John McCain's dad died at 70 of a heart attack. His grandfather died at 61 of a heart attack.

[dkf]

Yikes.

[Alexander]

1. And he's had recurrences of melanoma enough to have died many times over.

McCain's skin cancer is much worse than we are led to believe.

[beac]

3. And he WOULD be dead except for all that gosh-darned free socialist medical care that

allowed him to have regular check ups and undergo expensive procedures in a timely fashion. McCain, the Undead Commie!

[sunnybrook]

6. that's very "interesting" the way you phrased that

followed by "if looks could kill you would be dead"

(taken from the interview with Iowa newspaper)

[blue_onyx]

2. Kind of scary

I don't wish John any ill will but it's risky voting for him. I don't see how anyone is willing to risk a Palin administration, no matter how much they may like McCain. I never thought I would say this but I think I would prefer a third Bush term over a Palin term.

[HereSince1628]

4. So the trend is to live longer?

I'd say that cardiac care has changed a bit since the grandfather died.

Or are you claiming that a guy with taxpayer paid healthcare gets shitty medical care?

[dkf]

5. Look at Russert though.

Sometimes even medicine can't fix this stuff.

[HereSince1628]

8. I can find thousands of exampls of folks that die from heart attacks.

There is no good data here.

McCain has only 1/4 of his grandfathers genes.

If you want to do meaningless assessments on 2 points of data, the trend in the McCain family is to live longer as Grandpa's genes are diluted.

The REAL threat to McCain is malignant melanoma. He has that today.

It kills.

[dkf]

9. He has multiple threats to his health.

[HereSince1628]

13. Yes, I believe that is true.

1)Age
2)Melanoma
3)Type A personality
4)High Fat Diet (based on eating his own words)
5)Sleeping with pitbulls.
6) Too much time in the Bush

[Hawaii Hiker]

12. Russert had diabetes to, which really can speed up heart disease & eventually death

[Forkboy]

7. So what the fuck is John waiting for? Pick up the pace already!

:evilgrin:

[buff2]

10. Yeah,but he's got the genes of his 96 year old mother

Ain't THAT the shits? x(

[LisaL]

14. He is a man. His mother is a woman. Women live longer than

men. The argument that he got her genes doesn't hold much water.

[Heather MC]

11. And John McCain will die by being pushed down the stairs at 72 If God fobid he wins

[stuntcat]

15. get the word out!!!

75 is old anyway and he doesn't make it Palin will bring the 2nd coming.
I just looked this up and I can only find one piece on it:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/778277/mccains_father_died_at_70_grandfather.html?cat=5
and people talking on Yahoo:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080915191654AATclDO

I want to tell everyone I know, this should be BIG NEWS x(