All 'dem viagra 'scriptions is em-bare-a$$-in

"If there's any question about any age problem we might have in this campaign, there's my genes," Mr McCain said at a campaign stop in Iowa in January. "Last Christmas, she went to France. She landed in Paris and wanted to rent a car. They told her she was too old so she bought one. Way to go, Mom!"

There is absolutely no chance that you can buy a car in France (or the rest of the EU for that matter) with an US driver's license and immediately drive away with it. It isn't McCain's Bosnian sniper fire moment but still...

On the one hand, good: the media and government are far too obtrusive already.

On the other hand, his party hasn't exactly been all enamored of privacy lately, have they?

When you hold yourself up as good and moral, especially in a public setting, you have to expect people to notice the blemishes. You may be within your rights to hide them, but it's gonna hurt your credibility.

Wish it were different. Sorry.

Well, they are delicate, being printed on papyrus and all.

He knows you posed to axe purmishon to see his rekords.

// in best Obama supporter's voice

Is that the best you have?!? must be scared

// end scene


// yes trolling

"If there's any question about any age problem we might have in this campaign, there's my genes," Mr McCain said at a campaign stop in Iowa in January. "Last Christmas, she went to France. She landed in Paris and wanted to rent a car. They told her she was too old so she bought one. Way to go, Mom!"

Man, how elitist can you get?

Ed Finnerty: He knows you posed to axe purmishon to see his rekords.

You owe me a cup of coffee and a new keyboard.

3 hours only,a handful of reporters, no copies ,no doctors,just selected reporters.

I'm sure there's nothing bad in there that only a doctor would find.

Q. Steltanus: "If there's any question about any age problem we might have in this campaign, there's my genes," Mr McCain said at a campaign stop in Iowa in January. "Last Christmas, she went to France. She landed in Paris and wanted to rent a car. They told her she was too old so she bought one. Way to go, Mom!"

There is absolutely no chance that you can buy a car in France (or the rest of the EU for that matter) with an US driver's license and immediately drive away with it. It isn't McCain's Bosnian sniper fire moment but still...

What I don't get is - even if this were true - its supposed to be a good thing...

?!

Yes... they wouldn't rent me a car... so instead of being like the rest of the peons she bought one instead...

Damn...

Im a consultant and travel a lot... and make decent $.... but no way I could just go out and buy a car on a whim... for a friggin VACATION...

Sheez...


Michael

jwood: You owe me a cup of coffee and a new keyboard.

In the mail, my friend.

McCain can barely lift his arms from torture injuries, has battled cancer and is 123 years old and can still kick every one of your asses.

We don't need his medical records, we have the writings on the pyramids to tell us how a mummy is made.

*golf clap*

"On the campaign trail, Mr. McCain is a dynamo, often tiring out reporters half his age from his dawn-to-well-past-dusk schedule."

I swear, every single "McCain is old" article has this line. Copypasta from the press release I guess.

And Mr. Finnerty, that is ridiculously funny. I think that deserves to be in the legendary thread as well.

paper_champion: And Mr. Finnerty, that is ridiculously funny. I think that deserves to be in the legendary thread as well.

Thanks! It's a little late but I'll add it anyway.

wow 400 pages...and that's the abridged version. must be one sick man.

Hobodeluxe: 3 hours only,a handful of reporters, no copies ,no doctors,just selected reporters.

I'm sure there's nothing bad in there that only a doctor would find.

You did see that the news agencies get to choose who to send, right? And that most of them are sending their head medical correspondents, many of whom are doctors?

They're going to find that he's in perfectly normal health for a 70 something year old who was malnourished and beaten for 5 years. Not that that's a good thing!

The_Pole_Of_Justice: On the one hand, good: the media and government are far too obtrusive already.

On the other hand, his party hasn't exactly been all enamored of privacy lately, have they?



When a presidential candidate is as old as he is, and has been through the kind of physical stress he's been through, I'd like to have some idea how healthy he is, particularly if his running mate is a douchenozzle.

