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McCain -- Decrepit and diseased
I cannot believe anyone is seriously considering McCain "fit" for duty as president ...
McCain's health records, which were released briefly and in edited form last weekend, received a Bushian whitewashing by the media. All except for John Stewart's "The Daily Show", which listed the six drugs he takes and his many, many ongoing ailments. McCain is old and dying, to put it
bluntly. He might hang on for another ten years, or he might be just a drugged up geezer in a very expensive old folks home with his finger on the big red button.
Electing John McCain means that we are very possibly electing his VP to run the country once McCain has a stroke or when his dementia starts becoming obvious.
If the GOP can put a pre-corpse like McCain into the White House then anyone could be elected if
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If the GOP can put a pre-corpse like McCain into the White House then anyone could be elected if "The System" decides to make it so.
They could put a hamster into office and the national press corps would address it as "Mr. President, Sir."
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"The System" decides to make it so. They could put a hamster into office and the national press corps would address it as "Mr. President, Sir."
Seriously,
McCain has fuzz brain and the sooner Obama goes mano-a-mano in debate, the sooner it will be obvious to everyone (else) that McCain is a puppet stooge, the designated fall guy, but who just might win if Obama can be successfully Swift-boated -- or if the Clinton wing of the Democratic party decides to sell out in exchange for a rerun in 2012.
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McCain's health is terrible| |
Excerpt: ... We all know that he has Stage II melanoma which means that he must undergo extensive tests every month. There must be blood tests, cat scans and his body has to be carefully examined from top to bottom.
• He is one lesion away from Stage III which is fatal at his age.
• He has serious arthritis and may need a joint replacement. Which joints are involved here were unspecified.
• He recently had benign polyps removed from his colon.
• He has dizzy spells.
• He was treated for an enlarged prostate
• He underwent cataract surgery
• He suffers from vertigo.
• He takes medication for high cholesterol
• He had early stage squamous cell cancer this year. |
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McCain's doctors say candidate fit for duty| |
Excerpt: ... McCain has regularly dealt with medical issues that crop up with age. In July 2000, he had trouble walking steadily and experienced a sensation of seasickness. The condition, deemed positional vertigo, developed when he turned or stood rapidly and eased as the day progressed. He had abnormal results on a blood sugar test, kidney stones and cysts, and the removal of several less-lethal basal and squamous cell skin cancers over the years, his doctors said.
The records also show he was treated for an enlarged prostate, underwent cataract surgery, and suffers from arthritis. He takes medication for high cholesterol and had early stage squamous cell cancer and benign growths in his colon removed this year.
Among the items noted, McCain was a two-pack a day smoker for 25 years, quitting in 1980, according to the records. He currently takes aspirin and vitamins each day, medication to lower his cholesterol, and Claritin when needed for allergies. He also has a prescription for Ambien, a sleeping pill from Sanofi-Aventis SA, to help him rest while traveling.
McCain may eventually need a joint replacement for his shoulders or knees because of osteoarthritis, the most common form of the degenerative disease that affects 46.5 million Americans, the records show. McCain has limited motion in his shoulders and arms stemming from trauma during the time when as a Navy fighter jet pilot he was shot down and over North Vietnam and held as a prisoner-of-war for 5 1/2 years. ... |
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John McCain, senility America’s loss of the Pacific| |
Excerpt: McCain would have done far better to keep his drooling tongue behind his yellow teeth. Because no matter what the Senator from Arizona says now, the World can only believe that any McCain administration would view the Kremlin as if were still in 1947 and needing containment. Once freed from quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan, such leadership would likely re-direct all of its time-warped attention back onto Russia. No wonder Moscow races to secure its interests in the former Soviet Union before the Americans can extradite themselves from Iraq. In direct contrast to McCain (and Senator Clinton too, for that matter), Senator Barack Obama has carefully avoided all such harsh anti-Russian rhetoric. Like Russia’s own Medvedev, he is young, represents the more liberal elements of his party, and is more deeply associated with the possibility of real change. An Obama Administration would signal dramatic improvement in the relationship between Washington and Moscow, as well as with most of the rest of the World.
