Bill Clinton to get quadruple bypass surgery today

WBAP | 09/03/2004 | WBAP

[jtminton]

Examined. Multiple lesions on his arteries, so doctor recommended surgery.

[jtminton]

Columbia hospital in New York

[Revolting cat!]

Accidents do happen. Just axe John Edwards!

[EggsAckley]

Yeah....just heard this on the nine o'clock news. "not an emergency" said the infobabe.

[Mo1]

Just heard this on the Radio

[kevkrom]

If true, I hope he has a safe, effective procedure and a speedy recovery.

[vetvetdoug]

Looks like Little Willie is going to need help to get airborne from now on. Serves the former IMPOTUS right.

[Mo1]

On the Radio here they said Bill Clinton was sent to the hospital for Emergency Bi pass surgery

[BadAndy]

I hope there are no fatal mishaps.

[NormsRevenge]

What are the odds of 2 state funerals in one year?

Hang in there, Bubba. We ain't done with ya yet. ;-)

[pikachu]

Yeah....just heard this on the nine o'clock news. "not an emergency" said the infobabe.

Depends on what the meaning of "not an emergency" is". Maybe he should just put some ice on it.

[rewrite]

Mickey D's Cheesburgers clogged 'em up!

[Cogadh na Sith]

Hmmmmm.... I thought he was an avid jogger--the only president to put a jogging track in at the WH.

Don't tell me all that was BS too!?

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

When you go in for a checkup and find yourself in quad-bypass surgey, it's an emergency.

[bigjoesaddle]

It IS a serious operation. but remember when these things were extremely serious? People come out of bypass surgery in good shape nowadays.

[mewzilla]

Wow, a quad. Well, he's luck they caught it before he had a heart attack. I hope he has a speedy recovery.

[reagan_fanatic]

When they wheel him into the operating room, I suppose he will say 'I hope you are all democrats!"

[b4its2late]

I guess this means the NY State Fair visit for today is off?

[beezdotcom]

Mickey D's Cheesburgers clogged 'em up!

I'm sure he could get John Edwards to sue them on his behalf. Wait, isn't Clinton a lawyer, couldn't HE...? Oh, never mind.

[pabianice]

"The Aorta of Dorian Gray"

[Timeout]

Well, if it's not urgent, then he scheduled it for now. Why? Could it have anything to do with its keeping him from campaigning for their doofus nominee?

The Toon now has a good excuse to sit this one out.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

After 30 years of Hillary's cooking, I'm surprised he's lasted this long.

Hillary: "C'mon Bill, you've only had six burgers. You have room for one more, dont'cha? Anmd don't forget, lunch is at 11:30."

[FormerACLUmember]

Cocaine, sexually transmitted disease, cigars, mega-bitch Hillary, and Big Macs are not a good environment for cardiovascular health.

[linn37]

exactly

[So Cal Rocket]

Please keep negative comments to yourself... let's remain human about this.

Remember how we felt about the vitriol that came from the Left when Reagan died?

Please be respectful.

[Mo1]

Guess he won't be going on any book signings for a while

[NavyCanDo]

HIDE THE NURSES!

[RockinRight]

Yes, I agree. No one here liked Slick Willie, but let's wish him luck and hope he recovers well.

[Gritty]

I hope he makes it through OK.

I want him to live to see his total humiliation recorded in history and die at a ripe old age in a Rescue Mission someplace - repentant and alone, except for Jesus!

[conservative in nyc]

Prayers for former President Clinton. He's far too young.

[Socratic]

"If true, I hope he has a safe, effective procedure and a speedy recovery."

Dittos and Amen. May political zealotry never lead any Freeper into evil.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Damn.....I hope the President doesn't have any complications.....That's a horrible surgery.

Best wishes to the Clintons.

[dglang]

I've had a few trips to the hospital with chest pain. On one of my stays, I was sharing a room with a guy who had bypass surgery a FEW MONTHS previous. He was in constant pain needing morphene due to the damage done cutting his chest open just to do the bypass.

[from occupied ga]

jogging track in at the WH.

Jogging doesn't make you immune to cardiovascular disease

[sweetiepiezer]

Do you think I should go back to the store and turn his books back up right?
Maybe tomorrow, on my way to the RNC to volunteer my time for "W"!!!!

[Always Right]

I wish him well.

[Thane_Banquo]

My prayers are with him and the surgeon.

He is a scumbag, but God loves him and so must I.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

With everything happening to his beloved Democrats, and with all the time he's been spending with Hillary lately...stress can add to all that cheeseburger-thickening atherosclerosis.

[christie]

OMG!

[The Wizard]

anything to keep GWB out of the news

[Brytani]

My mother-in-law went through a Quad bypass two years ago, her recovery was hell. My best wishes for a speedy and quick recovery and prayers for his family.

[Richard Kimball]

James F. Fixx (April 23, 1932 – July 20, 1984) was the author of the 1977 best-selling book, The Complete Book of Running. Best known as Jim Fixx, he is credited with helping start America's fitness revolution, popularizing the sport of running and demonstrating the health benefits of regular jogging. In 1980 he published a follow up book titled Jim Fixx's Second Book of Running: The Companion Volume to The Complete Book of Running. In his books and on television talk shows he often talked about how he jogged an average of 60 miles every week on the basis that the physical exercise considerably increased the average human being's life expectancy.

However he is principally remembered through comic routines by both Bill Hicks and Denis Leary pointing out that Fixx had failed to obey the first rule in all his books (consult your doctor) and so died, age 52, of a massive heart attack while jogging. The autopsy revealed that cholesterol had blocked one coronary artery almost 100%, a second 80%, and a third 70%.

I don't know how much jogging Clinton actually does, but the death rate has remained at one per person for quite a while. I'm not and never will be a fan of Willie's, but prayers for his recovery.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

You are right. I need to try harder to be a better Christian.

[from occupied ga]

That's a horrible surgery.

Nah, that just major. Horrible surgery is a whipple or a TAA replacement.

[kittymyrib]

Actually, Bill and his loving press will pump this up into something big, but a third of the men in our church over 55 have had some bypasses done. They are usually home in three days. It used to be serious, now it's much more common than tonsilectomies or hysterectomies.

[soozla]

BILL CLINTON'S "HEART-HEALTHY" LIFESTYLE

[TShaunK]

John Edwards to represent him in lawsuit against McDonalds!
200,000 layoffs expected.

He still finds aa way to take the light off Kerry.

[paul544]

I wish him well, but this is the kind of things that turn an election on a dime.
If something bad happens, W is in trouble.

[Solson]

Compared to Herr Kerry, Ole Willie wasn't that bad. I wish him well in his recovery and hope for the best. You are right, any negative comments about this procedure should be wiped and admonished.

[Hank Rearden]

He has a heart? Since when?