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McCain flees north toward home
With even supporters checking his campaign's vital signs, the candidate looks for new life in New Hampshire, the state where he upset George W. Bush in 2000.
By Walter Shapiro [2007-07-15]

  • One flew out of the Hanoi Hilton

    The Department of Veterans Affairs health care system has a list of certain illnesses they call "presumptive" illnesses. In other words, if you served in Gulf War I and you come down with unexplained symptoms of chemical poisoning, it is "presumptive" that you got it from exposure to substances in the air during the Gulf War. If you were in certain parts of Vietnam and you come down with certain cancers, it is "presumed" that you got them from exposure to Agent Orange.

    In McCain's case, odd as it may seem, the VA "presumes" that if you were a prisoner of war and you develop symptoms of pyschosis, you got from being a POW.

    McCain is presumed to be a psycho by the VA. Who are we to argue with that?

    -- Garry Owen
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    Sunday, July 15, 2007 09:42 AM
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