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Friday, May 23, 2008
Want to play doctor with John McCain?
Care to leaf through a summary of eight years of John McCain’s medical records?
Here’s a teaser, his meds list:
Simvastatin, a cholesterol lowering medicine
Hydrochlorothiazide, for kidney stone prevention
Amiloride to preserve potassium in the blood stream
Aspirin, for blood clot prevention
Zyrtec, an anti-histamine as necessary for nasal allergies
Ambien CR, as necessary for sleep when traveling
See the whole summary at www.johnmccain.com/mccainrecords
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Bush and McCain and money
President Bush hits the road next week to raise money for probable GOP presidential nominee John McCain, but you might not see them together unless you pay the price of admission at a Phoenix event on Tuesday.
White House Spokesman Tony Fratto said the events, including two on Wednesday in Utah which McCain will not attend, will be in private residences and closed to the press. “You know the way that goes,” Fratto told reporters. “This is the way we’ve always done it.”
It’s not the way other presidents always have done it. Reporters were allowed into fundraising events President Clinton attended at private homes.
Press Secretary Dana Perino added later in the day that there is a chance of a public spotting of McCain and Bush together at an arrival or departure event in Phoenix. Stay tuned, she advised, adding that no decisions have been made yet concerning future campaign events featuring Bush and McCain.
And here’s Perino’s take on why the Phoenix event is closed to press: McCain’s doing, she says.
“The reason that they’re closed is that the McCain campaign has a practice of having their fund-raisers as closed press. And these are in private residences, which is where we have had closed press fundraisers as well,” she said.
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Rice on the side.
The verdict is in. If the British people had their way, John McCain would choose Condoleezza Rice as his running mate.
In an online poll conducted this week by the London Times, readers were asked to vote amongst 10 of the most likely choices (at least according to the Times). Here are the choices: Haley Barbour, Charlie Crist, Carly Fiorina, Lindsay Graham, Bobby Jindal, Joe Lieberman, Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty, Condoleezza Rice, and Mitt Romney.
The poll closed at midnight and Condi came in first with 33 percent of the vote. In second place was Mitt with 13 percent, followed by Sarah Palin with 11 percent of the vote. Both Carly and Joe received 10 percent.
The paper itself argued that Carly would make a great choice, giving the candidate the economics knowledge he lacks.
