WE'RE WITH GAIL (via John Resnick):

The Candidates Are Mortal (NY Times, 4/02/04)

The Kerry campaign has yet to deliver on its promise to make his medical history public.

President Bush's medical checkups are regularly released in detail. But not so for Vice President Dick Cheney, who not only is a cardiac patient taking serious medication and dependent on an electronic device to insure a regular heartbeat, but also has a record of secretiveness and disregard of public disclosure. Mr. Cheney has certainly seemed robust of late in the heavy's role of attacking Mr. Kerry's character and candidacy. But it's not enough for the public to hear the White House's grudging announcements that Mr. Cheney continues to pass his physicals. Where is the full report on the vice president's health that voters deserve as he seeks four more years of public service?

They're right. It would be irresponsible for a wartime president to keep as his vice president a man whose health is so dicey that he might be incapacitated at the precise moment he's needed, precipitating a constitutional crisis.

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 2, 2004 2:58 PM