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Do you thing here is makeover coming for Mrs. Palin?
She definately needs one...but too drastic of a change will have everyone talking. Perhaps just a new hairstyle?
Oh my! I have that exact outfit that Mrs. McCain is wearing. NOT!
She did look pretty good! I read somewhere that she looked "one martini and four vicodin away from rehab...
Can't fault a lady for dressing up for one of the biggest nights of her life! Pity she won't have an inauguration gown.
PAYBACK for the Obama Muslim e-mails:
John McCain has no family values.
He dismissed his first wife, who waited for him for almost six years while he was a POW in Viet Nam in favor of a much younger and richer girl. John McCain dishonored and disrespected the patriotic wives of all POWs who kept the faith while they waited for any word, and news, about their husbands. And this man will dare to lecture us on family values?
John S. McCain III married one Carol Shepp, a model from Philadelphia and adopted her two sons on July 3, 1965. Shortly thereafter, John and Carol had a third child, this time together. It was a daughter, and they named her Sidney. [1]
Approximately two years later, on October 26, 1967, McCain was shot down during his twenty-third bombing run over North Viet Nam. [2] After over five years, McCain was released on March 14, 1973, as the war was winding down [3]. He returned to his wife, Carol, who had been crippled in a car accident in December 1969. [4]
Carol waited for John for almost six years. Her three children waited as well.
McCain, the allegedly patriotic and loyal soldier, repaid the loyalty and patience of his wife and family six years after his return by chasing skirts. [5]
In 1979, McCain, then aged 43 and still married to the disabled Carol, met a blond former cheerleader named Cindy Hensley in Hawaii. She was 25. [6] He claims he fell in love with her the first night they met, when he was still married to Carol. [7] McCain even went so far as to ask Cindy to marry him before he was divorced. [8] By McCain's own admission:
"my marriage's collapse was attributable to my own selfishness and immaturity more than it was to Vietnam, and I cannot escape blame by pointing a finger at the war. The blame was entirely mine." [9]
After casting off Carol, McCain was soon elected to Congress, largely with the help of Cindy's beer fortune. [10]
As the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth reminded us, many POW wives waited faithfully:
Mary Jane McManus: Three months after we were married, my husband was shot down over Hanoi.
Phyllis Galanti: Paul and I were married in 1963. Two years later he was shot down over North Vietnam.
McManus: All of the prisoners of war in North Vietnam were tortured in order to obtain confessions of atrocities. [11]
Many of these POW wives went through hell, as documented in the 1972 film Limbo. As explained by the film's producer, "[y]ou may think he's a hero, but a lot of other people don't. And you waste your life. You wait. What are you faithful to, yourself or some social ideal about marriage?" [12] Despite this kind of feeling, POW wives organized campaigns on behalf of their husbands. [13] They even endured smears by the military, accusing them of faithlessness. [14] Many wives who were told their husbands were dead refused to believe it. [15]
What a sharp contrast to John McCain, who apparently lost his faith and went on some kind of post-traumatic hedonistic rampage. Was Carol unattractive after her accident? (Apparently so: "But friends say privately he was ‘appalled’ by the change in her appearance. At first, though, he was kind, assuring her: ‘I don’t look so good myself. It’s fine.’"[Daily Mail]) Was her love making not good enough? (Probably: her pelvis was shattered in the accident) Did she look too old after six years of anxiety and worry waiting for him?
Or consider this story:
Captain Smith's wife, Jean, also suffered. "We were married only six months
when he went to Vietnam," Jean explained. "Once he was captured, it was like
living in a fish bowl watching everyone else's life come and go while yours
was just passing you by. Of course, I resented that. The best years of my
life and youth were fading. Years that we should have been growing together,
living our lives like everyone else."
The hardest aspect for Jean was not knowing whether Wayne was dead or alive.
For Jean, and many other POW wives, that is the way it was. Most of them
were unable to find out anything until late 1970 when the National League of
Families was created. Soon after, a released prisoner was able to provide
the government with a list of additional prisoner's names. Captain Smith's
name was on that list. How did these women of honor survive, emotionally,
while waiting for their husbands to return? Jean waited for over seven
years.
"I didn't consider any other option. I just did not 'feel' he was dead. For
a long while I endured alone. Finally, we women banded together. After that,
I spent a lot of time in Washington lobbying the government to take the
necessary action to get our men released. "That time was the most difficult
for me as I am not a political person. There were many who treated me with
disdain. It was also difficult to comprehend the apathy of the American
people toward our POWs."
Jean persisted but many POW wives surrendered, seeking divorce from their
POW husbands. As selfish and dishonorable as this may appear, it was the not
knowing that was most difficult to endure. These women feared giving up the
best years of their lives only to discover that their spouse had long since
been killed in action.
"Giving up on the relationship wasn't an option for me," said Jean. "I was
in love with Wayne from the instant I met him. The waiting was very
difficult, but for me there was no other way. I knew that I had to give this
relationship a chance. It was my own sense of honor, I guess. I could not
have lived with myself had I not lived up to my own code of conduct." Wayne
was released and returned home on the night of their seventh wedding
anniversary. [16]
Some people have what it takes to keep the faith and remain loyal. John McCain repays those people by dumping them for good looks and money.
America cannot rely on a man who repays the faith of Americans for his own selfish needs. We know John McCain will do anything to become president, including warming up to the man who smeared his own children, but I want to hear from POW wives out there, and I want to see them on TV, asking how we can have a president who would do this kind of thing.
Family values indeed.
Sources:
[1] http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=caucus&template=detail&candidate=mccain
[2] ibid.
[3] http://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/mccain/articles/0301mccainbio-chapter4.html
[4] http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=caucus&template=detail&candidate=mccain
[5] http://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/mccain/articles/0301mccainbio-chapter5.html
[6] ibid.
[7] ibid.
[8] ibid.
[9] ibid.
[10] ibid.
[11] http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40683
[12] Suid, Lawrence H., Guts and Glory p. 318, University of Kentucky Press: 2002.
[13] ibid.
[14] ibid.
[15] ibid.
[16] Cater, Jaine; and, Cater, James D., "A POW's Successful Marriage", Scripps Howard News Service Jan. 3, 2002.
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