The wife John McCain callously left behind »
Posted by: idyll 3 months agoTo demonstrate his commitment to family values, the 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children. But there is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator's presidential campaign. She is seldom seen and rarely written about.
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chevydog2 months, 4 weeks ago
One can't defend McC too hard on this. About all one can say is that circumstances change, people change, and sometimes things just sort of happen that even participants can't quite understand. By custom, women are given the benefit of the doubt on the "insight" thing. It would be interesting to hear what McC has to say about this in an insightful moment. I'm betting for sure that it'll come up sometime during the campaign.
This has not been a particularly edifying year for those Repubs who are strongly attached to the "family values" thing. One can debate until the cows come home about whether what a person is in personal life is an indicator of future Pres performance.
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not2needy2 months, 4 weeks ago
I agree chevy. The best thing McCain could do for his campaign, IMO, is to drop the Christian Right, Family Values party from his platform altogether.
I don't question his Christianity, but he didn't even have a minister which tells me he doesn't attend a church, and his abandonment of his first family is evidence that he is LOW on family values.. Therefore, in order to NOT be branded anymore than he already is, he needs to drop those slogans completely. Run on the issues and leave the rest of it alone.
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1-2-Oscar2 months, 4 weeks ago
The US Navy was quite familiar with John McCain's "character," or lack thereof--that's why they never entrusted him with a significant command. His shallowness is evident at every stage of his career. Sailors and airmen will not eagerly follow a man whom they regard with scorn.
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Spadecaller2 months, 4 weeks ago
As much as I dislike McCain, his lack of character, and his lack of integrity, I do not feel it necessary to put the spotlight on his divorce and infidelity. I am a believer in the justice of a personal conscience and prefer to leave it to a Higher Power to cast such judgements.
Fortunately, there is more than enough hypocrisy, shallowness of character, and gross personal handicaps that McCain has and will demonstrate to beat him on the issues and his conduct, as it relates to his presidential ambitions.
The question lingers; do we want to emulate the GOP and the Rovian style of mudslinging or do we want to take the higher road, and discuss the issues?
I would prefer not to see another political party try to run a campaign on family values. There are too many lost souls involved in the politics of destruction; and they reside on both sides of the aisle.
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not2needy2 months, 4 weeks ago
Even though i agree that judgements should be left to a higher power SC, it gets so old with the right digging up every possible rock in the state of Illinois in attempts to find scandal on Michelle and Barack Obama. And NO i don't want to sink to the level to emulate the GOP and their mudslinging, but sometimes you MUST fight fire with fire.
Planks-eyes.. Glass houses.. The first without sin.. All come to mind while they submit articles based on rumor, while there is SOOOOOOO much baggage that follows the man known as John McCain.
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panzerv2 months, 4 weeks ago
I think this story is a true testament to his real character. Not a person I would vote for. But I'm expecting him to become president. The military industrial complex needs a complete as$hole to further their agenda.
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mackiemesser2 months, 4 weeks ago
Not a pretty characterization of a man desiring to be our next President. I prefer that he not be our next President.
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tchef2 months, 4 weeks ago
I don't think that this is going to play well for McCain in this election.
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Nowalive2 months, 4 weeks ago
That my friends is a woman to praise. She set aside her own needs to allow John to pursue his future. She deserves far more than he could ever repay her. I don't think I could vote for such a selfish man (or woman). I will just write myself in at the polls.
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not2needy2 months, 4 weeks ago
FTA:
Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans' rights, said: 'I have been following John McCain's career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is â;; deceit.
'When he came home and saw that Carol was not the beauty he left behind, he started running around on her almost right away. Everybody around him knew it.
'Eventually he met Cindy and she was young and beautiful and very wealthy. At that point McCain just dumped Carol for something he thought was better.
'This is a guy who makes such a big deal about his character. He has no character. He is a fake. If there was any character in that first marriage, it all belonged to Carol.'
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not2needy2 months, 4 weeks ago
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Ross Perot, who paid her medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both Carol McCain and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel â;; even by the standards of modern politics.
'McCain is the classic opportunist. He's always reaching for attention and glory,' he said.
'After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history.'
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Goppy2 months, 4 weeks ago
What an interesting story!
Thank you very much idyll for finding this. It's always interesting to get an idea about what candidates are made of.
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Shankari252 months, 4 weeks ago
McCain is a greedy, narrow-minded Republican who doesn't listen to his constituents although plenty of them are greedy and narrow-minded as well. He's just more of the same garbage from the Right. The article is interesting, but I never intended to vote for him anyway. A man who goes on and on about how he was tortured, but who refuses to stand against torture is a spineless wad. I don't need to know anymore about the old coot.
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avpd852 months, 4 weeks ago
I read this earlier and thought it's really interesting. I have a very different insight of Mr McCain after reading the article. But I guess what's in the past is in the past.
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wasntme2 months, 4 weeks ago
by the way lets not forget our last family value hero , Newt Gingrich. He delivered the divorce papers to the hospital where his wife was being treated. !!
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mesodude2 months, 1 week ago
"'My marriage ended because John McCain didn't want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens...it just does.'
Some of McCain's acquaintances are less forgiving, however. They portray the politician as a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to 'play the field'. They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons."
--This is the passage that truly broke my heart.
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