By Natalie Gewargis

Aug 25, 2008 4:30pm

Cindy McCain Off to Visit Georgian Wounded as Michelle Obama Prepares Her Speech

Call it battling stagecraft, or competing optics.

The announcement that Cindy McCain is on her way to Georgia to meet with casualties of the war there there comes just hours before Michelle Obama is due to deliver her headliner address to the Democratic Convention.

The McCain camp says upstaging Michelle Obama was never the plan. But on the night many Americans meet Michelle Obama for the first time, pictures of Cindy acting like, well, a First Lady, may also be seen.

She will be traveling with the U.N.’s World Food Program, a group she’s been active with before, and according to TIME she will also visit with wounded Georgian troops and President Mikheil Sakaasvili.

Cindy told TIME that her time working on overseas missions was "an important part of what I’m about, what makes me tick."

Says McCain spox Nicolle Wallace: "She’s on the phone with the World Food Program, he’s on the phone with Sakaashvili –It’s like this great picture of what they’ll be like in the White House."

Interesting.

- jpt

User Comments

Cindy McCain for another Photo-Op

Posted by: Vanessa | August 25, 2008, 4:32 pm 4:32 pm

Bless her heart.

Posted by: geevill | August 25, 2008, 4:34 pm 4:34 pm

America’s choice is clear.
We can have a First Lady who for the first time in her adult life is proud of her “downright mean” country.
Or we can have a First Lady who has done charity work and helped others her entire adult life.

Posted by: marylou | August 25, 2008, 4:39 pm 4:39 pm

A cheap political stunt! Using a very delicate situation for NATO, and the US for political gain.
What happened to country first?
Simply outrageous!

Posted by: Thinking | August 25, 2008, 4:47 pm 4:47 pm

I think the Democratic National Convention will eclipse Mrs. McCain’s visit to Georgia, which due to the timing, hardly seems like a sincere gesture. I will say it’s a more dignified distraction than the RNC hosting a happy hour for Hillary Clinton supporters today.

Posted by: kat | August 25, 2008, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm

Cindy McCain is an amazing women. Can’t really say much for MS. Obama.
Dem for McCain

Posted by: JamesUVA | August 25, 2008, 4:50 pm 4:50 pm

T – The Georgia Beauty contest and photo ops are a big step up from Miss Cow Chip at the biker rally.

Posted by: kat | August 25, 2008, 4:51 pm 4:51 pm

Michelle Obama will probably be spouting some hatred towards America during this time. Oh wait she is suppose to be making the Obama family look like the Dlck Van Dyke Show.. yeah Amrica will buy that!
Democrat voting for McCain

Posted by: samVA | August 25, 2008, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm

JamesUVA, You can also say about Cindy McCain:
drug addict, that stole from her own charity, some believe she set up the charity just to steal from it.
She has a half-sister in Phoenix that she doesn’t even acknowledge.
rich her whole life and has never held a job.

Posted by: tim | August 25, 2008, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm

I am sure it is pretty easy for that to happen Randy scheunneman has a small trust fund coming out of all the lobbying money that got them further into that situation with Russia.
Cindy is probably taking one of the jets Scheunneman lobbying firm used while all the other candidates were asking for Georgia to tone down the heat and they were ignoring our calls to stop provoking a very bad and growing threat of Russia.
But you know the Georgian President was paying Scheunneman’s firm to make sure they had the big bad US to stand behind him as he stuck his tongue out at Putin.
Yeah McCain and Cindy will be great diplomats …with a team of foreign policy people like that (you know it’s just the membership from the Comm for Liberation Iraq…the lobbying PR firm from Bush and cheney)
4 more years with Mccain…and I would say invest in miltary contract companies…and hasmat suits.
oy

Posted by: dl | August 25, 2008, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm

After Thursday I will put my Democrat for McCain sticker on my car right next to my Hillary sticker.
If Obama was not so corrupt and he was qualified to do the job I would vote for Obama.
Progressive for McCain

Posted by: JasonDC | August 25, 2008, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm

Dang, Georgia has one heck of a lobbyist. Sad that the Republicans are nominating I guy who bases his foreign policy on the highest paying foreign bidder.

Posted by: TheNumantine | August 25, 2008, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm

Kat is right the timing of the dem convention right after Georgia was invaded by Russia and on the eve of a United Nations aid mission is at best unfortunate.
Perhaps a few moments of silence from Michelle would be appropriate

Posted by: smith | August 25, 2008, 4:58 pm 4:58 pm

Tim,
Obama used hard drugs in his life and that was by choice. Many people accidentally become addicted to prescription drugs.
Cindy McCain has also done a tremendous amount of charity work, for example Operation Smile. You know they repair childhood facial deformities while building public and private partnerships that advocate for sustainable healthcare systems for children and families. Yeah she sounds like a real beast.
Democrat for McCain.

Posted by: JamesUVA | August 25, 2008, 5:02 pm 5:02 pm

looooove to see Cindy as the first lady. Her past charity works has prepared her well for the first lady role.

Posted by: Frieda | August 25, 2008, 5:03 pm 5:03 pm

Is McCain the best we got? I want a president who has vision. Not the same as the last 8 years.
Republican voting Obama.

Posted by: ted | August 25, 2008, 5:03 pm 5:03 pm

Smith- Yes, the timing of the convention so close to the Georgia invasion is unfortunate. But I didn’t actually say that, but rather, the timing of Cindy McCain going to Georgia during the convention hardly seems coincidental. It would be nice to have some kind of commemoration for the people of Georgia at one point.

Posted by: kat | August 25, 2008, 5:09 pm 5:09 pm

For a candidate who was going to unite everybody, why is there so much hatred coming from his supporters directed at a lady who is only trying to do good? Because they’re desperate and have nothing positive to say about their own potential First Lady, that’s why.

Posted by: marylou | August 25, 2008, 5:09 pm 5:09 pm

Frieda
is that past charity work include what she did for John while he was married to his wife…
you know the one that was disfigured in the car accident
please don’t portray cindy as a saint…
she was Paris Hilton of the 70′s…who had an affair with john mccain and then took the married man away from his wife
adn please don’t say that his POW service makes that okay…oy…

Posted by: dl | August 25, 2008, 5:10 pm 5:10 pm

So, Cindy McCain founds an organization that runs 55 aid missions to the world’s poorest countries, actually GOES on some of the missions and works, actually walks the walk by saving the lives of infants…and, oh yeah, ADOPTING one…and these people want to attack her on that? The other baby she brought back?

Posted by: Peach | August 25, 2008, 5:11 pm 5:11 pm

Frieda – I agree. Cindy McShame’s drug-addiction and theft from her own charity are excellent preparation for being the kind of selfish, fool that Republicans want in a first lady. She is a disgrace.

Posted by: Japser | August 25, 2008, 5:11 pm 5:11 pm

Cind founded and ran a non-profit organization, the American Voluntary Medical Team, from 1988 to 1995 that organized trips by medical personnel to disaster-struck or war-torn third-world areas. She continues to be an active philanthropist and serves on the boards of several charitable organizations.

Posted by: Peach | August 25, 2008, 5:12 pm 5:12 pm

That’s cool, I hope Michelle Obama does something nice during the RNC. This kind of compitition is very welcome

Posted by: USAUSAUSA | August 25, 2008, 5:12 pm 5:12 pm

Peach – so Cindy stole a baby from the third world? Big deal. She also stole drugs from her own charity. She’s a creep and would be the worst first lady ever.

Posted by: david brooks | August 25, 2008, 5:13 pm 5:13 pm

In 1988, inspired by a vacation visit four years earlier to substandard medical facilities on Truk Lagoon,[18][14] Cindy McCain founded the American Voluntary Medical Team (AVMT).[2]
It was a non-profit organization that organized trips for doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel to provide MASH-like emergency medical care to disaster-struck or war-torn third-world areas such as Micronesia, Vietnam (before relations were normalized between them and the U.S.[18]), Kuwait (arriving five days after the conclusion of the Gulf War[18]), Iraq, Nicaragua, India, Bangladesh and El Salvador.[9][32][33][34][35]
She led 55 of these missions over the next seven years,[17] with each being of at least two weeks’ duration.[35] AVMT also supplied treatment to poor sick children around the world.[36] In 1993, Cindy McCain and the AVMT were honored with an award from Food for the Hungry.[9]

Posted by: Peach | August 25, 2008, 5:13 pm 5:13 pm

While at Mother Teresa’s orphanage in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1991 — as part of AVMT’s assistance team following the 1991 Bangladesh cyclone[33] — she met two infant girls she decided needed to be brought to the United States for medical treatment.[23] She decided to adopt one of the girls (her husband readily agreeing), later named Bridget[9] (who became the McCains’ fourth child together), and helped coordinate the adoption of the other little girl, named Mickey, for Wes Gullett, a family friend.[9]

Posted by: Peach | August 25, 2008, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm

AVMT concluded its activities in 1995.[32] That year, CindyMcCain founded a new organization, the Hensley Family Foundation, which donates monies towards children’s programs in Arizona and nationally.

Posted by: Peach | August 25, 2008, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm

Funny how Cindy’s husband has a paid lobbyist for the rogue state of Georgia on his team and now his wife is being dispatched to Georgia. More proof that McSame is owned by foreign lobbyists.

Posted by: NoToMcSame! | August 25, 2008, 5:15 pm 5:15 pm

Cindy McCain became actively involved with Operation Smile in 2001,[49] taking parts in trips with it to Morocco, Vietnam, and India.[49]
She was honored by the organization in 2005,[49] and sits on its board of directors.[32] She joined the board of directors of CARE in 2005.[32] She is on the board of the HALO Trust,[32] and has visited operations to remove landmines in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Mozambique, and Angola.[17]
She makes financial contributions to these organizations via her family trust,[18] and views her role on them as watching them in the field and to ensure they are frugal and their money is being spent effectively.[47] On occasion she has criticized foreign regimes on human rights grounds, such as Myanmar’s military junta.[50]

Posted by: Peach | August 25, 2008, 5:15 pm 5:15 pm

Cindy McCain will go to Georgia for a photo op, but when it came to her family, she turned her back.
Cindy McCain has repeatedly said she is an only child. Facts show she has two half sisters.
In 2000, Cindy gleefully accepted a $100 million inheritance.
One half sister received $10,000.
The other half sister received nothing.
Do you think Cindy would help her family members? I guess $100 million dollars only goes so far. That must be why John McCain’s tax plan would give Cindy an extra $350,000 per year tax break. (While 99% of Americans get less than $100 under John McCain’s plan, but receive $1000 under Obama’s tax plan).

Posted by: Dan | August 25, 2008, 5:16 pm 5:16 pm

Peach it’s great that she does that…
Let’s not make it something it is not…
she has millions and millions.
but this woman is not a saint. Her ethics have been all over the place.
This is an example of doing the right thing…but her history includes LOTS of not doing the right thing.
If you are going to flaunt her and her charity work…you need to flaunt…the stealing and the affair taking away a woman who was disfigured in a car accidents husband…who stuck by him while he was in that prison camp.
to divorce the wife is one thing…it is entirely another to cheat on the woman who stuck by you …and who was disfigured in a car accident.
Nobility went out the window with that move.