Sadly, since the demise of the Soviet Union, the relationship with Moscow has all but fallen off the radar screen as an issue in American elections. This is most unfortunate, because history shows that an inability to rationally differentiate friend from foe has dire consequences. The Bush/McCain policy of irrational hostility towards Moscow, concurrent over the last decade with a foolish coddling of Beijing, may be especially costly. The world’s insatiable demand for cheap consumer goods and China’s ruthless exploitation of its own people have allowed Beijing ’s military investments to grow faster than any other country over that same period. Recently, China has completed construction of the World’s largest underground submarine tunnel at its Yalong naval base in Sanya, in the South China Sea.
China has also built the world’s most advanced nuclear submarine, the 094 type SSBN, which probably incorporates pirated Russian technology . Satellite photos taken just this February confirm the deployment of this highly advanced weapon of mass destruction at Yalong. The only strike targets in that theatre requiring such firepower would be Hawaii and the southwest coast of the United States. Succinctly, the cost to America of the Bush/McCain policy may well be the Pacific Ocean.
In all her 200-plus year history, America has never suffered such a reverse. In the face of this potential catastrophe, John McCain blithely dithers between concerns over democracy in Russia and a new arms control deal with Moscow!? That Senator McCain is simply too old and too senile to be President of the United States may be kindest thing that one can say. |
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John McCain fit to serve as President despite 'a few' health problems| |
Excerpt: Several doctors answering questions from reporters said the old senator has no "fundamental" health problems that would keep him from performing duties as president of the United States should he be elected, "except maybe for the early signs of dementia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and several other diseases known to affect the elderly."
His infirmities make the Senator stand still for hours with his hand out as if he were begging for donations, during which his is at the mercy of unscrupulous lobbyists, the doctors reported. ...
Records also showed that the Arizona senator suffers chronic shoulder pain and moderate pain of the right knee from injuries inflicted when he was shot down as a Navy pilot and imprisoned in Vietnam for five and a half years.
Fortunately, McCain now has access to unlimited opiates to dull the pain and spends most of his waking hours totally stoned. ... |
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Newsbusters on McCain medical records coverage| |
Excerpt: From Fountain Hills, Arizona, CNN's Gupta, identified by Katie Couric as “a CBS News contributor” and on-screen as “contributing medical correspondent,“ marveled:
"What I didn't see I thought was interesting, as well. There was hardly any mention of his mental health. There was no mention of depression. You know, this is man who had two admittedly weak suicide attempts when he was a prisoner of war. There was no mention of post-traumatic stress disorder or anything that may have been asked, or substance abuse, none of that was even mentioned." |
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John McCain's suicide attempt and his resulting PTSD| |
Excerpt: What McCain's promoters have carefully edited out of their McCain-for-president equation is his post- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Department of Defense psychiatrists have evaluated McCain for PTSD several times, the results of which remain locked by privacy laws.
PTSD can develop after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal in which physical harm occurred or was threatened. U.S. government studies have concluded that former POWs "may remain embroiled in a harsh psychological battle with themselves for decades after returning home."
An outcome of PTSD is a subtle web of personal problems including difficulty in controlling intense emotions such as anger and an inability to function well under stress. ...
Members of the two major POW/MIA family organizations know the "real" John McCain and they despise him. They have experienced firsthand his cruel, angry temperament.
In 1996, McCain encountered a group of POW/MIA family members outside a Senate hearing room. The family members were some of the same who worked tirelessly during the Vietnam War to make sure Hanoi released all U.S. POWs - including POW McCain.
McCain immediately began quarreling with the POW/MIA family members, who were eager to question him on the issue of what happened to their loved ones.
Instead showing courtesy and appropriate compassion by answering their questions, the Arizona senator pushed through the group, shoving them out of his way, nearly toppling the wheelchair of POW/MIA mother Jane Duke Gaylor. Her son, Charles Duke, a civilian worker in Vietnam, is among 2,300 American POWs and MIAs still unaccounted for by the communists.
