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Sep. 22nd, 2008 07:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingDead Man Walking: John McCain claims to have beaten Stage II malignant melanoma with surgery to his skin and lymph nodes. Problem: If it involves the lymph nodes, IT IS STAGE III OR HIGHER, BY DEFINITION.
And he won't release his 1000+ page medical record, which
A) is far larger than most medical records
and
B) is abnormal for Presidential candidates.
And he won't release his 1000+ page medical record, which
A) is far larger than most medical records
and
B) is abnormal for Presidential candidates.
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Date: 2008-09-23 12:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-09-23 12:45 am (UTC)you'll have new neighbors if this starts actually happening, by the way
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Date: 2008-09-23 12:47 am (UTC)The Base[1] *hate* McCain. The only reason he's remotely competitive is the idea that he will die in office and let One Of Their Own take charge.
[1] For bonus points, translate that into Arabic.
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Date: 2008-09-23 12:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-23 01:20 am (UTC)[1] I'm tired, so the internet's best shot will have to do.
"القاعدة" "n. base, basis, rule, precept, principle, standard, fundament, foundation, socle "
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Date: 2008-09-23 01:25 am (UTC)"The" is "al"
"Base" is "Qaeda".
"The Base" has, literally and in every detail, the same meaning as "al Qaeda".
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Date: 2008-09-23 02:04 am (UTC)Now, let me ask this...this is a democracy, so can the people ever go "Opps...we made a mistake. Our bad. You get to leave office - you're being replaced." Can we do that?
ObMontyPython
Date: 2008-09-23 02:11 am (UTC)Michelangelo: "One??!?"
P: "Yes, ONE! What in God's name possessed you to paint it with Three Christs in it?!?"
M: "It works, mate!"
P: "It does not work."
M: "It does work: the fat one balances the two skinny ones."
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Date: 2008-09-23 03:20 am (UTC)I remember when I read that this was so common it was no longer weird, I laughed. Then I realized: The governor's race in WA then was a batshit Republican vs. a rational but wimpy Democrat, and if the Democrat had died during the race, I'd have still voted for him.
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Date: 2008-09-23 03:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-09-23 08:12 am (UTC)With a medical record that thick, and a presidential campaign on the way, McCain will have had a comprehensive psychological battery, so one of two things has to be the case. Either he has a clean bill of mental health, in which case he should release that to assuage people of very real, very well-founded fears ... or he doesn't have a clean bill of mental health, in which case he shouldn't be concealing a diagnosed mental illness from his voters. There is no set of facts for which McCain concealing his mental health records is at all a good thing, and that he refuses to let them be seen is a strong sign that he's got a positive diagnosis and doesn't want people to know about it.
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Date: 2008-09-23 08:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-23 10:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-23 10:03 am (UTC)In US, no clue.
Re: ObMontyPython
Date: 2008-09-23 10:04 am (UTC)Re: ObMontyPython
Date: 2008-09-23 10:27 am (UTC)Re: ObMontyPython
Date: 2008-09-23 10:28 am (UTC)Re: ObMontyPython
Date: 2008-09-23 10:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-23 11:36 am (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_California_recall
No similar statute exists for federal offices - impeachment is the only option.
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Date: 2008-09-23 11:53 am (UTC)Even if he doesn't, (and if its in his lymph system it could get to his brain) chemotherapy and radiation therapy both do scary things to your brain - between your immune system going AARG and the chemicals and the OMG, it's just not good for you.
Even after you beat the cancer, and even if the cancer was nowhere near your brain, you can have lasting mental impairment.
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Date: 2008-09-23 12:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-23 12:51 pm (UTC)#2: Because even if it wasn't normal, in this case we have a 72-year-old cancer patient with physically crippling injuries, a history of PTSD, and all the early warning signs of senile dementia.
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Date: 2008-09-23 11:15 pm (UTC)Good luck
Date: 2008-09-24 11:26 am (UTC)Half of the dickweeds who campaigned on enacting term limits changed their minds once they got on the lobbyist gravy train.
Re: Good luck
Date: 2008-09-25 12:38 am (UTC)