Cindy McCain Claims to be an only child, but why?

[Heather MC]

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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=93708729


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All Things Considered, August 18, 2008 · Last Tuesday, NPR broadcast a story about Cindy McCain's business and charity work. In it, Ted Robbins described McCain as the only child of Jim Hensley, a wealthy Arizona businessman. The next morning, NPR received an e-mail from Nicholas Portalski of Phoenix, who heard the story with his mother.

"We were listening to the piece about Cindy McCain on NPR, All Things Considered, and it just struck us very hard," Portalski said.

His mother, Kathleen Hensley Portalski, is also Hensley's daughter.

The Portalski family is accustomed to hearing Cindy McCain described as Hensley's only child.

She's been described that way by news organizations from The New Yorker and The New York Times to Newsweek and ABC.

McCain herself routinely uses the phrase "only child," as she did on CNN last month. "I grew up with my dad," she said then. "I'm an only child. My father was a cowboy, and he really loved me very much, but I think he wanted a son occasionally."

[knixphan]

1. yeah, kicked to the curb. Sad

[demnan]

2. Because she got all the money

and that's what really matters to these people.

[eShirl]

3. to a kid that's raised without any siblings,

it is probably just like being an only child

[MercutioATC]

6. Exactly. She was raised as an only child.

Why is this newsworthy?

[raebrek]

Because it is being raised during an election cycle.

I'm with you. This is not news.

Raebrek!!!

[Raineyb]

16. That says something about the family I'd think.

My youngest sister is the only child by her mother. She has four siblings on two continents yet she would never refer to herself as an only child.

That is the kind of thing that an asshole would do. All of these people suck. Is there anyone in this family who is not an asshole?

Regards

[Barack_America]

4. Why did Cindy's daughter write-off John's children from his first marriage?

In her new children's book?

Because these people think they can write their own reality.

[Heather MC]

5. Where are John's Kids from the First Marriage? Did he "divorce" them as well?

[grantcart]

7. no actually Andrew McCain works for the Hemsley Brewers when he isn't driving banks

into the ground

[Barack_America]

15. So why aren't they included in the "family" in the children's book?

Damned insulting to be told your official inclusion in your family isn't politically expedient.

Some maverick McCain is. :eyes:

[fed_up_mother]

9. Did he ever adopt those kids or was he their stepfather

That would be an interesting question to find out.

(He definitely wasn't their bio dad.)

[AllentownJake]

11. McCain adopted 2 of Carol's children

and had one of his own with her.

[fed_up_mother]

10. Because when he divorced their mother, he was no longer their stepfather

It would be interesting to know if he maintained any kind of relationship with them, though.

[Barack_America]

12. He adopted those boys. And there was a biological child as well.

They are still John's children. Why have they been written off?

[Raineyb]

13. It is my understanding that he adopted the two children from the previous relationship

In addition, they had a child together. You do NOT divorce your children when you divorce their mother. Even if they're adopted. That's just plain scummy.

Regards

[fed_up_mother]

14. As an adoptive mother, I agree. Definitely scummy.

I didn't realize he had adopted them.

[rurallib]

8. Can these two people be bigger assholes?

From the article it almost looks like Cindi married her dad in surrogate. She sounds truly selfish as does Johnny Mac.
What an incredible difference between the Obamas and the McCains. One is giving and loving, the other selfish and narcissistic.

[deeppeace]

17. Spread the word!

If they can work out on Michelle, Cindy's fair game, too.