a radioactive dye into the melanoma in a
procedure known as a sentinel node biopsy hours before surgery. The
doctors waited for the dye to flow in the lymph fluid to the node in
the neck to which the cancer is statistically most likely to spread
first.
--- NYT re****ts on McCain's melanoma
Posted by Pam Spaulding March 9, 2008 in Uncategorized, Republicans,
Election
http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/03/09/nyt-re****ts-on-mccains-melanoma
The old soldier, McCain, has done his duty as he saw it to be and,
like General MacArthur," tried to do his duty as God gave him the
light to see that duty".and,"in the fading twilight of life," deserves
to just fade away.
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