Oh, That’s Why McCain Can’t Keep Shiite and Sunni Straight
Because he’s "dizzy."
Also revealed: He has occasional momentary episodes of dizziness, when he gets up suddenly. McCain first told a doctor about them in 2000 — a visit that also uncovered the melanoma — and intense testing concluded they were harmless vertigo. He didn’t report any episodes at his most recent exam.
So I guess in the McCain family, not only is John not the breadwinner of the family, but in spite of the fact that he has a beautiful blonde wife, he’s the dizzy one.
learning a great deal about the Sunni/Shiite divide from my friend from Afghanistan. Very interesting..very confusing. He heads back to Afghanistan in several weeks. His family is frightened for his safety if and when the Taliban (which his family has been saying for the last two years has re-established a great deal of power) realizes he was in the U.S. studying. I am deeply worried about his safety
You just could not resist that one, could you??
One thing I cannot ignore (and I know perhaps I should) is that McCain is married to a severe addict. Not just a problem drinker mind you, but a bona fide, I call myself an addict, addict. There is as much pathology associated with the coda in an addicted relationship as with the addict.
Who’s running the republican party again?? The disease is running the party. Control, authoritarianism, secrets, condescension and being ever so good at pointing out other people’s weakenesses.
Sorry. I can’t help it. I realize she doesn’t use anymore, but in the real world these issues don’t just melt away. I believe the pathology redevelops into a compulsive need for power.
Okay…enough said. Good joke. I thankfully have stunning white hair and gone are the days of the blonde joke…today I am percieved as “old and wise”. You can make all the blonde jokes you want…and we could talk all day about McCain’s dizziness.
current user status has NOTHING to do with it
once a junky, always a junky
it’s kinda like alcoholism
you don’t stop being an alcoholic just because you stop drinking
you’re a junkie for life
and cindy mccain is a junkie
that’s sweet of you to portray Cindy as beautiful.
some would say that you easily outshine anything she has.
Wonder what the “intense testing” was?
Kirk – when my mom had orthostatic hypotension, she wore a unit for several days, 24 hours a day, with about 7 different electronic leads on it attached to points all over her upper body.
Verification of 2 lobes via CAT scan AND MRI?
We were saying last night that it would be great if you and katymine and EG could look over the records. It would actually be better if you could examine him. McCain looks really ill.
My thoughts exactly … Kirk, are you able to look over the records ?
It would make for a revealing post, I’m sure …
So, HE’S the real trollop and cant in the family?? This is a Condi type of revelation moment (who could have predicted….).
No mental evaluations. How convenient. And, uh, why would McCain get medical care under a pseudonym?
Is he paranoid?
Does the doctor want to comment on the pictures that appear to show McSame with a colostomy bag in his pants?
From the sound of it, he takes BP meds at least if he is dizzy on standing, or worse, he has issues that go beyond the effects of the medication. He can’t manage his anger very well, side effects again?
But please tell me, why does the AP get the story on this one, and where in the hell does the information come from? There isn’t a chance in hell that the story is accurate, and why do they think that non verified statements about someone’s health would even be considered news, except to an organization that is malleable like the AP. Who owns the AP? see what I mean?
honestly, and 80+ year old senile man with various cancers, it sounds like they are animating the idiot reagan for a rematch?
OT – And in case you missed it, the Ranking members (Repugs) of both the Senate and House Intelligence committees yesterday publicly offered a “compromise” on FISA (ya sure, you betcha!):
Shorter Repugs Compromise: “We get what we want and you don’t.”
OT again – And on a related tidbit, per Secrecy News:
Among other things the GOP proposal lacks is oversight over domestic spying and wholesale copying of the ocean of internet, VOIP, telephone and e-mails, data mining, outsourcing, etc.
Bush would inevitably veto any legislative provision legitimately in the public interest which doesn’t immunize his and Cheney’s backsides. The Dems would be smart to delay any revision of FISA until the next Congress, then legislate on all the above areas after, you know, public and closed hearings, etc. That is, after actually finding out WTF the government’s been doing.
“the dermatologist showed McCain’s wife, Cindy, how to monitor possibly suspicious skin spots hidden by his waistband.”
Are you suggesting that when Cindy wakes up every morning, she blankly asks St. John whether he’s on the swim team, too? Or the opposite; that she went to Smtih because it was a good place to pick up dates?
