Thread: Is John McCain's Wife A Campaign Issue? She Could Be.

This is an older article and situation. The fact that his wife stole vicodin from a charity is scary. He said he never noticed. YIKES.

Sunday, January 13, 2008
http://nalert.blogspot.com/2008/01/is-j ... issue.html

Is John McCain's Wife A Campaign Issue?
The Arizona Republic reports:

By the early 1990s, McCain's political rehabilitation seemed complete, but the Keating Five fallout would continue to overshadow his personal life and affect his relationship with the local media.

In August 1994, a group of Valley journalists received an unusual phone call from Jay Smith, McCain's political strategist.

They were offered an exclusive story in exchange for agreeing to certain terms. They would attend individual interview sessions Aug. 19 and sit on the story until Aug. 22. The five journalists - three print reporters, a television reporter and a radio reporter - agreed.

One by one, they went to the McCain home, where they heard an incredible story.

Cindy McCain, 40, told them that she had been a drug addict for three years. From 1989 to 1992, as the Keating Five made headlines, she was addicted to Percocet and Vicodin. Worse, she had stolen pills from the American Voluntary Medical Team, a relief organization that she founded to aid Third World countries.

"More than anything, I wanted to be able to face my children, for them to know I wasn't lying to them," she said at the time. "They're too young to fully understand right now, but someday they will."

Cindy blamed two back surgeries and the Keating Five scandal - a blend of physical and emotional pain - for hooking her on drugs.

Things started to unravel when a Drug Enforcement Administration audit found irregularities in the charity's records, prompting an investigation, Cindy told the reporters.

In 1992, as the Keating affair surfaced again during McCain's run for a second Senate term, Cindy's parents confronted her about her drug use.

What had been clear to Cindy's parents was lost on McCain, who said he had not noticed his wife's addiction.

"I was stunned," McCain said at the time. "Naturally, I felt enormous sadness for Cindy and a certain sense of guilt that I hadn't detected it. I feel very sorry for what she went through, but I'm very proud she was able to come out of it. For her, it was like the Keating affair had been for me, a searing experience, and we both came out stronger. I think it has strengthened our marriage and our overall relationship."

The late Phoenix Gazette political columnist John Kolbe helped break the story.

His Aug. 25, 1994, column was headlined and led with a powerful quote:

"I'm Cindy, and I'm an addict."

Kolbe also drew a straight line between Cindy's drug predicament and the Keating Five stress.

"As the family bookkeeper, she was unable to find records of her reimbursement to Keating for three vacation trips to the Bahamas on Keating's corporate plane," Kolbe wrote. "The apparent lack of reimbursement - which wasn't resolved until the records turned up months later - became a key ethical charge against the senator."

Cindy explained to Kolbe: "It wasn't my fault, but at the time, you couldn't convince me. (Senate Ethics Committee Chairman) Howell Heflin (D-Ala.) even told me it was my fault."

To avoid prosecution on drug charges, she would enter a federal diversion program.

In telling her story, Cindy got choked up when she told of federal drug agents knocking on her door, asking about missing pills.

The reporters were sympathetic.

Cindy McCain sure knows how to stay out of jail.

This from the wife of McCain who people say they trust. How did he get so many votes? He was disliked and untrustworthy a couple months ago. Now he is the frontrunner - where did all those votes come from - I wonder hmmmm!!!!

This woman looks like a very expensive ho.

(and yes, I've already slapped myself for saying it 'out loud')

Barbie doll. Does she only speak when you pull the string on her back.

You can bet the dems will be all over her in the general

Originally Posted by JDPA

Barbie doll. Does she only speak when you pull the string on her back.

Good one!

I bet this will play out all over again in the press, and again, and again...

We'll start hearing more of the McCain skeletons as he moves closer to formally securing the nomination. And if he does in fact win the nom, the MSM will then start nailing him. The media has been pushing John McCain to knock Romney out.

Has the clintons mass corruption been put out by the main stream media? No!
Has the fact that Bill Clinton giving the North Koreans two nucelar power facilities been talked about? No!

Has the fact that Bill Clinton gave China Military secrets been talked about? No!

So, we have a conspiricy to cover everything up including John McCains corruption.

Thats why you can officially say we have a corrupt government and political system. Even the republicans won't unearth the massive Bill Clintons corruption probably because they have skeletons in their own closet they don't want revealed.

People either keep voting for these beast or the votes are tampered with, either way we have had it !

Far as the ' Barbie Doll ' kid goes, I'd rather look at her face than the mug on Ohillery the Hun . In Ortillers case he had to kill his enemies, hilerys just convienantly drops dead in mysterous ways ! From body guards, cia agents, office workers ,etc,etc,etc,etc, . Google Clintons- body bag count .

I don't like any of them, not the Barbie or the Beast .
,

Originally Posted by florgal

This woman looks like a very expensive ho.

(and yes, I've already slapped myself for saying it 'out loud')