Posted by: dl | August 25, 2008, 5:16 pm 5:16 pm

Get of it Peach
She is going for one reason and reason only on this trip. I know it, you know it and those posting here know it. Period!
It is a cheap political stunt!
Just like McCain POW stand it cheapens the work of, and experiences of others.

Posted by: Thinking | August 25, 2008, 5:17 pm 5:17 pm

Nicolle Wallace just said 30 minutes ago that Cindy McCain is off limits to examination by Democrats
That’s pretty remarkable, since they are asking for press coverage of Cindy McCain’s trip to Georgia.
And by remarkable I mean RIDICULOUS.

Posted by: RJ | August 25, 2008, 5:17 pm 5:17 pm

Just because McCain has a lobbyist for Georgia in his inner circle doesn’t mean that Georgia was right to invade South Ossetia. Saakashvili may be telegenic, but he was a complete idiot to provoke Putin and expect the U.S. to bail him out. I hope McCain has better sense than to commit the U.S. to backing this clown – it’s not worth risking our relationship with Russia over this silly showboater. Saakashvili is the John Edwards of the Caucuses.

Posted by: RealPolitik | August 25, 2008, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm

So, let’s see, Obama street drug use is okay with some posters but Cindy McCain’s prescription drug abuse following 2 spinal surgeries for ruptured discs makes her unqualified to be First Lady.
I see a bunch of you have those DNC talking points down pat. LOL

Posted by: Peach | August 25, 2008, 5:19 pm 5:19 pm

Are we now to believe that since her husband is going to be President elect , that Michelle Obama wiil change her opinion of Americans?

Posted by: Richard | August 25, 2008, 5:19 pm 5:19 pm

again cindy mccain has more money than god… so all this giving and flying to places is not someone who is giving up a whole heck of a lot…it’s great and all but when you look at her wealth and history it’s not like she’s getting any commendations from the Pope anytime soon.
millions and millions…
remember
this is why John does not know what a mortgage payment or a tax form even looks like…and doesn’t have to worry about financial pressures like how many homes he owns.

Posted by: dl | August 25, 2008, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm

Peach
she stole and lied for the drugs.
Obama told everyone about the druggs in a book. and called it selfish.
it’s not just that she did drugs…
c’mon now
this whole thing trying to portray this woman as a saint is …like Paris Hilton going to Africa and adopting a child. it’s great and all but let’s keep this in perspective of who Cindy mccain is and what she has done in the past.

Posted by: dl | August 25, 2008, 5:22 pm 5:22 pm

“Oh that’s right she allowed him to pay his ex-wife $1,600 monthly in alimony and child support. That must have really taken a chunk out of her millions.”
Is there something dishonorable about paying (actually PAYING) alimony and child support after a divorce?

Posted by: Sammy | August 25, 2008, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm

After exploiting lives of more than 4000 US soldiers to died in Irak and other thousands who were wounded in the Itak war, McSame has used the young Georgian president to go to war against Russia so that he can exploit that during the these general elections. Now, he is sending his wife Cindy for a photo-op, misusing wounded poor Georgians for political gains, what a political disaster, what a mockery, I hope that the separatists will take Cindy as another POW. God save America from mcSame and Cindy. God bless America and God bless Obama. OBAMA/BIDEN08.

Posted by: BKMC | August 25, 2008, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm

Cindy v. Michele is an interesting duel.

Posted by: JG | August 25, 2008, 5:26 pm 5:26 pm

Michelle Obama would be the most disrespected first lady this country has ever seen.

Posted by: Greg | August 25, 2008, 5:26 pm 5:26 pm

Sammy – There is when you cheat on your wife and then eventually dump her for the new rich one with political connections.

Posted by: steve | August 25, 2008, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm

It’s easy to cast dispersions on the wives, but we are voting for President. I think some people are smart enough to review the candidates records and see if it matches their rhetoric. McCain has proven many times over the years that he does what he thinks is best for the Country (in spite of what his party thinks). Obama does not know what to think until he takes a poll.
Dem for McCain

Posted by: Charles | August 25, 2008, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm

Why not visit the Russian casualties they are a democracy to? Maybe they are just not the right kind. There is nothing worse than people who lie, cheat, steal and start wars for a living and then give some to charity to become Saints. If rich people really cared they would change the system that allows for the greatest hording of wealth in the history of the world.

Posted by: Perspective | August 25, 2008, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm

Obviously a political stunt to draw attention away from Michelle tonight. Whatever. The people bought Bush’s bill of goods (twice) will buy this, too.
What interests me more is news accounts this weekend that the McCain folks have embellished the adoption story through the years, adding in a direct plea from Mother Teresa that never happened. Sheesh. It’s great they adopted. He’s a brave POW. She’s doing some good with her zillions. But let’s quit exploiting it so much for personal gain, okay?

Posted by: obamamama | August 25, 2008, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm

Peach
it’s not class crap
it’s some of us earned our money.
some of us actually know what it’s like to gain wealth by working at it.
the person i want in the white house is one who knows …somewhere in their life a significant amount of the struggle to make money…to know the worry that goes with not being able to get into a school or having to work your bu## off to achieve something…and to worry when the economy turns down what effect that will have on you and your family..
John Mccain wouldn’t recognize a mortgage payment if it was in front of him…or a student loan application
or understand the struggle of trying to balance whether you put your mother in a less than average home…or send you kid to school…
or what it is like to worry about needing a third job to get your PHD…
He and Cindy know none of this
how would anyone want a person who has no grasp of those things … a person whose policies clearly show he has no graps of those things (returning soldiers that joined for economic reasons after one tour of duty getting an education is too generous…yeah when you come from a wealthy military family and your daddy got you into school)
this is not about class…this is about economic awareness.

Posted by: dl | August 25, 2008, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm

So Michelle is off limits (per her illustrious husband Barack) but Cindy is not? They even set up a website to handle all the “so called rumors” about her past life. The Obama Democrats are picking and choosing their ethics now-a-days aren’t they. Glass houses and stones don’t mix. Besides, it’s part of Cindy McCain’s philanthropic nature and business to travel to places in need. After all, she also went to Darfur to help out the suffering Africans too. Probably some of them were near or distant cousins of Mr. Obama and his wife. Some of you haters need to start some type of therapy to dispel all the venom you seem to have built up in your psyche from campaigning for the Jr. Senator from Illinois.

Posted by: wild | August 25, 2008, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm

I don’t want a president who smokes. Ugh

Posted by: Peach | August 25, 2008, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm

kat – maybe so, but they’re both empty suits with nice haircuts who look good on TV but are useless everywhere else. I can’t understand why McCain would get behind a fool like Saakashvili in the first place. He needs to cut Scheunemann lose from his campaign before he does any more damage to his credibility. Saakashvili is a fool and an incompetent, and we shouldn’t be encouraging his military misadventures in the Caucuses. I truly hope that the people of Georgia rise up and get rid of him before he can start any more trouble.

Posted by: RealPolitik | August 25, 2008, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm

wild – since when was Michelle ever off-limits? Wingnuts have been going after her since day one. Get your smears straight, dude.

Posted by: kimbers | August 25, 2008, 5:30 pm 5:30 pm

Let’s ask some additional questions here to help us better understand this trip. How often has Cindy done this sort of work in past? It does not surprise me that ABC news would make sure that everyone takes notice with your media blitz of it. If Mr. Obama had been making a similar trip, would while Mrs. McCain was give your speach, would they make not of it at all. Propoganda, smoke and mirrors. The BIG Republican LIE machine is at work again. Money can buy you anything, even the Presidency. Thanks ABC, your one of the Republicans machines favorite stooge media machines.

Posted by: dlboggan | August 25, 2008, 5:31 pm 5:31 pm

Very good move on the Mccain’s part. But I wish women who were supporters of Clinton would not vote for Mccain. Vote for Nader/Gonzalez, they are much closer to your values. If you vote for Mccain how will you be distinguished from any-other Mccain voter. Vote Nader/Gonzalez and maybe we will have a real choice in 2012.

Posted by: ttw | August 25, 2008, 5:33 pm 5:33 pm

dl:
Except for the fact that Cindy McCain has already adopted a child from Bangladesh.
So, she’s way ahead of Paris………

Posted by: SandyB | August 25, 2008, 5:34 pm 5:34 pm

wild, did you know that Cindy’s money was going to help the folks waging genocide in Darfur? John admitted it, but said they didn’t know. Just like he doesn’t know what kind of car he drives or how many houses they have. Just like you and me, right?

Posted by: obamamama | August 25, 2008, 5:34 pm 5:34 pm

SandyB , adopted you say, kidnapped they say. But then money talks, doen’t it?

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 5:36 pm 5:36 pm

Cindy McCain arrogantly took a baby from the third world – that’s nothing to be proud of.

Posted by: amber dempsey | August 25, 2008, 5:36 pm 5:36 pm

dl Your assessment of McCain’s involvement in the Georgian crisis is right on. You are one of the few that can make the connection. Why did McCain have a prepared speech on the crisis he delivered before journalist and the white house could even respond? Why were Cheney’s Blackwater personal driving US made Hummers into South Ossetia? Why did the attack on South Ossetia happen on the very opening of the Olympics, not a day before or a day after?

Posted by: Perspective | August 25, 2008, 5:40 pm 5:40 pm

I cannot imagine having her as a mom. Ms McCain tries so hard to look younger and dress younger then her daughters. I bet she’s a —– to live with.

Posted by: Kristy | August 25, 2008, 5:40 pm 5:40 pm

Cindy McCain is proof that trash is trash no matter how much money you give them…

Posted by: xin loi victor charlie | August 25, 2008, 5:40 pm 5:40 pm

Georgia invaded because someone over here in the US led them to believe that we had their backs. Let the people in those breakaway states have a referendum and determine their own fate before we figure out if we should be involved or not. I don’t think we’ve heard the whole story here yet. If we can’t catch Osama, we probably shouldn’t go poking our finger in Russia’s face over nothing. But I’m sure Cindy can fix all this up….

Posted by: obamamama | August 25, 2008, 5:41 pm 5:41 pm

No one cares what Cindy McShame does. She kind of reminds me of one of those soap opera characters. You know, the ones that are told to try and stay sober long enough to get though the party.

Posted by: steve | August 25, 2008, 5:42 pm 5:42 pm

Real Politik – I agree that Saakashvilli is an incompetent and made a tremendous error in judgement. I think he may also be pro-Stalinist. Funny how my previous posting disappeared.

Posted by: kat | August 25, 2008, 5:43 pm 5:43 pm

Why doesn’t Ms McCain visit our boys in Iraq? Has she or John visited Walter Reed? I know that my Uncle who served in Iraq is voting against McCain. Guess they don’t care about our veterans.

