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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Maybe the Cow shouldn’t have been hosing him while he was married to the Woman who stood by while he was a POW.
You really like McCain, don’t you? Don’t be afraid, just come out and say it.
He is disabled from the torture
I believe I heard on Fox one time that this is from injuries he suffered when being held as a POW in Viet Nam. He cannot raise his arms over his head anymore.
I don’t want McCain to be nominated, but this piece was just garbage. Cindy McCain is a sinner too?! Sheesh - pass the salt and condemn me as well.
Could be the result of untreated injuries in the Hanoi Hilton.
Democrats have this and a lot more to bring down McCain.
come on man it’s only Budweiser. Can’t blame anyone for not wanting to drink bilge water.
They were broken in captivity and he can’t raise them.
I am so not for McCAin; but please leave his wife out of it.
He was a genuine hero; but he is not a conservative....GET IT.
Actually Arizona is the melting pot of the USA..Not many born here...Everyone is from somewhere else.
Cindy is 18 years younger than John:
so that makes her what? 75 or so?
Is that a polite way of saying she was a spaced out druggie. :^)
And then John McCain attacked THEM when he was told what she was doing...going so far as to hire a PR firm to slander them after booting them from their jobs.
Great picture!
This kinda smells cheap.
As I recall they didn't directly torture him - more a case of serious neglect early on. He was injured from the plane crash, and beaten by villagers. After he was taken captive, his injuries were left to heal without treatment until the North Vietnamese figures out who he was...at which point they treated his injuries and fed him well enough for him to gain weight, hoping to use him as a bargaining chip. It was a big deal for them, and they even built a propaganda monument to those who captured him.
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