What in the world is wrong with McCain's face?

[CatWoman]

This is taken from the Huffington Post

[spinbaby]

1. I think the color is off in that photo

Everyone there has a magenta hue.

[qanda]

2. That does not look good at all

Yikes!

[EnviroBat]

3. It's called "Bloated Dipshit Syndrome", at this time there is no cure.

It's a highly contagious disease, but usually only Republicans are stricken with it. Many Republicans suffer from BDS for years without ever knowing they have this horrible, and disfiguring disease.

[Oceansaway]

7. hehe...tweetyass and dead intern joe too....n/t

[NeedleCast]

4. Everyone in that picture looks red

I have plenty of reasons for disliking McCain. How he looks is not one of them.

[CatWoman]

9. I don't think I expected anyone to make the jump from his face being

all fucked up to his being disliked :shrug:

[wuushew]

5. Maybe he tried that Willy Wonka gum that makes your face turn color

:shrug:

[MADem]

6. It is called 'getting old' and having had skin cancer.

I'm guessing that his sunblock got a little runny and sweaty and caused a slight rosacea-ish reaction. He looks a little more "mottled" than the others.

He's religious about sunblock since he had that melanoma taken off--they took a shitload of lymph nodes, too, just to be safe, which is why he has that big lump on the side of his face.

[CatWoman]

10. ahhhhhhhh

I thought the "lump" was a consequence of the beatings he endured in SE Asia....

[MADem]

17. Actually, when he came back from SEA, he was busted up, but his face still looked good.

He wouldn't have bagged little Cindy if he looked like Popeye back then!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/John_McCain_interview_on_April_24,_1974.jpg/180px-John_McCain_interview_on_April_24,_1974.jpg



(That's Carol, Numbah One, in the bottom pic)

[Richard Steele]

8. He's had major facial surgery for cancer; some of the follow-up drugs he's on (for life)...

...are responsible for his permanent "puffy cheeked" look
and unusual skin tone.

[CatWoman]

11. you know, I've seen Poppy Bush's face all scared and puffy , too

I guess those guys just can't take much sun :shrug:

[NCDem60]

12. Agree

Yep. Sunshine and silver stakes are real dangers.:)

[Richard Steele]

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[MADem]

18. He had melanoma and major surgery for it.

McCain seldom talks about the details of his torture by the North Vietnamese, but he has written about them in clinical depth. Despite the injuries he had already suffered, upon capture he was promptly bayoneted in the ankle and then beaten senseless. The North Vietnamese never set either of his broken arms. The only treatment of his broken knee involved cutting all the ligaments and cartilage, so that he never had more than 5 to 10 percent flexion during the entire time he was in prison. In 1968 he was offered early release, and when he refused, because others had been there longer, his captors went at him again; he suffered cracked ribs, teeth broken off at the gum line, and torture with ropes that lashed his arms behind his back and that were progressively tightened all through the night. Ultimately he taped a coerced confession.

McCain's right knee still has limited flexibility. Most of the time this is not too noticeable, but McCain mounts the steps onto planes with a herky-jerky gait. A climb up dozens of steps at the New Hampshire International Speedway, in Loudon, leaves him badly winded and sweating profusely. Because his broken arms were allowed to heal without ever being properly set, to this day McCain cannot raise his arms above his shoulders. He cannot attend to his own hair. An aide is often nearby with a comb and small can of hair spray.

McCain has difficulty putting on his suit jacket unassisted. Once, as we prepared to get out of a cramped airplane cabin in Burlington, Vermont, where McCain would be greeted by the governor, I turned my back for a moment, only to find him struggling. He could sense that his collar was all bunched up, and asked me matter-of-factly to help him straighten it out. I felt the pang that those around McCain feel whenever they realize the extent of his injuries. "You comb someone's hair once," his 2000 communications director, Dan Schnur, says, "and you never forget it."

One of McCain's aides tells me that two years ago, campaigning with McCain, George W. Bush asked him if the senator would like to work out with him. Told that McCain did not, could not, really "work out," Bush replied, "What do you mean?"

Just after the Republican convention of 2000, a malignant melanoma was removed from the left side of McCain's face, leaving a track of deep and angry red scars that are only now receding. Salter notes that if McCain's campaign had not died six years ago McCain himself might have, because he wouldn't have taken time out from the trail for the examination that produced the diagnosis. There has been no recurrence of the cancer, and McCain undergoes checkups every three months. At the slightest sign of direct sunlight he breaks out the baseball cap that is always kept at the ready, and slathers his face with so much sunblock that he looks like Marcel Marceau until his skin absorbs it.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/02/mccain200702?printable=true¤tPage=all

[NoPasaran]

13. Behind it lurks McCain's brain

Any other questions?

[RoadRage]

15. Hillary campaign is trying to make him look "redder" then he really is...

OMG! :)

Just kidding.. total joke.

Either the guy has a bad sunburn, or the camera has a problem. I'm blaming McCain - it looks like everyone else in the picture is of a normal flesh tone??

[applegrove]

16. He had some lumph nodes taken out when he was treated for serious

skin cancer. Is the red a shadow?