Posted on 09/08/2007 4:23:20 PM PDT by lesser_satan
LE MARS, Iowa -- Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson said Friday that the lymphoma he was diagnosed with a few years ago is a chronic disease that could resurface, but that it's treatable and should have no bearing on his longevity, candidacy or ability to lead the nation.
"I've never been ill from it a day in my life," Thompson told a small group of reporters during a wide-ranging interview on his campaign bus from Sioux City to the farm town of Le Mars. "I wouldn't be thinking about doing this at all if I had any questions about it."
On Day Two of his campaign, Thompson also weighed in on President Bush, Iraq, abortion and gay rights. At the same time, he continued a low-key pace: three stops on Friday after two the day before.
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Ping!
This is not an issue . I have a life threatening chronic illness myself . We grownups who keep winning and surviving get them . You take your chances . Be sure he has a good VP . History has tried to teach us that .
Sorry to hear that. Are you getting along OK?
Why do they fear Fred?????
They know he is the next President!
Why aren’t these folks expressing a concern about Rudy’s health?
Is it not true the worst thing for any life threatening health issue is stress?
I don’t know. I think Ruity’s cancer is completely gone, while Fred’s is something that’s chronic, but not life-threatening.
Because he is Cancer free and he has abundance of energy!
This is Rochester, MN.
Suppose we elect a President who is hale and hearty and offers a clean bill of health. Two years into his Presidency he develops cancer. It could happen. What to do? Well, he’ll be treated and prayed for, but if he doesn’t make it, we have a Vice President ready to take command. I don’t see any difference between Senator Thompson nor anyone else.
Part of being in high office is to excercise "thymos." According to Plato and others this need for recognition and dominance was a deep human need that required fullfillment after other creature problems were solved. IMHO this is admirable goal provided the person is psychologically and physically up to do the job.
Becker had a contrary opinion; he had a deep understanding of the human dilemma. He saw creative types and other great successes as seeking secular immortality.
If you become President and die, you still achieve secular immortality. It is the "vital lie" of secularism that one can achieve immortality by personal effort or belonging to this or that cultural order. IMHO suspect anyone who has not developed a deep, well thought out spiritual answer to the problem of birth, death and the meaning thereof. There is a dualism between our creaturelessness and our spirit. The latter cannot overcome the former except by faith and the former cannot become our spiritual answer because it fails to meet the test of death--not only of the individual but of the culture and, presumably, even history.
Sounds goofy, but Goggle Paul Tsongas in 1992. He had a NHL treated with total body radiation plus a bone marrow transplant. Almost word for word what Tsongas and his oncologist said is now being repeated by FT and his oncologist. By the way Tsongas carried NH but lost to Clinton. He died shortly after Clinton began his second term.
I posed that question on a heavily Rudi site, on a thread about Fred's lymphoma. There were lots of flames in the responses. Good thing I had on my asbestos suit.
DOA
I believe as you do that stress can cause many health problems. However, Fred Thompson might win the Presidency and thoroughly enjoy the job.
Pings out to the scumbag ghouls in WAnkerville.
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