Brace Youself: The candidates digitally aged 4 years

[banyon]

What would president contenders look like after 4 years in office?
PHOTOSHOP FUN

http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/915259,CST-NWS-prez25.article

April 25, 2008

BY ANDREW HERRMANN Staff Reporter/aherrmann@suntimes.com
Face it: The presidency ages its occupants. After a term or two, presidents often look pooped.

Using Photoshop software, Popular Photography's www.popphoto.com "aged" John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to show how they might fare after four years in the Oval Office.


McCain may hold his ground in Iraq, but his hairline is in retreat. Obama gets some experience with wrinkles. And Clinton morphs into Madeleine Albright.

Some researchers say stress does indeed speed aging. A 2004 University of California San Francisco study found blood cells of mothers of chronically ill children resembled cells of low-stressed women who were 10 years older.

The pictures may not go far enough.

"The poor son of a gun who inherits the office in January is going to inherit some very stressful problems,'' said presidential health expert Kevin R. Loughlin of Harvard Medical School.

http://media1.suntimes.com/multimedia/candidates.jpg_20080425_09_52_49_20-282-400.imageContent

[Ultra Peanut]

God damn. I know the job takes a toll on you, but Barry's going to be 50, not 70.

And Johnny Mac isn't waxen enough.

[Adept Havelock]

I bet if they ran it eight years, Obama would look like he's pushing 70, Hillary would look like Helen Thomas, and McCain would look like Donovan after he drank at the very end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

[banyon]

I bet if they ran it eight years, Obama would look like he's pushing 70, Hillary would look like Helen Thomas, and McCain would look like Donovan after he drank at the very end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.


Oh, yes. It's more beautiful than
I'd ever imagined. This certainly
is the cup of the King of Kings.

Eternal life!
:doh!:

[Taco John]

THe only one of those that is believable is Clintons...

[Adept Havelock]

Oh, yes. It's more beautiful than
I'd ever imagined. This certainly
is the cup of the King of Kings.

Eternal life!
:doh!:

:)

[banyon]

THe only one of those that is believable is Clintons...

McCain is afflicted with invasive melanoma. It's not good.

[Adept Havelock]

McCain is afflicted with invasive melanoma. It's not good.

I didn't know that. Poor bastard.

[banyon]

Too Old To Run?

"I am older than dirt and have more scars than Frankenstein," John McCain likes to say.

It always gets a laugh, though I don't suppose his mother, who is 94, and her twin sister appreciate it very much. If he is older than dirt, what does that make them? Older than lava?

If McCain, 70, runs and wins, he would be the oldest person ever inaugurated as president. As is evident from the scar on the left side of his face, he has had malignant melanoma, the most invasive and dangerous form of skin cancer. (One in every 60 Americans is at risk for developing invasive melanoma in their lifetimes.)

I talked to McCain recently and asked him about his health. He said it was good. "I hiked the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim last August with my son, Jack," he said.

I tried to imagine that. The last time I saw it, the Grand Canyon was seriously deep.

How on earth do you hike a thing like that rim-to-rim? I asked.

"Down and up!" he said. "It takes three days."

John Kennedy, who at 43 became the youngest person ever elected president, and who was always associated with "vig-ah," in fact had serious diseases that were kept from the public.

As was revealed in 2002, Kennedy was sick from age 13 through the rest of his life, was on chronic-pain medication throughout his presidency and had Addison's disease, an endocrine disorder that until 1940 was a terminal illness. Kennedy survived it through cortisone injections, which at the time only rich people could afford.

Dr. Jeffrey Kelman, who examined Kennedy's medical records in 2002, said, "He was never healthy. I mean, the image you get of vigor and progressive health wasn't true."

The point being: Electing a young person to the presidency is no guarantee that he or she will be healthy or stay healthy.

The media often demands the release of medical records these days, and the candidates sometimes comply. There were so many false rumors circulating about McCain's health when he ran for president in 2000, that he released 1,500 pages of medical and psychiatric records. They showed him to be in good health and not nuts. (And how many presidential candidates can say that?)

"We'll probably have to do that again," McCain told me of the record release.

Do you think all candidates should release their medical and psychiatric records? I asked.

I thought he would jump on that and say yes, just to put pressure on the other presidential campaigns, but he did not.

"I don't know," he said. "I think probably in my case it was a little more unique because of my POW status and the war injuries and the fact that people were spreading rumors that I was crazy and disabled both. So we'll probably have to do that again."

You think the rumors will start again? I asked.

