Which is more relevant infidelity: that of the GOP candidate, or of a Democratic EX-candidate?

John McCain's first wife Carol--

-she was already married when John started an affair with her.

After she left her husband and married John

she waited with his three kids while he was in Vietnam-

--he divorced her after she suffered a disfiguring car accident-

and a month later

married a rich woman 17 years younger

after the wreck Carol was six inches shorter

and had a colostomy-

-so John traded her in - - -





http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/images/I15487-2000Jan22

.....During a town hall meeting . . . Sen. John McCain was asked, very subtlety, to address how his own marital infidelities - a taboo subject of sorts on the campaign trail - comport with his pledge to protecting the sanctity of marriage by opposing such unions among same-sex couples.

The Senator avoided the question, not, it seemed, out of political deftness, but simply because the topic was not directly put forward. But it will be curious to see whether this chapter in McCain's background does in fact become a topic of discussion.

Upon returning from Vietnam, McCain received news that his wife had been in a terrible car accident, which, in subsequent surgery, had led to the loss of inches in height and crippling injuries. The marriage gradually fell apart. After a bit of philandering, he met his second and current wife, Cindy. As the New York Times reported,

As John McCain puzzled over his career, he also found himself sorting out his marriage.


In the Navy, many considered it appropriate for a swashbuckling pilot to pick up a girlfriend here or there, and stories began to spread about Mr. McCain and young women. But Mr. McCain was discreet in his indiscretions: he did not carouse with young women on Capitol Hill or take dates to the Monocle, a bar near the Senate that he often went to, and he did not drink himself silly.

''Some people in politics need a drink to loosen up,'' said Mr. Hart, noting that he had never seen Mr. McCain even close to drunk. ''John's loose all the time.....



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/04/mccain-pressed-on-past-ma_n_105189.html