This News Has To Bum Out The Left

Hoping and praying there is some lethal disease in these files or even better, a malignant cancer death diagnosis to keep him out of the White House, the news that he, just like his extraordinarily healthy mother is as healthy as can be has to be a big disappointment to them all.

Too bad McCain cannot use this line used by Reagan years ago in this campaign as it is terribly pertinent to this election as well when he quipped during a presidential debate against the left loser of that election Walter Mondale:\\

"I will not make age an issue in this campaign. I'm not going to exploit for political purposes my opponents youth and inexperience."

Meanwhile Obama nor Clinton have released their record, that sounds pretty discriminatory to me and were McCain a democrat and republicans were clamoring for his health records that's exactly what we would be hearing trumpeted around the blogosphere and MSM you can bet your a**.

APNewsBreak: McCain appears cancer-free, healthy:

My Way News - "FOUNTAIN HILLS, Ariz. (AP) - Three-time melanoma survivor John McCain appears cancer-free, has a strong heart and is in otherwise general good health, according to eight years of medical records reviewed by The Associated Press.

The Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting remains at risk for developing new skin cancers, and gets a thorough check by a Mayo Clinic dermatologist every few months.

'I do not see any worrisome lesions,' Dr. Suzanne Connolly concluded after McCain's most recent exam, on May 12."

The details of McCain's health are contained in 1,173 pages of medical documents spanning 2000 to 2008 that his campaign made available to the AP to make the case that he's healthy enough to serve as president, as well as to counter the notion that he's too old. The Arizona senator will turn 72 in August and would be the oldest elected first-term president.

Like many aging Americans, McCain takes medicine to keep his cholesterol in check.

But Mayo internist Dr. John Eckstein, his longtime personal physician, lauded McCain's performance on a heart stress test - sweating it out for 10 minutes when Eckstein routinely sees patients decades younger quit at five or seven minutes.

"I think physiologically he is considerably younger than his chronologic age based on his cardiovascular fitness," Eckstein said in an interview Thursday. "I got a call from the cardiologist who said that he had not seen anyone that age exercise for that long in a long time."

McCain's most recent exams show a range of health issues common in aging: He frequently has precancerous skin lesions removed, and in February had an early stage squamous cell carcinoma, an easily cured skin cancer, removed. He had benign colon growths called polyps taken out during a routine colonoscopy in March.

The Vietnam veteran has degenerative arthritis from war injuries that might mean a future joint replacement. His blood pressure and weight were healthy, and his cholesterol good but not optimal - and he switched medication from the controversial Vytorin that made headlines this past winter to a proven standby, simvastatin.

His likely Democratic rival, Barack Obama, will be 47 in August. Obama, lean and agile and a frequent basketball player, says he has quit smoking. Neither he nor Democratic opponent Hillary Rodham Clinton has released health records. continued

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