Wow...total hit piece worthy of the Nancy Reagan hits pieces of yesteryear. |
Posted on 02/02/2008 5:21:03 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Flawed Cindy McCain has a grudge list Tony Allen-Mills
ON almost every step of his march towards the Republican nomination, John McCain has relied on the support of his glamorous second wife Cindy. Yet she has not always been a political asset. A Republican victory in November would bring to the White House a formidable but flawed first lady.
McCain’s marriage has long attracted attention both for the 18-year age gap between husband and wife and for their adopted Asian daughter, who became the focus of one of the most vicious dirty tricks of the 2000 presidential campaign.
The couple have also overcome daunting health problems that included McCain’s bouts with skin cancer, a stroke suffered by Cindy in 2004, and her admission a decade earlier that she had become so addicted to painkillers that she was stealing them from a medical charity she ran.
Yet somehow the McCains have emerged as a potent and durable political partnership. Cindy McCain was at her husband’s side last week as he celebrated the Florida primary victory that has put him at the front of the Republican field.
A former Arizona rodeo beauty queen and daughter of a millionaire Phoenix businessman, Cindy McCain was 25 when she met her future husband at a cocktail party in Hawaii. John McCain was a 43-year-old naval liaison officer travelling with a congressional delegation, his sights already set on a political career.
He was also still married to his first wife Carol, although the couple had recently separated. Carol later attributed the breakdown of the marriage to “John turning 40 and wanting to be 25 again”. McCain fell like a brick for Cindy, who was the heir to a brewery distribution business worth millions.
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I can’t help noticing McCain’s “trophy wife” is now an old lady. Wonder if the reason john loves illegals so much is that Cindy needs them to run her Budweiser distributorship?
Shades of John Kerry.
Looks like the Media Establishment has decided McCain has the Republican nomination locked up and it is time for the butt kicking to begin.
This is the third Anti McCain story run today by the Establishement Media. Other two are here and here
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963780/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963746/posts
There are signs of things to come. Once the nomination is secured all the fawning, obsiqeious media coverage we have seen for McCain will end and this is the sort of stuff we will be seeing 24-7 for the next 9 months.
This is why it is so idiotic to be basing primary votes on current polling data. We are being told “You have to vote for McCain, only he can beat Hillary according to the polls”.
Yeah, and 9 months ago only Rudy G could beat Hillary according to the polls. Where is he now? That the same place McCain will be in Nov 2008.
Can’t we find someone to run that doesn’t have crisis problem in their life?
when you stick a woman ‘ tween 18 horses ass’s, the woman is gonna win every time
She looks a lot older than 53.
;-)
It wouldn't surprise me if it was due to his torture at the "Hanoi Hilton." IIRC, both of his arms were broken, and they used that as part of the torture.
The North Vietnamese were absolutely brutal and evil. But it wasn't anywhere near as bad as waterboarding by the CIA, or the conditions at Gitmo!
Mark
| Wow...total hit piece worthy of the Nancy Reagan hits pieces of yesteryear. |
That is his third wife.
“Can someone explain to me what the deal is with McCain’s elbows/forearms? He doesn’t seem to be able to raise them in a comfortable manner.”
I think it is a result of the torture he got in VN. They tied his arms behind him and hung him up for hours, separating some muscles from his bones.
I suspect the DNC gives the Brits these types of stories to see if the dirt sticks. If it does then the MSM in the US pick up on the story and run with it.
Kind of looks like that Partridge Family chick.
Great, another Nixon family. Just lovely.
I have no problems with John, his wife or their personal life and despise this type of of media reporting.
It's John's political history which I vehemently oppose.......
Ten years ago (or so), she was addicted to prescription drugs and did some illegal things to make sure she had a supply of those drugs. Like that never happened before.
Sorry. I just don’t see where this stuff is a big deal. That said, I would just as soon get it out of the way now then have it hit the headlines a few days before the election, like Bush’s old DUI ticket...
You don't recall correctly. McCain was injured in the crash of his plane. He was treated at a NV hospital usually reserved for treating NV officers. In McCain's own words:
"Immediately the interrogations began and when I refused to answer their questions they would knock me into unconsciousness. Finally after four days of this I agreed to give information if they would take me to a hospital. The doctor, after taking my pulse said, "It's too late." They left the room. Sometime later, the chief interrogator again returned shouting "Your father a big admiral, now we take you to hospital."
I guess I don’t see it as trash. Nothing stands out that is bad.
When McCain’s plane crashed in Vietnam, both his arms were broken and he also broke a leg..He was beaten by the mob who fished him out of the water and they crushed one of his shoulders and bayoneted him in the foot and abdomen..Then he was thrown in prison and went a month without treatment until the North Vietnamese found out his father was a Rear Admiral in the Paciffic Fleet..They then sent him to a Chinese hospital for treatment..To this day he is unable to completely raise his arms..
See Wikipedia article on John McCain:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCaine
I agree. Good post.
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