When Kerry started to tank Clinton suddently discovered this heart problem that needed surgery immediately. I spent 10 years in Emergency Medicine and it is very rare to put someone in for the kind of surgery he had on an emergency basis without having a cardiac event first. I believe that his condition was well known and that they used decided to push for the surgery to distance him from Kerry. That also gave Hillary a plausible reason for staying away from Kerry
Things turned around for Kerry after debate #1 and suddenly there was talk of Bill getting better fast and Hillary started showing up as a Kerry surrogate. Debate #2 happened and the VP debate and I think that the Democrats, despite the hysterical spinning, are convinced that Kerry is going down and down hard. Hillary has started backing away, and now we get these new reports on Bill.
If these folks told me the sun came up in the east I'd wait and personally verify it. They lie for a living, about everything.
"...it is very rare to put someone in for the kind of surgery he had on an emergency basis without having a cardiac event first."
I'm not sure what you mean by a "cardiac event". If you mean a heart attack I never had one but my by-pass surgery was done on an emergency basis.
I just had an on again- off again pain in my chest, nothing really debilitating, just annoying. One night it was keeping me awake so I went to the emergency room to satisfy my wife's angst (and to quell her bitchin'). The staff there diagnosed it as angina and I was transported immediately to a large hospital in the neighboring county. The following day I was operated on.
I got a nosicomial (sp?) infection and spent 75 days in the hospital rather than the normal 4-5 days. All in all, I wouldn't want to go through that again.