Counterpunch's latest issue says McC is sicker then is telling

[ensho]

I haven't read the article as I'm not a subscriber. the lead in says:

"A source tells CounterPunch that McCain received grim news during a recent, secret visit to a top cancer hospital in Los Angeles."

just thought I'd pass this info along

http://counterpunch.com/ali10062008.html

[iceman66]

1. I suspected something was up

when he took this past weekend off - HIGHLY unusual for a candidate to do that this close to an election, especially one running behind.

[spotbird]

61. link

Though pressed by CounterPunch, the reader insists on remaining anonymous. Over the course of several exchanges with our reader, we can report the following. A senior official in the National Institutes of Health, well known to our reader, has confided to her that in an informal conversation with a doctor in a California hospital the official had learned that there had been a metastasis of McCain’s melanoma, and that this had come to light in a checkup in the past few weeks.

Urged to reconfirm this news and to provide further details, our reader pressed the NIH official for more details and reported back to us on September 26 that she had “asked our NIH contact to verify the details.” The official “decided this was important, and contacted the doctor friend to get what info she could. So here it is. John McCain recently was diagnosed with a melanoma recurrence, with a metastasis to the lymph node, in his latest, most recent cancer checkup, which took place at John Wayne Cancer Institute in California.”

http://johnseilerblogs.com/?p=797

[madaboutharry]

2. Why isn't this being talked about.

Surely someone is a subscriber and has read the article.

[iceman66]

5. Well it's obviously less important than William Ayers!

:sarcasm:

[npincus]

3. Keep this KICKED until someone can post article!

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

10. You bet....KICK

[SuperTrouper]

4. Is this good news for Sarah?

[progressivebydesign]

21. well her Assembly of God supporters have been praying for this...

the sick bastards.

[midnight armadillo]

31. do you have a link for that?

please tell me you have a good reference on that comment, I'd love to see it...

[stillcool]

44. It's for subscribers..

I think we would all love to see it.

[beac]

46. Theocrats to Pray for McCain's Death (link inside)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/3/114431/1606/779/582989

[midnight armadillo]

50. Holy crap.

:puke: :wtf:

[alsame]

6. He looks worse every time I see him. It could just be the wear and

tear of the campaign on a man his age, but something more serious wouldn't surprise me. Especially after that strange facial contortion incident last week.

[roguevalley]

36. I think its metastasized to his brain. Very awful stuff, this.

My family has had so much cancer, I don't wish it on anyone. Its a terrible way to go. John McCain seems to me to be the living personification of all the rot of the part thirty years made human and he's decaying before our very eyes.

[SaveAmerica]

58. What's the facial contortion incident? I haven't heard about it

[Phredicles]

7. LOUDLY recommend - he hasn't looked well in a long time, no question.

[fizzgig]

17. ot, but i LOVE the pic in your sig

i think it's especially appropriate when talking about these asshats

[redstate_democrat]

8. I had this feeling yesterday that McLame's health was in serious trouble

and that's why he took the weekend off. I think he has cancer again.

[RT Atlanta]

9. K&R

nt

[NYC_SKP]

11. Bad Karma. nt

[Love Bug]

12. A doctor friend of mine says he looks like he's on chemo

Not that I'm trying to spread any rumours...

[4lbs]

13. It certainly would explain why the McCain campaign was in Southern California last week.

Being in a state where you are 15 points down, and have no hope of winning, yet there is your VP at a supposed campaign stop, while you are nowhere to be found on the stump.

[WCGreen]

15. They needed money.. That's why they are in SoCal...

[tekisui]

24. And, his home state this weekend...hmmmmm.

[Shakespeare]

16. While I don't doubt he may have been seeking medical attention, it's not at all unusual for repubs..

...to be here. They're here almost non-stop during every election cycle, because they pick up serious campaign $$ from the red areas of the state like Orange County.

[me b zola]

14. It has been apparent that McCain is not well

The media should not be giving this issue a pass.

[tpi10d]

18. We want him to be well

For basic decency. Plus he's doing a great job of self-destructing politically. Who needs a last minute Romney substitution with the last minute hype and economic cred?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

26. We want Obama to win on the issues - not on the basis of his opponent's health

If McCain had to pull out and Obama won in the biggest landslide in history, it would form a cloud over Obama's presidency. It would affect his mandate. I would prefer for Obama to soundly beat a healthy John McCain, who's only illness is the sickness of his ideas and his mind.

[Cha]

51. He's running for president of the United States..he'd

better be well.

I don't want to beat him 'cause he's sick..I want his ass to go down because Americans on the whole reject the politics of mccain and palin.

[progressivebydesign]

19. I tend to believe this. He has been out of view so much lately. Something is up.

Palin seems to be doing all the work. McCain has been canceling like crazy lately. He took off from the campaign for the crisis, but then phoned it all in. He looks very frail and unwell. I know they';ll spend another 5,300 bux to do his makeup for the debate, but it can't hide the fact that he's ill.

[Blackhatjack]

20. This could explain McCain limiting his daily campaigning so close to election day...

I have thought for a while that McCain seemed to be spiralling down physically since the Repub Nomination was locked up.

And this is subjective .... but he appears to me to have lost the fire and desire to push forward toward victory.

I don't know if he is seeing absolutely disasterous internal polling, and this is a natural consequence of the conclusion that the election is basically over at this point. But that would certainly be one possible explanation...

