10, 2008. Presidential hopeful has a lot of explaining to do. Not for his politics, but for what he did to his first wife. MediaTakeOut.com has learned that McCain, whom the mainstream media portrays as a descent man - is far from it. In a report by the British paper the Daily Mail, McCain apparently left his wife while she was on her deathbed - for a teenage socialite.

Here's how they report it:

[McCain] was shot down over Hanoi in October 1967 on his 23rd mission over North Vietnam and was badly beaten by an angry mob when he was pulled, half-drowned from a lake.

Over the next five-and-a-half years in the notorious Hoa Loa Prison he was regularly tortured and mistreated.

It was in 1969 that Carol went to spend the Christmas holiday – her third without McCain – at her parents’ home. After dinner, she left to drop off some presents at a friend’s house. It wasn’t until some hours later that she was discovered, alone and in terrible pain, next to the wreckage of her car. She had been hurled through the windscreen.

And after the accident, Carol was reportedly in bad shape - and McCain started playing the field:

When McCain – his hair turned prematurely white and his body reduced to little more than a skeleton – was released in March 1973, he told reporters he was overjoyed to see Carol again.

But friends say privately he was ‘appalled’ by the change in her appearance. At first, though, he was kind, assuring her: ‘I don’t look so good myself. It’s fine.’

‘I thought, of course, we would live happily ever after,’ says Carol. But as a war hero, McCain was moving in ever-more elevated circles.

The he met Cindy McCain - a wealthy teenager whos dad had enough money to finance his political ambitions:

In 1979 – while still married to Carol – he met Cindy at a cocktail party in Hawaii. Over the next six months he pursued her, flying around the country to see her. Then he began to push to end his marriage.

Here's what some of McCain's pals say happened:

They portray the politician as a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to ‘play the field’. They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons.

McCain was then earning little more than £25,000 a year as a naval officer, while his new father-in-law, Jim Hensley, was a multi-millionaire who had impeccable political connections.

Here's how one of McCain's former friends puts it:

‘This is a guy who makes such a big deal about his character. He has no character. He is a fake. If there was any character in that first marriage, it all belonged to Carol.’

Wonder if the mainstream press will go with this story...

http://www.mediatakeout.com/24232/the_story_the_media_wont_tell__how_john_mccain_left_his_dying_wife_for_a_wealthy_teenager.html

You know what. What a load of crap, the alledged article doesnt even use proper grammer or spelling. If they couldnt even edit their own article somehow I doubt they did much fact checking. I dont care who you think should win as long as you vote, but when you spread stupid crap like this about either candidate you just make yourself and anybody who gets taken in by it, look like an idiot.

Come on, get real, thats as stupid as the Obama made his oath on a Koran story. (Just for the record, he didnt.)

The article does certainly come off as one really bad e-mail rumor on level with the Obama is a Muslim stuff.

The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously left behind

By Sharon Churcher
Last updated at 1:45 AM on 08th June 2008


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Now that Hillary Clinton has at last formally withdrawn from the race for the White House, the eyes of America and the world will focus on Barack Obama and his Republican rival Senator John McCain.


While Obama will surely press his credentials as the embodiment of the American dream – a handsome, charismatic young black man who was raised on food stamps by a single mother and who represents his country’s future – McCain will present himself as a selfless, principled war hero whose campaign represents not so much a battle for the presidency of the United States, but a crusade to rescue the nation’s tarnished reputation.


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Forgotten woman: But despite all her problems Carol McCain says she still adores he ex-husband

McCain likes to illustrate his moral fibre by referring to his five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. And to demonstrate his commitment to family values, the 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children.

But there is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator’s presidential campaign. She is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain’s three eldest children.

And yet, had events turned out differently, it would be she, rather than Cindy, who would be vying to be First Lady. She is McCain’s first wife, Carol, who was a famous beauty and a successful swimwear model when they married in 1965.

She was the woman McCain dreamed of during his long incarceration and torture in Vietnam’s infamous ‘Hanoi Hilton’ prison and the woman who faithfully stayed at home looking after the children and waiting anxiously for news.

But when McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969. Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries.

When Carol was discharged from hospital after six months of life-saving surgery, the prognosis was bleak. In order to save her legs, surgeons

had been forced to cut away huge sections of shattered bone, taking with it her tall, willowy figure. She was confined to a wheelchair and was forced to use a catheter.

Through sheer hard work, Carol learned to walk again. But when John McCain came home from Vietnam, she had gained a lot of weight and bore little resemblance to her old self.

Today, she stands at just 5ft4in and still walks awkwardly, with a pronounced limp. Her body is held together by screws and metal plates and, at 70, her face is worn by wrinkles that speak of decades of silent suffering.

