Time to Demand McCain's Medical (Including Psychological) Records PLUS The Article on John Mc Cain To Send To Everyone You Know
Thanks, Josh for flagging the Rolling Stone article on the facts about McCain, Who would think the GOP would come up with a nominee less honest and fit for the Presidency than George W. Bush or Richard Nixon?
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Sarah Palin's ridiculous performance in the debate only underscores our need to know if John McCain can survive four years in the White House. Not that I think he's more qualified than she is, it's just that if Palin will be President -- and not Mc Cain -- we should know it now.
Actually, I suspect that psychologically she's in better shape (none of her colleagues say she's off her rocker). But intellectually I think McCain may be better suited for high office.
But we won't know if McCain is capable of being President until we see his medical (including psychological) records. All of them. There has to be a reason the McCain camp is keeping the records under wraps. We need to know...now.
Read Frank Rich. As usual, he's absolutely right.
"But intellectually I think Mc Cain may be better suited for high office."
What makes you think that? I haven't seen much to support such a contention.
October 4, 2008 7:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
I guess you are right. Palin may be smarter.
October 4, 2008 8:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
She may be, but here's the scary part. Palin seems dumber than Bush.
October 5, 2008 12:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
Strange story with US Govt. FOIA documents attatched..
McCain and the POW Cover-up
The "war hero" candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam
Research support provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute. This is an expanded version, with primary documents attached, of a story that appears in the October 6, 2008 issue of The Nation.
It's not clear whether the taped confession McCain gave to his captors to avoid further torture has played a role in his post-war behavior in the Senate. That confession was played endlessly over the prison loudspeaker system at Hoa Lo—to try to break down other prisoners—and was broadcast over Hanoi's state radio. Reportedly, he confessed to being a war criminal who had bombed civilian targets. The Pentagon has a copy of the confession but will not release it. Also, no outsider I know of has ever seen a non-redacted copy of the debriefing of McCain when he returned from captivity, which is classified but could be made public by McCain. (See the Pentagon's rejection of my attempt to obtain records of this debriefing, at left.)
http://www.nationinstitute.org/p/schanberg09182008pt1
October 5, 2008 1:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
I agree with you MJ that it is important for people to know just how possible it is that McCain could die in office if elected thus bringing that nitwit Palin to the Presidency. Nonetheless,I think what is vastly more important is that we Democrats insist that Obama start running a campaign that intends to win and not just by default. It is extraordinarily disturbing that Obama continues to pull every punch even as McCain and the Republicans are announcing that their character assassination campaign is going to be ramped up and get sleazier than ever. Trusting that circumstances will continue to be favorable to our side is foolish indeed. The reason the race isn't already a blow out is because of Obama's lackluster campaign that isn't connecting with people on the sort of visceral level it ought to.
It is no longer enough for Obama to play the professorial prima donna role of being "better" than to engage in partisanship. That's the sort of smug attitude that lost the last two Presidential elections.
Being partisan isn't hurting the Republicans one bit. In fact, it is helping them to stay competitive and chiefly because the Democrats are doing little or nothing to refute their specious claims that Democrats are responsible for our problems. What is hurting them is the mean-spiritedness and ugliness of their attacks. One can be partisan and squarely lay the blame where it belongs without being ugly and mean. That is what Obama and the entire Democratic tickets should do from now until the election and we need to demand that they do so. If the Democratic Party has done anything the past 7 years it is prove that it is completely tone deaf to the political pulse of the nation. Only at the very last moment in 06 did our eteemed leaders realize that blaming the war on the Republicans and attacking them for their corruption would help more Democrats get elected.
Now, when the nation is on it's knees as a result of Republican misrule and corrpution the Democrats don't want to say too darn much about it. They just want people to somehow realize on their own that this is the case. Well, they won't. They need to be told and reminded and then reminded again that all of the calamaties we face economically, militarily, etc... are a direct result of Bush Republicanism. Obama's ongoing refusal to do this isn't just strategically foolish, but if it costs the Presidency it will be seen as essentially immoral for having allowed the Republicans to win yet again, an election they should have lost.
