Yesterday, the Huffington Post asked readers, “What’s wrong with John McCain’s left eye?”

Well, according to several Internet sources, the 72-year-old presidential hopeful is suffering from an ailment called “Bell’s Palsy,” also known as facial paralysis, not a stroke.

While the condition is admittedly temporary, it does take some time to correct itself. And so, the speculative scuttlebutt is that McCain wants to postpone Friday’s presidential debate, not to “focus on the economy” but to give his aging body time to combat the affliction.

Is it true? No one knows, but logically, it makes sense.

According to America Blog, last Friday’s speech in Wisconsin is the best place to catch the condition in action:

I decided to take a look at McCain's Herbert Hoover Speech, as Rob calls the economic speech McCain gave last Friday in Wisconsin, and tried to see what it was that Rob was noticing wrong with McCain's left eye. It was only a 15 second video, so I pulled it up in my iMovie movie editor and checked out each frame (see a selection of still shots above). What you see is apparently McCain's left eye more closed than this right, and/or when he blinks, his left eye is lazier, or blinks slightly out of phase with his right. Either way, it does look like something's up. Perhaps McCain has always had a bad left eye, though it's odd that so many people just noticed this week.

Chances are the Internet is digging for a story here that doesn’t simply exist, but until an official statement is released – which won’t ever happen – don’t expect anyone to stop speculating.