August 2006 Weddings
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Re: Cindy McCain profile in the NYT.
Fascinating. Thanks for posting.
Things that struck me:
The Diana thing. Kina strange.
Their long-distance relationship. Strikes me as really odd. This line: ?Her attitude was as a good soldier,? Mr. Gullet said," summed it up for me.
This was sad: "As her family grew, her parents moved across the street to help out, even ordering birthday gifts to be given in her husband?s name." Their whole relationship seems a little sad, frankly.
This is sketchy: "In interviews, some of Mrs. McCain?s statements seem questionable. She often tells of how she moved to California, leaving her children behind, for four months in 2004 to recover from a stroke that left her unable to walk or speak. But news reports from the time indicate she had few discernible impediments. She gave interviews four days afterward, attended a baseball game with her husband and a reporter several weeks later, and spoke at a Tempe, Ariz., Chamber of Commerce event. ?One month out, I feel wonderful,? she told the audience. The McCain campaign declined to resolve the discrepancy."
As an aside, I just have to LOL (insensitively) at the "handshaking injury."
Ordinarily I'm not one for gossip, but this article seems to confirm, at least indirectly, some information I've heard.
My parents (Republicans) recently took a lengthy vacation with another Republican couple who is friends with Nicole Wallace, one of McCain's spokespeople who regularly appears on news programs.
According to this couple, Nicole said that when it became clear that McCain actually would become the nominee for the Republicans, there were two big concerns within the campaign: one, that McCain and his wife choose to live separately on a regular basis, unrelated to his travel for work, and that they both have been unfaithful numerous times over the course of their marriage.
Two, that Cindy is psychologically very fragile and there was concern about her ability to handle the duration and nastiness of a Presidential-level campaign.
I'm not sure if I buy the affair story as it seems to me that the press would have figured this out long ago and pounced. The other stories (living separate lives and psychological fragility) seem to be confirmed by this article, which made me feel a great deal of sympathy for Cindy.