The stereotypes are occasionally funny, if you’re not the one picked on. I’m rather partial to Irish jokes, anyway. Cindy is an easy target: enormously rich, elitist, brittle; a once-blond, former trophy, now in need of daily silver polish. I would gladly pick on her for her “Never” attitude toward releasing her tax returns, as unethical a choice in her position as St. John’s longtime refusal to release his medicals.
St. John is already an easy candidate to critique: harshly conservative, a hot-tempered reactive personality rather than creative one who, like Bush, exaggerates slights and payback. He woefully flip-flops on issues like a gasping fish on the deck. I’ll try to stick to him. ‘Cause I want to keep my powder dry when retorting to the Right’s descriptions of that BB Michelle O. I think those will make their descriptions of HRC seem kinder and gentler.
As for St. John’s Friday release over a holiday weekend of his medical jacket to a “select group” of presumably friendly reporters, giving them a temporary exclusive so that they can spin any down side to his health, it is typically manipulative and reprehensible. Even if there’s no there, there, the move attempts to monopolize attention and distort reality rather than inform the voters. But then, he’s the GOP’s candidate and proud of it.
McBush’s “release” of some of his medical records is considerably more brazen than the AP acknowledged. From dkos, via crooksandliars:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/
The WSJ reporter who was on Diane Rehm today–who no doubt knows how tasty McCain’s ribs are–laughingly suggested those outlets picked were ones considered by the others to be trustworthy.
No mention, of course, that the NYT was not included, almost certainly bc they’re actually doing reporting on McCain.
I still need to know why this was in Fountain Hills, because that isn’t anywhere near where he lives, but is home to the huge Mayo Clinic West facility. If this dog and pony show is being run by Mayo, that is important. I have had, ahem, experience with their record productions. This would be a telling fact, at least to me anyway. I also know a couple of docs there and could at least quiz them for any knowledge.
Yes, I thought the Times blew it. Their front-page headline shouts “McCain Apparently Healthy”, then it regurgitates the AP story without comment. Nothing to tell its readership about the “sick child” way in which McCain chose to release his partial health record. Reminds me of, say, how Shrub released his military service [sic] record.
They’re releasing freaking 1173 pages of medical records: Chris Cillizza:
Yup. No time to review the records, no ability to have them reviewed by medically qualified observers, no ability to discern gaps or holes or inconsistencies. No point in making doctors available to those who haven’t had access to the info or those few who have, but who haven’t had time to digest it.
Imagine the overtime McCain is paying Mayo Clinic staff to take reporters’ questions over a holiday weekend. Worth a lot to him to do it this way, which makes some of this a red herring. What aren’t we looking at because of it?
any truth to the rumor that mccains early medical records were written in hyroglyphs ???
I’ve heard only that a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor was on his cell phone asking his editor about the intern who reads Sumerian.
One of the reporters caught that McSame was treated in February for early squamous cell carcinoma. They got it all (they think), but it’s one more reason to not vote for him.
And why is he using a pseudonym for treatment at Mayo? Is he afraid that he’d become a lead brick if word gets out?
Treatment under a pseudonym is routine for those who can afford to pay for their health care in cash, a tiny fraction of those who seek it. One would be hard-pressed to find the real names of foreign potentates, diplomats, politicians and bidnessmen at the Mayo or Cleveland Clinics. It maintains their privacy from insurers as well as the paparazzi, wives, voters and Tim Griffin-like oppo researchers. It is an privilege of wealth that hides both the privilege and the wealth.
Mortals who haven’t the ready cash to pay for their medical care use insurance. The price for that includes full disclosure with essentially no oversight, even if the medical staff themselves are required to keep it confidential. An outsource here, a computer leak there and, whammo, your data’s in Main Core along with the rest of your digital self.
The attendant privacy rules are sparse and ineffective, almost as bad as having none because they convey a false sense of security. If your insurer has a hand in it, regardless of whether they pay for anything, your data is not secure.
Nancy Snyderman, who plays a doctor on ABC news, is reviewing the documents. She said she is looking at the records regarding the melanoma surgery, and the follow-up care.
“harmless vertigo”
I thought that’s what the resemblance of Cindy McCain and Vicki Iseman was about. ‘Course that stuff ain’t harmless if someone should use it against you.
Does tbogg know your’re funny? This is not fair.