Getting to know Cindy McCain
While I may admire the fact that Cindy McCain is active in the world clearing land mines movement - that she has a son in Iraq, she adopted a child in need from Bangladesh, created a foundation to help children in need and that she’s active in Halo Trust, I do have to admit that there are other attributes that leave a sour impression that shadows the good that she’s trying to accomplish.
Cindy McCain was the heiress to a beer distributor’s fortune, she is now active in that distributorship, she did make the Senator sign a pre-nup when he married her and has kept her finances separate from his, she did adopt (at Mother Theresa’s behest) a Bangladeshi girl in need of many surgeries to correct a cleft palate, she has established a family charity that benefits primarily children’s causes, and she is active both in mine-clearing and children’s dental restoration causes.
While John and Cindy McCain have four children together (one adopted), the Senator also has another three children from his first marriage (two of whom are children his first wife brought to their marriage). The McCains have a commuter marriage in which he stays in Washington, she stays in Phoenix, but they vacation together twice a year. There is an 18-year age difference between them; they met when she was 24 and he was 42.
In 1989, following two back surgeries, Cindy McCain became addicted to the painkillers Vicodin and Percocet. To keep up with her daily need of 10 to 15 pills, she used other people’s names for prescriptions and stole drugs from the American Voluntary Medical Team, a mobile surgical unit she’d begun in 1988 to provide emergency medical services around the world. A 1993 DEA audit of the amount of painkillers her charity had obtained quickly uncovered her thefts. She avoided prosecution for those crimes through an agreement with the Justice Department in which she submitted to drug testing, paid a fine, performed community service in a soup kitchen, and joined Narcotics Anonymous. She also closed her medical charity.
Cindy McCain is Senator McCain’s second wife. His infidelities put strain on his first marriage, and he was divorced from Carol McCain, his wife of 15 years, in 1980. (Carol McCain not only waited for five and a half years for her husband to return from Vietnam, but she also endured a horrific automobile accident during that period which broke both her legs and one arm and ruptured her spleen. She nearly lost her left leg, and surgeries left her four inches shorter than she was before her accident. The woman John McCain returned to was far different in appearance from the beautiful former model he’d left behind.)
Cindy Lou Hensley and John McCain began Dating in 1979. While the Wall Street Journal article used as the source for the e-mail’s information states “At the time, Sen. McCain was separated from his first wife,” numerous other sources assert he was still living with Carol McCain when he began seeing his future wife, Cindy. John and Cindy wed in 1980, one month after his divorce from Carol became final.
In 2004, Cindy McCain had a stroke as a result of failing to continue her blood pressure medication. She made a full recovery, even running a marathon 8 months after being stricken.
In the ramp-up towards the run for the Republican nomination, Senator McCain said to his wife, “I think you could bring style, grace, and elegance back to the White House.”
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Yes Cindy McCain may be doing good things. And Yes she has the RIGHT TO. But if she wasn’t who she is and married to who she is married to she would had a Felony Charge on her record just like I do for doing the same thing. The difference is she had people who could make it all go away. I on the other had to face up to what I did.
Who the the first Mrs. McCain works for and who she contributes to
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I’m not sure what the story is there - but I’d imagine it’s not as it appears. I wouldn’t even doubt that the contribution is being made in her name and not really by her.
Maybe there’s a promise of fortune and good life if he wins. If I were in that woman’s shoes, I’d be selling the real story to the Enquirer before I’d contribute to his campaign.
And who knows, maybe it’s fear - You know how some politicians have the ability to silence people. The DC Madam comes to mind in this whole ordeal.
Just creepy - there’s nothing comforting about McCain at all. No way, no how