“If the shareholders of The New York Times ever wonder why the paper’s ad revenue is plummeting and its share price tanking, they need look no further than the hysterical reaction of the paper’s editors to any slight, real or imagined, against their preferred candidate,” said McCain campaign spokesman Michael Goldfarb.

Heh heh.

The Politico

John McCain yesterday paid a quiet visit to Walter Reed, the Army’s giant medical center in Washington, D.C., a campaign aide confirms.

And without the tons of camera’s the Missiah (yes, I meant to spell it that way) requires.

Back on May 4, the NY Times editorial board had a bit of a meltdown over John McCain’s medical records

Senator John McCain is 71 years old, a survivor of an aggressive form of skin cancer. If elected, he would be the oldest man to become president.

These factors are not disqualifying, but they impose on Mr. McCain a larger duty than usual to provide detailed, timely disclosure about his health. So far, he has failed to meet this obligation to voters, even though he is now the presumed Republican nominee.

At the time of writing that, they knew that McCain would be releasing his medical records today. And he has. Interesting how the AP story the Times uses mentions

His likely Democratic rival, Barack Obama, will be 47 in August. Obama, lean and agile and a frequent basketball player, says he has quit smoking. Neither he nor Democratic opponent Hillary Rodham Clinton has released health records.

Isn’t it cute how Obama is “lean and agile and a frequent basketball player?” He says he has quit smoking, but, is there proof? Oh, and where is the Times in demanding, DEMANDING, I say, that Obama release his medical records?

The medical records show that he has some of the issues that those of his age suffer from. Many of them, such as melenoma, are ones anyone can suffer from. I am rather surprised by the even tone and factual presentation that the AP provides in the story. One interesting paragraph 6 in

”I think physiologically he is considerably younger than his chronologic age based on his cardiovascular fitness,” Eckstein said in an interview Thursday. ”I got a call from the cardiologist who said that he had not seen anyone that age exercise for that long in a long time.”

Also

Early on in the primaries, a number of voters said McCain’s age was a problem, but recent surveys suggest it may not be as big an issue. An ABC News-Washington Post poll conducted in April found 70 percent saying McCain’s age would not make any difference to their vote. Other recent polls found similar results, with two-thirds or more saying his age doesn’t matter.

McCain has shrugged off the issue [of his age] by highlighting his stamina and strong genes. He has recalled his ”rim-to-rim” Grand Canyon hike in 2006; he has campaigned with his energetic mother, age 96.

I wonder how well the rest of us would do with that.

He appears to be in pretty good health and demeanor. So, when will the NY Times editorial board chime in on how good his health is? Should I hold my breath?

And via Patrick Hynes through the power of email, what would it look like in 2013 if Obama was president?

The Navy has released to the public the military records of John McCain. See photos and a video of McCain as well as read more about his military records below.

John McCain

The way a man conducts himself in times of trial are a measure of the man. The military records of John McCain were released to the public yesterday and reveal a great deal of the character of the man who will be our next President.

The AP is reporting.

McCain, now the Republican Party’s likely presidential nominee, was taken prisoner in October 1967 after he was shot down while on a mission over Hanoi. He wasn’t freed until March 1973, after the United States signed peace agreements with the North Vietnamese. His captors tortured him and held him in solitary confinement. Still, he declined an offer of early release until those who had been at the prison longer than him were let go.

That decision earned McCain a Navy Commendation Medal. Although McCain was ‘crippled from serious and ill-treated injuries,’ he steadfastly refused offers of freedom from those holding him prisoner. ‘His selfless action served as an example to others and his forthright refusal, by giving emphasis to the insidious nature of such releases, may have prevented a possibly chaotic deterioration in prisoner discipline,’ the citation says.

The Vietcong called John McCain ‘the Prince’ because his father was the Commander of the Navy at the time. They felt they had a real bargaining chip when they captured McCain. They offered him an early release in order to use his release to demoralize the other prisoners and to use it for propaganda. McCain new what they planned to do and therefore refused their offers.

Those that think its cool to vote for someone based on race and/or gender or think they want to make a statement by voting for someone based on race and/or gender, might consider voting for someone based on character and what is best for the country. If race and/or gender don’t or shouldn’t matter, then vote for the man who is a leader, who loves the country and who has proven himself in the field of battle.

I want a President who will lead us. I want a President who I know can stand the pressure and will do what he feels is best. I truly believe that nothing scares John McCain. How could it? He has faced the devil and looked him in the eye. He has done his time in hell. What could possibly scare him now? He is a man of character and a man who loves our country. THAT matters more … so much more … than whether he is male or female or what ethnic group he belongs to.

John McCain - Photos

Via the official McCain Blog

Via The Jawa Report

A coalition of American Muslim groups is demanding that Sen. John McCain stop using the adjective “Islamic” to describe terrorists and extremist enemies of the United States.

Muneer Fareed, who heads the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), told The Washington Times that his group is beginning a campaign to persuade Mr. McCain to rephrase his descriptions of the enemy[...]

Steve Schmidt, a former Bush White House aide who is now a McCain media strategist, told The Times that the use of the word is appropriate and that the candidate will continue to define the enemy that way.

Anyone else think that Obama would have folded like a cheap Armani suit to the groups. Not that BHO would ever say it in the first place.

Good for the McCain campaign, telling this Islamist groups to piss off.

Over at John McCain’s campaign site

FOX NEWS’ MEGYN KELLY: “Senator, one of the criticisms of General Petraeus yesterday and of some Republicans on the Hill is that no clear exit plan in Iraq was laid out. Indeed, earlier in the week that had at least one Democrat calling you a ‘warmonger’ because there is no clear, quote, exit strategy. Your reaction to that?”

JOHN MCCAIN: “Well, I think those kinds of comments are very unfortunate, and if Senator Obama is going to wage the kind of campaign that he says he is, I hope that he will, he personally, will repudiate that kind of language. The exit strategy is success of the surge, continued Iraqi ability to take over their security, requirements to have the democratic process go forward. It’s the classic counterinsurgency strategy. There has been significant improvement. But we’ve seen in the events in Basra in the last few days with the attacks on the Green Zone that this is still a tough fight. There’s still plenty of difficulties ahead. That’s why General Petraeus, I think portrayed a very balanced view yesterday of the situation on the ground. And I think most Americans trust him. I certainly do.”