Portion of John McCain that get's no coverage!

We get drilled in our heads how John McCain was a POW for five years. But, it seems that period immediately following his return to the US is skipped over. I believe this period is being kept quiet and needs to be known. I was looking up some background on John McCain, and ran across a the period between 1973, his return from Vietnam; and, 1980, his divorce from Carol Shepp and marriage to Cindy Lou Hensley.

I am sure many people her at DU has already know about this. However, I have heard little about this portion of his life, and as I performed more research, I found out many more issues that I had not known about. Hence, I wanted to share them with everyone here.

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Carol McCain, once a model, had been badly injured in a car wreck in 1969. The article recounts that her injuries "left her 4 inches shorter and on crutches, and she gained a good deal of weight."

By 1979, McCain was concerned that his Naval career was not advancing and pondering his future. He met Cindy Hensley, an attractive 25-year-old woman from a wealthy Arizona family. McCain courted her and married her in May 1980 -- a month after getting a divorce.

Less than a year later, the McCains moved to Arizona where Cindy's family runs one of the country's largest Anheuser-Busch distributorships. A year after that, McCain ran for an open congressional seat and won. He was on his way.

You won't find an account of this period on McCain's Web site. It isn't in his bestselling book, Faith of My Fathers, where McCain recounts his military experiences as well as those of his father and grandfather.

Yet this portion of McCain's life is as relevant to voters as his war record.

http://www.sptimes.com/News/022900/Worldandnation/Private_life_shaped_c.shtml

Unless, of course, he goes after Obama's. And then, the gloves are off. :-)

But in the meantime, I think we quite easily will beat McCain on the issues, and on his rather constant gaffes.

The Republicans have already brought up Barack's personal life, by connecting him to his church, his wife, and his connections to the Weather Underground. Although there Barack's views are not of those of Rev Wright and Pfleger, they are constantly saying how they are all intertwined.

Plus, all of these Hillary Clinton supporters that are saying they will not vote for Barack because he ran a sexist campaign, are promising to either vote for John McCain, or not vote at all (which is like a vote for McCain), need to know what they are getting themselves into.

a classic whore. He sold out for money and "success". All of the discussion from the GOP about "family values", "morality" and the like is claptrap for the goomers that accept that the GOP somehow a "bastion of moral values", yet many of them are little more than paper-tiger hypocrites.

McCain will lose for many reasons, but he'll get a free ride on the hypocrisy, happens all the time to the R's.

Very well said.

At a town hall forum in Iowa yesterday, Sen. John McCain was asked about a story from Cliff Schecter's controversial recent book, The Real McCain, which alleges that during a 1992 campaign stop, McCain angrily called his wife a "trollop" and a "c**t" in front of aides and reporters. (and their making a big deal out of Rev. Wright?)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/01/mccain-asked-did-you-call_n_99744.html

I'd like to know more about how he stood by his first wife in her time of need--and if the grounds for divorce were adultery. These character issues are important for Republicans especially, and if there are facts that show he was breaking his marriage vows, etc, I think many GOP folks I know will happily vote Libertarian.

I read in another article, that she went as far as to not letting the word get out to him about the accident. She knew he had enough to worry about, while being held captive.

In Chapter One he talks about McCain's early life and the breakup of McCain's first marriage.

"McCain admits to "selfishness and immaturity" and has attributed the breakup of his first marriage to his own misdeeds. He has even gone out of his way to exempt Vietnam from any blame. "The blame was entirely mine", he said."
Schecter attributes this to Dan Nowicki and Bill Muller, "Arizona, The Early Years", Arizona Republic, March 1, 2007.

Cliff Schecter is often on The Young Turks. Get the book, there's lots of good stuff in there. It's well sourced plus it's only about 150 pages in length. I'm going through it again now to tab certain pages for quick reference.