Ted Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor. John McCain is releasing his medical records. With timing like that, it can't be coincidence. I won't be at all surprised to see whichever candidate the Democrats end up nominating try to make some political hay out of this--after all, McCain is only a few years younger than Uncle Teddy, and is himself a cancer survivor (albeit "only" melanoma--a skin cancer). The Dems, especially Obama, love to portray themselves as young and hip and paint conservatives as old fuddy-duddies. It worked pretty well against Bob Dull Dole, but wasn't quite so hot against Reagan in the '80s. Hopefully McCain's medical history won't have any red flags, because while I'm not his biggest supporter, I respect his service record and find him far less abhorrent than Obama/Clinton and will be voting for him in November.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Teddy and McCain
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We will never see McCain's real medical records. They have been doctored, I am sure. So Friday is just a facade. A waste of news time and space.
ReplyDeleteIncomplete, sure--as in, they won't go all the way back to his P.O.W. days. But really, only the most recent stuff is relevant anyway. We as voters should be concerned with his physical and mental health over the next five to nine years--and as it turns out, the records do disclose a certain amount of risk for new skin cancers. I should think that if they were going to doctor the records, they'd do it all the way.
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