Posted by: Kristy | August 25, 2008, 5:47 pm 5:47 pm

Thank god, she’s over there doing… what exactly?
I can’t believe the completely lack of substance with which McCain is trying to sleaze himself into the White House. “We’re sending Cindy to Georgia!”

Posted by: BBpd | August 25, 2008, 5:48 pm 5:48 pm

Wonder if Cindy will meet Cheney over there?

Posted by: Kristy | August 25, 2008, 5:53 pm 5:53 pm

I want a president who knows what a mortgage payment looks like and whose brother doesn’t say “the men in our family never really handled the finances…Daddy had some oil well investments and did well with them but our mother took care of the finances…none of the men are too good with finances”
oy…McCaiFed.

Posted by: dl | August 25, 2008, 5:58 pm 5:58 pm

What’s she going to do over there? Buy another house? She thinks she’s Georgian because McCain said so?

Posted by: Willem van Oranje | August 25, 2008, 5:59 pm 5:59 pm

Wonder if there wll be sniper fire

Posted by: JN | August 25, 2008, 6:00 pm 6:00 pm

BTW. Who’s paying for it?

Posted by: Willem van Oranje | August 25, 2008, 6:03 pm 6:03 pm

I hear the Georgian real estate market is a little depressed now that John Sidney is blowing his top and threatening to start WWIII. Maybe Cindy can pick up a house or two.

Posted by: Seamus | August 25, 2008, 6:03 pm 6:03 pm

You haven’t heard John McCain or Cindy slamming Michelle lately have you? But the Obama favoritism press machine spreads plenty of innuendo about Cindy. Stop spreading lies about Darfur. People over there have suffered enough. They need Cindy McCain’s money to help save lives. Why don’t you admit it your jealous of her money, position, personality and good looks.

Posted by: wild | August 25, 2008, 6:04 pm 6:04 pm

You know the difference between Michelle & Cindy? Michelle would go to the state of Georgia and call it a foreign policy trip. She’s not exactly the brightest of the bunch.

Posted by: Greg | August 25, 2008, 6:04 pm 6:04 pm

Michelle Obama to speak: Pig meet lipstick.
Translation: What is wrong with America.

Posted by: Hopey / Dopey '08 | August 25, 2008, 6:04 pm 6:04 pm

Why did Obama abandoned his brother? I heard that Michelle would not let him have anything to do with his step brothers. Sad that she let’s her anger rule the family.

Posted by: Lucy | August 25, 2008, 6:08 pm 6:08 pm

Why doesn’t she go to Iraq and visit American war wounded? Why do the McCain’s care more about Georgia than America?

Posted by: BBpd | August 25, 2008, 6:08 pm 6:08 pm

I’m sure the Georgian soldiers will be really thankful to be used as a photo op…. “Cindy who? Oh, John McCain’s daughter. Wait, wife?!” I’m sure after their confusion subsides Cindy’s presence will do much to ease their pain. POW McCain is a cheap opportunist using his wife just like he did in Sturgis.

Posted by: Bill | August 25, 2008, 6:08 pm 6:08 pm

It’s really sad that Obama visited Kenya in 2006 and then left his brother there to live on $12/year. Pathetic, really.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 6:09 pm 6:09 pm

Using his wife and wounded soldiers all in one swoop! The maverick is drained of all integrity – we’re left with just another George Bush republican.

Posted by: BBpd | August 25, 2008, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm

Cindy has time for Georgians, but she won’t even acknowledge her sister, from whom she stole half her fortune. Now she pretends she doesn’t exist…and her sister’s voting for Barack.

Posted by: Bill | August 25, 2008, 6:11 pm 6:11 pm

Gosh, who can forget Obama canceling a visit with our wounded soldiers in Iraq so he could go to the gym?
And why isn’t Michelle visiting wounded soldiers as she tours the country with her husband?

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 6:11 pm 6:11 pm

Family values conservatives are expressing concern over Obama’s brother who he has met once, and who is fine living in Kenya, but ignores the fact that Cindy stole here inheritance from her sister and denies her existence. And they conveniently ignore that John and Cindy started hooking up while John was still married to his crippled wife. Then again, this is the party of Foley, Vitter, Craig, and Gingrich.

Posted by: Al | August 25, 2008, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm

Cindy McCain is a woman with alot of class and substance who cares about other people. She will make a great First Lady. McCain08; Hillary 2012!!

Posted by: Mark | August 25, 2008, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm

I take it that all of the Obama supporters are against anyone achieving personal wealth. That seems to be the theme of the Democrats, except for the party leaders.
Can any of the Democrats explain exactly what Obama wants to “change”, besides raising our taxes?

Posted by: bh | August 25, 2008, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm

Comparative of acting presidential:
-Cindy McCain visits wounded troops in Georgia. McCain talks with Georgia P.
-Michelle Obama, MIA. Obama drags out own presidential seal, repaints his plane with a big O, holds rock concert – complete with rock bands and free beer – at his international rock appearance in Berlin.

Posted by: hype bites | August 25, 2008, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm

We need to hear more from Cindy. I wish she were more animated–but I read that she is shy. People are not aware of her many humanitarian accomplishments.
I can’t stand Barack and will not vote for him. But I do like Michelle because I appreciate her toughness. I find her authentic and willing to take a stand.
Barack is cocky, wishy-washy, prissy, caught up in his own hype.
I went off the deep end with his “that’s above my pay grade comment.”
No one could make me vote for Obama-not even my girl Hillary.

Posted by: cindy in nc | August 25, 2008, 6:15 pm 6:15 pm

Obama’s brother supports him, can the same be said of Cindy’s sister, who was cut out of the inheritence? What, Cindy, 50 mil wasn’t enough? Had to take the whole 100? I know 12 houses are expensive, but c’mon.

Posted by: Al | August 25, 2008, 6:17 pm 6:17 pm

Michelle has an offer from the WWE, after the election. Your right, Cindy will be the next first lady. At least she is proud of her country.

Posted by: abe | August 25, 2008, 6:17 pm 6:17 pm

I have two observations. First this announcement came as McCain announced to a group of fundraisers in Sacramento today that his wife was headed to the country, but the campaign did not provide any details about the trip. Then a McCain spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker confirmed Cindy McCain is enroute to the nation and said she is visiting as part of the World Food Program. She said she will meet with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and visit with wounded Georgian soldiers. Now isn’t it ironic that this was not announced yesterday, or Saturday or Friday? I find it impossible to believe that the UN could oversee such a security trip in a few hours. Second as Mrs. McCain visits with a foreign President how would Senator McCain like to justify his comments on Senator Obama (who is running for President) acting like a President and now Mrs. McCain acting like a “First Lady” – the politics of this takes center stage over what might be real human suffering. I’m sorry Republicans this smells like rotten cheese no matter the good intentions. (By the way Mrs. McCain is not beyond using viable international agencies to advance her own agenda – ask Campaign One (who Kanye West et al are at supporting Obama this week) when Mrs. McCain used them to advance a political outing.)

Posted by: OnTheGloryRoad | August 25, 2008, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm

Kristy, if you know anything about Cindy McCain, she has been to Georgia many times and has done things like this before especially with this U.N. program. Why criticize her when she wants to help? You would have been criticizing her for not doing something if she hadn’t! I’m sure that John and Cindy have been to Walter Reed many times, they just don’t make a photo op of it every time they go like Obama does. We shouldn’t talk about all the lobbyists who are paying for the DNC’s convention or the fact that Michelle Obama’s employer hospital sends away people with no medical insurance. Wonder if the Obama’s will send any of Barak’s half brother some money to get himself out of living in a shack? Since they saved some money from Tony Reszco on their purchase of their house, they should have enough. Don’t you think, DL? hmmmmm? DL, how can a community organizer with no business experience be POTUS? Willem – atleast the McCains houses were LEGAL purchases!! The McCains do have atleast one son in Iraq, I’m sure they know more than the Obama’s about the war than anyone. Please stop the liberal snobbery and criticizing and just say “that’s nice of her to go”. One can’t do good in the left’s view if it’s not government sponsered.

Posted by: justrighttoo | August 25, 2008, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm

It’s hard to imagine a millionnaire letting his brother live on $12/year in a shack without running water or electricity. Maybe that’s an indication of how Obama will treat American citizens.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm

Barack and Michelle only visit the troops when the media won’t be there, unlike the ultimate panderer McCain, who votes against every veteran bill, but calls a press conference when his wife is going for a photo-op in Georgia.

Posted by: Bill | August 25, 2008, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm

>>: Bill | Aug 25, 2008 6:08:19 PM
_________
Cindy McCain has been helping various groups for aeons. In fct, that’s how she fell in love with her adopted daughter who wsa suffering from a cleft pallet (sp?).
Don’t denigrate her for these acts of charity because to do so will serve to open up other avenues of conversation about other candidate wives.
I applaud Cindy for her compassion and good will… and the money with which to employ both wisely.

Posted by: EYES WIDE OPEN... | August 25, 2008, 6:20 pm 6:20 pm

Michelle needs a beauty make-over. I would love to see Cindy in the cow-chip beauty contest. We will see Cindy for the next 4 years.

Posted by: Baron | August 25, 2008, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm

I don’t think Obama has ever visited the troops. It’s really unfortunate how disrespectful he is to them.
Remember when he was supposed to visit the wounded while he was in Iraq but chose to go to a gym instead, completely blowing them off.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 6:22 pm 6:22 pm

BULL:
“Barack and Michelle only visit the troops when the media won’t be there, ”
….. like W H E N?????
Surely you jest!

Posted by: EYES WIDE OPEN... | August 25, 2008, 6:22 pm 6:22 pm

Cindy should visit American wounded.

Posted by: BBpd | August 25, 2008, 6:22 pm 6:22 pm

Justrighttoo! You nailed it. 100%.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 6:23 pm 6:23 pm

Good there is no election for first ladies. What Cindy does is what she wants to do. If she wants to bring people to fill her houses that is her choice. It is good time to escape the DNC convention if you don’t want to hear or see the bashing that will happen.

Posted by: gjkotw01 | August 25, 2008, 6:23 pm 6:23 pm

Well, at least the McCain’s support some troops, just not ours. McCain voted against Jim Webb’s bill because it was “too generous” and might cause troops to go to school rather than re-enlist. I guess McCain’s worried he won’t have the troops to fight his war with Russia. That’s why he stated he “agreed” with a questioner’s support for the draft.

Posted by: Seamus | August 25, 2008, 6:24 pm 6:24 pm

Michell stated, I was in Georgia, just four weeks ago, in Atlanta. Why would I go back to Georgia, before the election? Let Cindy go there, it’s a republican state.

Posted by: Barry Not! | August 25, 2008, 6:25 pm 6:25 pm

What absolutely cracks me up more than anything is that Obama has whined for months that McCain doesn’t have the judgment to be president because he voted for the Iraq war.
Then Obama turned right around and chose Biden who also voted for the Iraq war.
What does this say about Obama’s judgment?

