Cindy McCain and the smell of death

[bow-tie]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/372022_gersononline25.html Too bad there's no mention of who was responsible for all that "death".
She's a gol-durn hero, that McCain woman, she ain't no "rich B".

By MICHAEL GERSON
SYNDICATED COLUMNIST

KIGALI, Rwanda -- Cindy McCain's first visit to this country in 1994 was during the high season of roadblocks and machetes and shallow graves.

Following a call for help from Doctors Without Borders, McCain had assembled a medical team with the intention of setting up a mobile hospital in Rwanda. Arriving by private plane in mid-April, a couple of weeks into the massacres, she realized that the chaos made deploying her team impossible. At the airport, she paid for the use of a truck and set out for Goma in then-Zaire, where hundreds of thousands of refugees were also headed.

"I never saw anyone harmed," McCain recalls, "but I saw the bodies along the roadside." Checkpoints were manned by 12- and 13-year-olds with AK-47s. "The kids were drinking -- bottles of Guinness, I remember. They would point their guns at you. They wanted money. We paid." Along the way, she picked up several abandoned young people, later given to the care of an Irish charity.

"You could see the chaos, hear the shots, hear the screaming. You could smell it." What, I asked her, could you smell? "The smell of death," she replied.

[TwilightGardener]

1. You'd think she'd be used to it by now, being married to Bernie and all.

[Warpy]

2. Cindy McCain isn't the problem. Her husband is.

In fact, she seems to have a conscience. If she were running instead of her husband, the GOP race wouldn't be such a sick joke.

'Scuse me if I don't join the bashing. She's certainly done more for people than he has.

[emilyg]

4. Agree.

[alstephenson]

5. Yeah, right.

A little bit of history on Cindy:

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1994-09-08/news/opiate-for-the-mrs/

Don't see much in the MSM about this stuff, do we?

[Warpy]

6. As usual, they forgot the rest of the story

She had undiagnosed and untreated pain which was eventually diagnosed and treated successfully.

Was she wrong to steal? Hell, yes. However, when it's compared to what else she's done, it is not that enormous a deal.

I wish people would catch a damn clue and focus more on her husband, his role in the S&L scandal, his anti woman voting history, his foul temper, his signs of early dementia, and his incredibly thin voting history in the Senate.

She's not the problem. He is.

[alstephenson]

7. We can all walk and chew bubble gum at the same time.

Yes, HE is the problem, but why should Cindy get a free pass???

[meegbear]

3. ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3667774&mesg_id=3667774

[Disturbed]

8. I believe that Mrs McCain should not be discussed at all.

It only gets backlash. Sen. McCain is the candidate.

John McCain embraces GW Bush & his failed policies.

The short list

Iraq,

Top end tax cuts

Privatization of Social Security

Unraveling employer based health care,

Cuban embargo.

Illegal Spying on Americans

Busholini Policy of Torture

Against new GI Bill

Against Choice for Women

Against Equal Rights

Offshore oil drilling

Denying Habeous Corpus



“Hypocrisy, my friends, is the most obvious of political sins — and the people will punish it,” John McCain

[ProgressiveFool]

9. I've never heard that nickname for McCain before

"The Smell of Death" seems more like Cheney.