Easy, cornflake. We're all friends here.
Well, some of us, anyhow.
But for the record, precancerous lesions are just that. PREcancerous. I had one frozen off my forehead a couple months ago. I won't tell you about the ones that used to live in my colon because I don't want to gross you out. And if you think that folks who have to take blood pressure pills or cholesterol pills are disqualified to be President, well, you're gonna have a real problem finding qualified candidates. Lots of folks have to take that kind of medication as they age into their forties and fifties. It doesn't mean you get to call the undertaker just yet.
Heh, sorry, wasn't 'just no'ing' anyone here or anything, only a theoretical future GOP who'd try to make this random incident some kind of indictment of her health.
I wouldn't consider blood pressure or cholesterol meds disqualifying by themselves, no. I do think someone's need to take them is a legitimate area of consideration, discussion, whatever, when we're talking about the presidency. I mean yeah, anything can happen. Someone can get shot, get a killer infectious disease, choke on a pretzel, whatever.
However, known chronic or potentially recurring, potentially life-threatening conditions I think are all on the table for anyone seeking that office. A white male around the age he was at the time is statistically decently at risk of a cardiac event. If he's got a known condition that'd up the risk -
- I think it's legitimate to ponder.
Same, basically, wrt the lesions. If that'd been all he'd had, that'd be one thing. He had actual cancer at least once though, so the presence of the lesions seems to indicate that there might be a higher predisposition or whatever to developing it again or it recurring or what have you. I don't know, statistically.
My point was that I think these are genuine health issues the public would logically question a candidate about or have concerns over if electing the person. Hence, if the GOP tried to make an issue out of what appears to have been a flukey, one-time thing, it'd be beyond ridiculous imo.