In addition, I'd like some assurance that he's not secretly batshiat after 5 years of torture. President's not much good if we get into some crisis and he's too busy having flashbacks to make calm, rational decisions.

(nFTFA:
"..McCain also wears a 'Medic Alert' bracelet instructing medical emergency staff to check his phylactery in the event of an accident, after an incident last year where it was cracked, and needed immediate re-desecration..."

MyRandomName: // in best Obama supporter's voice

Is that the best you have?!? must be scared

// end scene


// yes trolling

And doing it so poorly.

Ed Finnerty

I love you, man.

The secrets start already! Haven't we had enough of this sort of thing from Mr. Secret himself? You know, Old Snownose? The Deserter in Chief?

Ed Finnerty: He knows you posed to axe purmishon to see his rekords.

Nice shop bra. Attention to detail is the key.

Great his mom bought car!!! He didn't tell you the directional is still on. Zing!
//Tip you waitress
// Where's his kids from his first marriage?

for good or for awesome:

greenbeans_and_physics

Thanks! I couldn't resist.

"If there's any question about any age problem we might have in this campaign, there's my genes," Mr McCain said at a campaign stop in Iowa in January. "Last Christmas, she went to France. She landed in Paris and wanted to rent a car. They told her she was too old so she bought one. Way to go, Mom!"

Wouldn't it have made more sense to take a cab?

I wouldn't fault him at all for telling the press to fark off when they ask for his medical records, that's personal information that isn't really our business. He's 71 years old and battled cancer, is there really much more we need to know? I'm sure he wouldn't be putting himself through the ridiculous process that presidential candidates go through for over a year now if he wasn't currently healthy enough to likely live through his term.

That being said, this half-assed records release thing is just odd.

again with the apathy: "If there's any question about any age problem we might have in this campaign, there's my genes," Mr McCain said at a campaign stop in Iowa in January. "Last Christmas, she went to France. She landed in Paris and wanted to rent a car. They told her she was too old so she bought one. Way to go, Mom!"

Wouldn't it have made more sense to take a cab?

That's the kind of mavericks the McCain family is.

FuriousGeorge945: I wouldn't fault him at all for telling the press to fark off when they ask for his medical records, that's personal information that isn't really our business. He's 71 years old and battled cancer, is there really much more we need to know? I'm sure he wouldn't be putting himself through the ridiculous process that presidential candidates go through for over a year now if he wasn't currently healthy enough to likely live through his term.

That being said, this half-assed records release thing is just odd.

The death of a president is a major thing. We deserve as the voting public to know exactly what is wrong with you if anything. If nothing's wrong, then nothing is hurt. But this is not a privacy issue, this is quite simply a right-to-know.

This half assed method is McCain's way of not giving us information. Another lie in Bush II's cap.

Pardon, I meant Bush III. I keep on forgetting that weak-willed son-of-a-bytch from Reagan's leavings.

ultraconservative liberal: precedent set by Clinton when he didn't release all his med records because he didn't want people to know about his coke/drug addiction peyronie's disease, and STD that he got from those underage Little rock hookers.

I came in here to say that.

FuriousGeorge945: I'm sure he wouldn't be putting himself through the ridiculous process that presidential candidates go through for over a year now if he wasn't has been so focused on being president that he's deluded himself into thinking that he's currently healthy enough to likely live through his term.

John McCain may be healthy enough to spend the next however many years in the Senate, but I'd like more assurance that he's healthy enough to stand up to a job that turns younger men into old men.

/I probably won't be voting for him anyway, but if he's elected, I'd like to know how soon we need to look forward to President Mittens

What a crock of shiat.

If you are so worried about McCain's health, then don't vote for him. Or be willing to take his word for it when he tells you that his health isn't an issue.

I mean, seriously, if you can't trust the guy to tell the truth about his health, why the fark would you vote for him?!


