Talked to a cardiologist today who told me that a 78 year old man who has a heart attack and continues in a stressful job has a nearly zero 3 yr survival rate.
There was some banter at the debate and it will come up again intended to get Bloomie to ackowledge that he had stents put in too- which he did. But all situations are not equal without more info. Bernie had stents put in and had a heart attack too. One of the differences being that lots of people have stents put in just prop open arteries that are obviously narrowed down or not flexible enough to expand with the heart beats as healthy arteries do. Bernie's records or his doctor have confirmed that he had stents put in but also had a heart attack- meaning that some part of his heart- how big or small we don't know was damaged/died off as a result of loss of oxygen- either by blood clot or some other major obstruction of the artery. I might be making a very minor obtuse point and picking at differences. OR NOT. Known knowns, known unknowns, unknown unknowns lie ahead.
It does make a huge difference TT. Many people turn up to hospital these days feeling bad and have their heart condition detected before they actually have a heart attack. Some of those get stents and/or get re-plumbed and live for decades afterward. Bloomberg appears to fall into that category. People who don't realize they have a problem and end up with a no-kidding heart attack are a completely different category and have much diminished chances for the long term. Bernie appears to fall into that category. You pretty much have to have a stress test to know for sure what your condition is. Basically they wring you out on a treadmill with a wire in your kazoo.
What I believe is about to happen is something that should have happened to Obama and Clinton and that is a major vetting/rectal exam. This time around, the Idiot Dem establishment will want everything about Bernie to be made public in a big way. You will start to see that at this debate. I still do not believe he will be the nominee no matter how many votes he gets, but the Idiot Dem establishment will try to lower those vote totals by exposing him as a wacko communist who is unhealthy, and that he and his wife are corrupt , among other things .
They have no choice but to go after Sanders. It is as Wille Sutton said when asked why he robbed banks. "Because that is where the money is." Bernie is where all the enthusiasm and support is (not all but leading). For a long time they left him unscathed, hoping someone else would do the dirty work. Kamala ripped him at one debate but then she went down in flames as a result after being Queen of the ShiiteHeap for a week or two. Then Pokey went after Bernie on that bit about women not being president. She got burned on that too. So everyone went into a stand down on Bernie for a little bit. Too late for that now. You either start to dismantle or you watch him grow. Can't do that by looking the other way. As I said yesterday I think anyway, yeh, there are people there that got unfinished business with Bloomie and would enjoy kicking him around some more. That's fine as long they dont get bogged down in it and make it the theme of the evening even though it was right to do that last time. Bernie is where their votes that they need are. They must go there. Otherwise it is like Willie Sutton robbing the local 7-11 rather than a bank. It's an easier target, but not where the payoff is.
These idiots are all staying in the race for now because the frontrunner has less than half of the delegates that have been awarded and so everyone in the race, except Bernard, wants a brokered convention. --Hillary wants that as well---.
The primary process is supposed to whittle the field down as it goes. That does not seem to be happening as expected. Yeah some have dropped out but they were fringe to begin with.