Cindy McCain first got under my skin in February 2008, when she responded to Michelle Obama's "for the first time" comment about being proud of her country.
"I’m proud of my country. I don’t know about you – if you heard those words earlier – I’m very proud of my country." -Cindy McCain, February 19, 2008
At the time, John McCain wasn't even running against Barack Obama yet... the race between Obama and Clinton was still tight as ever. It seemed like a cheap shot from a spoiled rich princess itching for a moment in the limelight.
Cindy McCain, who traded up from her dull gray pixie cut and pantsuits to ice queen blond and $300,000 outfits.
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Cindy McCain, a cheerleader and sorority girl who was named "Best Dressed" in her high school class, daughter of a wealthy beer mogul, wife of a career politician. Of course she'd be proud to be an American for life... she has never wanted for anything.
Last week, Cindy opened her big mouth again, to chastise Obama for voting against funding our troops unless the bill at hand included a timetable for withdrawal (conveniently, she left out the part where her own husband has voted against the troops when bills included provisions he found unsuitable).
She said:
"I'm proud of my sons [serving in the military], but let me tell you, the day that Senator Obama cast a vote not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body. I would suggest that Senator Obama change shoes with me for just one day, and see what it means."
It's so like Cindy McCain to demand that someone like Barack Obama walk in her shoes when, in February, she didn't for a SECOND think about what it might feel like to walk in Michelle Obama's shoes. She didn't consider why a woman from the South Side of Chicago might have had good reason not to be proud of America as a child, when her father had to work despite a debilitating illness and she and her brother had to share a bedroom.
Cindy McCain, who is so quick to judge and point fingers, seems to forget how respectful her husband's opponents have been when it comes to pointing fingers at Cindy. Cindy McCain created a charity, the American Voluntary Medical Team, which was established to aid the sick in third world countries... then she coerced a doctor from her organization to forge prescriptions so that she could fuel her own addiction to pain killers. Because of her husband's position and his lawyer, who represented McCain in the Keating Five incident, Cindy was able to avoid charges and instead serve community service. She abused a charity, she abused her husband's power, and she abused prescription drugs. Yet no one in this campaign is calling out her actions or how her husband used his position to influence the outcome.
Yet she has no shame, martyring herself before crowds of faithful Republicans as a devote military mother, as a proud American, as a poor little rich girl. When Barack Obama criticized that John McCain couldn't remember how many houses he had, Cindy McCain told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that she was offended.
"I'm offended by Barack Obama saying that about my husband," said McCain's wife Cindy. When asked if Obama went too far in his criticism of McCain, Cindy responded, "I do. I do. I really do."
Cindy McCain won't even acknowledge the siblings she has from her father's previous marriage. While Cindy and John split time among their many homesteads, Cindy's half-sister's family tries to make ends meet.
The Portalski family is accustomed to hearing Cindy McCain described as Hensley's only child.
She's been described that way by news organizations from The New Yorker and The New York Times to Newsweek and ABC.
McCain herself routinely uses the phrase "only child," as she did on CNN last month. "I grew up with my dad," she said then. "I'm an only child. My father was a cowboy, and he really loved me very much, but I think he wanted a son occasionally."
McCain's father was also a businessman — and twice a father.
"I'm upset," Kathleen Portalski says. "I'm angry. It makes me feel like a nonperson, kind of."
-from NPR
I think it's time Cindy McCain stop judging her opponents and take a look at her long history of selfish, self-serving, self-important statements and actions. Charity begins at home; why not take care of your own blood relatives? If you were so concerned about your son in Iraq getting funding, why didn't you chide your husband for voting against a bill with a timetable in it? Why did you force a doctor into the unethical position of writing you false prescriptions so you could sustain your drug addiction?
Cindy McCain doesn't have the character to shine Obama's shoes, let alone ask him to walk in hers.