Or how about leaving your wife who is sick and dying of cancer to run for President
Posted By: Kaydie on 2008-08-30
In Reply to: How many of you would leave your 4-month-old special-needs baby to run for VP? nm - CG
There! Don't sling mud unless your prepared to get it back in the face.
Palin has a loving and caring family that is backing her and taking care of things - and I doubt very much she is "leaving" her baby. Sheesh! Your trying to make it sound like she's dropping her child off on a cold street corner with nobody to take care of them. If your going to go there then you might as well say and what father would leave his 2 young children to run for President.
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Well over 12,000 sick & dying in NYC - environmental catastrophe.sm
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/437417p-368502c.html
Age has nothing to do with dying?
Any president can die at anytime is correct, but age has a lot to do with dying. People actually die of old age!! Average life expectancy for American male is around 76. McCain has been through torture, cancer, and who knows what else.
You could find out you have cancer and need
you might have to wait 6-12 months and could die by then.
They are fighting. And they are dying for their cause. sm
Every single day they are fighting. They have a trained military now. They also have their police force. Many of them have given up their lives for the cause. It takes time to train a military.
Dying breed?
Hardly. There will always be a two-party system in America - as long as Obama doesn't make his next power grab to declare himself King Obama.
I seem to remember a time when the Democrats were floundering (out of power for many years), but they're still here - just needed to regroup. Not too long from now, they'll screw things up, just like the Republicans did, and the country will want a change (a change back to real American values). And the Republicans will still be there; you can take that to the bank (if there are any left not run by the government by then.)
Dying breed?
Hardly. There will always be a two-party system in America - as long as Obama doesn't make his next power grab to declare himself King Obama.
I seem to remember a time when the Democrats were floundering (out of power for many years), but they're still here - just needed to regroup. Not too long from now, they'll screw things up, just like the Republicans did, and the country will want a change (a change back to real American values). And the Republicans will still be there; you can take that to the bank (if there are any left not run by the government by then.)
72 yrs old and 2-time cancer survivor.
Before you go off, this is NOT wishful thinking, just simple fact. The only thing scarier than a McCain presidency would be a Palin presidency.
He has skin cancer, she has a tanning bed . . . nm
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cancer and national health
It's these sort of false concerns -- LOOK OUT, SIX TO TWELVE MONTH WAITS AND BY THEN YOU'RE DEAD! DEAD!!!! -- that impede progress toward a fair healthcare system. They're repetition of talking points, nothing more. A ten-second internet search would tell you, for instance, that in the UK:
-Over 99% of people with suspected cancer are now seen by a specialist within two
weeks of being urgently referred by their GP.
-Over 99% of patients with cancer are receiving their first treatment within one
month of diagnosis.
-Over 96% of patients with cancer are receiving their first treatment within two
months of being urgently referred by their GP.
Now I'll leave it to you and Google to find the comparable numbers for the US.
The larger point is, though, that if you decide this nation doesn't need universal healthcare, then you need to say exactly who it is you don't want care provided to. Because that's all this ever comes down to: Who do you include, and who do you leave out?
No, leaving God out is what has got us
and it is not *time for us to renew our diplomatic initiatives to this end and that we do EVERYTHING HUMANLY POSSIBLE.* It is not HUMANLY possible, it is time for us to renew our FAITH and put our trust in God. It is time for us to stop listening to voices such as yours where we have gone along with and accepted your views for too long. Evidently, you have chosen to leave God out, but do not tell us to any longer.
I'm leaving too...sm
I have never seen a place filled with such immature adults in my life. You can't discuss anything here without someone screaming about what side you are on and calling you names. Ridiculous! This has made for very poor reading and a very low quality discussion. I've seen a lot of poorly written, unorginal views from both sides. We inject our opinions and pet peeves into public view, disguise it as objectivity and add a link or 2 for credibility. No ones mind is ever changed. This is a discussion site, not a contest for arguments. Mostly I see a boring rehash of prior debates and then some baby starts name calling because someone disagreed. I'm too old for the playground. Have fun everyone! 
They know we are leaving...Isn't this what
When they become the dying breed, God help America. Until that day
these people will take up for the troops when your antiwar sentiment sends their spirits into the crapper.
Where's the concern for the dying US children?
