July 29, 2008
McCain's skin biopsy: benign
Posted by
Mark Kleiman
That's good news, though even a positive biopsy wouldn't have been very bad news; most skin cancers are easily excised, with no risk of spread.
Still, this has to remind you of a political rival's remark when a tumor on Lord Randoph Churchill's lung proved benign: that the doctors had "found the one bit of Randolph that wasn't malignant and cut it out." It takes a special kind of nastiness in a politician to give that joke a real point. Lord Randolph had it; until this year, you wouldn't have said the same thing about John McCain.
Pity, that.
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