The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously left behind

[PaDUer]

An interesting article about the R nominee for the President of the US..He certainly is a "sweetie"..How can his ex-wife Carol still support him?..

McCain likes to illustrate his moral fibre by referring to his five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. And to demonstrate his commitment to family values, the 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children.

But there is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator’s presidential campaign. She is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain’s three eldest children.

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For nearly 30 years, Carol has maintained a dignified silence about the accident, McCain and their divorce. But last week at the bungalow where she now lives at Virginia Beach, a faded seaside resort 200 miles south of Washington, she told The Mail on Sunday how McCain divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later.

Carol insists she remains on good terms with her ex-husband, who agreed as part of their divorce settlement to pay her medical costs for life. ‘I have no bitterness,’ she says. ‘My accident is well recorded. I had 23 operations, I am five inches shorter than I used to be and I was in hospital for six months. It was just awful, but it wasn’t the reason for my divorce. ‘My marriage ended because John McCain didn’t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens...it just does.’

Some of McCain’s acquaintances are less forgiving, however. They portray the politician as a self-centered womanizer 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.
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But Ross Perot, who paid her medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both Carol McCain and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel – even by the standards of modern politics.

‘McCain is the classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for attention and glory,’ he said.

‘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.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html

[livetohike]

1. I wonder who will be the first talking head to bring this up?

Such a sad story.....I feel sorry for his ex-wife and it sounds like she is still loyal to him. He's a jerk.

[malaise]

3. She's loyal to that monthly check

that could change with a bigger one.

[PaDUer]

7. You can bet the MSM won't discuss it..

they've got orders from headquarters. Who'd find him appealing? And, from what the article says, he's quite a lady's man--who'd want him--even the freepers had a field-day about his smile and teeth saying that with all the $$ Cindy has, couldn't she afford to buy him a set of veneers..It seems he just "used her" to get where he wanted since her dad had connections politically..He's a POS.

[Faygo Kid]

2. Ross Perot paid her medical bills? Interesting.

That was decent of him.

McCain is a fraud.

[roamer65]

4. Ross is right about this scumbag.

I may not agree with Ross on everything, but he was right about NAFTA and he's right about McSame.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

5. Ross Perot paid her medical bills?

Let me get this straight - her Navy husband was a POW and she, a dependent wife, amassed medical bills not covered by his insurance?

Oh, man, if that's not bizarre, I don't know what is.

McCain's a prick. Big surprise.

[digidigido]

6. Who Really Gives a Shit?

Attack him on his politics, his positions, his statements. This is the kind of crap that dominates politics and if we want
a campaign that's not based on character assassination, we need to run one

[gratuitous]

25. Well, he promised Carol that in sickness and in health

He would love, honor and cherish her. But the going got tough, there was a pretty eye winking across the room, and he was gone like spit in a skillet. Since the popular media have seen fit to regale us with endless stories of Obama's elementary school education, perhaps they should delve into this story just a little bit?

[az chela]

8. Maybe the first wife is more afraid than loyal.

John Mccain is a psychopath

[Supersedeas]

24. first hand experience of that well-document temper?

[blondeatlast]

9. "‘McCain is the classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for attention and glory,’" he said.

He and Cindy make a lovely matching pair, don't they? :mad:

[PaDUer]

10. Of course..

he married her because she's a millionaire..he was quite the guy while in the military, belonged to a club called "Bad Bunch"..guess he likes those type clubs..I wonder how many he has chics he has hidden while traveling? AHH, that smile of his gets them every time! UGH!

[dkf]

11. Gotta respect that Ross Perot.

He did as much for Carol as John did.

[Maraya1969]

12. I just sent it around to my email list. I hope others do the same. We know

the repubs are certainly using email to distort our guy. Let's let them know a little truth about theirs. He always get credit because he was a pow. Does anyone question the other parts of his life?

[PaDUer]

16. POW, yes, but.....

as I was told by a big time R marine, they're waiting for it to break how he "deserted" his fellow POW's, and said it "will come out"..seems he's PO'd off a lot of people.

[Maraya1969]

22. Oh cool. If that's true I hope hope hope it comes out!!!!

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

13. That's a pretty damning piece -- needs circulation.

But Ross Perot, who paid her medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both Carol McCain and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel – even by the standards of modern politics.

Do you have any link to a source for Perot's remarks about McCain?

[PaDUer]

17. same link..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html

[TexasObserver]

14. the ex wife, the adultery, Cindy on the Side, the Beer Distributorships, the prescription drug theft

... the prescription drug addiction, and the Keating Five are all major stories the media will eventually spotlight. It's only a matter of time.

[Fuzz]

15. Yeah, what's the deal with Perot paying the bills?

[PaDUer]

18. Might be interesting..

to do a little digging to find out.

[LeftishBrit]

19. While I detest McCain...

it does need to be pointed out that the Daily Mail is NOT a reliable news source. In American terms, it's like a cross between the National Enquirer and Rush Limbaugh's talk-show.

[Disturbed]

20. John McCain embraces every failed policy of the Bush administration.

Iraq,

Top end tax cuts

Privatization of Social Security

Unraveling employer based health care,

Sustain the most egregiously failed US policy of them all -- the Cuban embargo.

Supports Illegal Spying on Americans

Supports the Busholini Policy of Torture





Yeah, McBush is a Hypocrite & an Asshole.

[LeftishBrit]

21. I am aware of all that...

but the Daily Mail:

supports the war in Iraq

is extremely bigoted against all immigrants

is extremely bigoted against Muslims

was pro-Nazi in the 1930s

thinks Thatcher was a wonderful PM

hates gays, single parents, and others with non-traditional lifestyle

is extremely hostile to the British welfare state

would make Fox News look left-wing.

and is very unreliable and sensational in most of its news reporting.


I HATE McInsane-with-No-Brain; but I also hate and distrust the Daily Hate-Mail as it's often called.

[Canuckistanian]

23. ALL 40-year old men want to be 25 again

ACTING ON IT is something else, especially when you're married.

Class act.