08/21/2008
CNN Talks to John McCain About his Adulterous Affair
CNN talks to John McCain about his affair with Cindy McCain while still married to his first wife Carol.
CNN: "The chronology that's presented publicly doesn't necessarily match the chronology of the documents — that you had applied for a marriage license in Arizona at a time when your divorce wasn't final yet."
McCain: "It's 30 years ago. I have a happy marriage."
Cindy: "His reasons are his reasons. You know, I think I've been a good wife and I think I'm a good mother. And I think that's what he saw in me."
Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP...
(via the jed report)
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How does he not know why his first marriage failed?!?! He's had over 30 years to think about it! I don't care that he had an affair as much as I just want him to own up to it and tell the truth!
Ugh, he's so creepy.
Posted by: Tom S. | Aug 21, 2008 8:59:42 AM
But he was POW! Nothing else matters! How dare anyone ask questions of this brave, great man?!
/DC Press corps
Posted by: MAJeff | Aug 21, 2008 9:06:12 AM
I don't necessarily think that adultery is an unforgiveable offense, but if you're going to make "marriage sanctity" part of your campaign platform, then you invite questions like this. No one's questioning whether Cindy's a good wife and mother, but I think it's about time that someone in the MSM pointed out the obvious hypocrisy here.
Posted by: The Milkman | Aug 21, 2008 9:10:45 AM
Yes, I agree. Creepy. There are enough inconsistancies in his story about his capture and time as a POW that the DNC could put together a "Swiftboating of McCain" series of ads. Will they do it? Doubtful.
Supposedly commanding officers at the time of McCain's release were highly sceptical of his accounts of his time in captivity.
Posted by: pinky mcstinky | Aug 21, 2008 9:14:15 AM
Well, he believes in the sanctity of marriage, ya know.
Posted by: Wes | Aug 21, 2008 9:19:11 AM
POW! POW! Everything is excused because he was a POW!!!!!
Just because someone was in the military doesn't make them a saint (e.g., Lee Harvey Oswald and Timothy McVeigh).
Posted by: homer | Aug 21, 2008 9:38:18 AM
If Americans vote this man into office it will be a very bad thing. He's a clueless buffoon that just happens to be a POW that crashed FIVE planes and was at the bottom of his class @ Annapolis. Elitist.
Posted by: Gary | Aug 21, 2008 9:39:20 AM
Hypocrite = douchebag
Posted by: Jake | Aug 21, 2008 9:39:24 AM
Cindy caught lieing about meeting mother teresa. Turns out she NEVER met her
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/20/
cindy-mccain-mother-there_n_120184.html
Cindy and the campaign posted the story at their web site and constantly harped on it. Mother Teresa convinced cindy to adopt their child.
PROBLEM =Cindy has never ever met mother Teresa. Simply pathetic
Posted by: Jimmyboyo | Aug 21, 2008 9:48:04 AM
the greater american public couldn't give a rat's ass about mcbush and his adulterous affair... they got bigger fish to fry... and my crystal ball still says he's gonna be pres...
Posted by: the queen | Aug 21, 2008 9:49:22 AM
Why is Cindy always lying about stupid shit? Recipes, meeting people...what's the point?
Posted by: Jason | Aug 21, 2008 10:00:21 AM
He saw her as a good mother? Wasn't his first wife a good mother also? You know, the one who took care of his first set of kids for over five years while he was stuck in Vietnam even though she suffered injuries in a car accident that were arguably WORSE than his? But these are the standard bearers for the sanctity of "traditional" marriage. What a crock! I can't stand these people.
Posted by: James C | Aug 21, 2008 10:11:02 AM
Yes, that's what he saw in you. Also a scary, flinty Percocet gaze and millions and millions of dollars. She's the girl next door...to the bank. And the drugstore.
Posted by: LD | Aug 21, 2008 10:16:47 AM
If McCain simply explained that all pols in DC need to prove their manliness by having affairs this would all be cleared up in a matter of minutes.
Posted by: anon | Aug 21, 2008 10:20:39 AM
McCain: I'm happily married to a cunt.
Cindy: Oh John, 30 years ago you use to call me your sweet rich whore.
Posted by: Maverick69 | Aug 21, 2008 10:42:31 AM
All this information is well and good, the bigger problem is why the big media does not take him to task for this. So they asked the question, but then he gets away with saying it was 30 years ago, and gives an inappropriate grin (a la W Bush) and no follow up. He gets a pass. What is wrong with these interviewers and journalists? Work for that answer. Why Mr. McCain is it okay to push the fundie family agenda, and yet you ran counter to it's own tenets? We need a real honest answer... or you should not run on that platform. Mr. McCain you may not have it both ways.
Posted by: Critifur | Aug 21, 2008 10:48:16 AM
But, Critifur, that would mean the Beltway journalists would have to get antagonistic, but the politicians won't like them anymore. And we can't have that, now can we?
Posted by: Sami | Aug 21, 2008 10:55:16 AM
All that fictional cornholing that he suffered at the hands of the Vietcong has fogged his little white wrinkly brain. What lie do I tell this time? What lie did I tell before? Cindy, you trollop/cunt, are you keeping track--which lie am I supposed to tell this time?
Posted by: David D. | Aug 21, 2008 11:02:49 AM
I don't even understand how his response to the question makes any sense...but that doesn't surprise me.
Posted by: Gabriel | Aug 21, 2008 11:20:34 AM
He says "The responsibility is mine," and thinks that closes the discussion. The problem is, when you're president, there are a lot of responsibilities that are yours where that line of reasoning doesn't work--responsibilities that MUST be open to discussion, examination, and explanation. The current administration has worn its non-explanations as a badge of pride. We don't need any more years of that.
At the Saddleback forum last weekend, McC described the failure of his first marriage as his greatest "moral failing." No additional comment and, once again, as if to end the conversation.
He doesn't say more, of course, because there is no way to make that past episode look good. I'm more concerned about the clamming up he would do as president when things don't go according to his plan or when he screws up.
Posted by: Gianpiero | Aug 21, 2008 11:40:47 AM
well cindy sure looked like death warmed over in that interiew, n'est-ce pas?
Posted by: alguien | Aug 21, 2008 12:07:38 PM
Sure, it was thirty years ago -- but his being a POW is forty years ago and he uses that to excuse himself from being questioned in the NOW. The end of his first marriage he admits as his "greatest moral failing", he needs to expound on it, explain it, "man up" as they say and take it on the chin for his own seemingly slimy part in the whole sordid mess. If who he was as a POW intertwines so much with who he is NOW, so does that first marriage.
Posted by: MARTY | Aug 21, 2008 12:07:58 PM
Maybe he can read some more Russian writers and come up with another updated version of his own life story. Anna Karenina, maybe? With him in the Anna role? (can we jump to the ending, please?)
I certainly hope McCain gets LOTS more press coverage, because for him it's ALL bad when people find out what he's really about or see him becoming demonstrably senile on mike.
Posted by: Kevinvt | Aug 21, 2008 1:25:39 PM
Wow, does Cindy remind anyone else of the crypt keeper? Scary!
Posted by: kevinvt | Aug 21, 2008 1:32:43 PM
Hell, if I had a hundred million dollars, I'd be a good wife & mother & motha' too. I wouldn't mind payin' my taxes either...like a good rich Democrat should.
Posted by: Derrick from Philly | Aug 21, 2008 1:35:29 PM