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Reading The Pictures: John and Cindy's 2000 Vote: The Matter Of The Children

Posted May 10, 2008 | 01:26 PM (EST)

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Cindy-Attacks

There was an interesting moment in Thursday's interview with Cindy McCain on the TODAY Show, especially in light of the intense buzz surrounding whether the McCains actually voted for Bush in 2000. (This, in addition to Arianna Huffington's psychological take-down of Mac's hyena-like denial in front of O'Reilly.)

Referring to negative campaigning, the TODAY Show's Ann Curry asked Cindy McCain:

"It's six months to go before the election. Are you prepared for the next six months knowing that that's how it generally does go?"

If you watch the interview, McCain is mostly breezy, sometimes firm, but at this particular point, you can see the emotion in her eyes. (The screen shot comes immediately after Curry says: "prepared for the next six months.")

McCain answered: "Well, I'm never ready for those kinds of things..." then added, "especially when it involves my children."

For a mother, given that the attacks involved her daughter, Bridget, it is not surprising she would answer the question that way. However, if such feelings remain this live and close to the surface eight years later, could the sting be that separate and distinct from hard feelings toward Bush/Rove for perpetrating the attacks?

Following the interview, Curry told co-anchor Meredith Vieira she had asked McCain about charges she hadn't voted for Bush in 2000, and that McCain told her it wasn't true. Cindy McCain's pain here, however, makes it that much harder to believe that the attacks and her 2000 vote could be that exclusive of one another.

TODAY interview with Cindy McCain (video - MSNBC)
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(screen shot: TODAY Show, via msnbc.msn.com)

 

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One of my favorite sayings is "A clean house is a sign of a wasted life."

It was a 1960s -era reaction to the 1950s woman's role in the U.S. in which women were expected to spend every day in house dress, nylons, lipstick and heels, with hands in rubber gloves dipping into buckets full of chemicals to make sure the house and kids were sufficiently sanitary that brain surgery could be safely performed at a moment's notice. I sometimes wonder how many women died of god-awful illnesses caused by spending their lives inhaling dangerous "cleaning" chemicals.

But I look at Cindy McCain as the next era of the bucket brigade. Here is a woman fabulously wealthy and privileged, yet she has spent her life looking in a mirror, dieting, getting plastic surgery, bleaching her hair, trying to be pretty. What a waste. And when a 50 year old woman is married to a 72 year old man, why is she the one getting the face lift? Anyway, to me she's just a pathetic waste of a life. Pretty, vapid, useless. And she is a Republican, supports this slaughter in Iraq, and the devastation of this country and our laws, so don't bother feeling sorry for her. She didn't like people saying mean things about her daughter? I'm sure the women of Vietnam did not like John napalming their daughters.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:19 PM on 05/12/2008
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re: your last sentence, I am a Vietnam Vet, and I still have nightmares over what we did to the Vietnamese. McCain is lucky they didn't do more to him at the Hanoi Hilton. And those guys were dropping Agent Orange on us, too, just to prevent the Domino Theory.

Look what happened when we stopped bombing the beejesus out of them and began talking to them. We found out they were human beings just like us, and respectful, friendly people who just wanted to be left alone. They went outside their country just once, to chase out the genocidal Pol Pot from power in Cambodia. Now we trade with them. So, what did 58,000 + soldiers die for??? What has 4000 + died for in Iraq???

The same can happen with Iran, the country her husband wants to bomb and the country that Hillary would "obliterate".

What imbeciles they all are, and guess who suffers......not those double talking a-holes.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 06:07 PM on 05/12/2008
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I don't speak for anyone but myself, but I suspect there is more than one person in this world who feel this way: If George W. Bush attacked my family the way he did McCain's I'd whip his ass, and short of that I would most certainly spit in his face.

