Records show McCain is healthy

Hello on this Friday, the 23 day of May 2008. I'm Kristin Volk with a UPI Headline Update.

Senator John McCain is in generally good health. That's according to McCain's medical records that were recently released, saying he's got a strong heart and is cancer-free. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee's campaign made the documents available to the Associated Press. That's so they could make the case that he's healthy enough to serve as president and to dispel the idea that he's too old. The Arizona senator is 71 and would be the oldest elected president.

Meanwhile, Senator John McCain has rejected the endorsement of a preacher criticized for his statements about Jews. Rev. John Hagee, who's a Texas televangelist, reportedly told his congregation during a sermon in the 1990s that Adolf Hitler had fulfilled a biological prophecy by pushing Jews out of Europe and into Israel. The Arizona Senator called the remarks deeply offensive. McCain also said that his relationship with Hagee doesn't compare to Senator Barack Obama's lengthy association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Talk of a possible Obama-Clinton ticket is growing. Former president Bill Clinton is reportedly pushing his wife for vice president if she can't win the Democratic presidential nomination...and Clinton's campaign is apparently in talks with Obama's campaign about the match up. On the other side, Senator John McCain will host several Republican vice presidential contenders at his home in Sedona, Arizona this weekend.

The Senate has passed a multi-billion bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan until President Bush's successor takes over. The vote came just minutes after a majority of GOP senators voted to add tens of millions of dollars for veterans college aid and extending unemployment benefits. They're provisions that Bush opposes, and he's promised to veto the bill if it contains those domestic spending measures. The legislation needs to be approved by the House before it goes to the President.

That's all for now. For all of us at UPI, have a wonderful weekend.

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[sorich]

He will die in office # 9 baby! He has had cancer 4 times and lived in a hole for 6 years!

[vidann1]

McCains medical records leave a lot to be desired and not all the questions have been answered because of the way they gave the information. We need to know now if he is healthy enough to serve his term if elected, Palin is not ready to be VP let alone Pres.

[tlndofa]

maaaate,if you could see the look on my face,

thanks for the news Kristin.

[ClassicFIHD]

John McCain has had cameras on him almost 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for the last 15 months. Seen any signs of PTSD?. And out of the thousand of noises there are only keys did that 30 years ago? After you get tortured for 5 years then you can talk.

[rbirrell]

as much as i respect john mc cain as a heroic

and great american, i dont think george w. bush wanted another republican president.

i think bush stirred up enough of a catastrophy that he wanted a democratic president in office to try pick up the pieces.

[maggythecat]

We need to see McCain's VA records. The guy is bat crazy. The VA did not know about PTSD when until the 80's but there is no telling what is in his records once they discovered PTSD. McCain has it and he has even said, in an interview, that the sound of keys jingling makes him nervous because it reminds him of the POW camp--somone coming for him. Do we really want someone in office who is afraid of the sound of keys? PTSD is real-McCain has it and that makes him unfit to run this country.

[luke12191]

They never said that you leftwing intollerant asshole

[allencrider]

No documentation on whether or not he suffers from dementia.