John McCain has been diagnosed with brain cancer

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Oh wow. How awful.
Now his inability to properly communicate in that past Senate hearing makes sense.
CNN is saying it is the same type of brain cancer that took Ted Kennedy.

Ted Kennedy and Beau Biden, IIRC.

Very sad news, and especially sad when you remember that Senator McCain visited Mo Udall's bedside as the latter was dying from complications from Parkinsons. Hopefully McCain will have someone to visit him in his last days...

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Yikes! That explains some of his slip ups in those Senate hearings. Hope he gets well soon.

Unfortunately, his brain cancer is basically the worst kind of brain cancer, the ultra-aggressive type that not mainly people (especially at his age) recover from.

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I heard about this today on the radio, but I didn't realize his tumor was this bad. Terrible news.

And the tragic irony here is that his mother (who's around 105, if I recall correctly) is very likely to see her son die, which is always one of the worst things a mother can experience.

She'll have seen her father-in-law, husband, and son die. Which must be an awful experience.

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Hope he can get through this........FF as a person.

No he isn't. He doesn't deserve cancer but let's not pretend he's in anyway a "good person."

Though I think McCain is a decent guy personally, he forfeit his "maverick" status when he voted with Bush 90% of the time and, after 2009, belonged to the GOP obstructionist machine in Congress. I'd call him FF personally and HP politically.

You can't separate the two. McCain is the ultimate politician. His alleged torture doesn't absolve him for his many, many sins.

Alleged? Really? How on God's green earth do you think his hair turned white and his arms unable to go beyond a certain point? Staying in a nice hotel? or the Hotel Hanoi?

Like, from what I understand he's personally not the most moral guy, but seriously?