By
Burma Davis Posey
This
is John McCain's home in Arizona. Not bad for a man who worked in the military,
left the military and then ran for Congress. He has been in Congress since
1983...for 34 years.
McCain
graduated 894th in his class of 899 students from the Naval Academy. He was
known for being wild and it usually revolved around women. He was a member of a
group of students who called themselves "The Bad Bunch".
He
married Carol Shepp who was a successful swimsuit model. She had been married
to one of his classmates and had two children from her first marriage. She and
McCain became parents for a daughter one year later. He had been quite a
playboy and was already becoming bored with the domesticated life. He requested
active duty in Vietnam. While he was there Carol faithfully stayed at home
looking after the children and waiting anxiously for news about her husband.
His plane was shot down in 1967 and he became a POW.
On
Christmas Eve 1969 Carol and the children were spending the holiday with her
parents. After dinner she was going to take gifts to some friends. The road was
icy and she slid head-on into a telephone pole. She was thrown from the car
through the front window. Her legs, spine and right
arm
were crushed and she was in the hospital for 6 months. Ross Perot was an
advocate of POW's and he paid her medical bills. She requested that John not be
told because she felt he already had enough to deal with.
McCain
was released in 1973 and returned home to much fanfare. Carol had several
surgeries, lost 5 inches in height and gained some weight. McCain told
reporters he was overjoyed to see Carol again. But friends say privately he was
‘appalled’ by the change in her appearance.
As
a war hero, McCain was moving in ever-more elevated circles. "He started
carousing and running around with women", reported Robert Timberg. Bob
Timberg was a retired Marine, an American journalist, writer and author of four
books, including THE NIGHTINGALE'S SONG and JOHN MCCAIN: AN AMERICAN ODYSSEY.
McCain
admitted he started having many girlfriends and affairs during this time. On
one trip to Hawaii he met an Anheuser Busch distributer heiress Cindy Hensley
at a cocktail party. She was 17 years younger than McCain and worth $100
million dollars. He invited her to have drinks with him at the
Royal
Hawaiian Hotel. He said by the end of the evening he was in love.
They
had an affair for nine months while he was still married to and living with his
wife Carol. McCain wanted to marry Cindy but needed first to get a divorce. He
and Carol separated in January 1980. He requested a divorce in February, the
divorce was sped along and granted in April. He and Cindy married 5 weeks after
the divorce was final on May 17, 1980. Carol and their children were
devastated. McCain callously left his first wife and children behind. He and
Cindy moved to Arizona. Cindy's father was well-connected and helped McCain
move smoothly into Congress representing Arizona in Washington DC.
McCain's
new wife and her family were extravagantly wealthy. Her father was one of the
largest distributors of Anheuser Busch in the country and she was an only
child. The divorce settlement afforded Carol McCain full custody of their three
children, alimony, child support, including college tuition, houses in Virginia
and Florida and lifelong financial support for her continuing medical treatment
from the car accident.
Carol
said the reason for the divorce was John turned 40 and he wanted to be 25
again. Carol was extremely hurt. She went to work as the press assistant for
soon-to-be First Lady Nancy Reagan. She became loved and respected in
Washington. She kept a dignified silence about the horrendous way McCain had
treated her.
Some
of the McCain friends were less forgiving, however. They portray the politician
as a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to
‘play the field’. They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo
beauty queen, for financial reasons.
Despite
his popularity as a politician there are those who have not forgotten his
treatment of his first wife. Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in
Vietnam is now a leading campaigner for veterans’ rights.
Ted
said, "I have been following John McCain’s career for nearly 20 years. I
know him personally. There is something
wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is...deceit."
"When
he came home and saw that Carol was not the beauty he left behind he started
running around on her almost right away. Everybody around him knew it.
Eventually he met Cindy and she was young, beautiful and very wealthy. McCain
just dumped Carol for something he thought was better."
"This
is a guy who makes such a big deal about his character. Yet he has no
character. He is a fake."
Ross
Perot, who paid Carol’s 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. Mr. Perot
said, "McCain is the classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for
attention and glory." After he came home Carol walked with a limp. So he
threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is
history.
A
man who cannot be faithful to a loving, self-sacrificing wife cannot be trusted
to be faithful to the American people.
Cindy
has also had to learn the lessons about her husband the hard way. Even though
she and McCain put on a perfect front for the public, especially when he is
running for office, she really is an invisible wife to him.
Tom
Gosinski, who served as director of Cindy McCain’s nonprofit American Voluntary
Medical Team (AVMT) wrote in his journal about the McCain marriage:
"During
my short tenure at AVMT I have been surrounded by what on the surface appears
to be the ultimate all-American family. In reality, I am working for a very
sad, lonely woman. Her marriage of convenience to a
U.S.
