Here's another version of it.

Was McCain's left cheek always bloated like that?

I think he's storing nuts for the winter.

I think it's a consequence of one of his surgeries for skin cancer.

For those of you having trouble viewing the YouTube, here's a brief synopsis:

Obama =
McCain =

Whose?

...and I'm only making a little joke. Not making fun of his cancer. I'm a cancer survivor too.

Joe The Plumber knows the score.

Yeah... he knows McCain's campaign is going down the toilet.

I thought his job was to flush out the commies.

Joe the Plumber: Not a Licensed Plumber

Washingtonpost.com
By Robert Barnes

Joe the Plumber is not exactly a plumber and he's "not even close" to making the kind of money that would result in higher taxes from Democrat Barack Obama's proposals.

Such is the whirlwind of information that has come out about Joe Wurzelbacher of Holland, Ohio, since Republican John McCain made him famous in last night's debate. McCain mentioned him more than 20 times to use him as a symbol of hard-working Americans who would be hurt by Obama's tax policies. Obama and Wurzelbacher met earlier in the week in Toledo, where Wurzelbacher said Obama's plans to raise taxes on those making $250,000 a year or more would penalize him in his plans to buy the plumbing business for which he works.

Wurzelbacher since then has been on Fox News, interviewed by CBS's Katie Couric and appeared on ABC's "Good Morning America."

Not all the attention has been welcomed. Wurzelbacher, 34, told the Associated Press that he was not a licensed plumber. Because he works for a small company that does residential work, he said, he doesn't need to be licensed.

Wurzelbacher said he is of modest means, but worried Obama's tax plans would eventually hurt him. "You see my house. I don't have a lot of bells and whistles in here, really. My truck's a couple of years old and I'm going to have it for the next 10 years probably. So I don't see [Obama] helping me out,'' he told reporters this morning.

He also sounded concerned about the attention he is receiving. "I'm completely flabbergasted with this whole thing and just hope I'm not making too much of a fool of myself and hope I can get my message out there," he said.

I'm a thyroid cancer survivor. Fortunately, I never had to have any type of therapy.

About McCain:

If you see the pictures of his face, you will no doubt see a scar running down the left side and persistent puffiness of his left cheek. This is from the aggressive operation he had to remove the cancer as well as the lymph nodes in the area, as well as part of his parotid gland. When we show those pictures to independent doctors, some have told us an operation of that magnitude would’ve been done only for a much more serious and aggressive cancer than IIA melanoma. Other doctors disagree, saying McCain’s aggressive operation may have been done out of an abundance of caution, where doctors removed more lymph nodes and other tissue than is normally done, because he is, well, John McCain.

I'd say that's an accurate description, Olivant. I imagine it was a matter of choice; almost like a woman choosing a double mastectomy, after detecting cancer in one breast (Christina Applegate, for instance). Better safe than sorry.

I had Stage 3C Colon Cancer. Although the 5 year survival rate is less than 50%, I'm still here 8 years later, and cancer free.

Well, thank God for that, Lou. You must've barely been out of your 20s when you were diagnosed, huh?

I was 34, which is almost unheard of for that type of cancer. But it was my own stupidity that almost killed me. I was sick for almost a year, and refused to go for any tests. I thought I had an ulcer. It wasn't until I was so sick that I passed out from bleeding internally that I got tested.

JL, obviously I'm happy that everything worked out well for you.

This subject might make for a good discussion; cancer is a threat to all of us. Anyone interested in starting a thread for it?

Good idea. Maybe one of the survivors should start it.

Thanks. ....A cancer thread might be kind of depressing.

Are you kidding me??? A cancer thread is NOT depressing!! Personally, when I was diagnosed, I found the stories of other survivors to be so incredibly inspiring. If I can off that sort of inspiration to others, I'm all for it.

Edit: JL, I certainly didn't mean that in any negative way towards you. I'm sorry if it came out that way, and I apologize profusely. I tend to open my mouth rather quickly, if only to insert my foot.

No problem SB. Everyone looks at it a different way. I'd be willing to participate if I could help others. When PL was sick, we exchanged a lot of emails on the subject, and I tried my best to keep him positive. I knew what he had, but I never really knew how advanced he was. I tried to use myself as an example that anyone could beat it despite what doctors tell you. To this day, my Oncologist still smiles when he sees me because I'm one of his positive stories.

You are right. Everyone deals with it in their own way. And I certainly didn't mean to push my way on you.

However, to bring this back on topic - I wonder if there was any other primary where two of the Republican candidates were cancer survivors? I don't think any of the Democrats were. It just goes to show you how advanced the treatments have become.

Dont think so. Biden had some kind of benign brain tumor and aneurisms, but no cancer. Kerry was a cancer survivor, and I remember it being an issue with Paul Tsongas in 1992. He was far worse than he let on.

Time to bring the funny back to this thread. Here's the best of the "Angry McCain Reaction Shots" from yesterday's debate. Watch how they increase as the debate goes on.

He looks like an ass, an old, cranky ass.

"Yan-kee bean, Yan-kee bean . . . . I like my . . . Yan-kee Bean."

This is in an official Republican Party flier:



The October newsletter by the Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated says if Obama is elected his image will appear on food stamps -- instead of dollar bills like other presidents. The statement is followed by an illustration of "Obama Bucks" -- a phony $10 bill featuring Obama's face on a donkey's body, labeled "United States Food Stamps."

http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_buck16.3d67d4a.html

This is just fucked up.

Yes it is. It's almost as fucked up as THIS.

That alleged fraud is bad, but there's always voting fraud in EVERY Presidential election. I mean what else is new? Besides, its a proud Democratic Party tradition. Right 1960?

But damn, that racist shit just embarrases a former Republican like myself.