For nearly 30 years, Carol has maintained a dignified silence about the accident, McCain and their divorce. But last week at the bungalow where she now lives at Virginia Beach, a faded seaside resort 200 miles south of Washington, she told The Mail on Sunday how McCain divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html

No they will not go with this storey because it is B S and you need to get straight with the imformation!Just because you say it will not make it true. Do you not think if this was true it would not already have come out.

This smells really bad.

That article is fact! Look it up.
I read this years ago. I mean years ago, maybe 20, 25 years ago!

Carol McCain waited for the return of her husband from his Vietnamese captivity for five and a half long years; as McCain idolator David Grann put it in the New Republic, she was "a kind of modern-day Penelope to McCain's Odysseus." She carried her burden with nobility, and resolve, staying faithful to the man she refused to believe she had lost – even in the face of her own tragedy. It was Christmas Eve, 1969, while driving along a snowbound street, that she went crashing into a telephone pole: the impact hurled her through the windshield. She lost her left leg, ruptured her spleen, and went through a long series of agonizingly painful operations. Before the accident, she had been a statuesque beauty who worked as a model; she came out of it with four inches subtracted from her height, broken in body – but not in spirit. Herlove for her war hero husband forbade her from letting him know anything of her condition: he knew nothing of the accident, and she refused to write him about it since it would only make his burden heavier.

THE RETURN OF THE INGRATE
Any man would be lucky to have such a fierce, unbending love: she stuck by him, agitating for his release, and living for the day of his return. Her devotion was repaid with rejection. He learned of her accident on the plane home, and wasted no time in getting rid of her. He was soon back to his old tricks of playing the field – "just as he had at the Naval Academy," says Grann – and soon sought a divorce. He openly acknowledges that his behavior was solely responsible for the break-up of his marriage, and seems to glory in the macho role while simultaneously professing at least some sense of remorse: "I think she has reason to be bitter," McCain told one interviewer.

AN ALBATROSS
As for Carol, she avers that "the breakup of our marriage was not caused by my accident or Vietnam or any of those things. I don't know that it might not have happened if John had never been gone. I attribute it more to John turning forty and wanting to be twenty-five again than I do to anything else." This doesn't sound like bitterness; it is more like benevolence, in that it gives her ex-husband the benefit of a doubt and seems to excuse his disloyalty as practically hormonal, or at least fated. A less charitable – and more realistic – appraisal of McCain's motives is that he might have found his physically-impaired spouse more of an albatross than an asset for a man intent on a political career.

THE OPPORTUNIST
Moreover, his choice of a new wife was not exactly inconvenient. As the Phoenix New Times put the question:

"Would United States Senator John McCain be a presidential contender if it weren't for his marriage to Cindy Hensley McCain, heiress to the Hensley liquor fortune? It's doubtful. The senator's wife and – more important – his father-in-law, James Willis Hensley, are very wealthy people."

As a career military man, from a military family, his pay peaked at around $45,000. After retiring in 1980, however, and getting rid of Carol, he swept Cindy Lou Hensley off her feet and moved to Arizona, her home state, "to plunge into the world of politics." While working for his father-in-law, he "was promoting himself as much as he was Budweiser beer. A better job description might have been 'candidate.'" This opportunist on the make was no wild man, sowing his wild oats, but rather a man with a mission, a ruthless man who knew what he wanted – and got it.

The New Times put it well: "From Day 1, Hensley money has enabled McCain to be a full-time politician, free from financial concerns." From Day 1 of this campaign, John McCain has posed as a man of character: his supporters have even gone so far as to characterize him as "the Anti-Clinton." This is a lie, and not a white one either. It is the exact opposite of the truth, as his personal history – specifically the way he discarded his first wife like a used-up dish-rag – makes plain as day.



"DIRTY" CAMPAIGNING Is this "dirty campaigning"? What nonsense! If a man is going to pose as a Hero, a moral exemplar to youth, and a shining knight in armor come to rescue a decadent nation, then he had better measure up to his own standards – or else get out of politics. As the latter is not likely to happen – at least, not voluntarily – those who know the truth about McCain and understand its ominous implications must work to bring this awareness to the general public. If the Bush campaign is "above the battle," then the battle must be fought without them and in spite of them – because the stakes are too high to entrust the outcome to a bunch of wimps.

The media screams about every exposure of McCain's record as a "smear"and "negative campaigning," and cheerswhile McCain calls into question the right of his conservative opponents to speak out. Let them howl. The campaign to expose the dark side of John McCain must and will continue: they are howling with pain because it is effective.
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I read that Barry was a Muslim and he didn't like his African heritage until he went to law school and told his family and friends to never call him Barry again because he wanted to be known as Barack. Barry said he didn't find Christianity until he met Wright as well, that would mean he lied about being raised a Christian, and then, what was he before that? Makes you wonder.

