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Biden: Brain Surgeon Told Him Had Less Than 50% Chance of ‘Being Completely Normal’
Cybercast News Service ^
| June 5, 2013 - 6:18 PM
| Terence P. Jeffrey
Posted on 06/05/2013 4:17:34 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Speaking at the White House National Conference on Mental Health on Monday, Vice President Joe Biden told a sometimes serious and sometimes jocular story about the two brain surgeries he needed in 1988 to deal with cranial aneurysms.
Biden told the White House audience “they take a saw and they cut your head off” and “they literally had to take the top of my head off.” He also recounted that as he was being wheeled into surgery he asked the neurosurgeon, “What are my chances of getting off this table completely normal?” The surgeon told Biden he had a better chance of living—and that that chance was in the 35 to 50 percent range. …
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: abbynormal; aneurysm; biden; brainsurgery; neurosurgery
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Biden intended part of this to be humorous. It almost ends up being a commentary on his capabilities.
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posted on
06/05/2013 4:17:34 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Ted Kennedy and other Democrats have been braindamaged and run this country. Funny how those with mental problems are to be prevent from owning firearms yet they may run for high office with no disclosure of their condition.
To: Olog-hai
Biteme has a brain?
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posted on
06/05/2013 4:20:58 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Forget it, Jake. It's Eric Holder's people.")
To: Olog-hai
And yet he would still make a better president than Obama. At the very least, Biden would be more transparent, if only because he says whatever is on his mind without thinking.
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posted on
06/05/2013 4:21:23 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Olog-hai
And yet he would still make a better president than Obama. At the very least, Biden would be more transparent, if only because he says whatever is on his mind without thinking.
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posted on
06/05/2013 4:21:24 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Olog-hai
I'm not saying it was aliens....
.... but it was aliens!
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posted on
06/05/2013 4:21:37 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(MOHAMMED WAS A CHILD RAPIST!)
To: a fool in paradise
As long as they aren’t conservative, that is.
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posted on
06/05/2013 4:22:46 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Maybe Biden can convince Sebelius to put him on a transplant list should a healthy organ become available.
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posted on
06/05/2013 4:22:46 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Olog-hai
What are my chances of getting off this table completely normal?” That question assumes Biden to be completely normal (other than the aneurysm)before the surgery, an invalid assumption if there ever was one.
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posted on
06/05/2013 4:22:55 PM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(Obama lied, Stevens died, now Obama covers up the lies.)
To: Olog-hai
Well, we knew this of course.
Biden is one hundred per cent abby normal.
And then some.
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posted on
06/05/2013 4:24:38 PM PDT
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama equals Osama))
To: Michael.SF.
Maybe that’s why the surgeon gave him such little chance of emerging “normal” post-op.
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posted on
06/05/2013 4:24:49 PM PDT
by
kenavi
("Beware of rulers, for they befriend only for their own benefit." Gamliel)
To: Olog-hai
“What are my chances of getting off this table completely normal?” You didn't, Joe.
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
06/05/2013 4:25:17 PM PDT
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: Olog-hai
Well Joe, ya gave it a shot. Fifty/ fifty. You had a chance anyways.
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posted on
06/05/2013 4:26:07 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(President Obma; The Slumlord of the Rentseekers)
To: Olog-hai
Biden is feebly trying to provide cover for his progressing dementia.
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posted on
06/05/2013 4:26:09 PM PDT
by
NautiNurse
(Maladroit--BOHICA)
To: Olog-hai
Joe has had brain surgery 3 times ~ unsuccessfully!
BTW, you may have missed it but HE'S NOT NORMAL!!!!
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posted on
06/05/2013 4:27:09 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
(Git yer Red Arm Bands here - $29.95 - NOT SOLD IN STORES - TAX FREE)
To: Joe 6-pack
None of these Democrats know what a healthy brain is like!~
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posted on
06/05/2013 4:28:02 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
(Git yer Red Arm Bands here - $29.95 - NOT SOLD IN STORES - TAX FREE)
To: Olog-hai
I read the title and thought, that explains everything.
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posted on
06/05/2013 4:28:19 PM PDT
by
tbw2
To: Olog-hai
So the surgery was a failure, still looney tunes.
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posted on
06/05/2013 4:28:21 PM PDT
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
To: PeaceBeWithYou
Yep, Plugs is nuttier than squirrel poo.
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