Posted on 03/09/2008 4:19:11 AM PDT by tobyhill
Along with his signature bright white hair, the most striking aspects of Senator John McCain’s physical appearance are his puffy left cheek and the scar that runs down the back of his neck.
The marks are cosmetic reminders of the melanoma surgery he underwent in August 2000. Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, sometimes tells audiences that he has “more scars than Frankenstein.”
The operation was performed mainly to determine whether the melanoma, a potentially fatal form of skin cancer, had spread from his left temple to a key lymph node in his neck; a preliminary pathology test at the time showed that it had not.
But because such a test cannot be definitive, the surgeons, with Mr. McCain’s advance permission, removed the surrounding lymph nodes and part of the parotid gland, which produces saliva, in the same operation, which lasted five and a half hours.
The final pathology analysis showed no evidence of spread of the melanoma, his staff said at the time. Mr. McCain, of Arizona, has said he did not need chemotherapy or radiation.
In 1999, during Mr. McCain’s first race for president, he gave the public an extraordinary look at his medical history — 1,500 pages of medical and psychiatric records that were amassed as part of a United States Navy project to gauge the health of former prisoners of war. This reporter, who is a physician, interviewed the senator’s doctors in 1999 with his permission.
But this time around, Mr. McCain has yet to make his full medical records or his physicians available to reporters. At least three times since March 2007, campaign officials have told The New York Times that they would provide the detailed information about his current state of health, but they have not done so.
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The main stream media and the hateful left are just getting warmed up. There was a thread on this site about a week and a half ago stating that Soros funded “charities” had millions of dollars for the express purpose of smearing Senator Mccain. The main stream media is going to point out everything we had discussed before his primary victory; this week they have brought up his temper, now his health, I’ve heard about his age, they are attacking his credentials and his integrity.
George Soros gave funding to his primary campaign, the MSM has had a love affair with him for years. Now that our political adversaries have thrust a candidate upon us, they are able to attack him at will, they already know all of his weaknesses. Unlike most candidates they already have “the dirt” on Senator Mccain, they have been doing their research for years, as they knew this day was coming.
I pray for you every day, this disease can re-strike in the worst way.
“He told the Slimes he would release the records in April...”
He should release them NOW and shut the NYT up. Why wait ‘til April? If McCain somehow thinks the media is going to be fair to him he’s too naive to be Commander in Chief. McCain needs to anticipate problems and get out in front of them quickly, or he’s going to lose. His campaign had to know that this issue would come up, so why not have an answer ready?
He can’t let negative information and insinuations go for even one news cycle without responding, and so far he’s been very slow on the draw.
Thanks for the prayers.
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