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It was noted here yesterday, that the “NeoCon MSM” is covering up somehow for Cindy McCain. Newsweek, hardly an organ for the Right, has a fairly decent write up of a lady who could become First Lady of the US of A.

In 1984 Cindy was on a scuba-diving trip in Micronesia when a friend was injured and had to be taken to the hospital. She was sickened by the filthy conditions in the ER: “There were cats in the operating room and rats everywhere,” she says. When she returned home, she began collecting medical supplies and sending them to the hospital. “Finally, the hospital called and said, really what we need is a good orthopedic surgeon,” she says. “So I called some friends and we planned a trip … I don’t know what made me do it.”

So, twenty some years ago, about the same time that other prominent candidates for President were sitting at the feet of Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright, Cindy was bringing medical supplies to underdeveloped countries!

She named her charity the American Voluntary Medical Team. In 1991, she camped in the Kuwait desert five days after the end of the gulf war to take medical supplies to refugees. That same year, she visited Mother Teresa’s orphanage in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where she saw 160 newborn girls who had been abandoned. The nuns handed her a small baby with a cleft palate so severe that the infant couldn’t be fed. Another baby, also just a few weeks old, had a heart defect. Worried they would die without medical attention, Cindy applied for visas to take the girls back to the United States. But the country’s minister of Health refused to sign the papers. “We can do surgery on this child,” an official told her. Frustrated, Cindy slammed her fist on the table. “Then do it! What are you waiting for?” The official, stunned, simply signed the papers. “I don’t know where I got the nerve,” Cindy told Harper’s Bazaar.
When she arrived in Phoenix, she carried the baby with the cleft palate off the plane. Her husband met her at the airport. He looked at the baby. “Where is she going?” he asked her. “To our house,” she replied. They adopted the little girl and named her Bridget.

Typical rich, heartless Republican bitch! Oh, wait! She doesn’t fit that meme! Let’s find another way to attack her!

The article goes into how she and John met, how John spent seven years, after returning from captivity, trying to make his first marriage work. His first wife, Carol Shepp...

“… no longer discusses the marriage, but has said she doesn’t blame McCain. She has told reporters she thinks of him as a friend and supports him for president.”

He had met Shepp, a former fashion model, before he went to Vietnam. He had adopted her two sons from an earlier marriage and together they’d had a daughter, Sidney. In 1969, while McCain was a POW, Shepp was nearly killed in a car accident. The wreck left her with permanent injuries. When he returned home in 1973, the two tried to make the marriage work, but they had little in common after six years apart. McCain has said he is responsible for the breakup.

Bastard! Oh, wait!  McCain owns up for his responsibility in the breakup, his ex doesn’t blame him and thinks of him as a friend. Hmm. Certainly less acrimonious than lots of divorces I know of!

The article deals with her drug addiction following back surgery. There’s no whitewashing what she did. She needed help and she got it!

Cindy paid restitution, did community service and attended counseling sessions.

Cindy is the mother of veterans. How many times did we hear ad nauseum that “Bush’s daughters would never go to war”? Cindy has known the pain of seeing her sons go into harm’s way.

When Jimmy was in Iraq during the primary season, Cindy, like every mother whose son is at war, lived to hear his voice. She kept her BlackBerry in her hands at all times so she wouldn’t miss his call. When she went onstage, she would hand the phone to a campaign aide who would stand with it in her line of sight. “She slept with that BlackBerry in her hand,” says Harper. Earlier this year Cindy approached the senator backstage at a campaign event. She was on the brink of tears. “He called,” she told McCain. “I missed it.” It was a rare moment of emotion for a woman who had vowed that, this time around, she would keep her tears in check whenever callous reporters were near.

Read the whole thing.  Compare and contrast Cindy McCain with anyone else who might become First Lady next year! I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised!

Cross Posted at Proof Positive

For more, you could see The Feminine Touch Helps John McCain