Posted on 09/12/2008 8:12:35 AM PDT by FreeLuna
A Tangled Story of Addiction Consequences of Cindy McCain's Drug Abuse Were More Complex Than She Has Portrayed PHOTOS Previous Next In 1991, with wife Cindy at his side, Sen. John McCain talked to reporters about the Charles Keating scandal. Cindy McCain has said that the stress of the scandal, along with back pain, was a factor in her addiction to painkillers. (By John Duricka -- Associated Press) Cindy McCain has been open about her addiction in the early 1990s. (Bonnie Jo Mount - The Washington Post) Buy Photo Tom Gosinski, who worked for Cindy McCain, says her efforts to cover up her addiction "ruined" lives. Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 12, 2008; Page A01 When Cindy McCain is asked what issues she would champion as first lady, she often cites one of the most difficult periods of her life: her battle with -- and ultimate victory over -- prescription painkillers. Her struggle, she has said repeatedly, taught her valuable lessons about drug abuse that she would pass on to the nation.
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Is it? Yawn. Someone in pain got addicted to pain killers?
wow.
When McCain gets in the White House he will re-do the Press Room into a phone booth.
Hey, let’s drug test obama!
Then we hit back HARD on the message boards and radio airwaves about Obama’s admitted use of cocaine, and how coke can cause long-term brain damage...
GREAT news...if this is the “BIG” story that was rumored.
I thought it might be that he was in favor of open borders. ;-)
That’s the best they could come up with??!! Oh they really are in panic mode warp 10.
Impeach Cindy!!!!
To be honest, this was about the only thing I knew about Cindy McCain other than she was rich and owned a beer distributing company. I am very impressed with what I learned about her at the convention and since then. I think her heart is in the right place.
Obama = crack head = President
What's wrong with this picture? Time to play hardball with the Magic Negro.
Finally- the DUmmies have their OMG, CAN YOU BELIVE THIS story they’ve hyped for 5 days:)
Now- is the Washington Post going to more closely examine the admitted cocaine use (when he could afford it) of their candidate?
~~sounds of silence~~
This is pretty old news and well-hashed at that.
Have at it dums. She overcame chronic pain, a given for millions of people, and now attempts to help others do the same.
Do the dumocrats enjoy shooting themselves in the A** or is it just that they cannot hit a target?
Better yet, I say we drug test and background check EVERY SINGLE PERSON in government jobs. ALL OF THEM!!!
If they test positive they get fired on the spot!! Just like in the real world!!
Think we could clean house????
The fact that people can beat the addiction is a story of courage and victory. I am going though similar problems with my daughter being addicted to painkillers. I look forward to the day when she can beat this addiction and have a victory of her own.
Agreed. This is not an area Obama can go.
Give me pain. Or give me pain killers. I take the latter.
So what?
At least i can still get off my ass and be productive without government disability. Nobody has to live with pain. That is the beauty of legal prescriptions.
Aren’t there more important things in life to worry about? Say for instance illegal drugs and their underground network?
She had a problem. She handled it. It’s over. I would like to ask those that complain if they have ever had a problem and what they did about it. She’s a good person. Kill the stories.
Zzzzzz. Wake me up when the WaPo actually tells the real story about the Democratic nominee’s history of drug use:
“Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. Except the highs hadn’t been about that, me trying to prove what a down brother I was. Not by then, anyway. I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory. I had discovered that it didn’t make any difference whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate’s sparkling new van, or in the dorm room of some brother you’d met down at the gym, or on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids who had dropped out of school and now spent most of their time looking for an excuse to brawl. ...You might just be bored, or alone. Everybody was welcome into the club of disaffection.” — Barack Obama
I guess their angle is he ‘ABUSED HIS POWER’ to hide the addiction. This is what they are aiming at. yawn.
I sent Kimberly Kindy an email telling her that for the purposes of journalistic integrity I expected her to write a full blown expose on Barack’s self-admitted drug use and how “it destroyed lives.”
I’m not holding my breath...
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