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 6:25 pm 6:25 pm

“Barack Obama is scheduled to pay a solemn visit to wounded Iraq veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington on Saturday, Politico has learned.
The visit will be Obama’s third.
Obama’s staff is keeping his trip low-key. It is not on his public schedule, and his campaign would not confirm it.”
June 27, 2008.

Posted by: Seamus | August 25, 2008, 6:26 pm 6:26 pm

Michelle couldn’t go to georgia, as Obama will be using the tele-prompter.

Posted by: Arttie | August 25, 2008, 6:29 pm 6:29 pm

LOL, Artie.
Uh oh. I see that ABC is reporting that Biden has ties to the Rezko matter. The scandal that won’t go away.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 6:32 pm 6:32 pm

with respect to these comments about Biden supporting the war…
Let us all remind ourselves that Biden said the war was a mistake in 2005
He aslo said that he did not believe there was enough evidence to show there was wmd…until Cheney lied saying there was that others didn’t have priviledge to see…
…Mccain said the week after 9/11 we should go after Hussein and invade iraq…and today he says still say he would do it.
Biden said …in 20005 mind you …if we surged of course we could achieve a drop in violence that is not the cement that we need… we need political reconciliation…and he explained clearly that political reconciliation between these tribes (a subject that in any interview you look at from 2002-2008 with mcCain he clearly doesn’t understand and does not answer if he can avoid it…because he does not understand the culture)
I urge all of you to go watch the MTP interviews with Tim Russert and Mccain, Biden, Cheney, Warner from 2002, 2005, and the last few.
They are eye opening to watch with them consecutively…
go read the transcript of questions and answers (some of Biden’s have been laughably twisted from these)

Posted by: dl | August 25, 2008, 6:35 pm 6:35 pm

In two months, Michelle will be back in southside Chicago with Loser-Bama.

Posted by: Jill Taylor | August 25, 2008, 6:38 pm 6:38 pm

The Tom McGuire’s article about Ayres and Obama and Annenberg scares the living daylights out of me. After reading the article I’m more convinced than ever that Obama is not only a bad choice, he’s dangerous. The article make clear that Obama is a dedicated socialistic, blames America first,is a liar and an echo of his former unpatriotic Pastor of twenty years, Rev. Wright. If Obama is elected President and the Democrats gain a majority in Congress, the Nation could go into a death spiral that we may never recover from. To think that Obama could be the commander in chief of the most powerful armed forced the world has ever seen makes my blood run cold. I just hope the media wakes up and starts to cover some of the real concerns about Obama and what an Obama Presidency could mean to America and stop with all the rock star worship.

Posted by: sherry | August 25, 2008, 6:38 pm 6:38 pm

Some of the comments on here are so mean and judgmental (about Mrs. McCain and Mrs. Obama). This is a good thing that Cindy McCain is doing – why can’t people just let it go at that?

Posted by: Lil' M | August 25, 2008, 6:40 pm 6:40 pm

As a female I am so proud of both of these women.
Cindy has a hard time bcause of what she looks like, as does Michelle. Underneath they are both the same and whatever happens going forward at least with Cindy’s trip to Georgia attention is being paid to the region and with Michelle’s speech tonight the natiion will be honoured to see the firt woman of colour address a huge worldwide audience as the possible
FL OF the POTUS. We’ve come along way, Baby.
I am woman hear me roar.
Timing is everything and we will nevr know if this was planned to detract but I doubt either of these gals would willfully do this…but that is in the perfect world…in the real world…you bet.
Either way vote.

Posted by: i am so I can!!!! | August 25, 2008, 6:42 pm 6:42 pm

This is just a guess, but I think Michelle is pregnant and will announce it tonight. The last two times I’ve seen her she was wearing what looked like maternity tops.
Those maternity looking tops are popular right now (what are the designers thinking???), but up until last week, she has always worn tailored, classical outfits.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 6:44 pm 6:44 pm

“rich her whole life and has never held a job,” posted by: tim — Tim, Mrs. McCain taught disabled children in public school after graduating from college, even after she married, are you implying that teaching doesn’t count as working? She also works for her father’s company and founded a non profit organization that takes medical supplies to third world country – that’s a heck of a lot more than most rich people ever do with their money. As for her past drug addiction – drug addiction is a horrible thing, regardless of how much money one has. Drug addiction (and the theft that often accompanies it) doesn’t make a person bad, it makes them human.

Posted by: Melly | August 25, 2008, 6:45 pm 6:45 pm

Sherry – read Obama’s first autobiography if you can get your hands on it. He was less politically correct in that book than in the second one, and some of his statements are shocking and indeed frightening. He admits that his favorite professors are Marxists, among other troublesome statements.
The book is very difficult to get hold of. The Ayers connection is more than troubling. Obama is much closer friends with him than he lets on. It is at Ayers house that Obama chose to come out politically.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 6:46 pm 6:46 pm

Peach…yes I always think a woman should announce that she is pregnant in front of the whole world.
You’re kidding, right?
I did, however, call the 3AM Text message timing.
So we shall see.

Posted by: i am so I can!!!! | August 25, 2008, 6:47 pm 6:47 pm

There is something about this ***** that I just don’t like. Perhaps it’s that she allegedly got involved with McCain when he was still married and that she has had tremendous wealth just handed to her on a silver platter from her father. That’s sufficient reason for me!

Posted by: Danny | August 25, 2008, 6:48 pm 6:48 pm

Cindy McCain will be a valuable asset to the White House in 2009. As for Michelle, I doubt, she will continue being “proud” of her country.

Posted by: Art in FL. | August 25, 2008, 6:49 pm 6:49 pm

Why? Does she own a home there too?

Posted by: Jennifer | August 25, 2008, 6:53 pm 6:53 pm

She is so kind and patriotic by showing those poor people some compassion. Not like that Monster Michelle. ROAR!

Posted by: No mo o or m | August 25, 2008, 6:53 pm 6:53 pm

If I was wounded, Cindy would perk me up! Keep Michele away, she is scary :(

Posted by: Martha in Orange Park | August 25, 2008, 6:56 pm 6:56 pm

There you go again, Peach. I have checked the comments section for that book numerous times over the past year. At no point in time has it ever been unavailable, or even expensive.

Posted by: noconspiracy | August 25, 2008, 6:59 pm 6:59 pm

She should go visit the families of genocided S. Ossetians first since they were the victims of the Georgian Offensive!

Posted by: Mickey Mouse | August 25, 2008, 6:59 pm 6:59 pm

Was Michelle training the security guards for Barrack?

Posted by: martha S. | August 25, 2008, 7:01 pm 7:01 pm

Cindy is an Angel, and Michelle is a Monster.

Posted by: No to O&M | August 25, 2008, 7:01 pm 7:01 pm

Gosh, I’m so glad to see that ABC is reporting on that Biden linkage to the Rezko scandal. It must be really disturbing to Obama to know someone didn’t properly vet his VP.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 7:04 pm 7:04 pm

I’m always so interested that the self declared party of openness and tolerance is anything but.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 7:06 pm 7:06 pm

Will Rev. Wright give the opening prayer at the DNC convention? If he is unavailable, the trinity church has a DVD of Rev. Wright available.

Posted by: Atisha | August 25, 2008, 7:07 pm 7:07 pm

She should be raising awareness of botched plastic surgery..get a load of that crack-less face!

Posted by: Rich | August 25, 2008, 7:09 pm 7:09 pm

s/b “do they teach”

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 7:09 pm 7:09 pm

Have you guys ever been discriminated on just because your African-American. Well I lived in California (2001)and I was driving a nice car (2000) Lexus and I was wearing a ball cap. The cop proceeds to pull me over, when he gets out of his patrol car, he looks at me in my vehicle and says Oh! Maa’m you have a good day. I looked out of the driver’s window and, I said why did you stop me. We all know why he stopped me, he thought I was a African American guy and was going to give me problems for no reason what so ever…..Once he noticed I was a woman he walked off…
so don’t tell about an African American male/female who states that anyday in America she is proud of, I would think it would be the day alot of people over came their RASCISM and that would be my day of being proud to be an American.
So for all the misled people who think racism is still cool.Look at your grandfather and grandmother and tell them , enough with the stupidity. Our time has come, you ca only hold a (group)person down for so long. Watch how we grow and take what we deserve ******RESPECT**********
If we get that from one another then you will see a better place.
Alot of you are scared of him because he is African American, It’s ok you could admit to it. I still see white people act as if they don’t want to deal with, but your degree matches their what can they do…..
We are working together to have a generation of love. If you can’t get on the band-wagon, jump back to where your from and/or get with the program…..

Posted by: Hate2*B*U | August 25, 2008, 7:09 pm 7:09 pm

Per an article on August 24, 2008 – by Clarice Feldman in Pajama’s media, Obama said that Ayers was “just a guy in his neighborhood. Turns out this is just another Obama lie. The truth is the relationship between Ayers and Obama go back to at least 1995. Obama chaired and and Ayers was a member of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), which was supposed to improve public education in Chicago It never met its stated purpose of improving public school pupils’ performance. The truth is it probably hindered it, despite having blown through $110 million in the process. As chairman of this group Obama funneled much of the mony to far left groups like Fidelistas and Maoists whose goals, like Ayers, is to turn our public schools into indoctrination centers for the far left.
Once this information comes to light the voters will see that the sole arena in which Obama exercised any executive experience was a failure. Further, the bulk of the 110 million dollars did not go towards funding an improvement in public education, it went into the pockets of far left groups. Once this information comes to the publics attention, will anyone with any common sense vote to give Obama the keys to the Oval Office? The media is so in Obama’s pocket the media has been able to cover this up but as more comes to light, even the media will have to do their job and cover this story.

Posted by: Jim | August 25, 2008, 7:15 pm 7:15 pm

Oh please, like she would be doing this if it wasn’t the Democratic Convention. Give me a break how stupid does she think we are? Too bad that if she really does feel any emotions her face never, ever shows it. She looks the same in every picture and she doesn’t look real. I’m sorry we can’t afford 4 more years of this. Senator and Mrs. Obama along with the VP choice will bring a fresh new outlook. A definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results; ENOUGH of 8 years of this insanity.

Posted by: AttitudeOfGratitude | August 25, 2008, 7:18 pm 7:18 pm

Why aren’t the ethics rules tougher against this sort of thing?
The AP is reporting:
A son of Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden was paid an undisclosed amount of money as a consultant by MBNA, the largest employer in Delaware, during the years the senator supported legislation that was promoted by the credit card industry and opposed by consumer groups.
Barack Obama’s presidential campaign said Biden helped forge a bipartisan compromise on the measure, which is now law and makes it harder for consumers to obtain bankruptcy protection in the courts.
BTW – Obama has criticized Bush for signing this legislation, so why on earth is it okay that his VP got his son special favors and supported this crappy bill?

