Strange Portrait of Cindy McCain in New Yorker

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

Very eccentric

In her size-0 St. John skirt suits, and with her lacquered coiffures, Cindy McCain appears pampered and brittle. She was taken to a hospital with a sprained wrist after a fan shook her hand with too much gusto at a campaign event in Michigan last month. Her movements are quick and sharp—birdlike—and she often seems skittish, wary-eyed, and fidgety, fussing with her nails or her BlackBerry. McCain has said that she kept her phone with her at all times so that she wouldn’t miss a call from her son Jimmy, a marine, while he was in Iraq. But he returned in mid-February, and the BlackBerry remains in his mother’s hand much of the time. She seems to be vigilant on behalf of all her children: Meghan, twenty-three, a recent Columbia graduate; John Sidney IV, twenty-two, a senior at the U.S. Naval Academy; Jimmy, twenty; and Bridget, the daughter from Bangladesh, who is now seventeen. At times, Cindy McCain seems to be channelling Nancy Reagan in her nervousness and her apparent conviction that without her protection harm will befall her family in the dangerous sphere of public life.

Read the whole thing:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/09/15/080915fa_fact_levy

[oldtime dfl_er]

1. Doesn't she just remind you of Patsy Stone

remember the episode of Ab Fab where Patsy broke her arm? HAHAH If I knew how to post pictures here I'd post a pic of Patsy...

[AlCzervik]

3. yeah but Pats is funny.

[progdonkey]

5. perhaps Patsy meets Maris Crane...

"She is too light to activate a whoopie cushion and is so weak that she once became trapped in a revolving door. She is also so weak that she couldn't activate a clapper light. She once tried to stomp grapes to make wine, dancing herself into a frenzy, but did not crush a single grape. She needs help slamming a door, and does not leave footprints in the snow."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maris_Crane#Maris.27_quirks_and_medical_conditions


Edit: oh, and here's a pic of Patsy for you ;-)

[grace0418]

17. Oops. Didn't see your post. But obviously I agree. Maris Crane was the first

thing that came to mind for me.

[oldtime dfl_er]

18. haha!

thanks!!! Me lurves me some Patsy! "My name is Patsy Stone. I'm an alcoholic."

[WinkyDink]

10. Like HER? Hee.

[Emillereid]

2. Gotta wonder if she's anorexic. Or on uppers?

[mitchum]

6. She's a social x ray who is fearful of society.

[progdonkey]

11. her speech at the RNC screamed downers...

She was doped up something fierce.

Plus, her preferred drugs are reportedly Percocet and Valium (and her preferred targets are orphans).

[nc4bo]

28. The way Sindy used to look - click here....

and what she is now:

[mitchum]

4. I read it a couple of nights ago...

and think that the author captured the contradictions in Cindy McCain. She is a person who was given great privilege, but did not also receive the ability to make wise and reasoned decisions.

[alsame]

7. "Brittle" - perfect description. eom

[WinkyDink]

8. "with her lacquered coiffures"~~~She's many lousy things, but having THESE ain't one of them lately.

[yardwork]

24. The color of her dress in that photo is altered. It was fluorescent lime green on TV.

[mamalone]

26. Something touched me about this photo...

See how she is holding little Trig? Much closer and more tenderly than I have ever seen Palin hold him... What a contrast. Cindy may be many things, many not very good things, but I think she really does care about children. What a miserable life she must lead:(

[justiceischeap]

9. She b(r)ought a baby and didn't tell her husband!?!? WTF!

These people have no clue.

[mitchum]

19. "Luccccccccy!"

she'a a madcap

[ContinentalOp]

23. Yeah, I've always thought that was really weird.

She came home with two babies. One for a friend and one she kept herself. Hey John, I'm home. Meet our new daughter! :wtf:

[Historic NY]

12. Must be using new meds.

[CatBO]

13. She sounds like your typical suburbanite speed freak to me....

She's so drugged up it's palpable.

[polichick]

14. I actually feel sorry for her - keep hoping she'll see the light and dump that creepy husband...

She seems so lost and unhappy.

[Cleita]

15. I kind of sense that she's a battered woman, not necessarily physically

battered, but mentally. She seems unsure of herself and as the article says wary of everything around her as if something is going to strike out at her when her guard is down.

[grace0418]

16. She sounds like the "Maris Crane" character from Frasier.

They all hated her too.

[baldguy]

20. Commoners shouldn't touch their betters.

[TXDemGal]

21. Another piece I read about her recently

said she uses the Blackberry for running the beer distributorship. So which is it: overprotective/neurotic mother of grown and nearly-grown children, or micro-managing beer heiress? Or both?

[1corona4u]

22. I doubt she's a size 0...

unless we're talking about her brain.

[yardwork]

25. Designers ratchet down their sizes. A size 0 St. John is probably a size 4 in Walmart.

[progdonkey]

27. someone should tell her you can get calcium in pill form...

Since they seem to be her preferred food source. :evilgrin:

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

29. heh