McCain Release Your Medical Records...

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Wednesday April 02, 2008 · 11:06 AM PDT

2008/04/02 · 11:06

After the fiasco that has been in office for the last 7 years, isn't it time for physical and mental examinations for any person wanting to attain the highest office in the land? Look what we have there now, a moron, dancing like an idiot on the WH steps, unwieldy and embarrassing, malaprop laden speeches and ad libs as well as a narcissistic liar. Has any other president behaved like this challenged fool? No wonder the U.S. is now a laughingstock, the Keystone Cops have been in charge for 7 years now. In civilian jobs tests are required for any substantial office, why not this one--a psychological examination as well as a physical examination.

A petition http://www.petitiononline.com/... has started requesting John McCain's medical records be released. Sign it! I did. Why is he stalling. In 1999 he released them a whole year ahead of the election. There's only six months left to this one and he's refused to release them so far.

On the Campaign Trail, Few Mentions of McCain’s Bout With Melanoma
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D.
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. Story continues....

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