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 7:26 pm 7:26 pm

Not just trying to divert attention away from the convention is she? Anyway, hope she brings enough of the prescriptions for the wounded so that she would have an opportunity to keep some for herself!

Posted by: Karen | August 25, 2008, 7:27 pm 7:27 pm

Yikes! What an awful, but revealing, photo of Cindy McCain. You can see the yellow-based thick foundation make-up on her face (in contrast to her natural pink-toned neck and chest). Ease up on the make-up, lady… it doesn’t make you look younger. It just makes you look scarier. “All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close up…”

Posted by: DogBitez | August 25, 2008, 7:30 pm 7:30 pm

BTW, I think I read Biden’s son was paid over $1 million in consulting fees by MBNA.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 7:32 pm 7:32 pm

Cindy visiting foreigners is cute but you would be much better a person if you extended the hand of kindness to your two sisters before its extended to that of a stranger.

Posted by: texmexborderjumper | August 25, 2008, 7:37 pm 7:37 pm

Boy you neo-cons minions are working overtime turning out you propagada.

Posted by: ramaci | August 25, 2008, 7:39 pm 7:39 pm

Yea Art in Fl she will be an asset alright just don’t forget to lock up all the drugs, she has a bad habit of stealing narcotics for her personal use.

Posted by: Saddlesablazing | August 25, 2008, 7:39 pm 7:39 pm

Where are all of those children, Mc Cain left with his wife. I haven’t seen number #6 let alone all seven of them. Oh!!!! they must ahve the seven house he couldn’t remember, kids will do that to you and/or old age…..

Posted by: MCCAIN N SPAIN | August 25, 2008, 7:41 pm 7:41 pm

peach thats 79 million less than Chaney was given when he resigned from Halliburton to run as VP. Damn fine pay day for him and the guarantee to Halliburton of billions in return.

Posted by: subsistantpotfarmer | August 25, 2008, 7:42 pm 7:42 pm

Hey peach how much are you getting paid? How do you sign up? I want to get paid too

Posted by: ramaci | August 25, 2008, 7:42 pm 7:42 pm

Michelle was a close friend of Rev. Wright, also. This must be more of that great “Obama” judgement.

Posted by: Bart | August 25, 2008, 7:43 pm 7:43 pm

miles1967 You have to know Mike Wallace must be very dissapointed in his son working for the news network FOX, they make no bones about being clearly agasinst the Democratic side of life.

Posted by: Ronaldraygun | August 25, 2008, 7:45 pm 7:45 pm

Jim, I am a Hillary supporter and the reason I am voting for McCain is because I just do not trust Obama. The Annenberg project is just another example of why you cannot believe anything Obama says and confirms with out a doubt Obama is not qualified to be President. I can no longer rely on the Hope that Obama is telling the truth about abortion, the Supreme Court, the Iraq War, the economy, or uniting the country. Obama has flip flopped and out right lied too many times.

Posted by: Mary | August 25, 2008, 7:45 pm 7:45 pm

Why don’t we see McCains children?
Why?

Posted by: ramaci | August 25, 2008, 7:45 pm 7:45 pm

jschmidt Cindy also openly claims to be an only child, when that is a bald face lie. She has two sisters one each from her parents first marriages.

Posted by: Ronaldraygun | August 25, 2008, 7:47 pm 7:47 pm

peach – “I think I read Biden’s son was…” – Oh, you think you read that do you lmao.

Posted by: jmengate | August 25, 2008, 7:47 pm 7:47 pm

If you put her in a tight black dress belling out at the knees and a dark wig, she would make a fine Morticia Adams.

Posted by: kat | August 25, 2008, 7:48 pm 7:48 pm

Hey Mary in a weird twisted way I hope McCain wins and appoint judges on the supreme court and take away the rights of women to choose for generations and feminist would look back at this time in history when you voted John McCain in as President. VOTE for McCain baby Vote for McCain

Posted by: ramaci | August 25, 2008, 7:51 pm 7:51 pm

MCCAIN IS STILL UPSET AT BEING A POW, WE WILL STAY AT WAR UNTIL HE FINDS OSAMA BIN-LADDEN AND THE PEOPLE WHO CAPTURED HIM
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHERE ARE YOUR CHILDREN, SIR
MR. ARMY MAN

Posted by: GOT2BMORECAREFUL | August 25, 2008, 7:51 pm 7:51 pm

Yea Art in Fl she will be an asset alright just don’t forget to lock up all the drugs, she has a bad habit of stealing narcotics for her personal use.
Posted by: Saddlesablazing | Aug 25, 2008 7:39:58 PM
________________________________
>>>>>>> Saddlesablazing <<<<<<<<
Cindy will be the first lady, not the president. What about Obama doing crack, weed and alcohol? He is running for president, his record is important.

Posted by: Art in FL. | August 25, 2008, 7:52 pm 7:52 pm

miles1967, If you do not believe the fact Obama lied about his long term connection with Ayers going back to 1995 here is the quote. Obama.“…a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received an official endorsement from. He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from (sic) on a regular basis.”
If you do not believe that the Annenberg project was a failure and wasted 110 million dollars their own report confirms that the project was a failure and it is on the record that Obama was the Chairperson of the project and Ayers was member of the project.
As to where the bulk of the 110 million was spent on, that is also a manner of record. If you do not believe me there are plenty of sources to confirm this. The background of this matter has been hashed out for some months online at Slate, The American Thinker, Just One Minute and Global Labor. National Review .

Posted by: Jim | August 25, 2008, 7:55 pm 7:55 pm

Rev. Wright,Rev. Wright,Rev. Wright,Ayers,Ayers,Ayers,Rezco,Rezco,Rezco, Obama is scary,scary,scary
Can I get paid now?

Posted by: ramaci | August 25, 2008, 7:56 pm 7:56 pm

I can only wish, that Michelle would go to georgia, the country, and stay there.

Posted by: martha | August 25, 2008, 7:56 pm 7:56 pm

Doug McCain, 48, former US Navy pilot, now works for American Airlines
Jack McCain, 21, at the Naval Academy
Jimmy McCain, 19, is or has been to Iraq
Per Snopes 4/08

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 7:58 pm 7:58 pm

ramaci, Sorry, cannot use that scare tactic on me. First off,it is very unlikely that Roe Wade will be overturned even if conservative judges are appointed. However, in the unlikely event that happens, it will just go back to the States and the only State where any serious restrictions on abortion will occur is Utah and I do not live there.

Posted by: Mary | August 25, 2008, 7:58 pm 7:58 pm

John probably sent his wife because the Georgians wanted to learn how to use the internet.

Posted by: Rick | August 25, 2008, 8:01 pm 8:01 pm

I’m glad Cindy is doing something good. I am already sick of the DNC making fools of them selves. All this money and they will lose the White House. Way to go LoserBama.

Posted by: sally in wet jacksonville | August 25, 2008, 8:01 pm 8:01 pm

I hope that Cindy will share her pain pills with the wounded.

Posted by: Alex | August 25, 2008, 8:02 pm 8:02 pm

The old man is out to win and it is no joke. But let me tell you Cindy is Dumb…and just can’t compare with the intellect of Michelle Obama and nothing she does can detract from that.

Posted by: kalin | August 25, 2008, 8:02 pm 8:02 pm

Is Georgia on the Iraq and Afghanistan border?
ka-ching I want to be paid!!
Ooops wrong side, sorry
Obama is bad and scary!!!

Posted by: ramaci | August 25, 2008, 8:03 pm 8:03 pm

Cindy McCain has always used her money to help those in need. She inherited several homes that she lets relatives live in for free, Operation smile, work in orphanages and give to numerous charities.
Let’s see Obama and Michelle…hmmm…can’t think of anything off hand. Oh, I know sends money to his poor relations living in huts in Kenya! ….Oh wait no hasn’t done that. They are still living on $1 a month in squalor.

Posted by: S Adams | August 25, 2008, 8:03 pm 8:03 pm

Roe v Wade isn’t going to be overturned. Even when conservatives are asked if they want women to go to jail and to make abortions illegal, a huge majority say “no”.
Even Justice Roberts said that because of stare decisis, an Italian term for long standing precedent, said he seriously doubted it would ever be overturned.
He stated: “Roe v. Wade is the settled law of the land…. There is nothing in my personal views that would prevent me from fully and faithfully applying that precedent, as well as Casey.”

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 8:03 pm 8:03 pm

She should go to Iraq and visit our war wounded. I guess she cares more about the Georgians. It seems to be McCain’s number one concern lately also. It would be nice to have a Prez who is primarily concerned with domestic issues rather than the rest fo the world.

Posted by: BBpd | August 25, 2008, 8:08 pm 8:08 pm

Kalin -
Yes, Cindy is so dumb she doubled the companies profits within a year of taking over the company. Then she started several foundations and charitable organizations that help children in third world countries, using a lot of her own money and making over 50 trips personally to work with these children.
We should all be so dumb.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 8:08 pm 8:08 pm

Cindy is no dumb blonde.
Rich, attractive, younger and has a beer distributorship.
That McCain can pick ‘em.

Posted by: donbl | August 25, 2008, 8:09 pm 8:09 pm

It’s really horrible that Obama blew off our wounded soldiers when he visited Iraq. The visit had been scheduled for a long time and many preparations had gone into the visit.
But Obama decided to go to the gym instead.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 8:10 pm 8:10 pm

peach, conservative justices lie through their teeth in every confirmation hearing. They say whatever they have to. You think that Thomas and Scalia give a single d*mn about precedent? They know how they’re going to decide on every issue before they even hear a case.

Posted by: BBpd | August 25, 2008, 8:11 pm 8:11 pm

McCain has been using the tragic war in Georgia shamelessly for political gains. Wil someone, please ask him how he intends to deliver on his nice words? Other than sending his wife over for a self-serving photo-op, that is.

Posted by: El_Pajaro | August 25, 2008, 8:12 pm 8:12 pm

Peach you keep cranking out that mis-infomation, that propaganda.

Posted by: ramaci | August 25, 2008, 8:14 pm 8:14 pm

It’s really horrible that McCain doesn’t support our wounded soldiers from Iraq and denies them the same benefits that he himself received as a vet.
It seems very hypocritical to me.

Posted by: Rick | August 25, 2008, 8:16 pm 8:16 pm

BBpd – Apparently you have a reading comprehension problem. Not only did I cite Roberts but also mentioned that even conservatives, when asked about jail and illegality regarding abortion, are uncomfortable and poll “no” on changing things dramatically.
What most moderate thinking folks want is late term abortions made illegal unless it’s the life of the mother.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 8:17 pm 8:17 pm

ramaci – and yet you can’t point out what information I’ve posted is incorrect.
Oh, I will correct this: It was while in Germany that Obama blew off visiting our wounded soldiers in order to go to the gym, not Iraq.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 8:18 pm 8:18 pm

I know I’m posting effectively when the libs start whining. Which, I must say, some of you are quite good at.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm

Hey Peach what will happen when there is a majority of conservative judges?
Judge Roberts’ public positions on abortion and Roe vs. Wade appear to be inconsistent. In 1990, as the principal deputy solicitor general in President George H.W. Bush’s administration, Roberts wrote a legal brief for the Supreme Court in a case regarding federal funding for abortion providers. “We continue to believe that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and should be overruled,” Roberts wrote. His brief added: “The Supreme Court’s conclusion in Roe that there is a fundamental right to an abortion finds no support in the text, structure or history of the Constitution.”