I don't know whether you are a Republican or Democrat (or neither), but I have found that many Republicans are against this bill. The ironic thing to me is that many Republicans are pro-life. Many care so much about saviing the babies in the womb, but where is the concern for little children who are suffering? I think it's hypocritical for one to say that they care so much about bringing this life into the world and giving it a chance to live, and yet if that same child gets leukemia it's on it's own because God forbid our taxes might get raised or something.
Sometimes you just have to DO THE RIGHT THING. I believe the right thing is health insurance for all American children. What would Jesus do?
Heartless, mean and spiteful even when someone is dying
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They ARE dying. They're losing every one of them.
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Pubs are Not Dying Breed
63% approval rating.
Bravo to them. Lots of cancer in my family.
Great article. Thanks for posting it! I applaud them. Obviously early detection is key, and it makes sense that many people without insurance are not getting regular screenings done.
She is not leaving the baby. sm
This is either another Carl Rove bait and switch or McCain is truly demented. As someone else said, "does not pass the smell test".
Why are lots of CEO, CFO's leaving
Medquist CFO quitting. Symantec CEO retiring. Yahoo CEO quit. There are some other companies too. Why? Because they already know how good they have it and decide to take what is left of the their money and run?
You keep say you're leaving...
I'm tired of you sniping at everyone who doesn't goose-step in tune to your liberal whack job dogma.
If complaining about an inexperienced, unproven, egotistical noob is UN-AMERICAN, then what do you call all the Bush-bashing y'all have been doing ad naueusm?
Perhaps if you can't take it, you should stop shoveling it out. Huh?
These people are the last of a dying breed. They don't even realize...sm
that the rest of the country is falling out of the lock step routine.
I hope more people come to see the incompetence that led our troops to Iraq and we get an exit strategy ASAP.
I am sure there are people dying now who have no health care...
there are millions dying who DO. You really think that preventative and "maintenance" health care are going to "drastically" cut the number of catastrophic events...how do you figure that? Are you going to change the way people think? I would like to know the percentage of people who ARE insured who do preventative and maintenance health care? I know a whole lot of women who don't go for Paps and mammos every year, who are covered, simply because they don't want to. Has nothing to do with being insured or not. In fact, I would be willing to bet that a lot of people who are insured don't even use it until they have that catastrophic event and that is when they use it...that is what they think they have it for. And Obama and his advisors know that too...if he wants that kind of rationale to work then he is going to have to think of a way to force people to engage in preventative and maintenance health care...well maybe that is where the national security force comes in. Sigh.
American Cancer Society focuses its ads on the uninsured
Has anyone seen the ads yet?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/31/us/31cancer.html
Good Article. The American Cancer Society sm
is also advocating national health care as are a lot of medical organizations. They see the problems with the current system every day and know things cannot continue as they are.
And neither does John McCain. He is cancer free - see link.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/113705
And at least he isn't at risk for lung cancer like Mr. Obama who smokes like a chimney. That is more worrisome to me.
Yes, McCain has made mistakes in what he has said. So has Obama. But at least McCain doesn't associate with radicals and hasn't had communist mentors, and on and on and on.
I'm glad we don't have to worry then because he is cancer free and has been for several years
I thought I posted the link but I guess I must have forgotten to.
I'm more worried about Obama's chain smoking and the potential for lung cancer. My mom had lung cancer and it was horrible. It eventually went to her brain. Horrible horrible way to die.
Anyway...sorry I forgot to post the link before. Here it is.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/113705
It's called a skin graft, if that, indeed, was where there was cancer removed....sm
My aunt had a cancer (don't remember the kind), the size of a grapefruit removed from her cheek, and the skin graft always stuck out after that.
True. Sure hope he does not get lung cancer while in office.nm
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P.S. The ONLY reason I'm leaving is because you and your friends have
hounded ME off. It has nothing to do with my convictions. It has everything to do with my extreme DISTASTE for someone like YOU who does nothing but ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK, who treats her fellow human beings like S**T, who lies every chance she gets and justifies everything she does by saying her Lord Jesus Christ forgives you. You believe that Jesus, in your skewed mind, has given you the green light to do as many UN-Jesuslike things as you care to do, to be as mean and nasty and hateful as you can possibly be to other people, and all is forgiven, in your twisted mind.
Why on EARTH would I want to stay here and subject myself to the likes of YOU? I can read what INTELLIGENT Conservatives have to say on another site, and I don't have to get POUNDED INTO THE GROUND BY any of them in order to do it.
