What would happen with the Republican nomination if McCain was to drop out/dead at this point?
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What would happen with the Republican nomination if McCain was to drop out/dead at this point?
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Smoke-filled room deal in St. Paul. The delegates already elected for McCain would still have the right to go to the convention, but, unable to vote for their candidate, would be wheeled and dealed by the other guys. It definitely doesn’t just pass to Huckabee by default.
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Smoke-filled room deal in St. Paul…
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There are NO smoke filled rooms in St. Paul, unless the building is on fire.
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I’ve noticed the cheek thingy for years. That’s nothing new. What is it, btw?
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Something his Vietnamese hosts never did give him permission to spit out.
I think it is fair to say two things - that McCain’s surgery may have contributed to his cheek looking puffier.
However, even without surgery and cancer, his cheeks were bound to look a little different. Note that this picture is thirty-four years old.
People are just built differently. Editorial cartoonists will concentrate on these cheeks the same way they do Obama’s ears and Bill Clinton’s nose.
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People are just built differently. Editorial cartoonists will concentrate on these cheeks the same way they do Obama’s ears and Bill Clinton’s nose.
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It’s not that his cheeks are naturally puffy though, its asymmetrical, his left cheek has an obvious growth or bump. Looking up the news articles from when he had melanoma, the growth was removed from his left temple in 2000, so I’m guessing its scarring from that.
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It’s not that his cheeks are naturally puffy though, its asymmetrical, his left cheek has an obvious growth or bump. Looking up the news articles from when he had melanoma, the growth was removed from his left temple in 2000, so I’m guessing its scarring from that.
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It could be from treatment with steroids. I know someone who underwent steroid treatment for ulcerative colitis in her teens, and to this day (she’s 39) she has hypertrophy of the jaw muscles. It is more pronounced on one side, giving rise to the same sort of “lump” that McCain has. Of course, this is just speculation; I know McCain has had medical problems, but I don’t know what they are or what treatments he has had.
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However, even without surgery and cancer, his cheeks were bound to look a little different. Note that this picture is thirty-four years old.
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Holy shit.
John McCain was hot.
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http://www.talkturkey.us/2008/02/mccains-melanom.html Actually returning bouts are already known.
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But . . . electing a young person to the presidency is no guarantee that he or she will be healthy or stay healthy either. Just take a look at Clinton who had heart bypass surgery a few years ago, and JFK who, it was revealed in 2002, was sick since the age of 13 with Addison’s disease, as well as on chronic-pain medication throughout his presidency. Some others, according to some, were mentally disturbed or challenged, even though they were light years younger than McCain.
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For crying out loud, www.talkturkey.us - light years is a measure of distance. Way to go, you just blew your chances of me taking anything you ever write seriously.
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John McCain was hot.
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He dated a stripper sometime in the mid-1970s.
We Navy vets aren’t generally shy and retiring types. 
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We Navy vets aren’t generally shy and retiring types.
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Generally resulting in us Navy nurses rolling our eyes and getting out the IM Bicillin…
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I have no idea. He came forward with the news himself in 1994, and of course there’s no way of saying one way or the other if he had been diagnosed previously.
It depends on what type of melanoma, and what other medical conditions he may have. I doubt very much it’s metastasized; I don’t think he’d actually continue in the race if it had reached his lymph nodes or other organs.
If he’s generally healthy, they may opt for surgery. There’s also Interferon, which is used for recurring Melanoma, and radiation therapy combined with chemo.
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I had heard the story about reagan’s early signs of senility. but also, regarding bill Clinton: there was a story going around, that bill clinton refused to make his medical history public. The story i heard was that Clinton had a deviated nasal septum, from some 9unknown0 cause.
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IThe story i heard was that Clinton had a deviated nasal septum, from some 9unknown0 cause.
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Most of us have a deviated septum from a known cause called birth.