Posted by: ramaci | August 25, 2008, 8:21 pm 8:21 pm

John McCain – tough talk, stupid actions.
John “Boom Boom” McCain is dead set on war with Russia…and Iran…and North Korea. No wonder he wants to reinstate the draft!

Posted by: Rick | August 25, 2008, 8:22 pm 8:22 pm

We’re giving a party on election night, as we do every presidential election, for approx. 80 people. I happen to adore politics and my husband indulges me during the conventions by cooking and taking care of things around here.
We’re young retirees and I have time. Sorry some of you don’t have that advantage.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 8:25 pm 8:25 pm

I hope that when she visits the misfortunate Georgians, she doesn’t look jaundiced and sinister eyed like she does in the picture. They’ve endured enough fear.

Posted by: kat | August 25, 2008, 8:26 pm 8:26 pm

I heard that Cindy McCain was going to Georgia because they have a Ms. Buffalo Chips competition going on

Posted by: Rick | August 25, 2008, 8:26 pm 8:26 pm

Obama is a liar. Don’t believe a word he says.
See how that works? I don’t have to point out a single lie, just mention that he’s a liar.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 8:26 pm 8:26 pm

Why doesn’t Cindy McCain go to Georgia (the State) and help the poor here at home?
The McCains seem to care less about Americans.
Maybe it’s the fact that Georgia (the country) is paying hundred of thousands of dollars to the McCain campaign.

Posted by: Rick | August 25, 2008, 8:31 pm 8:31 pm

I am not being paid by anybody to post here or anywhere else. I have been reading all of theses posts and the pro Obama people just keep calling people names or saying they are being paid to post because, I suspect, everything Peach and Jim, etc. have said about Obama is all true. Obama is a liar, a flip flopper, consorts with unrepentant domestic terrorists like Ayers , America haters like Rev. Wright and Father Pheffler, and crooks like Rezco. Why anyone in their right mind would vote for Obama is beyond comprehension. If you Obama supporters would were just able to refute one item of information about Obama that has been posted here or provide one good reason to support him, I would like to hear it. Hope and Change is not enough by the way.

Posted by: gary | August 25, 2008, 8:33 pm 8:33 pm

“Sales have doubled since she has taken over from her father.”
Not surprising, because everyone has had to turn to alcohol after eight years under Bush!

Posted by: Rick | August 25, 2008, 8:36 pm 8:36 pm

ronaldraygun- that would have made them either half sisters or step sisters. I think every family must have family issues. I’m not worried about internal family squabbles. Ask Obama about family since he has a half brother in Nigeria living in poverty. The important thing is that McCain is right for America and Obama isn;t. Obama is the most inexperienced candidate with no leadership credentials we have had in over 50 years.

Posted by: jschmidt | August 25, 2008, 8:39 pm 8:39 pm

jschmidt, less experience than a part time governor? I think not.

Posted by: Mike | August 25, 2008, 8:46 pm 8:46 pm

Cindy McCain is really good at inheriting money. It seems to be her only redeeming quality.

Posted by: Rick | August 25, 2008, 8:47 pm 8:47 pm

“I hope that when she visits the misfortunate Georgians, she doesn’t look jaundiced and sinister eyed like she does in the picture. They’ve endured enough fear.”
Posted by: kat | Aug 25, 2008 8:26:01 PM
_________________
Equally apropos of nothing:
Talk about lack of beauty…. there’s big-boned muscle bound Michele…..
I think it’s time to eliminate the wives from the nasties… and concentrate on the REAL issues!

Posted by: google | August 25, 2008, 8:48 pm 8:48 pm

gary, hope and change is a whole lot more than guilt by association. If you dont have anything good to say about your candidate, dont bother saying anything at all.

Posted by: Mike | August 25, 2008, 8:48 pm 8:48 pm

Hopefully she tells the Georgians not to shoot at the Russians next time.

Posted by: Ben Straub | August 25, 2008, 8:50 pm 8:50 pm

I have to give Cindy McCain a lot of credit…anyone who can organize that many house-sitters must be good at something!

Posted by: Rick | August 25, 2008, 8:52 pm 8:52 pm

You all are seriously going to gab back and forth about which potential first lady is worse? Ridiculous, though I guess that is to be expected based on the vacuous premise of the original post.

Posted by: Mike | August 25, 2008, 8:52 pm 8:52 pm

Mike- Obama has been a part time senator since he was elected since he has been running for President since then. He passed 1 bill while in the senate and never had a meeting of his Senate Foreign Relation subcommittee on Afganhistan. I’d say that was part time and no leadership.

Posted by: jschmidt | August 25, 2008, 8:53 pm 8:53 pm

Jchmidt, good post:
“He passed 1 bill while in the senate and never had a meeting of his Senate Foreign Relation subcommittee on Afganhistan. I’d say that was part time and no leadership.”

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 8:57 pm 8:57 pm

Rick, apparently you’ve never heard the term “investment property”. Sad.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 8:58 pm 8:58 pm

Here’s a joke for you:
Why did Cindy McCain go to Georgia?
Because John McCain was a POW.
Doesn’t make sense? Neither does using McCain’s POW experience as an excuse for forgetting how many homes he has.

Posted by: Rick | August 25, 2008, 8:58 pm 8:58 pm

Mrs:McCain:In 1991, Mrs. McCain came across a girl in an orphanage in Bangladesh . Mother Teresa implored Mrs. McCain to take the baby with severe cleft palate. She did so without first telling her husband. The couple adopted the girl who has had a dozen operations to repair her cleft palate and other med ical problems. They have a Family Foundation for children’s causes.She’s active with ‘Halo Trust’ – to clear land mines, provide water and food in war ravaged and developing countries.She will join an overseas mission of ‘Operation Smile’, a charity for corrective surgery on children’s faces. She has had two back surgeries and became addicted to pain killers. She talks openly about it which she says is part of the recovery process.

Posted by: jschmidt | August 25, 2008, 9:00 pm 9:00 pm

Obamas record:
His first year in the U.S. Senate, he authored 152 bills and co-sponsored another 427. These included
1. Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006 – became law,
2. Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act, – became law,
3. Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, passed the Senate,
4. 2007 Government Ethics Bill, became law,
5. Protection Against Excessive Executive Compensation Bill, In committee, and many more.

Posted by: Mike | August 25, 2008, 9:02 pm 9:02 pm

Hi peach,
I’ve heard of investment property…unfortunately, I’ve also heard of dementia, which McCain seems to exhibit on a weekly basis.

Posted by: Rick | August 25, 2008, 9:03 pm 9:03 pm

In all, since entering the State/U.S. Senate, Senator Obama has written 890 bills and co-sponsored another 1096.
During the first – 8 – eight years of his elected service he sponsored over 820 bills. He introduced
233 regarding healthcare reform,
125 on poverty and public assistance,
112 crime fighting bills,
97 economic bills,
60 human rights and anti-discrimination bills,
21 ethics reform bills,
15 gun control,
6 veterans affairs and many others.

Posted by: Mike | August 25, 2008, 9:03 pm 9:03 pm

jschmidt -
Thank you for posting that about Operation Smile and the clearing of the land mines. I’d forgotten about that.
She walks the walk. Yes, she’s rich and so easier for her to do than many others. But plenty of rich people don’t donate their time and money to such worthy causes.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 9:03 pm 9:03 pm

Cindy McCain Travels To Georgia With the World Food Program

Cindy McCain Travels to Georgia, Will Meet with Georgian President and Soldiers from Political Radar reports that John McCain’s wife Cindy has gone to Georgia with the World Food Program and will meet with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and Geo…

Posted by: PAXALLES | August 25, 2008, 9:07 pm 9:07 pm

Cindy McCain has never worked a day in her life. No wonder she and her husband think this economy is doing so well

Posted by: Rick | August 25, 2008, 9:07 pm 9:07 pm

Anyone notice how the McCains like to spend their vacations in war zones? John-Iraq, Cindy-Georgia. These people are war-lovers!

Posted by: Rick | August 25, 2008, 9:09 pm 9:09 pm

Rick,
There she participated in a movement therapy pilot program that laid the way for a standard treatment for children with severe disabilities;[17] she published the work Movement Therapy: A Possible Approach in 1978.[20] Declining a role in the family business,[21] she then began a special education teaching career working with children with Down syndrome and other disabilities at Agua Fria High School in Avondale, Arizona.[17][6][14]

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 9:10 pm 9:10 pm

I wonder if the “Stepford Wife” will tell these poor people her lies about Mother Teresa,and her work with the orphans in India? McCain and his wife AKA “Cruella Di Vil” are 2 very scary & creepy people ! She is about as compassionate as a deep crevasse in a glacier!

Posted by: Sharon W | August 25, 2008, 9:11 pm 9:11 pm

Rick:
She led 55 of these missions over the next seven years,[17] with each being of at least two weeks’ duration.[35] AVMT also supplied treatment to poor sick children around the world.[36] In 1993, Cindy McCain and the AVMT were honored with an award from Food for the Hungry.[9]
No, she doesn’t work at all. /sarcasm

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 9:11 pm 9:11 pm

jschmidt, you have to get with the times. McCain has pulled the mother teresa story from his website because it was found out to be fabricated. The second Mrs. McCain never met mother teresa, it turns out.

Posted by: Mike | August 25, 2008, 9:11 pm 9:11 pm

Obama loves war too, he doesn’t want to get left behind, except he says whatever is expedient at the moment:
In an interview with the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune published September 26, 2004,Democratic Senate candidate Barack Obama said he would favor the use of “surgical” missile strikes against Iran if it failed to bow to Washington’s demand that it eliminate its nuclear energy program. Obama also said that, in the event of a coup that removed the Musharraf regime in Pakistan, the US should attack that nation’s nuclear arsenal.

Posted by: hype bites | August 25, 2008, 9:12 pm 9:12 pm

So Mike- what about the adoptions, working with groups clearing landmines and the OPeration Smile for children with cleft palates. Would you care to comment?

Posted by: jschmidt | August 25, 2008, 9:14 pm 9:14 pm

Mike you forgot the 130 “present” votes as a state senator, the 1 bill passed as Senator and no meetings of the Senate Foreign Relations subcommitte on Afghanistan that he never found time to call a meeting. But his buddy Biden covered for him.

Posted by: jschmidt | August 25, 2008, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm

If by “she works”, you mean she gets lots of plastic surgery, then I guess I see your point.