Senator has driven her to distance herself from friends, cover feelings of
despair with drugs and replace lonely moments with self-indulgences. She became
addicted to Percocet and had a doctor prescribing them for her illegally. When
her parents learned she was taking them they helped her stop.
Washington
rumors were saying McCain had an inappropriate relationship with the young and
lovely lobbyist, Vicki Iseman. Ms. Iseman began visiting McCain's offices and
campaign events so frequently in 2000 that his aides were "convinced the
relationship had become romantic". One staff member supposedly asked, "Why
is she always around?" His staff members began a campaign to "save
McCain from himself" by restricting Iseman's access to McCain during the
course of the 2000 presidential primary. According to
the
Washington Post, McCain's political advisor John Weaver met with Iseman at
Washington's Union Station to tell Iseman not to see McCain anymore.
It
is not a real marriage between John and Cindy McCain. Real marriages usually
involve living together. McCain and Cindy have not "lived" together
for 20 years. To defend this, McCain brags the family takes two vacations
together every year and Ms. McCain is the one who has always made that
happen."
Two
vacations per year? What a farce and
fake! Nothing about this man is real. He has no compassion or empathy for
anyone except himself. The only real thing emotion he is capable of is anger.
He is famous for his anger.
His
father and grandfather were both decorated Navy Admirals. He was given special
privileges and extreme preferential treatment while he served in the Navy. He
was a pilot but according to his colleagues he was a very bad pilot. He
actually crashed three planes. There was a horrendous incident that happened on
his aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Forrestal, that killed 134 men. There has been
a debate since the incident with some being convinced John McCain was
responsible for this accident. Others are angry about anyone who would dare
speak against a Naval officer and embarrass an entire branch of service.
Many
witnesses have reported that McCain was guilty of a "wet start". When
a pilot wants to be a show off, with a "wet start" his engine start
creates a large startling flame and lots of surprise noise from the rear of a
jet engine on start up. McCain did the "Wet Start". It was not an
accident. The flames from the wet start torched off the launching of a powerful
Zuni rocket on the plane behind him. The Zuni rockets were famous for having
electrical problems. It shot across the carrier’s deck hitting other parked
planes that were packing 1,000 high-explosive pound bombs. This caused the
bombs to explode. The subsequent massive explosions, fire and destruction went
several decks below and nearly sunk this major 82,000 ton U.S. aircraft
carrier.
This
stunt and aftermath caused the death of 134 sailors and blew off arms, legs and
caused blindness and burns to another 161 sailors. McCain jumped from his
plane, rolled across the flames and escaped. He watched the men dying and the
burning from a closed circuit television on the ship. Sadly all of those lives
were lost.
They
had to take the ship off the battle line for 2 years when it had to be taken
back to port for $76 million dollars of extensive repairs. That does not
include the cost of replacing the airplanes or ammunition.
Other
Navy pilots causing this type of death and destruction would have been arrested
and would probably still be in prison. Why didn't this happened to John McCain?
McCain's
grandfather was a famous FOUR STAR Navy admiral and his dad, at the time of the
incident, was also a powerful illustrious FOUR STAR Navy admiral. McCain had
graduated from the Naval Academy. Witnesses say the good ole boy Navy tradition
went into high gear immediately. McCain was not even reprimanded. When there is
a cover-up, the soldier is usually simply assigned to another ship. McCain was
quietly assigned to another ship. There is an ongoing debate about the incident
to this day.
John
McCain's lack of character was further demonstrated when he voted not to repeal
Obamacare. He had run his 2016 Senatorial race under the banner he would LEAD
the fight to repeal Obamacare. He hates Donald Trump so very much he gleefully
held his thumb down for his vote rather than a thumbs up. He laughed afterwards
and said, "Let's see Donald Trump save America now!"
What
a horrible man. He stabbed his constituents and the citizens of America in the back.
Liberal socialists now call him their hero.
McCain
has recently discovered he has a brain tumor. I am genuinely sorry for anyone
who has to face a health issue especially when it involves cancer. The fact
that he now has a brain tumor does not change the horrendous things he has done
in his life because of his extremely low flawed character.
If
Senator McCain's own health care was dependent on the Obamacare he has
continued to saddle the American people with, I guarantee he would not have
voted thumbs-down. But because he married a wealthy heiress and has plenty of
money to take care of his own health needs, he does not care.
What
a guy...what a guy!
DISCLAIMER: I received this in an email. It APPEARS to be fact-based.... and is apparently making the rounds.
