John McCain said something that boggled my mind (easily done, I know) going into the weekend. In an interview with CNN, he said, according to the network, in a story headlined "McCain: Treat Our Wives with Respect":
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Sen. John McCain said Friday that every candidate's wife "should be treated with respect, and if there's any disrespectful conduct on the part of anyone, those people should be rejected."
That's interesting, because according to THIS story about McCain's first wife Carol, whom he divorced shortly after McCain met his second wife Cindy at a party and 10 years after Carol McCain (a Philadelphia native, by the way) suffered a horrific auto accident....
she says. ‘My accident is well recorded. I had 23 operations, I am five inches shorter than I used to be and I was in hospital for six months. It was just awful, but it wasn’t the reason for my divorce.
‘My marriage ended because John McCain didn’t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens...it just does.’
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.
McCain was then earning little more than £25,000 a year as a naval officer, while his new father-in-law, Jim Hensley, was a multi-millionaire who had impeccable political connections.
This article is headlined: "The wife John McCain callously left behind."
But McCain said I am supposed to reject anyone who didn't treat a candidate's wife with respect.
OK, consider it done, then!
A Republican hypocrite? Say it ain't so!— tightlines
Comment removed.- I guess McCain is going to reject himself, seeing as how he called his wife a c**t in public.— mike l
- At these exchange rates...— SteveMG
- McCain is a boilerplate, old-line (really old line...) line Republican. Big on blather, light on follow through...and totally incapable of an adult relationship with a spouse, other than the "business deal" these two struck. Quite despicable, actually.....— piltdownman
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- And then there is wife #2, Cindi, who he apparently critized for using makeup like a slut and called her a C**t in front of campaign reporters.— atp2007
- Once again, Will, you lay down with dogs you rise up with fleas. If you find going after Obama on this extraneous stuff objectionable, why do you do so with McCain. It's not like there aren't enough issues of substance to go after McCain on. When McCain takes the high road, he raises the level of debate. Don't you support his contention that candidates' wives should be treated with respect?— Talking point sleuth
- oh goody! Will just said its open season on Michele Obama! and gotta love Will's use of an article whose sources are "some of mccain's aquaintances". Real classy there, Will. The fact is that McCain did everything in his power for Carol and the children from his first family. There was an empidemic of divorces from troops returning from Vietnam -- and McCain didn't just return from Vietnam, he returned from six years of brutalization in a POW camp. You're efforts to impugn his character with an article using blind quotes from "some acquaintances" in this manner is despicable.... Now, explain to us what a good dad Obama is, what with his decision to send his children to the hate-fest at TUCC...— paul_lukasiak
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- So Paul, you're supporting McCain now? There's a surprise. Also, I'm baffled by the comment that it's open season on Michelle Obama. Huh? Is there any criticism of either Carol or Cindy McCain here? Is it open season on the character of Barack Obama...and John McCain? Sure. They're running for president of the United States. Fire away at either one.— will
- well, now that Will has established the "some acquaintences" standard for sliming political candidates, can we start talking about Michele Obama's "whitey" remarks? I mean, the sourcing is just as solid....— paul_lukasiak
- no will, I'm not supporting McCain. I'm just not voting for Obama. And you've made Michele fair game by trying to slime McCain about his personal life -- and by sliming Carol McCain indirectly as some sort of idiot for not agreeing wit McCain's "acquaintences". Carol McCain has been through more than enough in her life, and for you to use her in this fashion is despicable. John McCain went through hell in a POW camp -- and the fact that he may have made some less than "honorable" choices upon his return is far less relevant to be than the fact that Barack Obama sends his kids to Church to learn that God hates white people from people like Jeremiah Wright tells me a whole lot more about Obama's character TODAY than what McCain did a couple of decades ago after being released from a POW camp.— paul_lukasiak
- Yo Paul, I hate to break it to you but there is hardly an unkind word directed at either of McCain's wives. The point of the post is about how McCain treated his first wife. I don't see anything directed at her character.— SteveMG
- Paul --- So what you're saying is that it is more reasonable to believe that a multiracial man raised primarily by white people, grows up & has children with a black woman, then decides to raise his kids to hate white people, rather than a good time soldier boy who goes through a horrific experience in war, comes back to a wife who waited for him, but dumps her because he doesn't want to be married anymore? Your choice is to believe the one-in-a-million story over the one that is more common?— yobill626
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