Posted by: Rick | August 25, 2008, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm

Biden loves war too. He wanted American boots on the ground in the Balkans, for goodness sake.
And right after 9/11, the supposed expert on foreign affairs said this:
At the Tuesday-morning meeting with committee staffers, Biden launches into a stream-of-consciousness monologue about what his committee should be doing, before he finally admits the obvious: “I’m groping here.” Then he hits on an idea: America needs to show the Arab world that we’re not bent on its destruction. “Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran,” Biden declares. He surveys the table with raised eyebrows, a How do ya like that? look on his face.
The staffers sit in silence. Finally somebody ventures a response: “I think they’d send it back.” Then another aide speaks up delicately: “The thing I would worry about is that it would almost look like a publicity stunt.” Still another reminds Biden that an Iranian delegation is in Moscow that very day to discuss a $300 million arms deal with Vladimir Putin that the United States has strongly condemned. But Joe Biden is barely listening anymore. He’s already moved on to something else.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm

Why didn’t she adopt a child from the US? Answer: Because the McCains hate America.

Posted by: Rick | August 25, 2008, 9:18 pm 9:18 pm

John McCain, Sending Your Kids to War for Over 25 Years
Nice Slogan. Accurate, too.

Posted by: Rick | August 25, 2008, 9:21 pm 9:21 pm

Cindy McCain: Clearing land mines one at a time (by sending American soldiers into minefields)

Posted by: Rick | August 25, 2008, 9:24 pm 9:24 pm

My the Obama progressives, liberal left at their sexist, misogynistic best. Seems they have learned nothing from the consequences of their discriminatory comments concerning gender. Seems ageism is also par for the course for them.
And how about their hatred of the rich for being rich. Rather than working for what they have, they are toooo busy envying and wanting what others have. Except they want theirs the easy. If Cindy McCain inherited wealth its because someone in her family worked their off to achieve it.
I know immigrants who came to this country 10 years ago and worked two jobs. Today they have two homes. One they rent out. Work, save, and stop envying maybe you’ll get somewhere.

Posted by: hype bites | August 25, 2008, 9:25 pm 9:25 pm

If Michelle Obama were to go to Georgia to perform this clearly fake and phony sympathy act the press and Obama haters would have a field day critizing her. But they’re describing “Barbie McLame’s” trip as missionary work instead of what it really is, a tacky political move using injured soldiers as props, what a joke!!!

Posted by: fool me once | August 25, 2008, 9:30 pm 9:30 pm

LOL, hyper bites. Very Good.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 9:32 pm 9:32 pm

Nice to see Obama supporters have continued with their gross insults instead of providing facts for a discussion. If Obama wins, and I doubt it, it will be the liberal left in power and it will be their way only.

Posted by: jschmidt | August 25, 2008, 9:39 pm 9:39 pm

Keaton 5
You may forget, but I remember
If McCain did not know about it then he made a bad Judgement call to be involved in something he knew about.
I don’t think so.
Yes we can

Posted by: Underdog | August 25, 2008, 9:40 pm 9:40 pm

“But they’re describing “Barbie McLame’s” trip as missionary work instead of what it really is, a tacky political move using injured soldiers as props, what a joke!!!
Posted by: fool me once | Aug 25, 2008 9:30:07 PM
>>>>>>>>>>>
NO!
This isn’t a once, in a lifetime act for Cindy McCain!
This is a woman who has given of herself… and her money… time after time… mostly for the benefit of children in need of medical care.
She hsa already B E E N to Georgia on such missions… so this is nothing new to her!
I guess … if you’re an Obama naut… you’re not used to seeing such charity and kindness on display with no political payback, and that’s why you’re questioning it.
Otherwise, I would have to assume that you’re just another meanspirited misanthrope who indeed can be fooled more than just once!

Posted by: eyes wide open | August 25, 2008, 9:41 pm 9:41 pm

So the bourgeois elitism that has been lurking beneath the surface finally shows itself. You think that anyone who is poor deserves it, despite the fact that the majority of poor people do work. This class hatred comes from overprivilege, only someone who has never struggled to pay the bills could be that bitter and filled with bile toward working people.

Posted by: Mike | August 25, 2008, 9:42 pm 9:42 pm

After returning home from his weekend visit to the Republic of Georgia, Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) said that Russia’s invasion of Georgia was based on false claims of atrocities, and that this was one of the most significant events to occur in Europe since the end of communism. Biden also promised to work with the Bush administration to push through $1 billion in emergency aid for Georgia.
“I left the country convinced that Russia’s invasion of Georgia may be the one of the most significant event to occur in Europe since the end of communism. The claims of Georgian atrocities that provided the pretext for Russia’s invasion are rapidly being disproved by international observers, and the continuing presence of Russian forces in the country has severe implications for the broader region,” Biden said.
He stressed that his war is no longer about Georgia, but whether or not the West will stand up for the rights of free people, “The war that began in Georgia is no longer about that country alone. It has become a question of whether and how the West will stand up for the rights of free people throughout the region. The outcome there will determine whether we realize the grand ambition of a Europe that is whole, free, and at peace.”

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 9:43 pm 9:43 pm

Rick…
Get over it!
Maybe next time, your candidate will win!

Posted by: eyes wide open | August 25, 2008, 9:43 pm 9:43 pm

I find what Cindy McCain is doing (going to Georgia during a time of war there) is like what Jane Fonda did when she went to Hanoi.

Posted by: Spoozle Loaf | August 25, 2008, 9:46 pm 9:46 pm

Can’t understand:
Those of you who see fellow Americans lose their homes and then think that McCain who was involved with the Keaton 5 would even consider voting for this man.
Are we the fools that they protray us to be.
Do we forget that easily.
I don’t think so.
Yes we Can
and No we can’t let the same History repeat itself.
do a search on Keaton 5

Posted by: Underdog | August 25, 2008, 9:46 pm 9:46 pm

If Michelle or Obama were to suddenly start doing charity work, it would be called political, plain and simple. They have never done charity work, they only give lowest of anyone in office 2%. They can’t even give some of that to Obama’s poor relations living in squalor on $1 a month. How is that for charity!
The reason McCain wasn’t sure how many homes tehy owned ws because Cindy inherited homes that are in trust and they let their relatives live in them for free.
I think it is admirable that the McCains saw a sick 5 week old baby that was not expected to live and adopted her .

Posted by: S Adams | August 25, 2008, 9:50 pm 9:50 pm

Underdog:
McCain was EXONERATED of ALL charges in the Keaton5 case almost a quarter of a century ago.
The ones who WEREN’T… were Democrats!Check it out!

Posted by: eyes wide open | August 25, 2008, 9:50 pm 9:50 pm

Obama is upset there is an ad out linking him to Ayers claiming it was a long time ago in the “60s”. Based on that logic, I guess we should stop our hunt for Osama.
Obama’s extensive ties to Ayers.
Ayers was one of the original grantees of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, or CAC, a school reform organization in the 1990s, and was cochairman of the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, one the two operational arms of the CAC. In 1995 Obama became chairman of the CAC under Ayers’ leadership.
Also in 1995, the first organizing meeting for Obama’s state senatorial campaign was reportedly held in Ayers’s apartment.
In a widely-circulated article that became a main theme of the presidential campaign, WND first reported that Obama served on the board of the Woods Fund, a liberal Chicago nonprofit, alongside Ayers from 1999 to December 11, 2002, according to the Fund’s website. According to tax filings, Obama received compensation of $6,000 per year for his service in 1999 and 2000.
Ayers, who still serves on the Woods Fund board, contributed $200 to Obama’s senatorial campaign fund and has served on panels with Obama at numerous public speaking engagements.
Ayers, currently a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was a member of the Weathermen terrorist group which sought to overthrow of the U.S. government and took responsibility for bombing the U.S. Capitol in 1971.
He has admitted to involvement in the bombings of U.S. governmental buildings in the 1970s.
“I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough,” Ayers told the New York Times in an interview released on September 11, 2001
“Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,” Ayers wrote in his memoirs, titled Fugitive Days. He continued with a disclaimer that he didn’t personally set the bombs, but his group set the explosives and planned the attack.

Posted by: terri | August 25, 2008, 9:51 pm 9:51 pm

Underdog -
Apparently you’re unaware that 3 Democrats were found guilty of misconduct in the Keating 5 mess.
McCain was found innocent of all charges.
The Ethics Committee ruled that the involvement of McCain in the scheme was also minimal, and he too was cleared of all charges against him.[17][16] McCain was criticized by the Committee for exercising “poor judgment” when he met with the federal regulators on Keating’s behalf.[6] The report also said that McCain’s “actions were not improper nor attended with gross negligence and did not reach the level of requiring institutional action against him….Senator McCain has violated no law of the United States or specific Rule of the United States Senate.”[20]

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 9:53 pm 9:53 pm

Gotta go watch the convention…
Catch you later, McWar lovers!

Posted by: Rick | August 25, 2008, 9:54 pm 9:54 pm

Spoozle Loaf, dear, I don’t know how old you are, but Jane Fonda visited the enemy while our soldiers were being killed and talked badly about her own country.
Cindy McCain is visiting Georgia, which, btw, she has visited for years, and she is supporting the country, which Biden supports as well.
Biden wants Bush to send $1 billion dollars to help Georgia rebuild.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 9:55 pm 9:55 pm

I know about the Keating 5. There were 4 democrats and McCain involved. 3 dems were found guilty and McCain and John Glenn were not faulted. Keating used a lot of people and McCain and others fell for it. McCain is the only one who testified against Keating in his trial.
I also know about Obama’s dirty dealings with Rezko. Also Obama’s associations with Bill Ayres, Rev Wright, Father Plaegar,etc, show his bad judgement. The endorsements of Hamas and Louis Farakhan should also be called into question.

Posted by: S Adams | August 25, 2008, 9:56 pm 9:56 pm

peach
Very aware, none of them are running for President..
Is that a surpise to you.
Wake up.
This is about your grand childrens being homeless

Posted by: Underdog | August 25, 2008, 9:56 pm 9:56 pm

Underdog – keep pretending that McCain was guilty of anything in the Keating 5.
Meanwhile, let’s just ignore Ayers, Rezko (and now Biden has been tied to Rezko according to ABC News), Rev. Wright, Frank whatisname, etc., etc.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 10:01 pm 10:01 pm

eyes wide open
You must be eyes blood shot:
Do you really believe that he did not know what was going on.
What a fool believes.
And just like his past on crash three jets in training of the airforce, he got another pass.
Even if he did not know, is this a man we want as President who would support a Con Man without knowing the FACTS.

