On Sep 11, 10:16Â am, "needles"
bresnan.net> wrote:>
http://www.snopes.com/politics/mccain/carol.asp
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> Â Â Carol McCain
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> Â Â McCain likes to illustrate his moral fiber by referring to his five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. And to demonstrate his commitment to family values, the 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children. But there is another Mrs. McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator's presidential campaign. She is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain's three eldest children.
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> Â Â She was the woman McCain dreamed of during his long incarceration and torture in Vietnam's infamous 'Hanoi Hilton' prison and the woman who faithfully stayed at home looking after the children and waiting anxiously for news. But when McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969.
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> Â Â Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries.
Maybe she was unable to have sex.
> Â Â Ross Perot, a billionaire Texas businessman, and a former presidential candidate, who paid her medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both Carol McCain and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel - even by the standards of modern politics.
Oh, please. Ross Perot, the little demogogue with big ears?
"Do you foller me? If you don't foller me, foller this little riding
crop I got here. Now, see, this curve going down shows my
profit margins since that feller in the whitehouse got ahold of
my government contracts. And this curve going up shows
my resentment at that."
As an aside, Erdman Data Systems (when it was under
Perot -- at least) had one of the strictest most old-fashioned
stodgy dress codes of the information technology sector.
Not sure where that stands now. Thank Vishnu I've never
had to work for the guy.
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> Â Â *and the truth shall set you free*
In spite of all this, Carol was quoted in the original Daily Mail
article (something that was left out of the e-mailed version that
has made the spam rounds) as saying, "He's a good guy. We
are still friends. He's the best man for president."
