Comments on: Oh, That’s Why McCain Can’t Keep Shiite and Sunni Straight

By: thatlldopig

thatlldopig — Sat, 24 May 2008 20:16:11 +0000

Does tbogg know your’re funny? This is not fair.

By: prostratedragon

prostratedragon — Fri, 23 May 2008 23:16:15 +0000

“harmless vertigo”

I thought that’s what the resemblance of Cindy McCain and Vicki Iseman was about. ‘Course that stuff ain’t harmless if someone should use it against you.

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:31:05 +0000

Treatment under a pseudonym is routine for those who can afford to pay for their health care in cash, a tiny fraction of those who seek it. One would be hard-pressed to find the real names of foreign potentates, diplomats, politicians and bidnessmen at the Mayo or Cleveland Clinics. It maintains their privacy from insurers as well as the paparazzi, wives, voters and Tim Griffin-like oppo researchers. It is an privilege of wealth that hides both the privilege and the wealth.

Mortals who haven’t the ready cash to pay for their medical care use insurance. The price for that includes full disclosure with essentially no oversight, even if the medical staff themselves are required to keep it confidential. An outsource here, a computer leak there and, whammo, your data’s in Main Core along with the rest of your digital self.

The attendant privacy rules are sparse and ineffective, almost as bad as having none because they convey a false sense of security. If your insurer has a hand in it, regardless of whether they pay for anything, your data is not secure.

By: masaccio

masaccio — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:08:34 +0000

Nancy Snyderman, who plays a doctor on ABC news, is reviewing the documents. She said she is looking at the records regarding the melanoma surgery, and the follow-up care.

By: PJEvans

PJEvans — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:37:21 +0000

One of the reporters caught that McSame was treated in February for early squamous cell carcinoma. They got it all (they think), but it’s one more reason to not vote for him.

And why is he using a pseudonym for treatment at Mayo? Is he afraid that he’d become a lead brick if word gets out?

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:18:47 +0000

I’ve heard only that a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor was on his cell phone asking his editor about the intern who reads Sumerian.

By: freepatriot

freepatriot — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:51:58 +0000

any truth to the rumor that mccains early medical records were written in hyroglyphs ???

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:48:00 +0000

Yes, I thought the Times blew it. Their front-page headline shouts “McCain Apparently Healthy”, then it regurgitates the AP story without comment. Nothing to tell its readership about the “sick child” way in which McCain chose to release his partial health record. Reminds me of, say, how Shrub released his military service [sic] record.

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:44:58 +0000

Yup. No time to review the records, no ability to have them reviewed by medically qualified observers, no ability to discern gaps or holes or inconsistencies. No point in making doctors available to those who haven’t had access to the info or those few who have, but who haven’t had time to digest it.

Imagine the overtime McCain is paying Mayo Clinic staff to take reporters’ questions over a holiday weekend. Worth a lot to him to do it this way, which makes some of this a red herring. What aren’t we looking at because of it?

By: freepatriot

freepatriot — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:12:11 +0000

Sorry. I can’t help it. I realize she doesn’t use anymore, but in the real world these issues don’t just melt away.

current user status has NOTHING to do with it

once a junky, always a junky

it’s kinda like alcoholism

you don’t stop being an alcoholic just because you stop drinking

you’re a junkie for life

and cindy mccain is a junkie