Max - good info on Cindy McCain.  One thing you wrote was,

I'm surprised the media is so quiet about her attributes.

Part of that is their own doing.  They have been quiet about touting their virtues, and very protective of their family privacy - a fact that is likely to work to their detriment as the campaign goes on.  They may react negatively to the spotlight that will inevitably be thrust upon their family members.  Notice how infrequently McCain himself brings up his POW experiences.  He virtually never mentions his son in the military and the second about to be.  (Having sons on active duty puts McCain at odds with most of our Senators and Congresspersons from BOTH parties).  To the McCains, such duty is simply a GIVEN.

Incidentially, Cindy McCain has been a race car drive and a pilot herself.  An e-mail I receive on here also mentioned another story about her:

"... Mrs. McCain also is a  hands-on philanthropist. She sits on the board of Operation Smile, which  arranges for plastic  surgeons to fix cleft palates and other birth defects. She also has helped organize relief missions to Micronesia.

During a  scuba-diving vacation to the islands, Mrs. McCain took a friend to a local hospital to have a cut treated. She was shocked, and saddened, by what she  saw. "They opened the door to the OR, where the supplies were, and there were two cats and a whole bunch of rats climbing out of the sterile supplies," she  recalled. "They had no X-ray machine, no beds.  To me, it was devastating  because it was a U.S. trust territory." As soon as she returned home, she arranged for medical equipment and teams of doctors to be sent to treat the island children. Michelle Obama may contribute to CARE, which fights  global poverty and works to empower poor women. Cindy sits on its board ...."

John McCain may or may not be elected President.  You can disagree with him on any number of issues - I certainly do.  But with John McCain we would have a President who, right or wrong, would put the interests of his country before the interests of himself or his party.  You certainly cannot say that about many, perhaps most, of the other candidates who ran this primary season.  McCain - and his wife - are people of honor and integrity, steeped in the old virtues of our Republic.

We could do worse.

(We have done worse in the past - and we are likely to do worse in the future.)

MWL