John Edwards Did A Bad Thing,
But John McCain Did A "Badder" Thing
By
Mike Allen
(aka NEM)
We have all heard it in the past few days. How could anyone
not have heard it? All of the networks, regular TV, cable TV
and all the political talk radio shows are stretching the
story about John Edwards' extra marital affair to the lime, ad
nauseum..
Especially the usual suspects, the right wing hacks like Sean
Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and the others are all over this story,
and they are using every possible angle including video
innuendo shots of John Edwards sharing the same stage with
Democratic Presidential presumptive candidate, Barack Obama.
It's like they can't wait to jump on another opportunity to
associate Obama with a very bad man.
And while I can not condone the activities of John Edwards, it
amazes me how the media is willing to run away with this story
while at the same time, neglecting one that on the surface,
and maybe even beneath the surface, shows that the presumptive
Republican Candidate, Senator John McCain, might be a
"badder" man for what he allegedly did to his first
wife, Carol. (Yes, I know that there is no such word as
"badder" but it seems to fit so nicely in this
instance.)
First, lets take a look at the words of a former Presidential
candidate, one who pulled in 19% of the total vote, and that
was done as a third party candidate, Ross Perot.
Perot, just this year said this about John McCain, in
reference to McCain's marriage, and eventual divorce, from his
first wife, Carol.
"McCain is the classic opportunist. He's always reaching
for attention and glory. 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,"
Carol was a beautiful woman, a swimwear model when in 1965,
she and McCain were married.
McCain went off to serve in the Navy and has history has
recorded, was shot down and spent more than five years in a
North Viet Namese prison camp.
Those years were hard for Carol, she remained at home,
faithfully waiting for her husband's return. She looked after,
and cared for her children, and she waited and waited for news
and the return of her husband, the father of her children.
And for John McCain, she was the one that he dreamed of during
his long days, and nights, in captivity and he longed for the
day he would go back home to his loving wife, and loving
family.
Today, at age 70, she is a woman that lives in pain and
discomfort, her body is still held together by the pins and
screws that were inserted during her surgery, and her face
just has the look of years and years of anguish.
Ross Perot paid for her medical care.
Seven years later, in 1980, John McCain left her and just one
month following the divorce, married his current wife, Cindy,
younger than him by 18 years and the heiress to a huge fortune
from the Beer Brewing industry.
In a recent interview, the first given by Carol McCain in 30
years, she said this about her former husband.
"My marriage ended because John McCain didn't want to be
40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens…it just
does."
On the same token, many of McCain's friends and associates
were not quite as forgiving as Carol. They called McCain a
self centered womanizer who abandoned his invalid wife in
extra marital affairs.
In the end, they say, Cindy fit the bill of what he was,
apparently, looking for, a beauty queen who could provide the
type of financial stability that he was looking for.
One can only guess that he was given a word of advice by a
family member or close friend. "John", one of them
might have said to him, "You are a returning POW, the son
of an Admiral, the time is now right for you to go into
politics. You can go a long way, maybe senator, maybe even
president. All you need is the financing and then you will be
on your way"
Of course, that is only speculation on my part. One really
does not know if anything like that was ever said to John
McCain, but the possibility, in my opinion, is very good.
McCain, himself, admitted that he had many girlfriend during
the time he had returned home in 1973 and the eventual moment
that he met Cindy. He met her at a cocktail party in Hawaii
and he spent the next six months following her almost
everywhere she went.
And then he decided it was time to end his marriage with
Carol.
Carol, to this day, still says she adores him. She has
supported him in all of his campaigns.
But John, in 1980, without Carol, was on his way up the ladder
of success, thanks to his new wife, Cindy, and his new father
in law who introduced him to all of the right people, and
people with the political savvy and power which paved the way
for his eventual election to the House of Representatives and
the United States Senate.
Still, there are those that speak of what the call "The
Real John McCain."
Ted Sampley, a Viet Nam veteran, said that he knows John
McCain personally, after following his career for the past 20
years and says, "There is something wrong with this guy,
and let me tell you what it is - deceit"
Sampley then added, "When he came home and saw that Carol
was not the beauty he left behind, he started running around
on her almost right away. Everybody around him knew it.
'Eventually he met Cindy and she was young and beautiful and
very wealthy. At that point McCain just dumped Carol for
something he thought was better.
'This is a guy who makes such a big deal about his character.
He has no character. He is a fake. If there was any character
in that first marriage, it all belonged to Carol."
With all that being said, the the history of John McCain's
extra marital affairs, one has to ask a simple question…and
that is, "This man, McCain is running for the office of
the presidency of the United States of America. The TV
networks are all over the John Edwards infidelity story.
Somehow they seem to have overlooked a story of marital
infidelity that goes way beyond that of John Edwards, who
certainly has turned out to be a "bad" man as far as
his marriage has gone, but John McCain, what of him, for it
seems to me.and I am only one person, that what he did, the
reasons that he did what he did, well, if John Edwards is a
BAD man, then John McCain is a very, very much
"BADDER" man.
Let's air out HIS dirty laundry, too.
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