You -- especially YOU -- are the worst ever on this entire board. All you EVER do is project hatred, and then you go on to talk about Jesus. Why don't you try to be more LIKE Jesus? Jesus wouldn't ever treat people with such hatred and malice as you do.
As far as your friends leaving, I don't believe that for one nanosecond. They're still here. They just invented themselves with new monikers, but the same hatred and rage is there, and so are they.
Goodbye, MT. I'll miss you. I had a dental abscess last year. I miss that, too.
I think you know exactly what I meant by leaving Afghanistan. nm
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McCain leaving the hall
I don't know why he left without glad-handing his "friends." I do think it cooked his goose with a lot of people. How rude. I doubt Obama cared any more about the "friends' than McCain does but at least he put forth the effort to act like they were "friends" and he WAS a gentleman, even obviously angry at times, i.e. when he didn't get an opportunity to rebutt something McCain said. It was of so little substance I don't even remember what McCain said.
We have people dying in Iraq and in a hurricaine and you are worried about this! /
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No wonder people are leaving the left in droves. nm
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If it's been so nice, why do you continue to come here? Didn't you say you were leaving?
And didn't you say you were going to Iraq, as well? I think you'd be an incredible asset to Bush in Iraq. If you were there, we could win the war immediately. All you have to do is spread your word to the enemy. After five minutes of listening to your skewed logic, they'd turn the weapons on themselves. Masters of surprise terror attacks that they are, this would be a wonderful surprise tactic to use on them.
It doesn't work here any more, though. The only thing that would surprise some of us is if you actually told the truth about something. 
Ovarian cancer. McCain's father died of a heart attach...sm
around 70 I think. FYI, Obama quit.
You're leaving out some pertinent additional info.
Bush's individual net worth doesn't tell the whole story. That can be deparmentalized and pared down at will to appear rather modest as movers and shakers go. But remember, he is one unit in a family dynasty that includes connections to Saudi royal fortunes and the global military industrial cartel by way of black-op daddy Bush and the infamous Carlyle Group, not to mention the money line on his blue blood mother's side. If the shrub needed 600 million for a sure-fire venture do you think he'd have any trouble coming up with the cash? I think not. It'd be there for him. It always has been before. So it's deceptive to simply point at his tax return - that's what the public is dutifully allowed to see. He's got a nearly limitless financial backing at his disposal, simply by looking at the fact of who he's related to and who they do business with. This is true of many of the ultra-wealthy and particularly ultra-powerful families who consider themselves nation-shapers, and he is definitely a member of one of them. Modest wealth, this is not.
I agree people should leaving their freakin QA'ing out of the board
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Tina Fey said if McCain wins she is leaving the earth. Glad she won't have to. nm
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If customary deference to a sitting president by president elect
for the rest of us who understand such concepts as respect and traditional protocol, it would qualify as a darned good reason.
Maybe he and his wife were too...
...tired from being forced to move the SECOND time (due to Bush's ignorance regarding Blair house) to listen to any more BS.
What McCain's ex-wife says about him...
"I'm crazy about John McCain and I love him to pieces," Carol McCain told the New York Times, "but I'm just not going to do interviews."
Doesn't sound bitter to me. She forgave him, point is moot.
They all lie! At least he never cheated on his wife.
He's a disgusting womanizing (thinks he's a hottie) pig! He has no respect for women, period, the end. JMHO of course.
Yes, it is Benny Hinn's wife. nm
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Help the wife. Lock up the rest of us.
All the other democrats you named in similar situations are not running for president in 2008. This guy is not fit to be my leader.
You forgot that scary wife of his...
she is the one to be worried about also. You know she wears the pants in that family!
But it is okay that McCain cheated on his wife.
McCain commits adultery and that makes him a better candidate? I don't think so.
Isn't it a shame that this Messiah stuff is all they can come up for a well spoken American who just happens to be half white and half black. Cut me a break.
This board is awful, just awful. Pubs speak out of both sides of their mouths.
By blatently having dinner with his wife?
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Refreshing to see he loves his wife, and isn't
And it's about time, too. Out with the old, and in with the new!
YAAAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!
Well, gee. I think Bush loves his wife too.
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I think it is wonderful that he really seems to love this wife that much.....sm
not that spending money on someone is a measure of love, but when they are together, when they interact, when they exchange looks, they look like a deeply committed, loving, happy, devoted, and inspirational couple. Perhaps he just wanted to inspire joy to his wife for his own reasons. Lucky Michelle!
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