Is this the face of a healthy person?

[Stinky The Clown]

Several years ago .....



Yes, it was cancer. Yes, I am sympathetic. Yes, I hope he stays healthy.

But .... **is** he healthy?

The left side of his face keeps getting worse. He's clearly always in makeup. Some days see his left eye looking droopy.

[kimmerspixelated]

1. No, he doesn't look to me like he'd make it the full 4 years,

IF he got elected. I barely see how someone as unhealthy as he is, will be able to stand the grueling schedule of campaigning. THAT VP selection is mighty important, which reminds me...WTF was the question about KERRY? Why would Kerry even think about being VP for McCain- Mr. 100 more years of war!!!

[NMMatt]

2. Of course he wouldn't accept

But it was a great question because it reminds right wingers that McCain once considered running as Kerry's VP. Seeing him get pissed and make the news was awesome. We just need to do that more often and he'll keep looking more and more unstable to the average voter.

[uppityperson]

3. Looks like he has some serious health issues.

Poor guy. I really hope he gets to relax and enjoy his last years without stressing about trying to be presidential.

[AzDar]

4. I am far more concerned with his mental health, frankly.

One Commander Cuckoo-Bananas is enough.....

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

24. Reporter on the plane with McCain: "Why are you such an angry person?"

Did anyone catch that? McCain was getting pretty steamed at the reporter on the airplane who asked him about why he previously said that he had never met with John Kerry to discuss becoming his VP choice. McCain started getting very peeved, saying that that wasn't true and that everyone knew he met with Kerry. He wouldn't let the female reporter place a word amidst his own unrelenting response. Finally, she said "why are you such an angry person?" McCain just said "Huh?" and didn't respond. The TV talking heads have been commenting on McCain's response, but no one has brought up what I thought was an interesting question.

[Wizard777]

5. The republicans don't select Presidential candidates based on health.

Especially mental health. It started with the ever paranoid Nixon. Then there was Reagan with his Alzhiemers. Then the manic depressive Bush Sr. Then came Bush Jr. who has every mental defect known to man and a few that have yet to be discovered. The Republicans don't really hold primaries. It's more of a contest to see who's the craziest nut in the party.

[Bright Eyes]

6. In the last picture, you can actually see death stalking up on him....

[BrotherBuzz]

7. He looks like he has already spent eight years in the White House

[hedgehog]

8. My mother has called me three times this week asking about this.

She says that currently his face is bruised and there is a recent incision starting at the ear. I have no idea what this is about. Maybe this is normal following removal of lymph nodes from the neck. What's odd is that no one in the press is commenting on this.

[Stinky The Clown]

10. "What's odd is that no one in the press is commenting on this."

Not odd at all. He's a Repubic.

Remember Bush's never-divulged physical results? When was the last time that even got discussed?

Cheney? Does anyone know what his real condition is?

On edit ...... I'd **MUCH** rather get the straight skinny on McLame's health than on Obama's or Clinton's tax returns.

[kestrel91316]

9. LEMME at him. I am handy with a scalpel and suture.That prominent lump below and to the right of the

scar sure as hell looks to me like a cancer recurrence.

And I worked for several years for our local old-school veterinary cancer quack (who was a dear old man but needed to RETIRE) and have seen way more than my share of bad and recurrent veterinary cancers. And lumps is lumps - don't tell me the feel for these things doesn't transfer across species.......

If elected, McCain will not serve out his first term. They didn't get all his melanoma out.

[speedbird]

11. the Gorbachev marks on his cheek ...

recent, or from POW days?

[Stinky The Clown]

12. Recent ... from the melanoma surgery a few years ago

[Warpy]

13. No, he's a very sick man

sick in body and sick in soul. I suggest the ranters on DU who swear they'll vote for him if their candidate isn't our party's selection pay very close attention to his VP pick because that will likely be the president by the end of a McCain term.

I'll be a good girl and not dis that combover. :evilgrin:

[Stinky The Clown]

21. Is there **anything** more pathetic than a pathetic ......

.... combover? :rofl:

I see them and I am **always'' forced to ask ..... "Who in hell do you think you're fooling?"

