Lay Off My Wife

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http://cliffschecter.firedoglake.com/2008/06/04/mccains-past-infidelities-ongoing-sanctimony-haunt-him-in-town-hall-meeting/


McCain's Past Infidelities, Ongoing Sanctimony Haunt Him In Town Hall Meeting

[Breadburner]

The best against Obama's personal cock-holster is yet to come....

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quote:Originally posted by Breadburner

The best against Obama's personal cock-holster is yet to come....

Why'd he leave his sick wife?
Why'd he play around on his wife?
Whitey married a rich cheerleader 17 years his younger?

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quote:Originally posted by FOTD

quote:Originally posted by Breadburner

The best against Obama's personal cock-holster is yet to come....

Why'd he leave his sick wife?
Why'd he play around on his wife?
Whitey married a rich cheerleader 17 years his younger?

I though Obama's campaign was going to be above all the politics of personal destruction.  What value do these questions add to the broader dialogue?

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Just passing on information....not passing on judgement.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html

"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. "

"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 – deceit. "

"But 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.'"


Defeat deceit!

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Laura Bush Makes Surprise Trip To Afghanistan
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/08/larua-bush-makes-surprise_n_105893.html

I like Laura Bush. Don't know why, but she seems ok.

You really have got to feel sorry for her.

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Classic.....real classy first lady material!

"Your wife, Cindy, was addicted to prescription painkillers. She stole pills from a medical-aid charity she heads and she used the names of unsuspecting employees to get prescriptions."

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

Betty Ford was class.....Cindy's donkey....and you know just a rich beach cheerleader. No substance. Just abuse....

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JOHN MCCAIN'S WIFE HIDING WAR PROFITS, UNTAXED OFF-SHORE ACCOUNTS?
http://www.tulsanow.net/forum/post.asp?method=Reply&TOPIC_ID=10133&FORUM_ID=24
Federal agents: Cindy McCain's full tax returns will show war profits, pre-9/11 insider trading, secret off-shore accounts linked to 1241 Class C Nevada corporation payoffs and bribes.....
Wicked.

http://wonkette.com/381567/mccain-releases-dumb-tax-returns-cindys-fortune-kept-secret

http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/fraud/elections_campaigning/news.php?q=1213896894

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/06/18/john_mccain_s_wife_hiding_war_profits_un

Stepford wife?

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The tragic hero....Laura Bush. You gotta feel for her....[]

DREAMS OF LAURA

By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: July 9, 2008
WASHINGTON


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/opinion/09dowd.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin


"The headline on the conservative blog, Townhall, stormed: "Book to Smear First Lady's Sex Life."

Radar magazine proclaimed: "On the gossip front, the novel doesn't disappoint," adding that its steamy and lurid scenes were "sure to send the White House into a fury."

MSNBC.com called the sex scenes "too graphic to reprint."

The cover of this fantasy version of Laura Bush's life, "American Wife," is alluring, a woman's shapely figure in a white gown, with white opera gloves and a diamond ring.

The author is not Anonymous, or Eponymous or Pseudonymous, yet there is the air of a "Primary Colors" stunt about this political roman à clef, which is timed to come out during the Republican convention.

Still, it's not a salacious tell-all, and words like "smear" and "gossip" are misplaced. It's a well-researched book that imagines what lies behind that placid facade of the first lady, a women's book-club novel by a young woman named Curtis Sittenfeld who has written two best sellers, including "Prep."

It's the sort of novel Laura Bush might curl up with in the White House solarium if it were not about Laura Bush. It would be interesting to hear how that lover of fiction feels about being the subject of fiction.

You don't get any fingerprints from Laura Bush. When you look into her eyes during an interview, you feel as if she is there somewhere, deep inside herself, miles and miles down. But though she is lovely and gracious, the main vibe she gives off is an emphatic: "I am not going to show you anything."

Once in a while, you'll read about something she's said, like that legendary line she uttered to her future in-laws — "I read, I smoke, and I admire" — that makes you realize how intriguing it would be to see the real Laura. One with her guard down and outside of the Kabuki-like job of first lady.

But there's only one vessel that can ferry you past Laura's moat, and that's fiction. Ms. Sittenfeld has creatively applied her crayons to all the ambiguous blanks in the coloring book. It isn't an invasion of privacy. Art has always been made out of the stories of kings and queens. Fictionalizing historical figures is fine. Fantasies about public figures are inevitable. The question of an ostensibly ordinary girl who lives through extraordinary things will always be gripping. For "Madame Bovary," Flaubert partly drew on the real-life story of Delphine Delamare, a village doctor's unhappy wife who had lots of lovers and a premature and humiliating death.

And the story of the quiet, pretty librarian who could suffer the fate of being an old maid if not rescued by the dashing hero is a favorite American narrative — from "The Music Man" to "It's a Wonderful Life."

