Washington Post Just Wondering About McCain’s Cancer Returning
It was atrocious enough when the New York Times came out with their “just wondering” story in March about John McCain’s past bouts of cancer and whether it could return. Now, with 17 days to go till the election, the Washington Post does them one better. Questions Linger About McCain’s Prognosis After Skin Cancer
In May, the presidential campaign of 72-year-old cancer survivor John McCain tried to put to rest doubts about his health by allowing a few reporters to inspect his medical records, but the effort has failed to quell questions about his odds of surviving an eight-year tenure in the White House.
One loosely organized group of physicians has been claiming in Web-based videos, op-ed columns and newspaper ads that McCain’s risk of dying from a recurrence of the skin cancer he had treated eight years ago may be as high as 60 percent.
However, data on cancer survival rates compiled by the federal government suggest that people in McCain’s situation have no more than a 10 percent chance of dying from melanoma over the next decade.
Yet, questions linger. Say, I wonder when the WP will do a story on the potential for Barack Obama to get lung, throat, and/or mouth cancer from his smoking?
The McCain campaign has rejected releasing additional records. A campaign spokeswoman, Jill Hazelbaker, said in an e-mail that letting reporters look at 1,173 pages of medical documents “was an unprecedented level of disclosure. . . . It was certainly more significant than the one-page doctor’s note [Democratic candidate Barack] Obama released!”
But, the People press and moonbats demand more!!!!
The gist of the critique is that McCain’s cancer was more advanced than his physicians concluded and that the chance of recurrence is consequently higher. Melanoma that spreads widely through the body — “metastasizes,” in medical parlance — is rapidly fatal.
In other words, McCain is going to die shortly, and everyone should be worried because….
The effort to learn more about McCain’s health gained steam after he chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. More than 2,700 physicians signed a full-page ad in the New York Times on Oct. 3 calling for a “full, public release” of the candidate’s medical records. Others urged that microscopic slides of tissue removed before and during his operation be made available for review by independent pathologists.
“Voters need to know who is most likely to be running the country in 2010 if Senator McCain is elected in 2008,” Wendy Epstein, a New York dermatologist and Obama supporter, wrote in an eight-page analysis of the senator’s risk circulating on the Internet.
She and some other critics believe the odds of McCain surviving 10 years after his surgery is 36 to 56 percent. The senator’s physicians, while eschewing precise predictions, have said that his risk of developing metastatic melanoma is in the “single digits.”
See, if elected, he is going to die quickly in office and leave the EVIL!!!!!!! SarahCuda in office, burning books, doing away with abortion on demand, killing all the polar bears, and turning the country into one big fundie oil well.
Just when you think the press had sunk as low as possible, they go and prove you wrong.
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Posted by William Teach on October 18, 2008 9:21 am
» Filed Under Elections, Fraud/misrepresentation, Journalistic Malpractice, Liberal Media/Bias, Medical Malpractice/ethics, News, Propaganda, Psychology, Revisionism, Sarah Palin
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The same media who’ve been practically frothing at the mouth concerning Barack Obama’s non-relationship with a washed-up 60s radical have utterly failed to follow up on Sen. McCain’s medical records. And what about the Disasta from Alaska? Why have the birth records of ‘her’ son Trig been deleted? Double standard. You betcha!
Hey diane, which candidate has refused to release his college transcripts, any of his medical records, AND his proof of citizenship? That’s right, Obama. We know about every “C” McCain got in advanced navigation and aeronautical engineering. We know about all of the bones in his body that were broken to protect your freedoms. We know McCain was born to an active duty Navy Officer. One candidate is honest, the other not so much.
That washed up 60’s radical started Obama’s career, helped him steer millions of tax dollars to marxist groups, wears rings made out of shot down US fighter planes. He celebrates the death of honorable men who served their country when cowards like Obama and Biden never did. A patriot wouldn’t sit on a board with him, he’d take a baseball bat to his head. The fact that Obama never did shows he isn’t fit to be president.
Hey Diane,
Given that we (and “we” includes YOU) know almost nothing about Obama’s medical history, he could have a serious, even terminal, affliction for all we know. Kinda like, y’know, JFK and his Addision’s Disease.
Did ya ever think of that, super genius?