As McCain gets ready to release his medical records in a very limited fashion today, I’ve come across a clip back on 08/01/2000. He’s being interviewed by Jim Lehrer on News Hour and admits that he’d be too old to run in 2008.
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Lehrer: Finally for the record, you have not lost your desire to be President of the United States have you?
McCain: Certainly it’s been put in deep cold storage. haha..
Lehrer: You haven’t lost it?
McCain: Well, in 2004, I expect to be campaigning for the reelection of President George W. Bush, and by 2008, I think I might be ready to go down to the old soldiers home and await the cavalry charge there.
Nobody can complain if age comes up anymore since the candidate has made it an issue as far back as 2000 all by himself. Americans polled are sure worried about it anyway…
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Trust me, McDementia won’t remember saying that.
He’s older than my dad. And Obama’s younger than my sister. I think I’d rather have someone my sister’s age running the country than someone my dad’s age. But that’s just me.
Isn’t senility wonderful? Who knows.. maybe in 2012 he will forget he ran for president in 2008.
Unfortunately, we have a precedence of a demented President (Reagan) running the country, so McCain will not be the first one. But I still hope that he won’t reach the White House.
I miss old John…He was such a rebel and now he’s just…sad
Does McCain have even one point he hasn’t flipped on?
This man’s campaign is already done for.
“I love McCain, he such a maverick. Critics say he’s too old to be president, so what does McCain do? He keeps aging !”
-S. Colbert-
The guy sold his soul for the Bob Dole role in the 2008 election - up is down, left is right, top is bottom… nothing makes sense about him anymore but of course no one who only gets their news from the MSM will hear about it.
C&L needs to dedicate a special category : “McCain Flip Flop ALERT!”
Doug @ 9:
I’m starting to think the GOP is planning to win this election by courting the “little old man sympathy vote”
dj @ 2:
And Obama looks youthful and vigorous — especially in this picture from yesterday in Boca Raton.
cobsjo @ 6:
He’s still white.
only 31% comfortable, and thats a higher figure than just the committed
please somebodyhardcore GOPers,so some of them and some of the mil worshiping crowd are swooning at the prospect of McReaBo in the WH, so sad.
Not only is he eight years older, but his left jawline is bulging even more now than when he made that statement. While doctors say he is in good health, what’s with the bulge? And should we also worry about his choice for vice?
I think I might be ready to go down to the old soldiers home and await the cavalry charge there.
He says “might”. The disadvantages of age are hard to predict, and vary from person to person. He had to acknowledge that he might not up to running in 2008, but it turns out that he is up to it, so he’s running.
I’m thinking that running for President might be a more intense experience than actually being President. A lot more travel, anyway.
I don’t mean to be a McCain apologist because I really don’t like the guy, but I don’t think this is an actual flip-flop.
wow. i guess this is mccain himself saying his age is a legitimate issue now?
Did I understand it correctly that he only released his med records to a few journalist and they had only a limited amount of time to read them but they could not take any notes? Is this true, or just a rumor.
As for his age, we don’t have to talk about it, he shows it every day as he is all over the map regarding what he supports and what he doesn’t. If a younger candidate did this they would have been run out of town a long time ago. His age is his firewall to protect him from attacks a younger person would have to deal with in any election.
…But I never do underestimate the stupidity of the American Public. I mean, we did elect a dexlexic, ex-coke head, idiotic, silver spoon fed man child… twice….
McOnefoot chooses a VP, or more precisely the GOP chooses the person they want as the POTUS in waiting for 09.
Have they chosen yet or told McCain who his running successor-to-be is ?
Jake S. @ 19:
No, no, no, that coundnt happen in reality, maybe in some worm ridden alt universe maybe…
You know, when someone hides or limits access to their personal data when running for a public office I have to start questioning their motives for doing it. The first question that comes to my mind is what does McCain not want people to see in those records? My imagination runs wild with the infinite number of possibilities.
McCain’s age obviously is a big factor and as well it should be just as it should be with someone who is to youthful. Experience aside, add McCain’s advanced age to those seemingly restricted medical records and one can probably guess that maybe McCain isn’t as physically or mentally fit to hold that office as he has been letting on.
The video didn’t play for me.
ferrofluid @ 21:
You probably should’ve stricken out the ex-coke head part, ferro. Obama would call that a cheap-shot. A low-class one.
pissed off patricia @ 18:
I woke up this morning to Dr. Gupta (spelling?) on CNN being interviewed by a broadcaster who said something along the lines of “call us back if you find something else interesting” in the apparently voluminous report.
