Is there something living in Cindy McCain's hair?

[ruggerson]

[Tatiana]

1. It's like a beehive/french roll type thingy.

She looks like a perfect trophy.

[libertee]

2. Does she talk...! Is she wife 1 or wife 2

[MADem]

6. Number two. Much younger number two. NT

[yourout]

3. She looks plastic.

It think she might shatter if dropped.

[MADem]

8. She had a horrible STROKE a while back, that's why. It's a miracle she's alive. NT

[krabigirl]

11. wow, I didn't know that. That's very sad :(

[MADem]

21. Blood pressure. She still has 'issues' but she'll live

Then, in 2004, she suffered a stroke and nearly died.

The stroke occurred while she was out to lunch with some friends. "I started talking, and the next thing I knew, what was coming out of my mouth was just gibberish," she recalls. "My first thought was just to get out of there, but I couldn't walk. One of my friends' husbands actually picked me up and carried me to the car, then drove me to the hospital."

...McCain shows almost no signs of permanent damage from her stroke, which has been attributed to her failure to take her blood pressure medication regularly. "I was feeling fine, so I only took the medication once in a while," she notes. In conversation, she will occasionally have trouble remembering certain facts, especially from the recent past, and if you look closely you realize she cannot make her right hand into a complete fist, which has affected her handwriting, if not her ability to grasp a gearshift knob. "It's not bad," she says, describing the damage to her hand. "I can function. I have short-term memory loss. I can remember all the major details of my life, but I sometimes can't remember what happened last week."

In the immediate wake of the stroke, McCain's prospects did not look so good. Her right leg was dragging, and she had no use of her right arm. After a few months of physical rehabilitation, she decided to start hiking the trails behind Squaw Peak Mountain, which is visible in the near distance from the terrace. Then she announced that she was going to Coronado, a manicured resort town in San Diego Bay. "I'm going to take the summer, and I'm going to fix myself," she told her family. She stayed for four and a half months. "My husband was not happy with me," she recalls. "He didn't understand ... but it was a good thing for me to do."

http://www.more.com/more/story.jsp?storyid=/templatedata/more/story/data/1187029206605.xml


She's rather a "Hasselbeck" if ya know what I mean, in terms of her world view. But then, considering her background, that's unsurprising.

[DesertRat]

19. I wonder if her stroke was due to her addiction to painkillers

She had a horrible addiction to Percocet and Vicodin.

[MADem]

22. She didn't take her blood pressure meds. NT

[ElsewheresDaughter]

4. what the hell are his people yelling ....CRACK HIS BACK! CRACK HIS BACK!......HUH?

[bidenista]

12. "MAC IS BACK"

LOL @ "CRACK HIS BACK"

[Maddy McCall]

5. I think she's pretty.

But that's just me.

[ruggerson]

7. She is actually

I was just being partisanly snarky

[Bluebear]

I just said the same thing here at home

Far too pretty to be hanging around with him lol

[libertee]

10. Very pretty

[truebrit71]

18. Me too...

...shhhhhhhhh! Don't tell anyone... ;-)

[DesertRat]

20. That's why he dumped his first wife for her. n/t

[ronnykmarshall]

9. A bad Patsy Stone look.

[WCGreen]

13. She looks like an extra from Hairspray....

[Roland99]

14. Huckabee's kids?

[ruggerson]

16. rofl

[tigereye]

15. McCain's mom looks good at 96

she looks like a force to be reckoned with!

[Bluebear]

17. She hides a defibrillator in there

You never know, when your mate is 112 and all :)