If This Is From Addiction to Pain Pills, Do We Need to Send Michelle a Ship Load??
Yes, Mrs. McCain is the perfectly coifed blonde standing dutifully behind the senator during his speeches. And yes, she wears stylish clothing and carries a Prada purse. And it’s true she doesn’t say much. But feminist critics who write her off as a "stand-by-your-man" shrinking violet are selling her short. In many ways, Cindy McCain stacks up sturdier than Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama. And she’d make a more impressive first lady.
Mrs. McCain: More than meets the eye.
While Obama’s wife has been hating America, complaining about the war and undermining our troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, McCain’s wife has been worrying about her sons who actually are fighting or planning to fight in the war on terror. One, in fact, was until a few months ago deployed in Iraq during some of the worst violence.
You don’t hear the McCains talk about it, but their 19-year-old Marine, Jimmy, is preparing for his second tour of duty. Their 21-year-old son, Jack, is poised to graduate from Annapolis and also could join the Marines as a second lieutenant. The couple made the decision not to draw attention to their sons out of respect for other families with sons and daughters in harm’s way.
Cindy also says she doesn’t want to risk falling apart on the campaign trail talking about Jimmy who was so young when he enlisted she had to sign consent forms for his medical tests before he could report for duty and potentially upsetting parents of soldiers who are serving or have been killed.
The McCains want to make sure their boys get no special treatment. Same goes for their five other children, including a daughter they adopted from Bangladesh. During a visit to Mother Teresa’s orphanage there, 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.
Though all seven McCain children including two Sen. McCain adopted from his first marriage are supportive of their father, they prefer their privacy to the glare of the campaign trail. Another daughter, Meghan, 23, helps him behind the scenes.
Cindy McCain not only cherishes her children, but also her country, which in an election year filled with America-bashing, is a refreshing novelty. She seethed when she heard Michelle Obama’s unpatriotic remarks that she only recently grew proud of America. "I am very proud of my country," Mrs. McCain asserted.
She also may be tougher than the other women in the race. While Hillary thinks she’s come under sniper fire on mission trips abroad, 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.
Mrs. McCain also is a hands-on philanthropist. She sits on the board of Operation Smile, which arranges for plastic surgeons to fix cleft palates and other birth defects. She also has 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 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.
Michelle Obama may contribute to CARE, which fights global poverty and works to empower poor women. Cindy sits on its board.
While the Democrat women talk about helping the poor and needy, Cindy McCain actually rolls up her sleeves and does it. Who’s the out-of-touch elitist?
Thank you. The Obama people will not appreciate your story, for they are in a trance-like stupor. But McCain supporters will appreciate the info. that futher stregthens their stance.
that biitch michelle is a nasty ho! latinos AGAINST obama08.
Sounds like a Fox News rant…….GOODBYE!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, we do apparently need to send Michelle a shipload.
Cindy shocked me when I first read about all of the things she has done. Good for her, and good for everyone she has helped.
Yawn…
Those who perform good deeds often choose to remain silent, as their good deeds speak for themselves and are their own reward.
im sure Michelle has a great PPO, she doesnt need u to send her meds.
Yes, I have read about her before. She is an amazing woman. They bash her because of her past drug addiction, we haven’t lived her life, her pain. Obama also admitted to past drug use. So what, it is the past. I hope every one reads your question so they will know what a big heart this woman has. I tried to post this, but something happened to the link. I am glad you did share this.
The contrast between the McCains and the Obamas is stark. Great post.
The Kool-aid kids are too busy calling her a "barbie doll" an attempt at a racist slur.
They fail to realize that she has done a lot of good work, much more than Michelle, who profits greatly from the uninsured.
Thank you for bringing all of this to light. I knew that Joy could not be the LAST word on Cindy McCain from her visit on The View (see Larry King Live last night). Please state your source for the Obama supporters that read Obama.com like it was the Bible.
Ranting again huh. well i feel sorry for Cindy McCain it look as if she is being force to use the republican divisive tactics of attacking Mechelle Obama . Cindy popularity is diminishing because of this very issue haven’t you seen the latest polls where most women view Mrs Obama more favorable than Cindy McCain.the Republicans better be very careful of this tactic remember how the media demonize Hillary Clinton for her negative comments .
That is the difference between liberals and conservatives. Liberals talk a lot (usually they are complaining) and conservatives get to work to solve the issues that bother them.
A. You’re ranting
B. You’re obviously a Fox News cronie, you’ve managed to spew their garbage verbetim. Sad.
She is class.. (C McCain)
M. O. is just bitter. It’s easy to understand that m obama hates America. I figure that anyone would that sat in her church and had their brain polluted for 20 years would. Makes one wonder about her husband doesn’t it..
Cindy has left more class in the toilet than Michelle possesses.
It’s kind of funny how you plug in "Michelle hates America", "complains about the war", "undermines the troops" in that first statement.
Of course that "I love America" really is an oppurtunistic quote on her behalf, making it an easy target on Michelle’s behalf (even though the present First Lady Laura Bush said she misspoke).
And Cindy McCain does have a sordid history herself. She did sleep with a married man (McCain divorced his wife and married Cindy in 1980, they began their relationship in 1979).
Cindy also was a rodeo queen, a cheerleader at USC, and had inherited a fortune. She has spent pretty much all of her life rolling in money, much like Paris Hilton or George W. Bush.
To me, Cindy is trying so hard to be like the prototypical 50′s housewife, like Donna Reed, but coming up short (as evidenced by her theft of prescription pills and repeated attempts to pass off recipes from the Food Network as her family’s "tradtional recipes", and by what John McCain says "plastering make-up on like a trollop", he also called her a c*nt). So how does that figure into elitism?
So can you call her an adulterer, a thief, an elitist?
To me, Cindy McCain is like a grown woman who wants to be a Barbie doll or Donna Reed. Kind of the opposite of Michelle who is stronger, a bit more of a fighter, than her counterpart.
Why don’t you skip the shipment of pills and send her a hefty trust fund from "Hensley & Co.", or a $400,000 a year salary for being "chairman" of said company? Then maybe she’d have time to jaunt around the world on philanthropic trips as opposed to working. Please don’t take this as a knock on Cindy, because to her credit she took her own road…attending college, working outside of the family business. She may not be an "elitist" in the classic sense of the word, but she definitely lives a privileged, affluent life style that many Americans do not. If we could say the same about Michelle’s upbringing, and she did not do the philanthropic things Cindy did, then your comparison might have been a valid one.