Posted by: Underdog | August 25, 2008, 10:01 pm 10:01 pm

Gosh, Obama’s judgment is so flawed that after months of whining that McCain’s judgment is so bad (because he supported the war in Iraq) that he shouldn’t be president, what did Obama do?
Why, he chose as his VP a man who voted the exact same way as McCain.
So much for Obama’s “superior” judgment.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 10:04 pm 10:04 pm

Jim -
And Nancy Pelosi is trying to save the planet and Obama said we would look back at this time as when we saved the planet and the oceans rose. These people are delusional.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 10:05 pm 10:05 pm

oK PEACH,
Let’s do a comparison, Wright’s speech, Kelso or whoever, compared to a forclosure of 1.3 millions peoples homes going to Banks. Jobs lost to other Countries.
Your brain is not functioning.
What is more important

Posted by: Underdog | August 25, 2008, 10:06 pm 10:06 pm

So let’s see, people bought homes they could not afford. Banks should not have written the mortgages and most folks knew they couldn’t make the payments. And I’m supposed to what? Got nuts? Blame Bush?
Where was the Congressional oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Asleep at the switch, that’s where they were. As usual.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 10:10 pm 10:10 pm

McCain Knew about Keaton:
Yes He Did
And yes he will do it again.
Keaton 5
But would you want a man who tried to commit suicide as President with his hand on the button.
He may decide to take us all with him
He was cut down from a rope while in Vietnam.
Love him, but not for President.

Posted by: Underdog | August 25, 2008, 10:11 pm 10:11 pm

On the other hand, the depressed housing market is letting people buy a home when they couldn’t afford it previously because of the inflated prices.
I was a commercial real estate investment analyst and this country has gone through ups and downs in various sectors, and this is just another one of those times. It’s scary on a variety of levels for some people, especially people who like to live above their income.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 10:12 pm 10:12 pm

Jim, Lol, Obama’s campaign office in Houston actually had a “Che” flag hanging on the wall. And who said Obama doesn’t support the flag?

Posted by: S Adams | August 25, 2008, 10:13 pm 10:13 pm

Peach,
It all happen under the Republican watch of the House and Senate..
What a fool believes, when some get rich and others become no more than servants/// as in the British Rule

Posted by: Underdog | August 25, 2008, 10:14 pm 10:14 pm

underdog:
Truly, you need a more up-to-date sorce of information if you’re going to keep
posting.
Try it! You’ll like it!

Posted by: eyes wide open | August 25, 2008, 10:14 pm 10:14 pm

Peach: I wasn’t alive when Hanoi Jane went to Viet Nam but I do know that there are many maimed and decapitated vets here in Veteran’s hospitals who would appreciate a visit from Mrs. McCain. She should look after her own country’s people first.

Posted by: Blain Steve Stevens | August 25, 2008, 10:14 pm 10:14 pm

NYT:
The records that he released included a battery of the standard psychological evaluations given to prisoners of the Vietnam War after their release. Dr. Michael M. Ambrose, director of the Robert E. Mitchell Center for Prisoner of War Studies in Pensacola, Fla., and Dr. Jeffrey L. Moore, a clinical neuropsychologist at the center, wrote in a statement at the time that “Senator McCain has never been diagnosed with or treated at the center for a psychological or psychiatric disorder.”

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 10:15 pm 10:15 pm

Undergog,
Until you have been tortured for 5 1/2 yrs, 2 of those in solitary confinement for not leaving when told to do so by his captors because he refused to leave without his fellow POW’s, don’t judge.

Posted by: S Adams | August 25, 2008, 10:16 pm 10:16 pm

Blair Steve Stevens:
I don’t know what Cindy McCain has done with visiting vets in this country, but I know her husband does visit them quite frequently.
As to helping in her own country, Cindy does this:
That year, McCain founded a new organization, the Hensley Family Foundation, which donates monies towards children’s programs in Arizona and nationally,[9

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 10:16 pm 10:16 pm

Uh, underdog, not to be picky with facts or anything, but you did know that Dems took control of the House and Senate in 2007, right?

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 10:18 pm 10:18 pm

By Geoffrey Colvin, FORTUNE senior editor-at-large
March 15, 2006: 5:13 PM EST
(FORTUNE Magazine) – I have good news and bad news. The good news is that income inequality in the U.S. — after 30-plus years of steadily increasing — may be decreasing. The bad news is why that trend is reversing. It looks like another lesson in how profoundly a globalizing economy is upending what we thought we knew.
In other words, the poor are getting richer and the disparity between rich and poor is closing.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 10:20 pm 10:20 pm

Peach,
This housing thing is a progression of the last 8 years of a dumb … President and Greedy Majority House and Senate Majority of Republicans and you know it.
Just live in Reality.. The Lies on produce more Lies.
That is what the Republicans have been pushing down Americans throats for the last eight years.
Remember the promise of Moral Values..
The Sex scandals.
The broken promises of Abortion

Posted by: Underdog | August 25, 2008, 10:22 pm 10:22 pm

Underdog — what broken promise about abortion? And the housing crisis has been 8 years in the making? Wow, tell Wall Street. Alert the media. Because that’s not the story they are telling.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 10:25 pm 10:25 pm

Gotto Go
Obama’s Wife, a true American who wants to see America as a place where all of it’s people will live better.
Not the class system of Old England.
YES WE CAN
OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT
WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT

Posted by: Underdog | August 25, 2008, 10:25 pm 10:25 pm

Peach: My name is Blain, Blair Stevie Stevens is my sister.

Posted by: Blair Steve Stevens | August 25, 2008, 10:25 pm 10:25 pm

I don’t know if you knew this, underdog, but Democrats pushed legislation to require banks into areas they previously didn’t lend because of rampant unemployment and overspending, etc. The banks were greedy and very much to blame for not pushing back against this legislation, and they made some horrible loans. But Congressional Democrats are also responsibile for pushing that legislation that forced the banks to make loans that a few years ago they would not have made.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 10:28 pm 10:28 pm

In addition to federal laws that pressure lenders to lend to people they would not otherwise lend to, and in places where they would otherwise not invest, state and local governments have in various parts of the country so severely restricted building as to lead to skyrocketing housing prices, which in turn have led many people to resort to “creative financing” in order to buy these artificially more expensive homes.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve System brought interest rates down to such low levels that “creative financing” with interest-only mortgage loans enabled people to buy houses that they could not otherwise afford.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 10:31 pm 10:31 pm

So what caused prices to go so high? Home bubbles are nothing new. The bubbles are characterized by people buying an asset and thinking they can sell it at a higher price regardless of the fact that the price being paid is completely out of whack relative to fundamentals such as income. At their root, all bubbles are driven by individual greed — the desire to make money.
Think of it this way: Every buyer over the last few years had a choice: Buy a home or rent an apartment… Many leaped into the housing market even as prices climbed to such high levels because they thought they could sell at a higher price. This bubble is larger than any we have seen since at least World War II because the sub-prime markets gave buyers the means to speculate like never before.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm

Okay Underdog, You go waste your time watching Michelle impugn and vilify the America, that has the “meanest people”. Let her tell you how “proud she is of her country for the first time in her life”.

Posted by: S Adams | August 25, 2008, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm

So this fool hearted rebuttal of yours makes no sense.
When this never happen until the Republicans controlled the House, the Senate, the Judicary, and the Executive Branch of Govt.
So get over it.
The last 8 years are on the backs of Republicans JUST AS McCAIN IS.
YES WE THE PEOPLE CAN
NOT LISTEN TO YOUR LIES.
LIVE WELL
BYE

Posted by: Underdog | August 25, 2008, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm

It’s nice to meet you, Blair.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 10:34 pm 10:34 pm

Michelle looks beautiful this evening.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 10:38 pm 10:38 pm

Michelle’s father had MS; it’s a terrible disease. I think that’s what Neil Cavuto has.

Posted by: peach | August 25, 2008, 10:40 pm 10:40 pm

Peach: Wow, I checked out the CBS4 website in Denver. That Tharin Gartrell dude looks like a (more) pissed off version of Vanilla Ice. I’ve been worried about this type of thing since Barack’s campaign started.

Posted by: Blain Steve Stevens | August 25, 2008, 11:01 pm 11:01 pm

If Cindy McCain is off to Georgia to look at casualties – somebody better lock up the medicine cabinent right away.

Posted by: mara | August 25, 2008, 11:16 pm 11:16 pm

WHY!!
What can she do over there? She has two sisters here that she will not acknowledge, her own flesh and blood. What a hypocrite?

Posted by: mary | August 25, 2008, 11:41 pm 11:41 pm

What a great first night to the convention. Loved Michelle’s speech. The Carter video about hurricane Katrina was awesome as was the one dedicated to Ted Kennedy.
IMO, the best speech was given by former U.S. Representative for Iowa Jim Leach, a Republican.

Posted by: cincyr | August 26, 2008, 12:01 am 12:01 am

Michelle gave a great speech. She loves her husband. He loves her. Two little kids love their dad and miss him. She and Barrack are running for president for their children to grow up in a better world. Once he’s president the Iraq war will be ended responsibly. The economy will improve. Kids will have better schools and preschool will be free to everyone!
Michelle loves America and she and Barrack think often of improving the lot of our troops and want to bring all of them home safely.
Michelle’s mom is proud of her daughter and son in law and their relatives are behind them as well.
The only thing missing is a cute puppy, a warm fireplace and a sunbeam somehow shining on the podium.

Posted by: Dave in lv | August 26, 2008, 12:28 am 12:28 am

We never hear about Cindy’s step sister who lives in Appalachia.

Posted by: Blain Steve Stevens | August 26, 2008, 12:59 am 12:59 am

Bush is a genius compared to pelosi who doesn’t know gas is a fossil fuel.

Posted by: geevill | August 26, 2008, 9:19 am 9:19 am

This is all well and good, but I can’t imagine the level of outrage about how “pompous” the Obamas were if they sent Michelle to assess a war zone.
hey marylou – heiresses had better spend their whole lives doing charity work. Wow, being a beauty pagent contestant in your 20′s is so much more impressive than going to Princeton and Harvard on scholarship.

Posted by: squintz | August 26, 2008, 11:15 am 11:15 am

I think most Americans are smart enough to see through this whole situation. This is a use/use on both the McCain and Georgian government sides. Everyone knows it.

Posted by: Carsy | August 26, 2008, 1:05 pm 1:05 pm

How can Cindy McCain be going to Georgia if US troops are not fully engaged in the country? I kept hearing Cheney’s Blackwater mercenaries were used during the Georgian invasion of South Ossetia, this just confirms that.

Posted by: Perspective | August 26, 2008, 3:34 pm 3:34 pm

Carsy -
Apparently you’re unaware that Biden is fully in agreement with McCain about Georgia. In fact, Biden is pushing the president to send Georgia $1 BILLION to help them rebuild. Yes, we can all see what’s going on.
There’s a crisis in a region of the world that is of importance to us and as usual, most of you libs want to hide and play chicken. Then when/if something happens, you will blame whomever is in charge for not forseeing the problem. You sure have all your bases covered that way.

Posted by: peach | August 26, 2008, 7:32 pm 7:32 pm

Obama’s are MORONS!!!

Posted by: Joe | May 14, 2009, 10:42 pm 10:42 pm

Obama-Commander in Thief

Posted by: Joe | May 14, 2009, 10:43 pm 10:43 pm

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