Back in June my wife was having lunch with several of her co-workers and the talk turned to the candidate's wives. Everyone at the table thought one of 2 things...either McCain married late in life because of his military service, or his first wife had passed away.
No one, including my wife, knew the truth about John McCain's infidelities. So I sat down and wrote an email & fired it off. I figured if my wife & her co-workers didn't know, then many others didn't either.
Another Fine Story of Republican "Family Values"
In 1979, John McCain was in Hawaii, attending a military reception. While there, he met a young, blonde former cheerleader from Phoenix named Cindy Hensley.
McCain was immediately dazzled and spent the event chatting her up.
"She was lovely, intelligent and charming, 17 years my junior but poised and confident," McCain wrote in his 2002 book, Worth the Fighting For. "I monopolized her attention the entire time, taking care to prevent anyone else from intruding on our conversation. When it came time to leave the party, I persuaded her to join me for drinks at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. By the evening's end, I was in love."
McCain recalls that both he and Cindy initially lied to each other about their ages. McCain made himself a little younger, and Cindy made herself a little older. They found out their real ages when the local paper published them. McCain was 43, Cindy 25.
After a whirlwind courtship, John asked Cindy to marry him. But there were some "details" to clear out of the way. McCain needed a divorce from Carol, his wife of 14 years.
McCain's first wife Carol not only waited 5 1/2 years for her husband to return from Vietnam, but she also suffered a terrible auto accident during that period, which broke both her legs and one arm and ruptured her spleen. She nearly lost her left leg, and surgeries left her four inches shorter than she was before the accident.
After McCain's dramatic homecoming from Vietnam, the couple grew apart. Their marriage began disintegrating while McCain was stationed in Jacksonville. McCain has admitted to having extramarital affairs.
In February 1980, less than a year after he met Cindy, McCain petitioned a Florida court to dissolve his marriage to Carol, calling the union "irretrievably broken."
In April 1980, the judge entered a default judgment and declared the marriage dissolved. A month later, McCain married Cindy in Phoenix.
As heiress to her father's stake in Hensley & Co. of Phoenix, Cindy McCain is an executive whose worth may exceed $100 million. Her beer earnings have afforded the GOP presidential nominee a wealthy lifestyle with a private jet and vacation homes at his disposal.
In 1994, Cindy McCain granted interviews to a TV station & 3 newspapers in Arizona, in which she talked about her addiction to Percocet and Vicodin. She claimed that her addiction came about after painful back and knee problems and was exacerbated by the stress of the Keating Five banking scandal that involved John McCain.
To make matters worse, Cindy McCain admitted, she had stolen the drugs from the American Voluntary Medical Team, her own charity, and had been investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
And that, Ladies & Gentlemen, is just the stuff we KNOW about.
Here are links to articles where you can find more information about the facts mentioned in this email
John McCain's broken marriage and fractured Reagan friendship
The wife that John McCain callously left behind.
How Cindy McCain was outed for drug addiction
Wife's Fortune, Connections Boost John McCain
John McCain "Arizona: The Early Years"
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