McCain's Family Values
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webfarmerA sad story but someone certainly should note it. Anyone think the NY Times or WaPo would touch this with a ten foot pole?
The Wife John McCain Callously Left Behind - Daily Mail (UK) - 08 Jun 08
". . . there is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator’s presidential campaign. She is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain’s three eldest children.
And yet, had events turned out differently, it would be she, rather than Cindy, who would be vying to be First Lady. She is McCain’s first wife, Carol, who was a famous beauty and a successful swimwear model when they married in 1965. She was the woman McCain dreamed of during his long incarceration and torture in Vietnam’s infamous 'Hanoi Hilton' prison and the woman who faithfully stayed at home looking after the children and waiting anxiously for news.
But when McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969. Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries."
"For nearly 30 years, Carol has maintained a dignified silence about the accident, McCain and their divorce. But last week at the bungalow where she now lives at Virginia Beach, a faded seaside resort 200 miles south of Washington, she told The Mail on Sunday how McCain divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later."
"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 – 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.'"
The Wife John McCain Callously Left Behind - Daily Mail (UK) - 08 Jun 08
". . . there is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator’s presidential campaign. She is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain’s three eldest children.
And yet, had events turned out differently, it would be she, rather than Cindy, who would be vying to be First Lady. She is McCain’s first wife, Carol, who was a famous beauty and a successful swimwear model when they married in 1965. She was the woman McCain dreamed of during his long incarceration and torture in Vietnam’s infamous 'Hanoi Hilton' prison and the woman who faithfully stayed at home looking after the children and waiting anxiously for news.
But when McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969. Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries."
"For nearly 30 years, Carol has maintained a dignified silence about the accident, McCain and their divorce. But last week at the bungalow where she now lives at Virginia Beach, a faded seaside resort 200 miles south of Washington, she told The Mail on Sunday how McCain divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later."
"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 – 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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Date: 2008-08-29 06:10 am (UTC)I remember the news piece. It was about a group of children who had come to meet McCain. They were all excited and optimistic but McCain snubbed them entirely, waving to some other 'adults' and then leaving without saying a word to the kids.
I don't know why people are making so much of his time as a POW. If being imprisoned and tortured were all that was necessary to be president, then there should be several hundred guys sitting in Guantamo Bay who should be sharing the Republican ticket.
But that said, I still admire how Obama took the high road even tonight. I see that McCain uncharacteristically doffed his hat to Obama. I'm sure he won't repeat that move.
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Date: 2008-08-30 05:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-29 03:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-29 03:38 pm (UTC)McCain himself has said that his first marriage was his biggest moral failure in his interview with Rick Warren. That would be even bigger than the Keating Five situation which surprisingly also has had scant coverage in the supposedly liberal media.