I’ll be quoting you, C17wife…I’ve been thinking about the extreme unlikelihood of any downturn in McCain’s health before 2012 and (I hate to admit) nervous about assassination of either candidate/president….

FWIW, here’s a link to a Politico’s July, 2008 report from the Mayo Clinic on McCain’s being cancer free. Most interesting quote:

He’s previously been diagnosed with melanoma four times, but his doctors said in May he was unlikely to face a recurrence. His last melanoma was removed in 2002.

And what you explained makes perfect sense…and he was around 25 when this happened. But you got the overall point and that is what matters.

But even then, with evidently only affected allele, he did display symptoms under stress. My guess is both that he was younger than Barack Obama’s 47 years and that even then, this was not the first time that he displayed symptoms.

By the way, was that “run like a cheetah” comment some sort of racial slur? {grin}

But seriously, except under the most extreme conditions, having only one sickle-cell allele is not life-threatening. Indeed, most people with only one sickle-cell allele are completely asymptomatic and if they do display symptoms, it is usually at a very early age. The press may be hiding it (which I honestly wouldn’t put past the MSM) but if Barack Obama had even one sickle-cell allele I would think that he would have already begin to display some symptoms many years ago if he ever was.

But, unless I am mistaken, I take your drift and completely agree with your comments about the ads.

Now I am not really implying that Obama has sickle cell just because he is black…but the comparison wrt McCain’s melanoma being indicative of possibly dying while in office is the same in my eyes.

In the end neither should be used in an attack ad….especially when the producer of the ad has direct ties to the DNC Chairman and indirect ties to the Candidate himself.

And from FOX’s front page is this. The link is not right (it directs to Alcee Hastings VILE rant that Barack has NOT yet denounced). I think what ever study this is should be put into an ad by the RNC.

Both presidential candidates are likely to remain ‘healthy’ for another eight years, according to statistical analysis like those used by insurance companies.

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http://www.foxnews.com/

Lastly, what losers! I hope and I pray that after Obama looses, Dean, Reid, and Pelosi all get thrown under the bus with Joe Biden. And I am going to laugh like crazy when they make Hillary queen of the Senate. Heh!

The RNC should get going on an ad to highlight The Obamunist’s history as a cigarette smoker and how it’s quite possible that he’ll contract lung cancer at some point during the next few years. That picture of him with the butt sticking out of his mouth would be a great one to get plastered all over the print and video media.

And Obama’s fingerprints are on this.

Funny, I don’t remember Obama having a press conference about his medical records…or birth records if we really want to go there