/I'd have been a lot more impressed if he stood on principle
//Of course all the idiots would then assume he had herpes, heart palpitations and an inoperable brain tumor
///Giving the nosy-arse press your private medical records, just because they "demand" them, is not an endearing quality in a potential prez

Ace Frehley's Ghost John McCain may be healthy enough to spend the next however many years in the Senate, but I'd like more assurance that he's healthy enough to stand up to a job that turns younger men into old men.

This.

I greatly respect John McCain and the service he has given our country.

But I must ask, do we really want a president who will be 72.5 years old when he takes office? Is that in our best interests?

Q. Steltanus: There is absolutely no chance that you can buy a car in France (or the rest of the EU for that matter) with an US driver's license and immediately drive away

I was in the army in Germany and I did. Private party.

I'm watching CNN, and they're talking that he had non-cancerous polyps removed from his colon as recently as March last year, with removal of pre-cancerous tissue around his melanoma as recently as February of this year.

now correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't a surgery like colon polyps removal require being put down? And if he needs it regularly, that's a serious health issue for a president to have.

Wow.

TraeHova: I mean, seriously, if you can't trust the guy to tell the truth about his health, why the fark would you vote for him?!

I wouldn't, and won't

I think the point is, he doesn't have enough votes to win (this country is a little bitter towards the GoP right now), so why wouldn't he be trying to round up as many votes as possible?

If the past 20 years has shown us anything it is why trust anything someone in DC says

/Healthy forest initiative - ha!

I wonder why Bush would support someone who is half dead, anyway

...

Say, is it legal for Bush to run as vice president?

saintstryfe: now correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't a surgery like colon polyps removal require being put down? And if he needs it regularly, that's a serious health issue for a president to have.

Depends. Sometimes they are far enough down in the colon that a quick procedure can take em out, but it can also require a full colonoscopy which does require general anesthetic.

And pretty much every year the current president goes to have a colonoscopy and when he is put under general, for a brief time the VP takes the helm. It hits the news cycles every year.

Baron MuchHumpin': /Healthy forest initiative - ha!

I love the way they name bills exactly opposite of what they actually do.

DeRosso: Say, is it legal for Bush to run as vice president?

Back to grade school for you!

/no, it is NOT possbile

Spanky_McFarksalot: Q. Steltanus: There is absolutely no chance that you can buy a car in France (or the rest of the EU for that matter) with an US driver's license and immediately drive away

I was in the army in Germany and I did. Private party.

get cash, go to person selling car, hand cash, drive car.

it's not like you need a carry & conceal permit to drive and if you're only there for under 90 days you can use your usa license (usually).

Seriously, the man is farking old, and it is not unreasonable to assume there will only be more issues over the next 4+ years with which he (and by extension, us) will be dealing.

On the other hand, hiding stuff isn't exactly new (thinking JFK and his Addison's disease).

First Hagee, now this, right before a weekend. How convenient.

Baron MuchHumpin': DeRosso: Say, is it legal for Bush to run as vice president?

Back to grade school for you!

/no, it is NOT possbile

Sorry, never went

/Danish

TraeHova: What a crock of shiat.

If you are so worried about McCain's health, then don't vote for him. Or be willing to take his word for it when he tells you that his health isn't an issue.

I mean, seriously, if you can't trust the guy to tell the truth about his health, why the fark would you vote for him?!


Because he isn't a doctor, and his assessment of his state of health may not reflect reality, or the judgement of a trained physician. People are often poor judges of their own health, and people with big egos (you know, like anyone who thinks they deserve to be leader of the most powerful country in the world- HRC and Obama included) are particularly bad at acknowledging their weaknesses and limitations. The man is 72 and has had significant past health problems; there's every possibility that his health records could disclose significant risks that he considers unimportant because "he feels great", just like a lot of older people do right up until the day that keel over dead.

DeRosso: Sorry, never went

/Danish


You don't have grade schools over there? day-um!

After serving 2 terms a person cannot hold any position which in anyway can result in him/her being President again

/Throw another shrimp on the barbie

saintstryfe:

now correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't a surgery like colon polyps removal require being put down?

Put down?

Very impressed...


/put under, maybe.