Ayatohllah of Diet Cola @ 5:
Do rebels suppress POW/MIA Congressional committee hearings and witnesses, or enable mining companies to land grab and evict people from their ancestral lands, or be involved in S&L guttings and the resultant coverups?
dennis @ 24:
true, no evidence of the ex part, if going by the last seven years is taken into consideration.
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I only have one question and mean no disrespect but why does the side of his face swell up and then a month or two later you see him and it has been drained? The only reason I know of for draining is if the cancer is still active. I don’t trust the medical report at all. I have been around people with cancer when it has to be drained, so his face problem is cause for concern and as far as I can tell in his medical report it is not even mentioned. What does anyone think about that ?
There’s a post up at Kos about McCain dancing around on his attitude toward FISA and telecom immunity.
Damn dude, take one position on something and stick with it for at least a week.
ferrofluid @ 27:
You think Obama is still using?
Jamie LaSarte @ 29:
I think I’m feeling a little queasy just thinking about what you asked.
Ageism I see is alive and well here. Reagan was a dunce before he ever got old. I know older people, one in her 90s, who could probably eat everyone’s ass for lunch in a debate. Yes, age is a predictor of senility, but it is not a guarantee. However, a history of irrational temper tantrums is another matter all together. Let’s hope he picks a decent Veep but he will be your next-next president in about three years.
Dennis, don’t quit your day job — the comedy routine isn’t working.
Damn, he looked a whole lot healthier back then. He looks TERRIBLE now, kind of like an animated corpse that needs to be started with jumper cables each morning.
They’ll keep feeding him the scripted one liners to compensate. I think people find it hard to believe that a person being funny is lacking faculties. Worked for Reagan…to a point.
Dr. Acula @ 34:
Amazing how the roving trolling GOPers can even compare a successful lawyer/ politician like Obama, with the AWOler partying ADHD presiChimp who destroyed every company he came into contact with.
Hey Dennis does the RNC pay you by the post or are you on the clock?
Talk about an INCONVENIENT truth!
But REALLY John McCain is NOT too old for the Presidency.
bubba @ 36:
President Reagan as long as he had his 9am to 4pm naps was a wonderful POTUS, trouble was the VP at time.
dennis @ 31:
You can always tell when Repub operatives have NOTHING. They resort to trivial innuendo devoid of substance that matters like gas prices, foreclosures, health care, War, etc. And by the way Dennis, given up on polling?
Chicken “Hussein” Little - Not!! @ 38:
they pay them in jelly beans and part credits for escape planes tickets for 09
I think the Repuglian fondness for jelly beans and the possible risk of CJD from the gelatin pretty much explains their whacked out behavior.
GOP the party of the mad cow mooers.
Pretty sure I heard McCain telling Obama:
“hey you kid….GET OFF OF MY LAWN!!”
ferrofluid @ 37:
Reich-wingers have no standards. That’s why lowlifes like princess would be stupid enough to defend McBush and herr dubyah.
Nowonmai @ 3:
Will he remember what a presahdent is?
Chicken “Hussein” Little - Not!! @ 38:
princess also claims “moral superiority” because she claims to have “a life” consisting of a life partner and children and weekend golf.
pissed off patricia @ 32:
The cancer will reappear the same way it hit Ted Kennedy. Melanoma ALWAYS comes back. It’s just a matter of time.
New onset seizure in an elderly man is brain cancer (in McCain’s case metastasis) in 50% of cases.
Bob Marley had it in his frikkin TOE and it metsed to his brain.
Dr. (Bitter Hussein) Matt @ 45:
Just like the Rethugs have defunded the Dept of Ag so badly, so that now we will be getting no pesticide report usage in the USA.
Open season on US consumers and pesticide poisoning, all the for the pittance of a mere $8 million a year for the surveys, a paltry 2.7c per head per year.
Chuck U @ 23:
reality doesnt play for most Republicans
ferrofluid @ 21:
Sigh…that’d be us.
Left&Left @ 41:
McCain joking in 2000 about going down to the old soldier’s home in 2008 instead of running for President is trivial innuendo, Left². But don’t let me stop you from pretending it’s a serious issue once again.
Che’s Lounge @ 48:
I knew there was a reason I like wearing steel toe capped boots, aprt from not getting my toes crushed.
Sun blocker on the generally forgotten toes would be a good idea when wearing sandals then.
princess @ 52:
Since when do reich-wingers know anything about serious issues? You are the losers that obsess over flag pins, middle names, and bowling scores. Keep pretending you care about America. It’s clear you do not.
KYJurisDoctor @ 39: