No, not really. But I thought I’d do as Scott did, to draw some attention. 
The real ad, of course, was produced by Brave New PAC and Democracy for America. It suggests that Senator McCain is unfit to live out his presidential tenure, due to health reasons:
Two liberal political action committees, Brave New PAC and Democracy for America, launched an aggressive attack on John McCain’s health this morning in an ad featuring unflattering images of his melanoma scars. The ad calls for McCain to release his medical records, something he already did earlier this year.
“Another bout of cancer for John McCain while he is president of the United States would profoundly impact his capacity lead,” Dr. Michael D. Fratkin says in the ad. “Melanoma is the deadliest of skin cancers,” Dr. Noah Craft then explains, adding “the chances of survival if you have melanoma spread through your body are very slim.” The ad closes with a graphic asking, “Why won’t John McCain release his Medical Records?”
Of course, as the CBS link notes, McCain did release his medical records back in May:
On May 23, a small group of reporters were sequestered in a reading room outside of Phoenix, Ariz., and given several hours to review 1,173 pages of McCain’s medical records spanning from 2000 to 2008. In 2000, during McCain’s first presidential bid, his campaign released hundreds of pages of medical records including psychological tests run after his prisoner of war confinement.
Apparently though, the McCain campaign was not willing to release the documents to the general public nor allow reporters to make copies of them.
McCain’s physical fitness to command was brought up earlier this year in the New York Times. Questions regarding his health are nothing new:
“In 1999, during Mr. McCain’s first race for president, he gave the public an extraordinary look at his medical history — 1,500 pages of medical and psychiatric records that were amassed as part of a United States Navy project to gauge the health of former prisoners of war,” Altman writes. “This reporter, who is a physician, interviewed the senator’s doctors in 1999 with his permission.”
Here’s the scare ad:
Aimed at independent voters, maybe it means something. For conservative Republican voters, it means something else entirely:
If elected, McCain will be the oldest U.S. president inaugurated for office (not counting Reagan’s reelection at age 73).
A former fetus, the “wordsmith from nantucket” was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968. Adopted at birth, wordsmith grew up a military brat. He achieved his B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles (graduating in the top 97% of his class), where he also competed rings for the UCLA mens gymnastics team. The events of 9/11 woke him from his political slumber and malaise. Currently a personal trainer and gymnastics coach.
The wordsmith has never been to Nantucket.
Last night on my Pink Flamingo blog, I went through the ad, point by point. As a 10 year melanoma survivor I am absolutely furious at the false information presented. I don’t care if it comes from a Dem or a Republican, false information about a lethal form of cancer is false information. I have all the rebuttal information, along with updates on the latest fight for a cure. According to the “experts” quoted, there is no real treatment for melanoma, nothing successful. That too, is something of a lie. There are several promising new treatments now being tested, two of which may even be a “cure”.
After posting the piece, I thought about people who are newly diagnosed with melanoma and are absolutely horrified at “cancer” taking over their body. It may be 10 years, but I know how terrified I was. To have seen something like that ad, with the mis-leading information, basically turning melanoma into a death sentence, would have been a personal disaster. For “physicians” to do this is, in my mind, almost mal-practice.
SJR
The Pink Flamingo
Didn’t Reagan live long enough to have completed two additional terms. How do the ‘eilte’ AH’s know how long McCain will live. I suspect he will live longer than most of the druggies that make up these phony democrat organizations. I see them running their mouth in this area and quite often pick them up DOA due to drug abuse or shot in a drug deal.
McCain’s mother is 96 and apparently in splendid health.
Longevity is evidently in the McCain genes. If he gets elected, I can see him serving two full terms.
Well I will take the heat for saying what everyone else is thinking, but whatever. Even with bad health, McCain’s life expectancy in office would probably be greater than Obama’s, so all this talk of health records is pretty irrelevant. Yeah I know it’s a crappy thing to say but that doesn’t necessarily invalidate the point – they both have long odds on making through the first term.