McCain to Release Medical Records Friday
Laura Meckler reports on the presidential race.
Sen. John McCain is releasing his long-awaited medical records Friday, and while he told reporters last week not to expect any surprises, any discussion of his health is politically treacherous for the 71-year-old presidential candidate.
McCain said he wishes the campaign had released the records already, and aides blamed scheduling conflicts for the delay. Others suspected that the release, on a Friday before a holiday weekend, was timed to generate minimal attention.
Either way, the records are coming out. McCain’s most serious medical issue was surgery for melanoma—a sometimes fatal form of skin cancer–in August 2000.
McCain told reporters on his bus last week that he was in good health. “There will be no surprises,” with the records release, he said. He said he has talked to his doctors, including an oncologist who he sees every three months. “They’ve told me that everything is fine.”
He added that he understands the interest in the subject.
“It is still six months before the election, but I understand the desire for people to see them as quickly as possible,” he said.
McCain was held for 5½ years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, during which he was tortured. Injuries sustained from that period still prevent him from raising his arms fully.
I don’t care who McCain picks as his running mate. Anyone is better than the Kool-Aid king if Oblahma’s the nominee. Particularly McCain.
He’s releasing SOME of his medical records. In 1999 he let a few reporters look at his psychiatric records, but not to reproduce them. This time he’s keeping them hidden just like his wife’s tax returns.
BTW, the photo caption says McCain was on “Saturday Night Light”, but I think he was on LIVE.
If there was nothing to hide, why did it take so long? Doctoring the records? Who are the Republicans going to put up next for president, Grandma Moses?
McCain was tortured in Vietnam? I had no idea. His campaign ads’ allusions to it are so subtle!
I’ve been tortured by the Bush administration for the past 8 years.
the sleeper issue for him is those psychiatric records. tehre’s no shame in it, but I sense he has horrendous PTSD. its onset is often decades afer the trauma, of which he had many. all he needs to do on that score to satisf the electorate is to get it treated.
he’s still the same old wonderful guy who flips a little and flops a little, as do many at his age.
Knowing liberals, I expect they are hoping for some devastating disease, abnormality, or other debilitating illness to strike John McCain down. Remember how they celebrated Reagan’s death? Charlton Heston’s death? Recall how they physically attack conservative speakers on US campuses? You don’t hear of such conduct among conservatives. Liberals have no class.
No, conservatives just lie us into hopeless and unnecessary wars, see the Constitution as optional, send the nation into hock to China, flout environmental laws, sell out government to corporate and oil interests, let major terrorists escape, dither as a city is flooded, oversee giveaways masking as “reports” by lobbyists, and - in Heston’s case - excuse and defend permissive laws that permit the murder of thousands of Americans annually in the name of a misapplied and outdated “freedom.”
Zzzzzzzzinnnnnnnggggggggggg!!
Take that 2:19!
Seriously, the current leaders of the conservative “movement” are the most venal, incompetent, ignorant, arrogant, blind fools that any country has had the misfortune to be governed by.
I wonder if Barack and Michelle would be willing to submit to a drug test. Rev. Wright was just the tip of the iceberg on Obama. The best is yet to come!
I respect McCain for the disclosure of his health records. I wonder why Obama is not doing the same..is he trying to hide something? Age is just a number and his experience can only help him in this election.
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