WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 2008
Doctor Says Palin In Excellent Health
Just Before Election Day, GOP Veep Candidate Releases Limited Medical Report
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Alaska Governor and Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin. (AP Photo/Madalyn Ruggiero)
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Photo Essay Palin Presses On Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin on the campaign trail.
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Photo Essay Sarah Palin Alaska's youngest and first female governor tabbed to be McCain's running mate.
McCain's campaign released a summary of Palin's medical history Monday night.
Palin had promised several weeks ago to release the information, following similar releases by McCain, and Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
In a two-page letter, Dr. Cathy Baldwin-Johnson, Palin's personal family physician in Alaska since 1997, said Palin has only been hospitalized for childbirth.
The Alaska governor is a 44-year-old mother of five. Son Trig, born earlier this year, has Down syndrome.
Palin had a breast biopsy in 1992 for what turned out to be a benign lesion. Her vital signs, including blood pressure and pulse, have been normal, the summary said.
Baldwin-Johnson said Palin has no close relatives with major health problems.
Palin also takes no routine prescription medications and exercises regularly.
The campaign's decision to release a brief summary letter is consistent with what Obama did earlier this year.
Obama did not release records, but rather a letter from his personal physician attesting to the 47-year-old's good health. Obama has very good cholesterol levels, outstanding blood pressure and no sign of heart disease. He is a smoker who has quit but relapsed several times. He announced in February that he was quitting again with the aid of Nicorette gum. His doctor said only that Obama is using Nicorette "with success."
Last month, Biden, Obama's running mate, released medical records that showed the 65-year-old to be very healthy, with some routine aging issues. There was no evidence he's had a brain scan to completely rule out another aneurysm like the one that required emergency surgery 20 years ago.
The records showed no reason for concern about another aneurysm: Biden has no symptoms, has healthy blood pressure and seems to have healthy heart arteries.
The records for McCain, 72, showed him in generally good health, cancer-free and with a strong heart. He maintains a healthy weight and blood pressure and takes medicine for his cholesterol.
Critics raise lingering questions, however, about his melanoma, the worst kind of skin cancer. McCain's doctors performed extensive surgery that raised no concern that it had begun spreading, giving him a good prognosis. He undergoes regular skin exams.
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Sarah Palin was in TX when her water apparently broke. She then stayed at a conference to give a speech AND THEN took the 11-13hr flight home to AK.
Yeah right. Something stinks.
Even to the end Rick Davis is trying to incite hate into the final hours of the campaign, oh God I hope they don''t succeed. I hope the American people see the good that can come from trusting another human being another American. We need to show the world that we are indeed a changed nation filled with love and trust for other human beings. God Bless America and God Bless ALL Americans.
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Palin does not expect to win, so she does not expect the report to be examined too closely. Now she has four years for it to be forgotten.
I really did not expect any psychological information, although it is obvious whe has serious problems in that area.
So many in Alaska are saying this Sarah is not the Sarah they knew. There could be a reason for that. She could have gone off her meds so they could say that she is not on any prescription medications.
This woman is not only severely intellectually challenged; she%u2019s proven herself to be;
PARANOID... All those %u201Chaters%u201D to root out in Wallisa & state government. A %u201Chater%u201D being any who disagree with her.
VINDICTIVE...goes to incredible lengths to punish any who challenge her absolute authority... takes any opposition personally. Unbelievably petty...long memory.
OBSESSIVE & DELUSIONAL...Clings to the belief that she is completely right long after reality says otherwise.
MEGALOMANIACAL...a common affliction among rabid, Holy Roller types. Imagines that she has special access to the Almighty, but since they only converse in tongues, insists that we all just take her word for what was said. (I really want someone like her, hand poised over the button, babbling about the Rapture and the end of days)
ACQUISITIVE...steals with both hands (considered a virtuous trait among Republicans)
DECEITFUL...says what she thinks is expedient in any given situation...not what is truthful or even somewhat accurate (another desirable quality among Republicans)
The list goes on, but it%u2019s too depressing to dwell on the fact that she is a major party%u2019s cynical, dangerous choice for the second highest office in the land (and a pretty good bet to inherit the first) based on her hoped-for appeal to women and extreme right Christians.
"The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government", "and I won''t be buried under their d*a*m*n flag."
"I''m an Alaskan, not an American. I''ve got no use for America or her damned institutions."
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Now, what does the Amendment XIV say ?
(...) No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or GIVEN AID OR COMFORT TO THE ENEMIES THEREOF. (...)
Go Barack and Michelle Obama! Palin, the wicked witch of the north, I don''t care if you had a great physical exam, you need a ego exam, you think you could be our V.P. No way!
Good Night, America
- by newsthought1 November 4, 2008 4:09 AM EST
- America is fed up with all the scandals from Republican crooks, liars, perverts, lawbreakers, and used-car salesmen hucksters that have trashed this country over the last eight years:
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Randy "Duke" Cunningham
Jack Abramoff
Tom DeLay
Mark Foley
Larry Craig
Ted Haggard
Bob Ney
Trent Lott
Ted Stevens
Alberto Gonzales
Donald Rumsfled
Karl Rove
Scooter Libby
*** Cheney
George Bush
Lying about reasons for going to war with Iraq (Uranium,
false claims about Iraq''s supposed weapons of mass destruction.)
Torture in Abu Ghraib.
The treasonous exposure of a CIA agent by White House officials.(Plamegate)
Letting Osama Bin Laden escape from Tora Bora
Halliburton%u2019s overcharging and outright fraud for services in Iraq
Lack of body armor for troops
Enron
Katrina
Illegal wiretapping
Political influence peddling
S.e.x scandals
Troopergate
Travel fraud
Election tampering
Ballooning federal debt
Economy in a tailspin
And these are just for starters%u2026
Enough is enough, America is ready for change!