The quiet force in McCain's campaign (~ violin music~)

[underpants]

BTW this is center of the front page above the fold of the USA Today :eyes:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-04-14-cindy-mccain_N.htm

WASHINGTON — Election nights and campaign tours this primary season have spotlighted an elegant blonde in jewel-toned suits and a quadruple strand of pearls who stands beside her husband, Arizona Sen. John McCain, and says little.
Don't be fooled by the tableau.

Cindy McCain, possibly the next first spouse of the United States, is an heiress who travels to poor countries on medical missions, chairs a huge beer distribution company and is a key reason her husband is the presumptive Republican nominee for president. On Wednesday, in a taste of what her future could hold, McCain plans to attend a White House dinner to honor bishops and cardinals in town for Pope Benedict XVI's visit.

In fact, she helped provoke them. She sensed that "spending was out of control, and it wasn't the kind of campaign John wanted to be running," McKinnon says. "She had a pretty strong hand in righting the campaign when it crashed. She was always the one advocating for going with a very stripped-down version … letting McCain be McCain and getting back to fundamentals."

If she were to become first lady, "I would not go to a Cabinet meeting," she told Harper's Bazaar last year. "I don't deem it appropriate."

While on vacation with her parents 29 years ago in Hawaii, she met John McCain — a former prisoner of war who was 18 years her senior and whose first marriage was on the rocks. They married a year later and, aided by intensive campaigning and a public relations job with Hensley, John won an Arizona House seat in 1982.

Lisa Keegan, a friend and campaign adviser on education, recalls a day in 2000 when people were joking about George W. Bush's habit of taking a pillow from home on the road. "Somebody said to John, 'Don't you carry a pillow?' And he looked over at Cindy and said, 'Yeah, there she is.' "

[lisa58]

1. yeah, but does she really cook?

[4_TN_TITANS]

2. I'm sorry....

but that woman drips with evil. It's futile to try and soften up her image.