October 5, 2008 2:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
Obama has been consistent from the beginning in his dedication to the neocon/neoliberal agenda -- American world hegemony, building up the military, devotion to Israel, attacking Pakistan, and above all, not being progressive, but working with Republicans to build a consensus. Consistency you can believe in (the "change" signs notwithstanding), and his fervent support for the recent bankers bailout is only one example.
October 5, 2008 3:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
For God sakes, he's a black man running against an old white man, and he needs the votes of moderately racist whites to win! The campaign hasn't been perfect, but they know what they're doing, and they're winning.
October 5, 2008 7:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
Fact: John McCain's dad died at 70 of a heart attack. His grandfather died at 61 of a heart attack.
Republican erratic Bubble Boy Bush Twin.. McCain already has one foot in the grave...
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1831461
October 5, 2008 2:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Come on, MJ, if politicians had to meet minimum psychological standards we wouldn't have a government, or quite a few bloggers either. You'd still be around, though, I think. But what do I know.
October 5, 2008 3:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hey Rosenberg, can I presume you'll call for Obama to get a psychiatric evaluation too?
October 5, 2008 9:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
Frank Rich should quit his day job and go back to being a theater critic.
Anyways, what more do you want? The link below shows a summary from the Mayo clinic. You want to read the whole 1000 pages. Are you really going to read all of it?
Your demand is pretty ridiculous. He's old and if you scared about his age and remaining life expectancy. then don't vote for him. Simple as that. It doesn't take a 1000 pages of medical records to draw people to that conclusion.
Even if his records showed he was in perfect health, we all know the risks of a President in his 70s.
http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/mccain_health_records_052308.pdf
October 5, 2008 11:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
I don't think folks have to be scared about McCain dying to be totally frightened by Palin becoming VP.
All we have to do is imagine an Al Haig or Cheney moment, such as what happened on 9/11.
Does anyone recall who was incharge at the WH and Pentagon on that day when GWBush finally decided to stop reading My Pet Goat?
Bush was flown to some bunker and it was Cheney who was in charge, just like Al Haig, when he came on TV telling Americans don't worry 'everything was under control' because he was in charge!!
Imagine Sarah Palin being Cheney in that moment and think about how safe and secure the nation would feel knowing Sarah was 'in control'
I think that is the ad Obama needs to run and it certainly is the circumstance that SNL needs to parody to jolt Americans into the reality of what a Palin as VP would mean.
Send Palin back to Alaska!
October 5, 2008 1:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
MiddleClassBill,
all of your postings on TPM won't change the fact that even Rasmussen, FOX's favorite pollster, has McCain down by 7%, 51 to 44.
October 5, 2008 7:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Quote by John McCain in Nov/Dec 1998 to MJ Magazine in reference to Bin Laden "Look, is this guy, Laden, really the bad guy that's depicted? Most of us have never heard of him before."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/222053.php
It's a very interesting progression of McCain's views on Osama bin Laden, from first thinking he wasn't really a bad guy, that Clinton was wrong to focus on him, and now to his oft-claimed statement about "following Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell" except for the border of Pakistan where McCain refuses to use military force to go after Osama bin Laden.
One thing you can say about John McCain---he's consistently shown the WRONG judgement time and time again on the issues of great national importance to us. Can we afford another four years of the same foreign policy mistakes and wrong-headedness? We can't.
October 5, 2008 5:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
The article in Rolling Stone is eye opening, to say the least. I have been adding it to my posts at various blogs and fora.
October 5, 2008 5:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
The article in Rolling Stone is eye opening, to say the least. I have been adding it to my posts at various blogs and fora.
October 5, 2008 5:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ya think? I'm not sure. That woman can keep telling you a lie one after another with a sunny smile on her face and without any qualm. And even believe she is telling the truth. I've seen such people in my life before, and they were not psychologically normal in my view. This time again, I smell something psychopathic about Palin. Very much reminds me of the book People of the Lie.
October 5, 2008 9:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
MJ,
Do you think John McCain would agree to bring forth his complete medical dossier if Obama agreed to bring forth his college thesis?
Both seem to have gone the way of Jimmy Hoffa...
October 6, 2008 2:59 AM | Reply | Permalink