Vanity Fair On Cheney: His Health:
Vanity Fair's Todd Purdum interviewed VP Cheney for the June issue. Some excerpts below:
"He takes a range of medications that he and his doctors decline to detail. The extent of his atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries, which, if it extends beyond the heart to the brain, can cause hard-to-recognize changes in cognition) is unknown. Bypass surgery itself has
long been associated with subtle changes in neurological function."
"At age 65, Cheney is easily 30 or more pounds overweight, seems
to have slacked off on what was once a more rigorous diet, and appears to suffer from recurrent bouts of gout. At a roundtable lunch
with reporters a couple of years ago, two who were present say, he cut his buffalo steak in bite-size pieces the moment it arrived, then
proceeded to salt each side of each piece."
It's too bad Cheney doesn't have the more normal standard of medical care in the United States of Greed - none or inadequate. Then we could talk about this despicable piece of food waste in the past tense, if we deigned to talk about him at all.
I wonder if you'll excerpt that part of the Vanity Fair interview which notes that Mary Cheney wrote in her book "that when she told her parents she was gay, the first words out of her father’s mouth “were exactly the ones that I wanted to hear: ‘You’re my daughter, and I love you, and I just want you to be happy.’”"
Then again, such omissions make it easier for idiots like 'theExile' to wish Cheney was dead. Mustn't see the enemy as a human being, right?
Suffering from Gout? When I was a child that was referred to as the "rich man's disease". Guess that old saw proved true.