[williesgirl]

22. We really need the article. rec'd

[PCIntern]

23. i've been saying this for months here...

clinically, he's DECLINING. It's OBVIOUS. I do this for a LIVING.

I'm not saying this because I'm age-ist or for other reasons...I knew that Reagan had an early manifestation of a problem mentally in 1980, but clearly, he was a real physical specimen.

No, this guy's got a real problem here...

[lonestarnot]

28. He has lots of problems there...

[bullwinkle428]

25. Great - what we all need is a dying man in charge of the nuclear launch codes

:scared:

[cyndensco]

32. And an ignoramous to pick up the pieces if he becomes unable.

:scared: :scared: :scared:

[hogwyld]

40. That is excited about

bringin on the apocalytic end-times as described in the book of revelation dontcha know?

[Lucy Goosey]

27. This is important stuff. K&R

[npincus]

29. HA HA... just sent this to Huffpo... they must have access to it!

[SurfingAtWork]

30. Honestly, I think that whatever it is these guys have is a scuttlebut or old news at most

They're just trying to fool you into subscribing with this imo.

[crossroads]

33. Kick

[Arugula Latte]

34. Uh oh.

I hope John McCain is not direly ill. I really do.

[uponit7771]

35. THIS WILL HELP WITH McCAINS BASE!!! THEY WANT HIM TO BE SICK, THEY WANT PALIN POWER

[MH1]

52. Well yeah, so does Counterpunch, I'll bet.

They published in article advising people to vote against Kerry, in October 2004. It seems to be in the school of thought over there that only when things get really, REALLY, bad, then their heroes like Nader can get elected. Or in any case it won't matter, because you know "there's not a dime's worth of difference between republicans and democrats".

:banghead:

[NewJeffCT]

37. Why won't John McCain release all his medical records?

now we may know?

[Blackhatjack]

38. I doubt there is much substance to this since the rest of the MSM is ignoring it...

[ericgtr]

39. I don't like McCain any more than anyone else but the amount of REC's in this thread is dissapointin

I would never hope or wish for such a terrible thing on anyone. We can beat McCain on the issues.

[yardwork]

41. I may be wrong, but I don't think the recs are because people are happy about this.

I think that people are recommending this thread because the news may be very important. Sarah Palin is a disaster. If McCain is seriously ill and the McCain-Palin ticket is elected, the country will have Sarah Palin as our president. Not a good thought.

McCain's health is an important topic.

[ericgtr]

43. Yes it is an important topic - I will keep your take on it in mind

:)

[Terran]

47. If McCain won and then died of cancer six months later...

you'd be pissed, would you not? Feel betrayed? Lied to? That's why this is an issue. I don't want him to die, I want him to tell the truth and put his country first.

[grace0418]

42. Just keep he and Sarah healthy until Nov. 4. If either drops out right now I could see

Bush declaring martial law and trying to suspend the election. After that, they can fade away into obscurity.

[mwb970]

55. "Keep he healthy"? Good grief.

I agree with your point, but your English is terrible!

[grace0418]

56. I was typing quickly on my way out the door. So sorry to upset

your delicate grammar sensibilities. There are nicer ways to say that, by the way. :eyes:

[mwb970]

63. My apologies for offending you. I did agree with your point.

But in my experience, fast typing usually produces spelling errors, not using the entirely wrong word. I'm just sayin'.

[grace0418]

65. Apology accepted, however back-handed it might be.

I'm just sayin'.

[NewJeffCT]

57. No, they'd replace McCain with somebody who could get a sympathy vote

Granted, there aren't a lot of Republicans who engender sympathy out there...

But, I suspect that after listening to months of often self-inflicted negativity, somebody new might garner a positive response.

[grace0418]

59. In either case, I don't think it would be good for us.

I think they'd be able to engender sympathy based on the turn of events itself, no matter who they chose to replace him.

[NewJeffCT]

60. Back a few years ago in CT

our long-time governor John Rowland resigned in disgrace over corruption charges, for which he later spent about a year in jail.

His Lieutenant Governor for those 10 years in charge, Jodi Rell, took over. She said a few nice things to the press and she was instantly labeled "Snow White" for her purity... never mind that she had been the #2 to Rowland and his ongoing corruption for 10 years (was she blind to it?) - her poll rating soared in the aftermath to the 80-90% approval range In Connecticut, Republics are about 20% of registered voters, Democrats are about 37% and Indies 42% - so, she got a lot of Dems, too. Even though she was in the midst of the corrupt regime for a decade, she had the media and the state eating out of the palm of her hand just because she was a breath of fresh air.

[stillcool]

45. I don't know.. he

gets regular check ups to monitor any sign of recurrence of melanoma.

[KnaveRupe]

53. But he does not release the results of those check-ups.

If one of those check-ups showed a recurrence of the melanoma, how would we know? McCain's medical records are secret.

[weezie1317]

48. Kicking to see if anyone has the article.

[horseshoecrab]

49. kicking n/t

[saltpoint]

54. It's hard to decide if the source is accurate, but coupled with McCain's

not being fully forthcoming with his health records, it accents his poor judgment in choosing Palin without reassuring voters that he's in reasonably sound health.

It's very plausible that "moderate" Republicans who have liked McCain since 2000 might be "less Republican" in a possible scenario in which McCain croaks and Palin were sworn in.

[nannah]

62. kicking in hopes someone can elaborate on the article n/t

[No Elephants]

64. How reliable is Counterpunch?