Quote:Democratic U.S. Senate candidate and current Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman had a stroke in May shortly before the primary and fortunately, he is recovering.

But a lot of people, even some in the media, have raised questions because they feel they weren’t hearing the whole story behind the stroke from the Fetterman team–that the details that had been released indicated more serious issues that hadn’t been enunciated.

The Fetterman campaign had said previously that the pacemaker was helping regulate his atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart rhythm also known as A-fib, which led to his stroke in May. But outside doctors said that defibrillators are not used to treat A-fib, and questioned if he had another heart condition.

As Townhall noted, even Democrats were puzzled about what was going on because they weren’t getting answers from him on when he would be back on the trail.

Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman does not have a timetable for returning to the campaign trail, sparking some worries in the party nearly three weeks after he suffered a stroke and surgeons implanted a pacemaker with a defibrillator to regulate his heartbeat.

Fetterman, the state’s lieutenant governor, has appeared publicly only in recorded video since the stroke. His wife is speaking to the media on his behalf. And the situation has prompted Democrats to refresh their knowledge of state ballot-replacement law — the deadline is in August — according to two party sources who said they don’t anticipate a candidate switch being necessary.

Still, some of Fetterman’s fellow Democrats say they are worried both about his health and what they describe as a lack of transparency from his team about just what happened when he was hospitalized last month.

According to the report, Democratic Party folks said they were “very nervous” and others were looking at the question of what they might have to do to switch candidates.

But then, Fetterman dropped a letter and made a statement Friday.

The letter from one of his doctors, Dr. Ramesh Chandra, was, in a word, a doozy. Worth the full read.

The doctor said he had first seen Fetterman back in 2017 for swelling in his feet, at which point he diagnosed “atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart rhythm along with a decreased heart pump.” He prescribed medications, along with diet and exercise, and asked Fetterman to follow up with him in the following months.

He wrote: “Instead, I did not see him again until yesterday. John did not go to any doctor for 5 years and did not continue taking his medications.” The doctor noted that Fetterman was now stable, and he has a “pacemaker-defibrillator.” He said he had spoken with Fetterman the day before, and that while afib was the cause of his stroke, he also has cardiomyopathy, which is why he has the pacemaker. That’s part of what they hadn’t been revealing. The doctor said if Fetterman takes his medications, eats right, exercises, and does what the doctor says, he should be fine.

Fetterman released a letter himself, saying essentially he’d learned his lesson and could have died. But he also said he still wasn’t ready to get back on the campaign trail.

But there’s something still a little odd about this. Dr. Jonathan Reiner, who’s an interventional cardiologist (and a CNN medical analyst), laid it out — why is the letter from a doctor who hadn’t seen him in five years until the day before, rather than the doctors who treated him for the stroke and/or who put in the pacemaker? As such, it’s still missing details.

Bottom line? It’s good that he’s finally getting treatment and he’s stable. But they appear to have tried to buffalo people here as to his health, and only came out with a statement after it was obvious that even Democrats were having issues with what was going on. Even now, we’re still not getting the whole story. So, big issues of transparency here.

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It’s so strange that in PA., both the D’s and the R’s now have Senate-nominees who (compared to the national parties) are way off-brand and do not really appeal to their parties’ core constituencies.

Sounds like Fetterman doesnt believe in science.

(06-04-2022 05:53 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  Sounds like Fetterman doesnt believe in science.

Well, he’s had 23 days (and counting) to re-evaluate his stance.

Disturbing New Details Point to Democrat John Fetterman Lying About His Stroke

Quote:Dr. Mehmet Oz had a tumultuous trip to the GOP nomination to become the next senator from Pennsylvania. One of his primary opponents, Kathy Barnette, has stupidly and stubbornly refused to endorse him. Yet, for the most part, his critics (including me) have done the smart thing and let the chips fall. Once Oz became the nominee, he became exponentially preferable to his Democrat opponent, John Fetterman.

Yet, while the spotlight has remained on Oz, with much second-guessing about how well he’s running his campaign, perhaps the attention should turn towards Fetterman? We know he had a stroke and has a serious heart condition, something he claimed was no big deal at the time. According to a new report from The New York Times, though, it sure seems like he was lying when he said he’ll be able to serve with no problem.

You have to love how the Times just glosses over that extremely important, make-or-break detail. They frame everything in the article as bad news for the GOP while just casually tossing in “Oh yeah, the Democrat in Pennsylvania lied about his health and is so bad off he still slurs his speech.” But he is “expected to resume campaign events in the coming weeks,” they proclaim.

Expected by who? He hasn’t done a public event since early May before his health crisis. And what exactly does “coming weeks” mean? The election is in the coming weeks depending on how you define the phrase. Is Fetterman going to continue to hide out until November, having a campaign that revolves around Twitter slams? If he’s still slurring his speech, he’s not close to being fully recovered, and that’s putting aside the fact that his condition looks tenuous enough to be a constant concern regardless of whether he returns to the campaign trail or not.

Fetterman is not a healthy man. He’s morbidly obese and it’s clearly had an extremely negative effect on his body. I think it’s time for Oz to take the gloves off and start talking about his opponent’s unfitness for office. That topic is in no way off-limits. In fact, it’s imperative that voters understand how serious it is to possibly elect a man who has a heart condition that could take him out at any time. Never mind that Fetterman ignored his doctors for years, leading him to this point. That alone is a testament to his lack of judgment.

Right now, Fetterman’s entire campaign is smoke and mirrors. He’s managed to convince the too-online resistance types that he’s going to beat Oz with nothing but snarky posts on social media. But it’s not 2020 anymore, and Fetterman isn’t Joe Biden. He can’t just hide in the basement until election day, and the longer this drags on, the more voters are going to notice he’s not up for the job.

Fetterman trying to campaign like Joe... I saw less and less Black and White Fettermen signs this week in PA.

Democrats voted for a vegetable in a basement who had 5 decades of being the biggest dummy in DC.

They'd vote for this guy if he was dead already.

(07-11-2022 12:32 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  Democrats voted for a vegetable in a basement who had 5 decades of being the biggest dummy in DC.

They'd vote for this guy if he was dead already.

I agree.

Our system has devolved into the British style party over person.

In most of these legislative races the person really does not matter like it used to