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Would John McCain's actions toward his first wife change your view about him?

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The article released by the Daily Mail newspaper portrays who really John McCain is. The actions towards his first wife would not let him get my vote. READ THE ARTICLE BELOW. Choosing a women as a VP does change who McCain is.

The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously left behind

By Sharon Churcher, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html

on 08th June 2008

Now that Hillary Clinton has at last formally withdrawn from the race for the White House, the eyes of America and the world will focus on Barack Obama and his Republican rival Senator John McCain.

While Obama will surely press his credentials as the embodiment of the American dream – a handsome, charismatic young black man who was raised on food stamps by a single mother and who represents his country’s future – McCain will present himself as a selfless, principled war hero whose campaign represents not so much a battle for the presidency of the United States, but a crusade to rescue the nation’s tarnished reputation.

Forgotten woman: But despite all her problems Carol McCain says she still adores he ex-husband

McCain likes to illustrate his moral fibre by referring to his five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. And to demonstrate his commitment to family values, the 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children.

But there is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator’s presidential campaign. She is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain’s three eldest children.

And yet, had events turned out differently, it would be she, rather than Cindy, who would be vying to be First Lady. She is McCain’s first wife, Carol, who was a famous beauty and a successful swimwear model when they married in 1965.

She was the woman McCain dreamed of during his long incarceration and torture in Vietnam’s infamous ‘Hanoi Hilton’ prison and the woman who faithfully stayed at home looking after the children and waiting anxiously for news.

But when McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969. Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries.

When Carol was discharged from hospital after six months of life-saving surgery, the prognosis was bleak. In order to save her legs, surgeons

had been forced to cut away huge sections of shattered bone, taking with it her tall, willowy figure. She was confined to a wheelchair and was forced to use a catheter.

Through sheer hard work, Carol learned to walk again. But when John McCain came home from Vietnam, she had gained a lot of weight and bore little resemblance to her old self.

Today, she stands at just 5ft4in and still walks awkwardly, with a pronounced limp. Her body is held together by screws and metal plates and, at 70, her face is worn by wrinkles that speak of decades of silent suffering.

For nearly 30 years, Carol has maintained a dignified silence about the accident, McCain and their divorce. But last week at the bungalow where she now lives at Virginia Beach, a faded seaside resort 200 miles south of Washington, she told The Mail on Sunday how McCain divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later.

Golden couple: John and Cindy McCain at a charity gala in Los Angeles

Carol insists she remains on good terms with her ex-husband, who agreed as part of their divorce settlement to pay her medical costs for life. ‘I have no bitterness,’

she says. ‘My accident is well recorded. I had 23 operations, I am five inches shorter than I used to be and I was in hospital for six months. It was just awful, but it wasn’t the reason for my divorce.

‘My marriage ended because John McCain didn’t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens...it just does.’

Some of McCain’s acquaintances are less forgiving, however. They portray the politician as a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to ‘play the field’. They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons.

McCain was then earning little more than £25,000 a year as a naval officer, while his new father-in-law, Jim Hensley, was a multi-millionaire who had impeccable political connections.

He first met Carol in the Fifties while he was at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis. He was a privileged, but rebellious scion of one of America’s most distinguished military dynasties – his father and grandfather were both admirals.

But setting out to have a good time, the young McCain hung out with a group of young officers who called themselves the ‘Bad Bunch’.

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  1. This does not change my mind. It has nothing to do with whether or not he can run a country, Clinton is lauded as a great president and he was getting bj in the oval office.


  2. YES AND HIS SEVEN HOMES. WHAT DO ANYONE NEED WITH 7 HOMES? ARE YOU DOING SOMETHING YIU SHOULDN'T ?

  3. Do you know that this article is the absolute God's truth?  Do you believe every word that you read?  I don't think that we know the whole story nor do we know the other side of the story.  Do not judge, lest you be judged.  How would you like that?  

  4. Actually, I am not surprised. He seems like a shallow person to me. Thanks for the details. I had heard about his first wife, but to hear her story is really something. Does McCain even really want to BE president? He doesn't seem to want it to me. Stories like this may reveal his character and turn off supporters.

  5. It certainly would.. I just think both of them were exceptionally unfortunate. But the true reason of their divorce might not be known publicly still. POW for 5 years plus will twist mind. If he was with her when that accident happened and then they divorced, that would hurt my view of him more.

    My doubt about him in this election is based solely on his age. He is too old for the office.he is seeking. Lots of old people are not always fully current in their minds. They remember details of years ago.

    And I think Republican don't deserve reward for the last 8 years. Most of them are currently not suffering like the rest of the society. Tax cut for the rich = tax cut for themselves. I think most americans need to wise up in this election.

  6. doesnt bother me at all.

    sometimes divorce is just a part of life, learn to deal with it

    and BTW, She is 100% behind mccain. She is voting for him and they talk alot.

    at least mccain "divirced his wife"

    Not like clinton and blowjobs in the whitehouse and edwards cheating on his wife

  7. It GREATLY effects how feel about the man he WAS over 30 years ago!  He was a PIG!

    Was Was Was!

    (actually, we don't know that.  Some accident victims drive their spouses away out of their own bitterness - But it is still most likely he was just a pig at that stage in his life.)

  8. "Carol McCain says she still adores he ex-husband" . . . I think that says it all. Look, if he had jumped from wife to wife then maybe yes but he's been with Cindy for over 2 decades and they have 4 children together. It's a non issue.  

  9. I'm in utter shock. How could any decent human being trust him after reading this article. I went to the URL you gave to make sure this wasn't some bluff on your part. This man has 7 kids?! He actually went off and made a whole new family because he didn't like the way she looked. I didn't like him before, I d**n sure don't like him now.

  10. He is a snake no doubt about it I thought so then.  He tells about his ordeal as a prisoner, which cannot compare with what Carol went through and continues to go through every day of her life.  I wish I had a decent choice in this election but I do not.  I will probably write in another, I do not want to be involved with chosing either.  I care about my country, sadly we are getting more of the same thing if not worse.

  11. Old news, very old news.

  12. No.  People make mistakes.  They get older and wiser. Like Clinton and his cheating ways while in the WHITE HOUSE, forgive and forget.  Now is what's important.  McCain takes care of her and that's pretty noble.

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