Fellow Pilot Cindy McCain

From:Fevziye Manizade [mailto:alifev@hotmail.com]
Subject: Fellow Pilot Cindy (McCain) for President.

Maybe she can talk her husband out of supporting General Aviation user fees.

This is an interesting  article as not much was known about her.  She was on Leno the other night  and it was an interesting interview.  It turns out that she is a  character as she is or has been a race car driver and is also a pilot.  She flies John around the country to his rallies.  After hearing  that about her and reading this I now have a lot of respect for  her.

Election 2008: Cindy Hensley McCain has been disparaged as a  trophy wife, a Barbie, an heiress with fancy purses, even the Paris Hilton of politics But there’s more to the picture than meets the eye.
Yes, Mrs.  McCain is the perfectly coifed blonde standing dutifully behind the senator  during his speeches. And yes, she wears stylish clothing and carries a Prada  purse. And it’s true she doesn’t say much. But feminist critics who write her  off as a ‘stand-by-your-man’ shrinking violet are selling her short. In many  ways, Cindy McCain stacks up sturdier than Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama.  And she’d make a more impressive first lady.
Mrs. McCain: More than  meets the eye.

While Obama’s wife has been hating America , complaining  about the war and undermining our troops serving in Afghanistan , McCain’s  wife has been worrying about her sons who actually are fighting or planning to  fight in the war on terror. One, in fact, was until a few months ago deployed in Iraq during some of the worst violence. You don’t hear the  McCain’s talk about it, but their 19-year-old Marine, Jimmy, is preparing for  his second tour of duty. Their 21-year-old son, Jack, is poised to graduate  from Annapolis and also could join the Marines as a second lieutenant. The  couple made the decision not to draw attention to their sons out of respect  for other families with sons and
daughters in harm’s way.
Cindy also  says she doesn’t want to risk falling apart on the campaign trail talking  about Jimmy who was so young when he enlisted she had to sign consent  forms for his medical tests before he could report for duty and potentially upsetting parents of soldiers who are serving or have been killed.

The  McCain’s want to make sure their boys get no special treatment. Same goes for  their five other children, including a daughter they adopted from Bangladesh .  During a visit to Mother Teresa’s orphanage there, Cindy noticed a dying baby.  The orphanage could not provide the medical care needed to save her life. So  she brought the child home to America for the surgery she desperately needed.  The baby is now their
healthy, 16-year-old daughter, Bridget.

Though  all seven McCain children including two Sen. McCain adopted from his first marriage are supportive of their father, they prefer their privacy  to the glare of the campaign trail. Another daughter, Meghan, 23, helps him behind the scenes.

Cindy McCain not only cherishes her children, but  also her country, which in an election year filled with America-bashing, is a  refreshing novelty. She seethed when she heard Michelle Obama’s unpatriotic  remarks that she only recently grew proud of America . ‘I am very proud of  my country,’ Mrs. McCain asserted.
She also may be tougher than the  other women in the race. While Hillary thinks she’s come under sniper fire on  mission trips abroad, Cindy has actually seen violence. She witnessed a boy  get blown up by a mine in Kuwait during a trip with an international group  that removes land mines from war-torn countries.

Mrs. McCain also is a  hands-on philanthropist. She sits on the board of Operation Smile, which  arranges for plastic surgeons to fix cleft palates and other birth defects.  She also has helped organize relief missions to Micronesia .

During a  scuba-diving vacation to the islands, Mrs. McCain took a friend to a local  hospital to have a cut treated. She was shocked, and saddened, by what she  saw. ‘They opened the door to the OR, where the supplies were, and there were  two cats and a whole bunch of rats climbing out of the sterile supplies,’ she  recalled. ‘They had no X-ray machine, no beds. To me, it was devastating  because it was a U.S. trust territory.’ As soon as she returned home, she arranged for  medical equipment and teams of doctors to be sent to treat the island children.

Michelle Obama may contribute to CARE, which fights  global poverty and works to empower poor women. Cindy sits on its board.

While the Democrat women talk about helping the poor and needy, Cindy McCain actually rolls up her sleeves and does it. Who’s the out-of-touch elitist?
 
Fran