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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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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 | Aug 25, 2008 10:28:37 PM
Peach: My name is Blain, Blair Stevie Stevens is my sister.
Posted by: Blair Steve Stevens | Aug 25, 2008 10:25:47 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 | Aug 25, 2008 10:25:39 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 | Aug 25, 2008 10:25:35 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 | Aug 25, 2008 10:22:59 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 | Aug 25, 2008 10:20:49 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 | Aug 25, 2008 10:18:00 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 | Aug 25, 2008 10:16:48 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 | Aug 25, 2008 10:16:16 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 | Aug 25, 2008 10:15:00 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 | Aug 25, 2008 10:14:48 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 | Aug 25, 2008 10:14:25 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 | Aug 25, 2008 10:14:03 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 | Aug 25, 2008 10:13:02 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 | Aug 25, 2008 10:12:52 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 | Aug 25, 2008 10:11:56 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 | Aug 25, 2008 10:10:24 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 | Aug 25, 2008 10:06:43 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 | Aug 25, 2008 10:05:24 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 | Aug 25, 2008 10:04:30 PM
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