The POW/MIA families, shocked at McCain's overly aggressive behavior toward Mrs. Gaylor, registered complaints with senate officials. ...
In an earlier incident involving families of servicemen still MIA, McCain got so angry that he went ballistic.
McCain was advised (Nov. 11, 1992) that Dolores Apodaca Alfond, chairwoman of the National Alliance of POW/MIA Families (her pilot brother Capt. Victor J. Apodaca is missing in action in North Vietnam), was offering testimony critical of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs. He rushed into the hearing room to confront her.
Award winning journalist Sydney Schanberg described the scene. "His face [McCain] angry and his voice very loud, he accused her of making 'allegations ... that are patently and totally false and deceptive.'
"Making a fist, he shook his index finger at her and said she had insulted an emissary to Vietnam sent by President Bush. He said she had insulted other MIA families with her remarks. And then he said, through clenched teeth: 'And I am sick and tired of you insulting mine and other people's [patriotism] who happen to have different views than yours.'
"By this time, tears were running down Alfond's cheeks. She reached into her handbag for a handkerchief. She tried to speak: 'The family members have been waiting for years -- years! And now you're shutting down.' He kept interrupting her. She tried to say, through tears, that she had issued no insults. He kept talking over her words. He said she was accusing him and others of 'some conspiracy without proof, and some cover-up.' She said she was merely seeking 'some answers. That is what I am asking.' He ripped into her for using the word 'fiasco.' She replied: 'The fiasco was the people that stepped out and said we have written the end, the final chapter to Vietnam.' 'No one said that,' he shouted. 'No one said what you are saying they said, Ms. Alfond.' And then, his face flaming pink, he stalked out of the room, to shouts of disfavor from members of the audience."
POW families were even more angered when they saw McCain actually bonding with his former torturers during and after the 1992 Senate Select Committee hearings on POW/MIA Affairs. Psychologist have identified behavior in which a prisoner emotionally bonds with an abuser as the Stockholm Syndrome.
The first display of bonding occurred when Col. Bui Tin, a former senior colonel in the North Vietnamese Army who had actually interrogated McCain and other U.S. prisoners, testified before the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs.
During a break in the hearing, McCain moved to where Col. Bui Tin was seated. Instead of grabbing Bui Tin by the neck and demanding his arrest for war crimes against U.S. POWs, McCain reached out and warmly hugged his former interrogator as if he were a long lost brother. Never mind that at least 55 American POW were murdered by interrogators and guards while in North Vietnamese prisoner of war camps.
In a 1992 visit to Hanoi, McCain warmly greeted Vietnam Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet, who had been a ranking Communist Party member of the secret Viet Cong National Liberation Front Central Committee during the Vietnam War.
As a senior Central Committee member, Kiet was responsible for helping formulate Viet Cong policy, which included ordering American POWs to be punished by execution.
On orders issued by Kiet's Viet Cong Central Committee, three US POWs, Special Forces Capt. "Rocky" Versace, Special Forces Sgt. Kenneth Mills Roraback and Army Sgt. Harold Bennett were publicly executed by the Viet Cong on Sunday, Sept. 26, 1965
On a Nov. 13, 1996 trip to Hanoi, McCain posed for a picture embracing Mai Van On, one of the Vietnamese who pulled McCain from Hanoi's Truc Bach Lake, where McCain parachuted in 1967 after his bomber was shot down. McCain has said many times that after being pulled from the lake, his Vietnamese rescuers brutally beat him and stabbed him with a bayonet. ...
Regardless of all the obvious signs pointing to McCain's PTSD, the one outstanding fact is that McCain, by his own admission, broke under the stress of captivity and tried to kill himself.
National columnists and pundits have, so far, given McCain a "free pass" on the attempted suicide. Would the other presidential candidates be treated with the same indifference if they had an attempted suicide in their biographies? |
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Andrea Z.
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P.S. Note that McCain's records only went back to 2000, and still required nearly 1500 pages of documentation. His mental health records were NOT released, and we know he is a hot-headed man who voted for the Iraq War and then said he would be happy if we stayed there for 100 years more.
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