"They already have!" he said.

But I don't think that is going to be McCain's problem. It isn't his health but rather his demeanor that worries some people.

The Iraq war, which he strongly supports, has disturbed and dismayed him. He told The Washington Post it was a "train wreck." He told me it was a "witch's brew." He visits wounded soldiers and Marines when they come back home for treatment and if any civilian feels the pain of the military, it is McCain.

And it is showing.

Last April, I wrote of a campaign swing McCain made through New Hampshire and Iowa, "Though McCain said he enjoyed himself, he was not the rollicking campaigner of six years ago. At a number of stops, he was largely subdued and sometimes almost somber."

Last Sunday, on "Meet the Press with Tim Russert," McCain seemed to have moved from almost somber to almost gloomy.

In my recent interview, I suggested to him that the laughing, joking John McCain of his last presidential campaign seemed to be AWOL.

"It's hard to make jokes; we are a nation at war," he said. "There are great national security challenges that we face. But I also believe, as Ronald Reagan did, that America's greatest days are ahead of us. It's going to be an upbeat campaign and an optimistic one."

And will you still come to the back of the bus and goof off with the press like before? I asked.

"If I changed that," McCain said with a smile of old, "I would probably get death threats."


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/25/politics/main2397926.shtml

[SportsRacer]

Jesus, McCain looks dead in that picture.

[Ultra Peanut]

Jesus, McCain looks dead in that picture.And?

[Taco John]

:evil:

[Ultra Peanut]

ITS GODDAMNIT

ITS

[jettio]

McCain has been making a lot of blunders lately.

His stupid comments about voting against the Lily Ledbetter act will cost him big time.

If there was one thing that could happen to reconcile Hillary's supporters to Obama it would be the Equal Pay Act and how it highlights how McCain and the Republicans side up with corporations over people no matter what is fair, and how important it is not to have the next Supreme Court appintments made by somebody who thinks like that.

Funny how all of this talk about Republican attack machine, has McCain and his people not realizing that he is making substantive mistakes on the campaign trail that will cost him when people are paying attention.

[DaneMcCloud]

The only problem with those pics is that they actually portray McCain alive after 4 years in office

[StcChief]

The only problem with those pics is that they actually portray McCain alive after 4 years in officeand you dont' think Obama would would get wacked.?

[Adept Havelock]

and you dont' think Obama would would get wacked.?

A slap in the face to the Secret Service. Classy. :shake:

[Calcountry]

McCain is afflicted with invasive melanoma. It's not good.
Who is his VP pick again?

Hmmm, If it is a solid conservative, we won't stay home.

[banyon]

Who is his VP pick again?

Hmmm, If it is a solid conservative, we won't stay home.

3 contenders mentioned in conservative circles lately:

http://www.nndb.com/people/407/000024335/gramm-g000365.jpg

Phil Gramm

http://www.fsec.ucf.edu/en/media/newsletters/echron/archives/2007/Q3/images/gov_crist_125x190.jpg

Charlie Crist

http://www.topnews.in/uploads/Condoleezza-Rice3.jpg

Condoleezza Rice (people keep saying it :( )

[Dave Lane]

What would president contenders look like after 4 years in office?
PHOTOSHOP FUN

http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/915259,CST-NWS-prez25.article

April 25, 2008

BY ANDREW HERRMANN Staff Reporter/aherrmann@suntimes.com
Face it: The presidency ages its occupants. After a term or two, presidents often look pooped.

Using Photoshop software, Popular Photography's www.popphoto.com "aged" John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to show how they might fare after four years in the Oval Office.


McCain may hold his ground in Iraq, but his hairline is in retreat. Obama gets some experience with wrinkles. And Clinton morphs into Madeleine Albright.

Some researchers say stress does indeed speed aging. A 2004 University of California San Francisco study found blood cells of mothers of chronically ill children resembled cells of low-stressed women who were 10 years older.

The pictures may not go far enough.

"The poor son of a gun who inherits the office in January is going to inherit some very stressful problems,'' said presidential health expert Kevin R. Loughlin of Harvard Medical School.

http://media1.suntimes.com/multimedia/candidates.jpg_20080425_09_52_49_20-282-400.imageContent

McCain is the only one they didn't age.

Dave

[Dave Lane]

I bet if they ran it eight years, Obama would look like he's pushing 70, Hillary would look like Helen Thomas, and McCain would look like Donovan after he drank at the very end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Probably more like the Crypt Keeper... :)

Dave