Monday, June 09, 2008
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Family Matters
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Posted by:
Matt Lewis at
4:28 PM
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A lot of bloggers are talking about this story about McCain's first wife
"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." Some McCain supporters take solace in the fact that McCain and his ex-wife are still friends. My take is that it's unrealistic to assume someone could come back from years of torture as a POW, and resume normal domestic tranquility -- even with the person who stuck with them through the whole mess.
This, of course, doesn't mean that a survivor has to leave his wife. And McCain doesn't cite this reason as an excuse -- he blames himself. Still, I think the emotional baggage that comes with going through what he went through has to have a dramatic impact on relationships.
Personally, this story seems like a bit of a hit job. It's not terribly surprising, since some Hillary supporters -- and some conservatives -- have recently stepped-up attacks on Michelle Obama. Still, it's an issue that is going to come out, so we might as well address it here and now ...
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This is ridiculous. He married Cindy very shortly after his first marriage ended.
If anything, they might try to insinuate an ongoing affair with Cindy while he was still married, but a womanizer? "Playing the field"? Sorry, the facts don't support that.
(Oh, I forgot. No facts required.)
Too bad, really. If he was the philanderer they try to smear him as being, those Clinton voters would be in the bag. |
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Why is it always the Republican presidential candidates who have multiple divorces, marry their cousins, have affairs with wife N+1 while still married to wife N, etc? Reagan was truly a ground-breaker: our first divorced president. Doesn't the Bible say divorce isn't permitted? |
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McCain was not my first choice. Or even my second, or third. I hate a guy who is unfaithful to his wife.
I always say a guy who doesn't keep his promises sworn in solemn to God will not keep his promises to the voters to whom he has not sworn to God. That was my main concern with Wm. Clinton too. But it seems that McCain has tried to be faithful since. The same cannot be said for Clinton. |
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I couldn't give a whit who McCain diddles or why. His wife is a vapid socialite. Big whoop. I don't vote for Obama because Michelle is a strong, powerful, educated, and dynamic woman, I won't not vote for McCain because wife number 2 is a bimbo trophy wife with inherited millions.
Laura Bush killed a girl, Nancy Reagan consulted psychics, please people, stop obsessing over the spouses and judge the candidates. Why are conservatives so obsessed with other people's sex lives? Repressed much?
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Mr. Munck, the Bible does not say divorce isn't permitted, but Jesus did say that re-marriage after a divorce was considered adultery while re-marriage after becoming widowed is permissable.
I know I'm splitting hairs, but that's what He said. |
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first rodeo - had there been any sustainable truth it would have been used as a smear tactic long ago.
I suspect this attack on McCain is akin to what Obama did to his opponent in Chicago. For anyone to think Obama is going to bring a "new" kind of politics to this country they would have to be delusional.
Obama is using typical Chicago ways to try to gain entry to the WH. |
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also worked in the Reagan WH. |
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it is likely to raise some fuss, but it is irrelevent to McCain's candidacy (or it should be). McCain has had many life experiences, and that is one of the good things about him as far as I am concerned. I am also not so enthralled with attacks on Michelle Obama, although I am probably in the minority at Townhall as far as that goes. |
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will find it hard to overcome Carol McCain's own words of their split up having absolutely nothing to do with her accident.
Michelle Obama is fair game - when it comes to light that she and her family have probably been members of TUCC and associates of the Farrakhans even longer than Obama, well...that is fair game.
IF Obama had, for example, been a member of a radical muslim mosque, would the public be expected to believe he attended for 20 years without any of the same ideology rubbing off on him? That is exactly what Obama and his surrogates are asking the general public to believe when it comes to TUCC. |
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A guy, actually. A boyfriend who had just dumped her. |
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You have exposed yourself (perhaps not the first time...?) as a typical liberal slime merchant.
You are referring to a traffic accident.
I addressed you respectfully earlier, but you were not worthy of such treatment.
In my granfather's day, the word for you was "cad." |
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Didn't we hear these words just a few weeks ago from Obama's mouth?? But all of the sudden Cindy McCain is fair game. What a joke. Typical that Obama's supporters continue to do his dirty work for him while he continues to don the title of St. Barack. It was these supporters who also started the race-baiting against the Clinton campaign. Obama needs to call off his dogs. And personally I couldn't give a toss how many times McCain has been married. I don't have an issues with McCain's marital history, just as I don't have a problem with Clinton's. Whether or not he can do the job is all that matters to me. Just remember though....you guys started all this...making personal lives and family values an issue. |
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Any of you that think these attacks are from Obama surrogates are seriously misinformed. Check out this link http://www.usvetdsp.com/mccainpg.htm
Ted Sampley has been hard at it since 1992 trying to expose the truth about John McCain. |
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Face it. McCain married a swimsuit model who was disfigured in a car accident and looked entirely different when he returned home. It's one thing to leave his wife because of the stress of his prisoner of war circumstances, but quite another if he left disfigured wife #1 for another bombshell - only richer. Trading up is how it reads, no matter how PTSD'd he may have been.
Oddly enough, it sounds as though he lured wife #1 away from a marriage and children to begin with. Is this the kind of man we need leading our country? A homewrecking angry old man? |
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I grew up in the Navy. When my step father would leave we would be sad for a week or so, but then life would carry on. When he came back it was awkward, but again we carried on. He was only gone for 9 months the longest deployment.
I am now a Navy wife with 4 kids. When my husband leaves we are all sad and the kids don't mind very well, but we adjust and carry on. When my husband comes back it is awkward and there are power struggles, but we carry on.
Given all this experience, I can tell you with all certainty that if my husband were gone for 5 1/2 years our marriage would most likely fail. Not because of lack of love, but life moves on.
I think both John and Carol had a difficult time adjusting and they just could not make it work. It seems like they are friends now and that is the most anyone can hope for.
Carol was exploited by this paper, that much is clear. |
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