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To: Cogito who wrote (82595)9/6/2008 8:18:43 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541743
 
McCain has a good chance of not living through his first term.

I read an interesting phrase applied to that situation: that some people consider that a bug and others a feature. <g>

Re statistics, the life expectancy is another eleven years. Given the position of President and all the health care benefits that come with it, his would be considerably longer than than the average joe. If you take the probability of his death and multiply it times the probability that Palin could and would find a way to get creationism into the schools in what remains of his term, the resulting risk is closer to none than to slim.