Cindy McCain may be a good person,mother and there is no reason to believe she is not proud of this country.

But inherited a family fortune by distributing alcohol.

In 1998 United States took a sad note of its three millionth highway fatality.By conservative estimates half of those deaths were alcohol related.Currently about 15 thousand Americans die every year as a result of drinking and driving.

Alcohol kills 100 000 people in this country every year.That is 274 deaths/day.

Beer accounts of 80% of excessive alcohol compsumption in the United States.

Alcohol industry controls one of the most influential political lobbies in this coutry.And very successful one.

In 1950 alcohol taxes represented 6.2% of total federal revenues and by 1990(last statistic I was able to find) they were less than 0.5% of total federal budget.Current tax on a six pack is 32 cents.

Alcohol industry has a free access to airways and continues to target young people.

Cindy McCain overcome addiction to narcotic prescription pills.It is too bad that experience didn't stop her from profiting from selling #1 drug.

She can be a very patriotic person but she cannot be a role model.And she is another of John McCain liabilities.

Milan

milanh:

Cindy McCain may be a good person,mother and there is no reason to believe she is not proud of this country.

But inherited a family fortune by distributing alcohol.

Whatever you may feel about alcohol, it is legal, and her involvement in that industry should not be held against her.

However, here is where she will face some tough questioning....or perhaps not,  if McCain holds a few more barbecues for the press.

Hensley & Co., founded by Cindy McCain's late father, holds federal and state licenses to distribute beer and lobbies regulatory agencies on controversial alcohol issues that involve public health and safety.

What is wrong with me!!!   How could I not realize that Cindy McCAin is so bad.  She rescues a child that needs surgery and adopts her, how bad is that.  Her two son's are in Iraq, fighting with the military.

This lady should be booked on drunk driving charges.

Now, lets compare her to the sainted Michelle Obama.  She is just now proud of her country.  She has never done a thing for a soul.  She just demands that people bow down for her.  Maybe she needs to demonstrate a little humility and maybe she needs to demonstrate that she is willing to help people, instead of stepping on them on her way to power.

And Oh yeah, the alchohol thing.  Is that like the Feminist groups that so skewered Bill Clinton for abusing women?  Ha, ha, ha, ha....LOL.

Maxim:

What is wrong with me!!!   How could I not realize that Cindy McCAin is so bad. 

I don't know.

But now that you've personally made Cindy McCain a legitimate topic in this campaign, I am sure more data will come out of the woodwork. 

Maxim, I like Cindy McCain also, but then again I don't think Michelle Obama is so bad either. She seems pretty open about her flaws and the mistakes she has made, just as her husband does. One thing about her, I doubt if she has ever let John McCain tell her what she can or cannot do. She is a heck of a lot less the Stepford Wife than her detractors make her out to be.

Milan, IMO, MADD was a very needed voice 15 years ago, but all groups like that eventually go too far. As someone who has been caught up in a few sobriety checkpoints after working the 2nd shift, I'm know I am against mass roundups with no evidence of wrongdoing. Those type of police actions scare me, and MADD has been one of the groups behind them.

-dale

Myra- Here is Cindy Hensley McCain's Wikipedia bio. It has most of the information Maxim talked about.

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

MyraL:

Your post drips with hate, Maxim

Saying good things about your opposition is considered hate by you.  Now I understand where you are coming from.

Beer, for better or worse, is a part of our civilization. The Muslims may be right, perhaps we should ban it. Of course, that didn't work out so good last time we tried it, but, with the right Brown Shirts running enforcement, it could work out.

Slightly tongue in cheek.

As far as Cindy McCain, she seems to be a great lady. Beautiful inside and out.