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“...Cindy, while a wonderful human being, has very little in the way of professional accomplishments....”

Cindy is a person with business and international experience. She has real business experience. In many ways, Cindy McCain stacks up sturdier than Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama. Mrs. McCain also is a hands-on philanthropist. She sits on the Board of CARE. And she’d make an impressive first lady.

After Cindy’s Dad died she became involved with his beer distributing firm and is now the chairwoman.
Sales have doubled since she has taken over from her father.

She’s active with ‘Halo Trust’ - to clear land mines, provide water and food in war ravaged and developing countries. She is involved around the world clearing land mines - travels to these countries on a detonation team and service on their board. Cindy has actually seen violence. She witnessed a boy get blown up by a mine in Kuwait during a trip with an international group that removes land mines from war-torn countries.

She sits on the board of Operation Smile, which arranges for plastic surgeons to fix cleft palates and other birth defects and joins on their overseas missions.

Cindy helped organize relief missions to Micronesia. During a scuba-diving vacation to the islands, Mrs. McCain took a friend to a local hospital to have a cut treated. She was shocked, and saddened, by what she saw. “They opened the door to the OR, where the supplies were, and there were two cats and a whole bunch of rats climbing out of the sterile supplies,” she recalled. “They had no X-ray machine, no beds. To me, it was devastating because it was s a U.S. trust territory.” As soon as she returned home, she arranged for medical equipment and teams of doctors to be sent to treat the island children.

she is or has been a race car driver and is also a pilot. She flies John around the country to his rallies.

Their son Jimmy was so young when he enlisted in the Marines she had to sign consent forms for his medical tests before he could report for duty.

The McCain’s want to make sure their two boys in uniform get no special treatment. Same goes for their five other children.

During a 1991 visit to Mother Teresa’s orphanage in Bangladesh, Cindy noticed a dying baby. The orphanage could not provide the medical care needed to save her life. So she brought the child home to America for the surgery she desperately needed. The baby is now their healthy, 16-year-old daughter, Bridget.

Altogether the McCains have seven children including two Sen. McCain and Cindy adopted from his first marriage.

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