Just because its printed dose not make it fact!

Can't Find it in Snopes!

Some people will believe anything they read, especially when the sources of the article and the sources in the article are very weak....if they even have a named source at all.

Calm down everyone. After you have been here long enough you will realize that Madisonman is a left wing socialist nut job. As for myself Im a right wing gun nut. The freedom of the USA on display you can have any opinion you wish no matter how off the wall and stupid it might be.

well it happens. younger beautiful single woman chases married man with some issues like being cooped up for years as a prisoner of war. old wife not so beautiful when he gets home, so he looks for greener pasture with money in it. likes the cow, her milk and her purse.
happens all the time. is this an new story? nope...

Michael Smerconish: THE OTHER MRS. JOHN McCAIN
By Michael Smerconish
Philadelphia Daily News

Daily News Opinion Columnist

YOU DON'T hear much about the first Mrs. John McCain, who was from the Philadelphia area.
But in light of her recent comments in a U.K. publication, I'm beginning to understand why. Apparently, she's not about to let others use her to beat up on John McCain.

I had heard years ago that the senator had been married to a gal from Philadelphia. A couple who listen to my radio program told me they were friends with Carol McCain and had spent time with her and John McCain after his release from the Hanoi Hilton. They also told me Carol had been in a terrible car accident in the Philadelphia suburbs.

Sometime later, in his memoir "Faith of My Fathers," I read Sen. McCain's account of his courtship and marriage to Carol Shepp, a swimwear model from Philadelphia whom he first met when she was engaged to one of his Annapolis classmates.

McCain identified Connie Bookbinder, whose family owned Bookbinder's Restaurant, as Carol's college roommate, and said he and Carol would often join the Bookbinders for dinner, football games at Memorial Stadium and basketball at the Palestra.

The McCains were married in 1965. Little more than two years later, he was shot down over Hanoi and began what would be more than five years of captivity in North Vietnam. On Christmas Eve 1968, while he was a POW, Carol McCain was in an auto accident just outside the city after delivering presents to a friend. According to McCain's account in "Faith," she "skidded off the road and smashed into a telephone pole, and was thrown from the car. The police found her sometime later in shock, both legs fractured in several places, her arm and pelvis broken, and bleeding internally."

Several days passed before she was out of danger, and she spent the next six months in the hospital. By the time doctors were finished, she'd undergone 23 operations and was five inches shorter than she was before the accident.

Fast-forward 30 years. John McCain is remarried. And the former Mrs. McCain now lives out of the limelight in Virginia.

The U.K.'s Mail on Sunday tried to draw her out in a story printed on June 8. The Mail's coverage dripped with sarcasm and innuendo about the events giving rise to the McCain divorce.

The Mail said Carol McCain "casts a ghostly shadow over the senator's presidential campaign," that she lives in a "faded" seaside resort and that John McCain "divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later."

The story said that some in the orbit of the couple when they were together thought McCain had abandoned his first wife after her car accident in favor of a trophy wife. Ross Perot was one of them. He'd paid for Carol McCain's medical bills, and told the paper that John McCain was a "classic opportunist."

But guess who didn't go along with the hit piece launched from across the pond based on the way McCain had treated his first wife?

Carol Shepp McCain.

She said she decided to talk to the Mail because she wanted people to know she supports her ex-husband's candidacy. "He's a good guy. We are still friends. He is the best man for president."

Last week, I read the Mail story aloud on my radio show. It drew a call from someone with knowledge of Carol McCain - Bud Stewart, a retired orthopedic surgeon who had operated on her the night of her accident.

Stewart said he'd worked on Carol McCain at Bryn Mawr Hospital for most of that Christmas Eve night. The next day, he received a call from the State Department. Did he know the name of the woman he'd spent the night operating on, someone wanted to know?

"As things happen, I was more concerned about the patient's problems than the patient's name, and I told them I didn't know. And they said it was Carol McCain."

"They suggested that I not make any comment to the press or to anyone because John was a prisoner of war at that time and her father-in-law was the supreme commander of the Pacific fleet. They thought it would result in more torture to John if it was described."

Stewart kept in touch with Carol McCain for a while, and told me she went on to become Nancy Reagan's personal secretary in the White House. He called her a "courageous, and inspiring woman."



SO, FAR FROM the forgotten, fading figure portrayed in the Mail, Carol McCain actually beat her ex-husband to a job in the White House.

Today she drives an SUV sporting a McCain for President bumper sticker. Of course, John McCain comes to Philadelphia these days only to campaign or see the Army-Navy game.
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080619_Michael_Smerconish__THE_OTHER_MRS__JOHN_McCAIN.html

Duffy your funny.

Im looking for a woman with money can you help Duffy?

