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October 22, 2008

Thursday: Cindy McCain Attacks the Obamas!

First Lady hopeful Cindy McCain goes on the offensive against Barack. "Extra" uncovers her lost interview -- and reveals Michelle Obama's turning point when her father died.

Plus, perfume that makes you younger! Can you really take off eight years with one shpritz?

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Google: Cindy McCain-Drug Addiction…
BY AMY SILVERMAN
GOP presidential candidate John McCain’s wife Cindy took to the airwaves last week, recounting for Jane Pauley (on “Dateline”) and Diane Sawyer (on “Good Morning America”) the tale of her onetime addiction to Percocet and Vicodin, and the fact that she stole the drugs from her own nonprofit medical relief organization.
It was a brave and obviously painful thing to do.
It was also vintage McCain media manipulation.
I had d�j� vu watching Cindy McCain on television, perky in a purple suit with tinted pearls to match. It was so reminiscent of the summer day in 1994 when suddenly, years after she’d claimed to have kicked her habit, McCain decided to come clean to the world about her addiction to prescription painkillers.
I believe she wore red that day. She granted semi-exclusive interviews to one TV station and three daily newspaper reporters in Arizona, tearfully recalling her addiction, which came about after painful back and knee problems and was exacerbated by the stress of the Keating Five banking scandal that had ensnared her husband. To make matters worse, McCain admitted, she had stolen the drugs from the American Voluntary Medical Team, her own charity, and had been investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
…But both of Cindy McCain’s staged, teary drug-addiction confessions have been vintage John McCain. His MO is this: Get the story out — even if it’s a negative story. Get it out first, with the spin you want, with the details you want and without the details you don’t want.
McCain did it with the Keating Five, and with the story of the failure of his first marriage (Cindy is his second wife). So what you recall after the humble, honest interview, is not that McCain did favors for savings and loan failure Charlie Keating, or that he cheated on his wife, but instead what an upfront, righteous guy he is.
Candor is the McCain trademark, but what the journalists who slobber over the senator fail to realize is that the candor is premeditated and polished. John McCain shoots from the hip — but only after carefully rehearsing the battle plan, to be sure he won’t get shot himself.
This is the story of a time that strategy backfired, and yet the McCain machine still managed to contain the damage.
In the early 1990s, Tom Gosinski was the director of government and international affairs for the American Voluntary Medical Team, which did relief and medical volunteer work in third world countries.
Hired by Cindy McCain in 1991, Gosinski enjoyed his job, but he began to notice McCain’s erratic behavior in the summer of 1992. In his journal, he wrote that he and others suspected the boss was addicted to painkillers and might have been stealing them from the organization.


- Deranmartez
Posted 10/24/08 07:52 AM
 

Mccain more jobs? I don’t think so.
We are living the MCCain government now, only if he becomes president it will be a hell of war.

That’s where the jobs will come in.

SEND THAT BOY OFF TO DIE..
AND THE WOMEN WENT TO WORK


- Anonymous
Posted 10/23/08 05:18 PM
 

Cindy McCain, a recovering drug addict and thief, needs to be quiet or defend her husband leaving his disabled wife Carol, while cheating with her.

Google: John McCain’s First Wife, Carol McCain.
Google: Cindy McCain’s drug addiction.


- Deranmartez
Posted 10/23/08 02:57 PM
 

God Help Us ALL!!!! If our country will not turn to back to God for leadership, it will not matter who is president. I hope and pray that Obama doesn’t not become our next president, we will be doomed. He is all about induced lobor abortion, how sick can you get. Allowing a child to be born alive and letting it die alone in a place that toxic waste is put from sick patients. He voted 3 times against an amendment to stop this and if he did not know all the details and that is his excuse for voting that way, aren’t you just alittle bit afriad of what he might not understand with the amendments that are not as clear.


- Anonymous
Posted 10/23/08 06:41 AM
 

God Help Us ALL!!!!


- Anonymous
Posted 10/23/08 06:35 AM
 

Because he can! You know John McCain and all thosw White folk in his age bracket are shaking in their diapers.


- Deranmartez
Posted 10/23/08 06:26 AM
 

THERE IS ONLY…ONE RACE….

AND THAT IS THE….HUMAN RACE

SO WE CAN’T BE RACIST’S


- J~LO
Posted 10/23/08 01:01 AM
 

Wake up people. Stop thinking like immature high schoolers and believing the and opinions of talk show liberal democrats and the one sided main stream media just to go along with the so called cool crowd. Switch off CNN and NBC and look at Fox News for BOTH sides of the story. Get the FACTS and decide on the candidates record and experience or lack thereof. In a nutshell: Obama equals more government jobs and programs. That takes more money. Where does it come from? US the taxpayers.
McCain wants to create jobs so we don’t have to rely on the gov’t. More jobs, more money in our pockets and more freedom!


