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

August 25, 2008 4:30 PM

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

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Posted by: Joe | May 14, 2009 10:43:36 PM

Obama's are MORONS!!!

Posted by: Joe | May 14, 2009 10:42:54 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 | Aug 26, 2008 7:32:02 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 | Aug 26, 2008 3:34:38 PM

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 | Aug 26, 2008 1:05:37 PM

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 | Aug 26, 2008 11:15:58 AM

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

Posted by: geevill | Aug 26, 2008 9:19:14 AM

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

Posted by: Blain Steve Stevens | Aug 26, 2008 12:59:49 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 | Aug 26, 2008 12:28:07 AM

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 | Aug 26, 2008 12:01:47 AM

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 | Aug 25, 2008 11:41:48 PM

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

Posted by: mara | Aug 25, 2008 11:16:41 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 | Aug 25, 2008 11:01:50 PM

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

Posted by: peach | Aug 25, 2008 10:40:10 PM

Michelle looks beautiful this evening.

Posted by: peach | Aug 25, 2008 10:38:46 PM

It's nice to meet you, Blair.

Posted by: peach | Aug 25, 2008 10:34:04 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 | Aug 25, 2008 10:33:54 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 | Aug 25, 2008 10:33:54 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 | Aug 25, 2008 10:33:05 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 | Aug 25, 2008 10:31:42 PM

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