McCain's Viagra Moment

"There is no cure for AD, but there are drugs to treat some of the symptoms. The Food and Drug Administration has approved four prescription drugs for people with mild-to-moderate AD: Cognex (tacrine), Aricept (donepezil), Exelon (rivastigmine), and Reminyl (galantamine)."------


I don't worry about Old John and Viagra... if he needs it, fine, and good for Cindy (I hope). There are other prescriptions (possibly already in the McCain medicine chest) that concern me more, with regard to his fitness to serve a full term as a member of a sentient species.

Planned Parenthood needs to focus more on accuracy; they have always sucked at politics, as ideologues so often do.
The best way to beat John McCain is to let him speak in public, then quote him word-for-word. He is usually his own worst enemy. Very simple research after a John McCain announcement readily displays either his lack of content/commitment, or the utter falsity of his contentions. No exagerration required.

direct party affiliation it certainly has placed itself on the pro-choice side of abortion. All of you can research this for yourselves. I am pro-choice myself so I don???t care about the institute???s position. I am interested why the author would state that The Guttmacher Group is nonpartisan. Perhaps she thinks readers of Newsweek are dumb and would assume nonpartisan meant unbiased.









The Guttmacher Group, which wrote the report that is referred to by the author, is named after a former president of Planned Parenthood, Alan Guttmacher (hmmm, more irony). When the Guttmacher Group was formed in 1968 it was a division of The Planned Parenthood Federation of America. It became independent in 1977. The author states that the Guttmacher Institute is nonpartisan. While the institute may not have claimed any direct party affiliation it certainly has placed itself on the pro-choice side of abortion. All of you can research this for yourselves. I am pro-choice myself so I don???t care about the institute???s position. I am interested why the author would state that The Guttmacher Group is nonpartisan. Perhaps she thinks readers of Newsweek are dumb and would assume nonpartisan meant unbiased.

Another reader commented that it was odd the author would wait until the second page of the article to mention that the reporter was basically following up on a statement made by another person. I feel the same way. I am interested why the author would wait until the second page to disclose pertinent information. I wonder how many people on the net don???t go further than the first page of an article.

Finally, the same author wrote another article recently titled ???Obama Polishes His Resume??? (www.newsweek.com/id/142884). In it the author states, ???We don't find this ad egregiously misleading, but it paints a picture of Obama's accomplishments that could leave viewers with a misimpression or two.??? I don???t find this story egregiously misleading, but it paints a picture that could leave readers with a misimpression or two or three.

As someone who worked for a company that covered Viagra but not any sort of contrceptive, I can assure you this is a real issue -- it may be one that is less and less common, but an issue none the less. Paying over $50 a month out of pocket for a medically neccessary drug (due to multiple issues) is an issue that affected me and many other women. Viagra isn't the only issue-- insurance companies will pay for pre-natal care, a birth, cover a child for 18+ years, and the drugs for either a male or female who deal with fertility issues, but do not provide coverage for people who either want or need to prevent a pregnancy for happening in the first place.

So he took time to answer. That's a question that should have never been asked. Newsweek is trying to turn this into a issue to make McCain look stupid and somehow, I know this so called news magazine will make Obama come out in this subject as the Golden Boy Newsweek claims he is.

One can always count on this Hollywood rag to print half truths and innuendo.

If there is no issue here, McCain shouldn't have Carly Fiorina pushing it in a phony effort to help the McCain campaign connect to women. McCain was only asked about this issue because Fiorina brought it up talking to the media the day before McCain was asked.

Wasn't the issue first mentioned by a McCain advisor? It seems that it was. And if so, the long pause and McCain's obvious discomfort is a testimony to how ill informed he is, even by his own advisors.

McCain's Viagra Moment - I don't know about other areas of the country but our healthcare system (originally company owned medical facility and pharmacy) now under a major healthcare company, has never covered birth control or Viagra type drugs. Whether a company/pharmacy, whatever, covers the drugs or not didn't upset me as much as the fact John McCain could not or would not answer the question. An honest answer - an opinion would have been better than nothing. John McCain failed to answer questions regarding Veteran's rights and doesn't seem to remember his voting records, either. The man is too old and out of touch to be elected.

This is during the Bush Admin!!!!!!!! There are nuclear weapons being flown across the nation by these people. The reason our soldiers are falling asleep (with launch codes) is because our troops are spread too thin. They are having to work triple shifts because there are not enough staff to fill in.

The war was unnecessary and now we are in threat from this Administration's incompetence by soldiers falling asleep with tactical information and nuclear launch codes, Nuclear missiles being flown across the country (Lord knows what would happen if one of them were "accidentally" dropped).

And then there is McCain, Bush's BFF, trying to take over the reigns. There is no national security!!!!!! The main thing we have to fear is McCain since he believes in Bush policy. He has stood behind Bush from the beginning and will continue his Gestapo style policing of the American people. I can't believe there are people willing to vote for this type of governance.

Fact Check- The reporter was following up on a statement made by McCain surrogate Carla Fiorina. It was Fiorina who, by making the comparison, opened up the issue not Planned Parenthood, nor the Obama campaign and not "a reporter.
Fact Check- The issue, for many people, is McCain's inability to explain HIS voting record. Did no one in the McCain camp thing the question wouldn't come up? (see above)
Fact Check- The bill would have required ALL private insurance companies to fund contraceptives IF the funded prescriptions for Viagra type medications, that there are still companies that have this double standard is ridiculous
Conclusion-While the Planned Parenthood data is out of date, the point of the ad is ACCURATE. The question of why McCain was unable to respond (he is "Mr Straight Talk") in any way remains. This is not the first time he has been challenged regarding his voting record and been unable to respond OR has been less than truthful (see recent Webb Veterans Education Bill)

An Obama supporter, I have to admit that McCain got a cheap, baiting question. He answered it well, realizing the question didn't even quite make sense. But, both McCain and Obama will get these sort of questions... it politics.

Imagine that....Dems attacking McCain...who would of thought.

Hey who cares about facts when you can just throw liberal slime?

For a piece from Factcheck.org, this article seems incredibly biased toward defending John McCain. The reporter did not ask this question on her own. She was asking him directly about Carly Fiorina's claim from that exact day, looking for a clarification. The article leaves this out, until an afterthought in the last paragraph, instead choosing to attack both Planned Parenthood and the reporter as manipulative and ill-informed.

I find that shameful.

Actually.. when reality sinks in, you will change your mind.
Viagra takes care of a medical problem.
Birth Control prevents a medical situation called pregnancy.
McCain did not write the laws...

Viagra is fun!
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FactCheck, you are missing the point. This was not an ad about gender disparities in pharmacy benefits, this was an ad that shows McCain as not understanding the issue of, or not giving a damn about, women's access to contraception.

The statement by Planned Parenthood is still valid - if even one insurance company covers Viagra but not oral birth control, that is unfair - Planned Parenthood wasn't saying it was the norm, they were asking McCain to comment on the issue of access.

And he couldn't, because it isn't important to him.

Rest assured, however, that it is important to most American women - and their male partners.