During her husband's presidential runs, many reporters shied away from asking Laura Bush about the freakishly horrible accident she had when she was 17. Hurrying to a party, she ran a stop sign in Midland, Tex., one night on Farm Road 868 and ran into a car that turned out to be driven by the golden boy of her high school, a cute star athlete she was believed to have had a crush on. He died instantly of a broken neck.

As Ann Gerhart wrote in "The Perfect Wife": "Killing another person was a tragic, shattering error for a girl to make at 17. It was one of those hinges in a life, a moment when destiny shuddered, then lurched in a new direction. In its aftermath, Laura became more cautious and less spontaneous, more inclined to be compassionate."

Laura has rarely spoken publicly about it, except to say in 2000 that "it was crushing ... for the family involved and for me as well."

How could a novelist not be drawn to such a tragedy? It's easy to imagine all that guilt, shame, conscience, fear, sex and nightmares in the hands of Eudora Welty or Larry McMurtry.

Ms. Sittenfeld was not out to sensationalize but sympathize. The portraits of Laura and W. — known as Alice and Charlie Blackwell here — are trenchant and make you like them more. The Barbara Bush doppelgänger, dubbed "Maj," for Her Majesty, is as tart as ever. "When she turned her attention to me," Alice says of Maj, "I always felt, and not in a positive way, as if we were the only ones in the room and total vigilance were required."

In 2004, Ms. Sittenfeld wrote a Salon piece confessing that despite her "flaming" liberalism and disdain for W.'s policies, she loved Laura Bush. She called the first lady "an easy heroine to root for — smart and nice, but just flawed enough (she still sneaks cigarettes!) to remain likable." She identified with Laura's omnivorous fiction reading.

In the novel, Alice, tormented by the choices her husband has made about the war that she's stood by, blurts out to a grieving father that she thinks the war should end. In life, we can only wonder how Laura feels. "

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Let's see if the MSM is up to chasing a juicy story, even if it is about McCain: McCain was still married to his wife when he got married to his mistress .....

Steelers or Packers, John?

http://www.americablog.com/2008/07/mccain-was-still-married-to-his-wife.html

McCain's broken marriage and fractured Reagan friendship
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-divorce11-2008jul11,0,5924926,full.story

Scary having such a polygamist in the Senate ...... Romney would be a good running mate.....or wing man.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/18/AR2008071802557.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

Black. Female. Accomplished. Attacked.

"We're endlessly familiar with the problem Michelle Obama is confronting -- being looked at, as black women, through a different lens from our white counterparts, who are portrayed as kinder, gentler souls who somehow deserve to be loved and valued more than we do. So many of us are hoping that Michelle -- as an elegant and elusive combination of successful career woman, supportive wife and loving mother -- can change that. "

"Recently, a friend who's a married professional mother of three girls wrote to me: "I think one of the most interesting things about Michelle Obama is that what she and her husband are doing is pretty revolutionary these days -- and I don't mean running for president. For a black man and woman in the U.S. to be happily married, with children, and working as partners to build a life -- let alone a life of service to others -- all while rearing their children together is downright revolutionary."

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Anyone else notice Cindy Lou sportin' a cast on her left arm? She said someone in a crowd shook her hand too hard. Hmmmm, back to the pain pills?

And!

Election 2008
Cindy McCain's Half Sister 'Angry' She's Hidden
by Ted Robbins
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93708729


The devil could care less what this beetch would do for the image of "First Lady"......not to worry. Not gonna happen.

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Then there's Cindy MCain, drug addict and potential first lady, making a stupid comment, she must have made that comment after sucking down a 6 of Bud, as to Palin's lack of national security experience, Cindy McCain said, "Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia. So, it's not as if she doesn't understand what's at stake here. It's also about making decisions and be targeted in what she thinks. She has a great mind. And she has a very serious direction in where she goes." So, because Alaska is close to Russia, Palin has foreing policy experience?

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quote:Originally posted by FOTD

Then there's Cindy MCain, drug addict and potential first lady, making a stupid comment, she must have made that comment after sucking down a 6 of Bud, as to Palin's lack of national security experience, Cindy McCain said, "Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia. So, it's not as if she doesn't understand what's at stake here. It's also about making decisions and be targeted in what she thinks. She has a great mind. And she has a very serious direction in where she goes." So, because Alaska is close to Russia, Palin has foreing policy experience?

Well of course. The Hawiaan senators are always at the discussions about Chinese diplomacy and we look to Michigan when dealing with Canada. Actually Detroit mayors. And nobody knows Mexican foreign policy issues like the Governor of Texas. Or the previous ones.

Cindy...shut up. People suspect you're all appearance, wealth and no substance. You're proving it.

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UH OH?

Michelle Obama Has a Rabbi in Her Family
Capers Funnye, Leading Black Israelite, Is Aspiring First Lady's Cousin

By Anthony Weiss

http://www.forward.com/articles/michelle-obama-has-a-rabbi-in-her-family-02454/