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Posted on Jun 19, 2008
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Now that the presumptive nominees are getting ready to do battle for the presidency, their wives are also subject to increasing scrutiny by the press and public. Here, Cindy McCain takes a moment to endure the (soft focus) glare of ABC News cameras and answer softball questions about her husband’s stance on women’s rights and whether she’d feel safe with Barack Obama as president.

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By southernyankee, June 24, 2008 at 2:04 pm Link to this comment

Well now Cindy comes off just like a stepford wife.  If anyone has watched this pass week or even on the net you will see a clip by McFlipper stating that he didn’t love his country until he was deprived from it.  He has said it on more than 2 times.  So Cindy shouldn’t be openning her mouth.  Her experience and Michelle’s experiences are different from night and day.  It is sad to see the republicans go after the Obamas on such trivil information.

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By cann4ing, June 23, 2008 at 3:01 pm Link to this comment

Cindy McCain has it backwards.  By supporting this imperial conquest from the start, by advocating that our troops remain for the next one hundred years, by opposing Jim Webb’s bill to extend to Iraq and Afghan vets the same educational benefits the were available to John McCain and I when we returned from Vietnam, by returning from Iraq and falsely claiming how safe it was to walk in a marketplace when televised images showed McCain in a flak vest, surrounded by hundreds of troops, humvees and helicopter gunships, McCain has “betrayed the troops,” rather than supported them.

If Iraq is a women’s issue, then every mother of every son or daughter sent to serve in this illegal imperial conquest, ever mother of every son or daughter stop lost and made to serve again, and every mother of every baby now born who will be at risk, and their baby’s future children who will be at risk, to fight and die over the next 100 years for the KBR, Blackwater, Exxon-Mobil bottom line should oppose this woman’s husband with every fiber of their being.

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By Dave in Big Pine, June 23, 2008 at 9:12 am Link to this comment

no, she is not running for president. but she is financing McMorons run for it. that makes here relevent. her character is an issue in that i believe it defines some of the character of her spouse. who you choose to associate with defines you to a point. No? and with someone of her wealth, i do think it’s important to examine her and what possible ramifications may be involved if McSenile is actually elected. look what happened to gas prices when the Bush crime family came along.

i will agree that as an individual she seems nothing more than a spoiled pampered socialite, hardly worth the effort to insult her. but she may be in the white house, and that my friend, gives pause for concern.

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By boggs, June 22, 2008 at 5:45 pm Link to this comment

Cindy McCain chose the limelight when she, unprovoked, decided to discuss Michelle Obama’s love of country.
I would like to ask Cindy if she has ever spent a day being black?
(or baking cookies?)
McCain is too far gone to be president. His senility will soon enough be diagnosed as dementia.

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By Aegrus, June 20, 2008 at 5:51 am Link to this comment

Dave, Cindy isn’t running for president. Although, if she did run, she might win under a policy of free beer for Americans.

Honestly, she’s an American princess who caught the eye of Johnny boy while he was married to his first wife. Now that fact is something you can attack McCain on, but not the fact he admires a pretty woman with billions of dollars. I mean, what man wouldn’t given the opportunity?

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By Dave in Big Pine, June 20, 2008 at 5:15 am Link to this comment

I wouldn’t be so quick to renounce the importance of the spouses. I think their character is a question that should be explored. Just look at Cindy: drug addict and thief, liar, homewrecker, and elitist entitled scum sleaze. That isn’t relevent to McIdiot? That is not a demonstration of his character that he associates himself with this stain on humanity? It isn’t relevent that she puts herself out there as an attack dog? That makes her fair game.

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By Marc Schlee, June 19, 2008 at 11:52 pm Link to this comment
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What could be less relevant than Laura (I’ll just die if I don’t get that recipe) Bush?

Cindy McCain, that’s who.


FREE AMERICA

DIRECT DEMOCRACY

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By cyrena, June 19, 2008 at 5:51 pm Link to this comment

I’m with ya Aegrus. If somebody makes a case for her as second in command, (seeing as how Johnny Boy is all broke down with one foot and all of his brain in the grave) then maybe I’d get a bit worked up.

Otherwise…nope.

Funny, this is the same thing kyjurisdoc said about Hillary on the other thread. Can we just stop with the Billary talk? wink

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By Aegrus, June 19, 2008 at 4:05 pm Link to this comment

Can we please shut up about Cindy McCain? She’s way, waaay too far away from relevant. The Corporate Media has a hard on for candidate’s spouses. For shame!

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