I say this with one caveat, I'm not running for President of the United States.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:39 PM on 05/12/2008
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Yeah- It's clear that he hasn't abided by the ethical principals found here at HUFFPO.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 06:25 PM on 05/12/2008
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By the way, wouldn't McCain's voting for Bush after the attacks on his daughter in 2000 be the moral equivalent of Dukakis equivocating when asked what he would do if his wife was raped?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:00 PM on 05/12/2008
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Memo. to Cindy McCain: Your husband previously was subject to negative attacks by Karl Rove and George W. Bush -- members of the Grand Old Party. Democrats -- with the exception of Hillary -- do not campaign that way. Since Hillary will not be the nominee, you have nothing to worry about. (Other than your husband's temper.)

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:57 PM on 05/12/2008
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I think this video says it all. Listen to Nerim serving in Iraq - His Opinion on McCain
Honor .....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghGACFShU-o

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:13 PM on 05/12/2008
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Believe me, there is no way McCain and Cindy voted for Bush in 2000. After what he had done to them, they had to hope he would fall flat on his face, loose, and then they could take the nomination in 2004. It is human nature, and certainly their nature, from what I have seen, to act in that manner.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:12 PM on 05/12/2008
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Why does no one seem to take umbrage with the whole "Two Parties, Two rule sets" mentality?
Her tax returns are just as relevant as Hillary's in '92 and '96, and as relevant as Kerry-Heinz'. WHere is the stink? The unruly accusations of corruption? Where is the scrutiny?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:25 AM on 05/12/2008
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Media people are afraid of her family because she is rich.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:44 PM on 05/12/2008
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The best first ladies are the ones that came up the hard way, with the exception of Eleanor Roosevelt-- but Eleanor despite the family name and wealth- married her 3rd cousin-- and things were difficult in her childhood-- very difficult-- the best were from hardscrabble stories---

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:10 AM on 05/12/2008
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And you are implying what, considering that Cindy McCain was born with a bigger silver spoon that Bush?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:58 AM on 05/12/2008
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I bet there are some people on the fence who would be more likely to vote for McCain if he said that he didn't vote for Bush in 2000.

Just saw some video of McCain in 2000 and if that version were running now against Obama, I'd be worried. Not as much worried about this more recent compromised version.

Call me naive, but I really do think this will be a somewhat civil campaign. And the debates should be exciting. After 21 debates between Barack and Hillary, it will be nice to see people who disagree on big issues go at each other, rather than two people who basically agree on the big stuff trying to split hairs.

She's 53? Don't care much for her politics, but she is a fine looking woman.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:50 AM on 05/12/2008
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Seth, you are naive if you think there"s any reason to vote for John McCain.
You are especially naïve if you think John McCain will run a civil campaign.
As for "a fine looking woman," beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:20 PM on 05/12/2008
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One word: Botox.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 08:50 AM on 05/12/2008
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Two words: Store bought

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:40 PM on 05/12/2008
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She's 53; he's 72...just do the math. He's a dom as gals like to call them. He always was a lying bastard but fooled a lot of people. He can't do it now cause he's just too old. Cindy is sad to put up with his brashness with all of her money; it's ridiculous....no wonder she does drugs.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:14 AM on 05/12/2008
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There goes them ethics again!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 06:28 PM on 05/12/2008
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Could the reason she refuses to release her tax reports be because she has stock in Halliburton and other war-profiteering companies? Maybe that is where John hides his stocks, also. The repubs. hounded the democratic nominees for their wives records, why should McCain be different? I remember Teresa Heinz Kerry being put through the wringer, why is McCain's wife so special? Because there are different rules for the two parties? McCain rides on her company's private jet to fund raising events, but that is considered O.K.? Why did he not take the jet to attend to his JOB in D.C. where he has missed so many votes?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:40 PM on 05/11/2008
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"Because there are different rules for the two parties?"

Bingo.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:37 PM on 05/12/2008
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They are so phoney; straight talk? Balogna!





Independent for Obama '08

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:55 PM on 05/11/2008
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I still say she's a MILF

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:04 AM on 05/11/2008
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...a real Cinderella story in which a lie is magically transformed into a beautiful dream of being a princess.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:42 PM on 05/10/2008
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