Cindy McCain was only a Military wife when McCain was a Navy Liasion to the US Senate (less 1yr)

[LynneSin]

So any bullshit about what it's like to be the wife of a Military man is bullshit because the man was in the Navy but basically working a desk job in DC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain#Commanding_officer.2C_liaison_to_Senate.2C_and_second_marriage

McCain served as the Navy's liaison to the U.S. Senate beginning in 1977.<63> In retrospect, he has said that this represented his "real entry into the world of politics and the beginning of my second career as a public servant."<56> His key behind-the-scenes role gained congressional financing for a new supercarrier against the wishes of the Carter administration.<57><64>

In April 1979,<57> McCain met Cindy Lou Hensley, a teacher from Phoenix, Arizona, whose father had founded a large beer distributorship.<62> They began dating, and he urged his wife Carol to grant him a divorce, which she did in February 1980, with the uncontested divorce taking effect in April 1980.<20><57> The settlement included two houses, and financial support for her ongoing medical treatments due to her 1969 car accident; they would remain on good terms.<62> McCain and Hensley were married on May 17, 1980, with Senators William Cohen and Gary Hart attending as groomsmen.<62><19> McCain’s children did not attend, and several years would pass before they reconciled.<57><22> John and Cindy McCain entered into a prenuptial agreement that kept most of her family's assets under her name; they would always keep their finances apart and file separate income tax returns.<65>

McCain decided to leave the Navy. It was doubtful whether he would ever be promoted to the rank of full admiral, as he had poor annual physicals and had been given no major sea command.<66> His chances of being promoted to rear admiral were better, but McCain declined that prospect, as he had already made plans to run for Congress and said he could "do more good there."<67> McCain retired from the Navy on April 1, 1981<68> as a captain.<32>

[krkaufman]

1. Yes, Cindy is more experienced in stealing husbands from military wives. n/t

[LynneSin]

2. I was just so angry when she made that comment to Obama about 'being in her shoes'

as the wife of a military man.

That's a serious stretch of worrying when you're boyfriend/husband was doing desk jockey work for the Navy. The first Mrs. McCain was the one that worried the bejesus over John McCain's whereabouts in Vietnam. Probably one the the underlying reasons for her accident (stress).

[krkaufman]

5. Absolutely. I hadn't thought of that perspective.

The only worrying Cindy had was that McCain might meet someone like her, and cheat on her the way she enabled McCain's cheating on his first wife.

That Cindy is trying to co-opt that which rightly belongs to Carol is despicable.

[LSparkle]

3. Cindy Lou Who?

Sorry, couldn't resist ...

[louis-t]

4. I'm sure she has had to put up with the flashbacks.

Sad to say, he probably woke up in the closet more than a few times.

[NJmaverick]

6. McLiar was a drunken womanizer. I am sure he was gone for many weeks at a time

just told his wife, it was the life of a Navy wife.

[LynneSin]

7. Yeah but he only has about 2 years tops he could pull that line

then he was in congress

[krkaufman]

8. Seeing the quote, isn't it likely that Cindy was referring to her son?

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1220528,00.html