Why did the Copy and Paste King post all that negative stuff about Mccain and his first wife and then suddenly post an article that shines good light on it and favorable of Mccain? Were you seriously that bored?

"DIRTY" CAMPAIGNING Is this "dirty campaigning"? What nonsense! If a man is going to pose as a Hero, a moral exemplar to youth, and a shining knight in armor come to rescue a decadent nation, then he had better measure up to his own standards – or else get out of politics. As the latter is not likely to happen – at least, not voluntarily – those who know the truth about McCain and understand its ominous implications must work to bring this awareness to the general public. If the Bush campaign is "above the battle," then the battle must be fought without them and in spite of them – because the stakes are too high to entrust the outcome to a bunch of wimps.

The media screams about every exposure of McCain's record as a "smear"and "negative campaigning," and cheerswhile McCain calls into question the right of his conservative opponents to speak out. Let them howl. The campaign to expose the dark side of John McCain must and will continue: they are howling with pain because it is effective.
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In 1979, John McCain came face to face with his future.

He was in Hawaii, attending a military reception. While there, he met a young, blond former cheerleader from Phoenix named Cindy Hensley.

McCain was immediately dazzled and spent the event chatting her up.

"She was lovely, intelligent and charming, 17 years my junior but poised and confident," McCain wrote in his 2002 book, Worth the Fighting For. "I monopolized her attention the entire time, taking care to prevent anyone else from intruding on our conversation. When it came time to leave the party, I persuaded her to join me for drinks at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. By the evening's end, I was in love."

McCain recalls that both he and Cindy initially misled each other about their ages. McCain made himself a little younger, and Cindy made herself a little older. They found out their real ages when the local paper published them. McCain was 43, Cindy 25.

"So our marriage," McCain cracks, "is really based on a tissue of lies."

Early in the courtship, McCain called Cindy from Beijing, where he was traveling with a Senate Foreign Relations Committee contingent. Cindy was in the hospital recuperating from minor knee surgery. She thanked him for the lovely flowers in her room, sent from "John."

What McCain didn't tell Cindy was that he hadn't sent the flowers. They were from another John, who lived in Tucson.

"I never thanked him," Cindy notes with a grin.

After a whirlwind courtship, John asked Cindy to marry him. But there were some details to clear out of the way.

McCain needed a divorce from Carol, his wife of 14 years from whom he was separated. After McCain's dramatic homecoming from Vietnam, the couple grew apart. Their marriage began disintegrating while McCain was stationed in Jacksonville. McCain has admitted to having extramarital affairs.

"If there was one couple that deserved to make it, it was John and Carol McCain," author Robert Timberg wrote in John McCain: An American Odyssey. "They endured nearly six years of unspeakable trauma with courage and grace. In the end it was not enough. They won the war but lost the peace."

In February 1980, less than a year after he met Cindy, McCain petitioned a Florida court to dissolve his marriage to Carol, calling the union "irretrievably broken."

Bud Day, a lawyer and fellow POW, handled the divorce proceedings.

"I thought things were going fairly well, and then it just came apart," Day later recalled. "That happened to quite a few. . . . I don't fault (Carol), and I don't really fault John, either."

In his book Worth the Fighting For, McCain offers his own post-mortem on his failed marriage. He "had not shown the same determination to rebuild (his) personal life" as he had to excel in his naval career.

"Sound marriages can be hard to recover after great time and distance have separated a husband and wife. We are different people when we reunite," McCain wrote. "But my marriage's collapse was attributable to my own selfishness and immaturity more than it was to Vietnam, and I cannot escape blame by pointing a finger at the war. The blame was entirely mine."

Carol, who remains on good terms with her former husband, generally has avoided reporters interested in hearing her side of the story.

She did briefly address her divorce to Timberg: "The breakup of our marriage was not caused by my accident or Vietnam or any of those things. I don't know that it might not have happened if John had never been gone. I attribute it more to John turning 40 and wanting to be 25 again than I do to anything else."

In the divorce settlement, McCain was generous with Carol, the mother of their daughter Sidney and two sons, whom McCain had adopted. Among other things, McCain gave Carol the rights to houses in Florida and Virginia and agreed to provide insurance or pay for additional treatment she was expected to require.

Except for signing the property settlement, Carol did not participate in the divorce. A court summons and other paperwork sent to her during the proceeding went unanswered.

In April 1980, the judge entered a default judgment and declared the marriage dissolved.

A month later, McCain married Cindy in Phoenix, where the couple would move. The wedding party included a couple of McCain's high-profile friends from Washington. Sen. William Cohen was the best man. Sen. Gary Hart was a groomsman.

Carol went her separate way, finding work as a personal aide to Nancy Reagan during the 1980 presidential primary campaign and later running the White House Visitors Office.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/mccain/articles/0301mccainbio-chapter5.html