Just The News: Former GOP presidential candidate and Kansas Sen. Bob Dole announced Thursday that he has advanced lung cancer.
The 97-year-old Dole made the announcement on Twitter, as reported by The New York Post. more
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Never was a big fan of Dole’s politically, but cancer sucks. It does not discriminate. I hope his treatment is successful.
I wish him well but I really wish Rush had made it to 97.
97, WOW!
Stress from the Washington endless BS stream will cut our life spans much shorter. Hopefully Bob feels he had a good life and is at peace as the end approaches.
Politics aside I am thankful for one thing he did, he helped draft the hospice benefit in 1981. Wonder if he will opt for it? Probably not. The higher ups usually go private duty all the way.
97’s a good, long run.
Can’t recall any in my family making it to that age.
Sorry about his cancer, though.
izlamo delenda est …
Cancer sucks, I lost my wife to leukemia 8 years ago and 4 lifelong friends over the past 2 years to cancer as well. He survived being seriously wounded at Anzio in World War 2 and has lived to be 97 which is something a lot of WW 2 never lived to be that old. God bless him for his service and I still wish he would’ve beaten Slick Willie in 96.
At 97 the probability of recovery and long term survival is pretty low.
97 is a good run on this side. He seemed a good man.
Dole promoted the WW2 memorial in DC. Bless him.
WWII Hero, but Ethanol subsidies are his legacy. He did not work for the American people in the Senate, he was wholly owned by the Ethanol interests.
https://www.spectacle.org/1096/dole.html
I’m not disrespecting Dole and his cancer, but thinking of him as anything but a political insider is a mistake.
Anyone that isn’t doesn’t last long, it’s just the way it is.
He is a war hero and got into politics when it was only dirty. Now it’s a full blown commie mafia enterprise.
I’m glad he was out before that.
The probability of any man living to 97 is astoundingly low. It’s even more amazing for someone like Dole who suffered a severe shrapnel wound in Northern Italy on April 14, 1945. I mean, the probability of him living to see April 15, 1945 was about 50-50
He lived 65 years on after suffering a wound that put him in a body cast for 2 years. Unbelievable!
Sadly, I don’t think he’ll live much longer