- Suzy
Posted 10/22/08 11:16 PM
 

If John McCain is so afraid of “losing” then why is Barrack Obama only increasing the attack ads with the millions of dollars “donated” (some moneys unaccounted for) 4 to every 1 ad McCain runs. Why too, is Obama BUYING a half-hour of air-time on NBC, ABC, and CBS just before the election if it’s McCain that is the one that is “nervous”? Ask Obama about the agreement he had regarding campaign funds with Senator McCain and then going back on his word? Ask Barack Huessein Obama about BILL AYERS and you’ll see Barrack smile and nod his head talking about the “economy”. Ask Barrack about his connections to ACORN, and he’ll talk about his health care package? Ask Barack Obama about his Preacher of TWENTY YEARS and he’ll conveniently tell you he doesn’t any longer associate with the guy anymore,.. the same reverend whom preached “God D### America” and ranted Anti-White Anti-American hatred in Obamas church? Ask Obama who lives just a few blocks from his million dollar manchin in Illinois.. his friend and acquaintence terrorist “Bill Ayers”? Ask Mr. Obama why his college records and orginal documents regarding his birh and origin are “sealed” and off limits? Ask yourself how a THREE year Senator has more experience to run the country as compared to a 26 year Senator. Ask yourself how someone whom has no accomplishments under his belt, has NEVER served in the U.S. Military, nor served his country so “deserves” the Presidency?

McCain isn’t afraid of losing to a Muslim Terrorist with zero experience. He trusts his fellow americans will see through this media driven candidate and make the right choice. Leave celebrity to Barrack Huesein Obama,.. and leave the protection of this country to John Sidney McCain!


- ha ha ha ha
Posted 10/22/08 11:15 PM
 

John McCain is so afraid of losing (particularly to a Black man) he is spending a majority of his time and money trying to accuse Barack Obama of wrong doing because his campaign made donations to have Voter Registration and GOTV done. Senator McCain’s campaign has and will make contributions to have new voters registered and to get them to the polls…that’s what Presidential Candidates do. What good does it do to register people if they don’t go to the polls. Ask John McCain what he plans to do (and like Sarah Palin) he will tell you how much money Barack Obama is raising. It’s really pitifull.

Ask John McCain “how can disabled women trust you? You left your disabled first wife because she had become crippled while you were in Viet Nam?” And he will tell you a lie about Barack Obama and Bill Ayers. Ask John McCain “how can we trust you to commit to the oath of office when you took wedding vows and left your crippled wife to go after a drug addicted rich girl?” And John McCain will tell you a lie about Barack Obama and make some jagged prediction. Ask John McCain “Does Dr. Phillip Butler know what he’s talking about when he says that you are not fit to be Commander -In-Chief?” And John McCain will tell you how competent Sarah Palin is…but she too lacks wisdom. Half of being wise is being wise in time!


- Deranmartez
Posted 10/22/08 10:54 PM
 

The McCains have proven they will say and do anything to win the election how
low and desperate and dirty can you get.
John McCain stole the nomination from
Mike Huckabee and he and Palin do not
have the same views, this man is not conservative but pretending a wolf in
sheeps clothing, but God is in control!


- Chic
Posted 10/22/08 10:22 PM
 

Seems to me where ever you find lots of cash, you’ll certainly find Obama! He cares “so much” about the middle class, …you know that middle class that makes 250,000 dollars? Barrack has so much to learn, Barrack Huesein Obama as President is like Omarosa of Apprentice being called a celebrity.


- ????
Posted 10/22/08 09:45 PM
 

Lets not make this one sided!!!
For god sake what is Obama and McCains clan spending on clothes….and all the candidates before them….This is a rediculous report and there are bigger things then this to report on!!

ReeDICKulous!!!!


- focus
Posted 10/22/08 08:37 PM
 

Kinda one sides isn’t it? What did extra not have the money to do a fair and balanced report on all candidates?
Do people not remember the serious 360 Michelle Obama made early on in the campaign…who do you think paid for that??


- Susan
Posted 10/22/08 07:16 PM
 

Cindy McCain is attacking the O’Bamas to take the heat off her hubby’s loop holes in his so called “rescue package” that will put the US further in the hole.

Now he calls himself the “underdog”. He wouldn’t have to if he had picked a more qualified candidate. He’s spending more time in defending all her goofs instead of his campaigne


- bobbie
Posted 10/22/08 04:51 PM
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