alt.politics.usa.republican

On Feb 20, 4:32=A0pm, Rich Travsky wrote:
> Sid9 wrote:
>
> > =A0 McCain's Divorce
>
> > Before John McCain's tour of duty in Vietnam, he married =A0Carol Shepp,=
a
> > model from Philadelphia. On his 23rd bombing mission over North Vietnam =
in
> > 1967, McCain was shot down and captured.
> > While he was imprisoned, Carol was in an auto wreck (1969), thrown throu=
gh
> > her car's windshield and left seriously injured. Despite her injures, sh=
e
> > refused to allow her POW husband to be notified about her condition, fea=
ring
> > that such news would not be good for him while he was being held prisone=
r.
>
> > When McCain returned to the United States in 1973 after more than five y=
ears
> > as a prisoner of war, he found his wife was a different person. The acci=
dent
> > "left her 4 inches shorter and on crutches, and she had gained a good de=
al
> > of weight."
>
> > Yearning to make the grade of admiral, McCain enrolled in the National W=
ar
> > College at Fort McNair in Washington, . and underwent physical therap=
y in
> > order to fly again. The Navy excused his permanent disabilities and
> > reinstated him to flight status, effectively positioning him for promoti=
on.
>
> > In his book, The Nightingale's Song, Robert Timberg chronicled McCain's
> > post-Vietnam military assignments and some of his "adulterous" behavior
> > leading to his divorce from Carol and marriage to Cindy Hensley.
>
> > Timberg wrote, "in the fall of 1974, McCain was transferred to Jacksonvi=
lle
> > as the executive officer of Replacement Air Group 174, the long-sought
> > flying billet at last a reality. A few months later, he assumed command =
of
> > the RAG, which trained pilots and crews for carrier deployments. The
> > assignment was controversial, some calling it favoritism, a sop to the
> > famous son of a famous father and grandfather [both were Navy admirals],=

> > since he had not first commanded a squadron, the usual career path."
>
> > While Executive Officer and later as Squadron Commander McCain used his
> > authority to arrange frequent flights that allowed him to carouse with
> > subordinates and "engage in extra-marital affairs." =A0Such behavior was=
a
> > violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice rules against adultery=
and
> > fraternization with subordinates..
>
> > Timberg wrote, "Off duty, usually on routine cross-country flights to Yu=
ma
> > and El Centro, John started carousing and running around with women. To =
make
> > matters worse, some of the women with whom he was linked by rumor were
> > subordinates . . . At the time the rumors were so widespread that, true =
or
> > not, they became part of McCain's persona, impossible not to take note o=
f."
>
> > In early 1977, Admiral Jim Holloway, Chief of Naval Operations promoted
> > McCain to captain and transferred him from his command position "to
> > Washington as the number-two man in the Navy's Senate liaison office. It=

> > wasn't long before the "fun loving and irreverent" McCain had turned the=

> > liaison office into a "late-afternoon gathering spot where senators and
> > staffers, usually from the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committe=
es,
> > would drop in for a drink and the chance to unwind."
>
> > In 1979 at a military reception in Honolulu, McCain met Cindy Hensley, a=
n
> > attractive 25-year-old woman from a very wealthy politically-connected
> > Arizona family. Cindy's father, Jim, founded the Hensley and Company, =
=A0the
> > nation's third-largest Anheuser-Busch distributor.
>
> > McCain described their first meeting, "She was lovely, intelligent and
> > charming, 17 years my junior but poised and confident. I monopolized her=

> > attention the entire time, taking care to prevent anyone else from intru=
ding
> > on our conversation. When it came time to leave the party, I persuaded h=
er
> > to join me for drinks at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. By the evening's end,=
I
> > was in love."
>
> > While still married to Carol, McCain began an adulterous relationship wi=
th
> > Cindy. He married Cindy in May 1980 -- just a month after dumping Carol =
and
> > securing a divorce. The newlyweds honeymooned in Hawaii.
>
> > McCain followed his young, millionairess wife back to Arizona where her
> > father helped catapult McCain into politics,
>
> > Today, Cindy Hensley McCain is chairwoman of Hensley's board of director=
s.
> > Hensley and Company financial reports show assets worth a minimum of $28=

> > million for the McCains.
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You are all a bunch of pussies that don't think your shit stinks. The
last Democrat we had in Bill Clinton jacked-off in the whitehouse.
The people of the . want a leader not buch of drug addicted
democrats that have the morals of a dog. Vote The Honorable Senator
McCain for President 2008.