McCain?

The post is a little confusing in that first Cindy McCain is painted as the good housewife who stays at home in Arizona for the sake of the children, while patriarch John McCain has the freedom to pursue his military and political careers. Further down the articile, the author describes Cindy’s many good works which are spoiled by an addiction to painkillers. When it’s said that John had no clue about the problem it kind of paints the senator as neglectful of his wife’s needs. If this article was meant to build up the determination and worth of the McCain’s, it’s a strange approach: saying all the bad things then explaining how wonderful they are for learning from it.

Even though Cindy is pictured as a struggling victim of politics and the role as a wife etc, and AT1744 touched on this before, there are moments where it’s just too corny. On page page 4 where it starts “Last week in Vietnam…” there is a section just about how Cindy helped another woman with a child born with a deformity.

“Ditching her handlers, she went over to talk with [a woman holding a newborn with a severely cleft palate]. "Where's the interpreter?" Cindy demanded.”

The whole paragraph is dedicated to Cindy’s good character since she convinced the doctors to operate on the child even though doctors feared the newborn would go into cardiac arrest. What’s even hidden about this shining bit is that they never actually mention the results of the operation.

~La Neu