And I always imagine that John Q. Combover looks in the mirror when he does it, does 'eeehhh' like The Fonz, and says "Man .... that hair is **sure** lookin' gooooood."

[Warpy]

25. One strong breeze could end his campaign

unless he's discovered epoxy as a hair gel.

[CTyankee]

27. I will just bet that the Viagra isn't working any more either...

It might just not be recommended because of his "condition."

[kitty1]

14. I don't think he could stand the rigors of international travel....

for long. The time and climate changes are difficult enough on a young healthy person.
He would probably be exhausted the second day into a summit.
Reagan was older too, but he seemed to have a stronger constitution than McCain. More healthy overall.
John McCain has had skin cancer on various parts of his body, and lymph nodes removed in the past.
I would think his body has enough to deal with just staying healthy. All the stress of a presidency won't help his immune system any.
I think his VP pick will take on additional importance in lite of this.
Mind you it's all a mute point, because his chances of winning are about nil.

[CTyankee]

26. As a senior in my late 60s I know the consequences of advancing age.

He's several years older than I am. But I have noticed that mylife as a senior is quite different from my life just a couple ofyears ago in the workplace. I now have to face several more "screenings" based on questions about age related issues, than I everhad before. It's an issue we cannot turn away from and it certainly isn't "ageism."

[enid602]

15. Reno

I think Janet Reno's face is starting to grow out of his left cheek, as punishment for his Chelsea joke back in '98.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

16. He looks ill

and everyone knows what the stresses of the Presidency do to healthy individuals. I shudder to think what would happen if this person were elected.

[DesertRat]

17. I guess we'll find out when/if he releases his medical records

Until then I don't want to pull a Frist. :puke:

[J R]

18. Token Repub Candidate

Look at it like this:
After making a mess of things for 8 years, Dubya's handing McCain a broken toy. Not only is our nation in shambles, the chances of a Republican getting elected this year are next to none. All the Repukes know there'll be a Dem in the WH next year; that's why McCain's the last Republican standing. If I were McCain and I was facing such a huge mess as what he's facing now, I'd be furious with GW Bush... (Not that I'm not furious with Bush anyway...)

OT, but... When will everyone in the nation take to the streets and demand Bush's and Cheney's heads on sticks?!? I can't believe they're not in prison by now. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I will always believe the Bush Family and the Carlyle Group had a hand in pulling off 9/11. The Bush Family are capable of any depraved thing, I wouldn't put anything past them.

[magellan]

28. I think McCain was the worst they could do w/o appearing to intentionally throw the election

...to the Dems. The GOP do NOT want to win this election. They know the economic tsunami that's coming and they want a Dem to be in the big chair when it hits.

[varelse]

31. you know, I was really hoping I was the only one thinking this

and nothing personal, but I hope we're both wrong :(

[magellan]

33. Well, if it could be said there's a bright side to all this

...then perhaps it's simply that it's doubtful the tsunami will wait for the GE, let alone Jan 20, 2009. The economy's coming apart at the seams right now, and if the Fed cuts rates again I think that'll basically be it.

I expect there will be little doubt who was steering the ship of state when it happened, who was saying up till the last moment that the economy was "fundamentally strong". And which party was behind it with its deregulations and out of control money printing and spending.

Whoever is our next president will have a very very rough ride and probably only serve one term. Unless one of them is FDR reincarnated.

[HughBeaumont]

29. Read my journal on the piece of nastiness that is the Carlyle Group . . .

Don't tell me these serpents didn't know . . .

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/38

[KT2000]

19. His walking is not very steady

The shot of him at the White House for shrub's blessing was pretty revealing.

[Stinky The Clown]

22. Yup ... then there's that .........

.... and he also seems a little unsure sometimes when he speaks .... halting, sorta.

[nancyr]

23. I think he's heavily sedated.

Trying to keep those little temper tantrums at bay.

[wuushew]

20. McCain gave himself cancer by choice

living in Arizonia when you are a pasty white guy of Scotch-Irish decent is not the best life-style choice.

Doctors have been saying stay out of the sun for DECADES!

[Subdivisions]

30. That boy, I say, that boy looks a might unhinged. n/t

[Pastiche423]

32. You are so right!

Signed,

Miss Prissy