Brazilian Beauty Recalls Hot Affair With Young McCain

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — A former model and ballerina is making headlines across Brazil after being identified as John McCain's lover 51 years ago. Maria Gracinda Teixeira, 77, says she is the woman the Republican presidential candidate fondly described _ though never named _ in his 1999 book "Faith of My Fathers."

In the book, McCain said he met a "Brazilian fashion model" as a young Navy sailor in Rio de Janeiro when the destroyer USS Hunt docked in the city for a week in 1957. McCain was stationed on the ship.

Local reporters tracked her down late last week, turning Teixeira into an overnight media sensation.

She declined requests for an interview Monday, but told Brazilian media last week that the young McCain was a romantic and a "good kisser."

"We met because I used to have lunch near the docks," Teixeira told the newspaper Extra. "He is so cute. But I never imagined he would write about me, that was a surprise."

Gelson Guimaraes, a neighbor of Teixeira's for the past 20 years, said she "always said she had important lovers, but never said anything about McCain."

In his book, McCain wrote about his rambunctious time in Rio, saying he and his fellow sailors "indulged in the vices sailors are famous for."

McCain wrote that he returned to Rio after the short stay and saw her again, but that the romance didn't blossom for long because of "youthful impatience and short attention spans."

Comments

[KC4Obama]

WARNING: This article may cause, blindness, projectile vomiting, shortness of breath, heart attack or storke....­read with caution.

[maggieblue]

"youthful impatience and short attention span"...no­thing has changed in his old age.

[KC4Obama]

GROSS!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!!

[ccmd]

Older women when young, and younger women when old. Typical.

[fignozzle]

eeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeee­eeeewwwwww­wwww!
my ears are bleeding!

[huffyISaHottie]

lol....i stopped reading this silly thing after the "good kisser"

[jimmyjones22]

srsly?

how'd they have sex back then? wouldn't it be dangerous to get neked with all those donosaurs around back then?

[dsmyre]

She's 77 now, and McCain is 72. He likes older women?

[sealy]

she looks better for being 77 than he does at 72..
or is it 73??
So much for the belief that men age more gracefully than the women..

[Bluejay00234]

Yuck.

[ohioan73]

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

[SaddieMcCall]

I don't understand how the religious right can laugh, and pat McCain on the back for his immorality and sexual promiscuousness. How can they preach abstinance until marriage to the youth, while the man that they would have be President brags about all the beauty queens he has bedded.

[MargaretO]

...or let part of the constitution be thrown out the window. Seems they only care about the 2nd amendment, the rest of it is drivel.

[sammy50]

Dear, it's she who is boasting.

[dsmyre]

He bragged about her in his book. They both are boasting.

[SaddieMcCall]

If you didn't see the Republican Convention, they were all laughing about McCain's passion for the ladies, including the flame of Florida. Even his daughter talks about it on tv while doing her book rounds, saying that she thinks it's a hoot.

I also don't understand why the military would be so happy to be promoting a man who brags about being the most undiscipline student, the leader of the rebels. Is this the behavior that they want others to model after? What if all marines, soldiers, etc wanted to be just like McCain and be the rule breaker? Why kind of military would we have then?

[huffyISaHottie]

Dear..it is he who wrote about her in his book and " did things sailors are famous for"...i might be time for you to buy a clue

[cactusgal]

She met him at the docks, huh? Must have lured him in with "Hey sailor, wanna get lucky?"

Didn't he just say that he only buys AMERICAN goods?

[AERO]

Republicans only buy American goods, unless they can get foreign goods at at cheaper price.

[ZimboChick]

icky icky poo ewww

[DrFrescas]

Gross.

[PioneerKing]

Is that photo really Cindy McCain prior to the 3 face lifts she had?

[bibb]

John McCain = tasty, loving, romantic??????

EEEEEEWWWWWWWWW!

For my great grandma, maybe!