Can Cindy McCain really be that perfect?

[underpants]

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/05/can-cindy-mccain-really-be-that-perfect/

She’s always dressed in a killer suit and never has a hair out of place. We went to Phoenix, where Cindy McCain grew up, to talk with those who know her best. Good friend Betsy Bayless, a former Arizona secretary of state, says Cindy is a “fun down to earth person with a great sense of humor.”

She had a privileged upbringing. Her father started one of the largest beer distributorships in the country and today Cindy is the Chairman of the Board. The company is reportedly worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Cindy graduated from the University of Southern California with a teaching degree and went on to become a teacher, but meeting John McCain changed all that. They met before he was in politics at a cocktail party in Hawaii. He is 18 years older than she is.

They apparently had instant chemistry. John was separated from his first wife at the time. About a month after his divorce, Cindy and John McCain got married.

They had three children and adopted a fourth child from Bangladesh. That adoption got attention during the 2000 primary in South Carolina, Sen. McCain’s first run to be president. There were claims Bridgett was actually McCain’s illegitimate black child. That’s not true – that’s dirty politics.

The McCains had another negative story to deal with during that campaign. During that 2000 primary, she was painted as a drug addict. It wasn’t pretty.

Here’s the back-story: In 1989, Cindy had a bad car accident and started taking prescription pain killers for her back injury. Four years later, she was still addicted to pain killers. Friends say her mother confronted her and she admitted her addiction, then immediately stopped taking the pills.

So now the McCain’s are at it again. Cindy seems more relaxed this time around and seems to be having more fun, according to the blog that McCain’s daughter Meghan keeps from the campaign trail.

[Dora]

1. I have no problem with addiction. Theft from a non-profit is a problem.

While an addict, she founded and directed a non-profit organization whose mission was to distribute medications to communities in need.

She stole pain meds from the organization.


http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1994-09-08/news/opiate-for-the-mrs/full

[underpants]

4. I think the point here is that we are going to get drubbed with this

the perfect wife don't YOU want to be more like HER don't YOU want what SHE has HER husband could ;-) be President

[Debi]

2. There's more to Cindy McCain's drug addiction than that

She stole presciption drugs and got caught. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/18/drugs/print.html

[Jacobin]

3. well, she was porking him while he was married to his first wife

But, since she's rich and a republican, that isn't considered bad form and it will not be mentioned.

[Johonny]

12. pretty much

The rethugs who go on and on about Clinton cheating on Hillary will gladly vote for McCain the guy who cheated on his wife.

[trotsky]

5. Love, LOVE the double standard we're going to see.

Kerry marries rich, beautiful woman: he's an opportunistic golddigger.

McCain marries rich, beautiful woman and enters politics with her money: awww, they're in LUUUUUV.

[Vektor]

7. Oh, isn't THAT the double standard?

I know exactly what you're saying.

And while I have no desire to bash Cindy McCain, the double standard shown between John Kerry and John McCain is ridiculous.

At least from the nasty Repubs. Most sane folk have no desire to go there.

[underpants]

9. Nail on head

As much as I don't want to attack the wife THEY did nothing but that in 2004. There were all kinds of emails about *gasp* how rich SHE was the implication that she only married Senators. Well aside from her must have SOME thing that attracts....okay let me stop there

Cindy is different. She pretty much created him as a politician anyway. SHE brought him to Arizona and SHE and her family money made him (complete with district shopping) into a politician.

[buff2]

6. Friends say her mother confronted her and she admitted her addiction, then immediately stopped takin

Oh,right.......a drug addict can just all of a sudden quit taking the drugs. What a crock of cow manure.

[lutefisk]

10. Republicans have that capability- same thing with Bush's booze

Junior just woke up one morning and stopped. No problemo. (Well, he does seem to be having some sort of relapse, but he's under a lot of pressure.)
:sarcasm:

[truebrit71]

11. I thought the same thing...

.."and immediately stopped taking them"....first time I've ever heard that the road to recovery was a straight line...

[Donnachaidh]

8. she's too much of a Stepford fembot to be real

I wonder if she'd agree to be drug tested on a regular basis?