McCain: Much Closer To Dead Than Not Dead

Politico took a look at insurance statistics and it didn't turn out well for McCain.

According to these statistics, there is a roughly 1 in 3 chance that a 72-year-old man will not reach the age of 80, which is how old McCain would be at the end of a second presidential term. And that doesn’t factor in individual medical history, such as McCain’s battles with potentially lethal skin cancer.

I assume when they write "battles with potentially lethal skin cancer," they are referring to his time as a POW.

For a man who has lived 72 years and 67 days, there is between a 14.2 and 15.1 percent chance of dying before Inauguration Day 2013, according to the Social Security Administration’s 2004 actuarial tables and the authoritative 2001 mortality statistics assembled by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

Hey, looking up! There is only a 15% chance that Sarah Palin will be president in the next four years.

Going by the Social Security Administration’s tables, that’s nearly ten times the likelihood that a man aged 47 years and 92 days (Barack Obama’s age on Election Day this year) will die before Jan. 20, 2013.

I'd rather have a dead president than a Muslim president. Am I right, or what?