McCain Campaign Falsely Accuses DNC Of Attacking Cindy McCain
By Nicole Belle Tuesday Jun 17, 2008 4:59pm
It appears that we hit too close for comfort with the McCain campaign when we brought up the topic of the "Sugar Momma Express" use of Cindy's private jets for the campaign, because now they're lashing out. Too bad they have to make up things to complain about. Greg Sargent:
In an email blasted out to the media this morning, the McCain camp noted that the DNC had sent to reporters this article about Mrs. McCain.
"When will Sen. Obama do as he promised and `speak out against' Howard Dean and the DNC for their attacks on Mrs. McCain -- or at least demand they stop?" McCain spokesperson Brian Rogers asked in the email.
I received the DNC's email this morning, too. And nowhere in the email does the DNC attack Mrs. McCain.
The article that the DNC drew attention to reported that the McCain campaign had failed to reimburse Mrs. McCain for a flight in her company's private jet to New York City, where she attended a fund-raiser for her husband. The article quotes two Republicans criticizing the campaign for this.
The entire email from the DNC consists of criticism of the McCain campaign -- not Mrs. McCain.
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Man yells at cloud.
Leave Cindy Alone
I'd say that she was attacked by several dozen plastic surgeons.
meh, i am not a democrat, so, to me, cindy mccain's involvement in the campaign is a legitimate 'story'
there is no reason to be nasty, or mean, or sexist, or petty--but there are legitimate concerns, and they should be addressed.
Opps the link didn't come through
Leave her alone
Give me a break! Michelle Obama has taken much more abuse than Cindy. And you know what pisses me off? Michelle was never the 'Other Woman'.
"Mr. McCain has said his campaign’s method of reimbursing his wife’s company for the plane is legal, and no one disputes that. But critics have argued that Mrs. McCain is effectively subsidizing her husband’s campaign because either she or her company has to make up for the difference between what his campaign pays for the jet’s use and what it really costs to operate it."
sink your teeth into that investigative journalists!!!
*cricket sound*
God she's beautiful.
let's see cindy is a whore who steals other men's wives
and she is a plagiarist who steals other women's recipes.
and since she won't release all her finances, we can't
say she didn't get them from laying on her back.........
P.D. @ 6:
Seconded. This is a classic case of GOP hypocrisy.
She has to steal receipes.........and pills.
Nothing hotter than a 60 year old ho.
Lie, snivel, invent, and release. Rinse and repeat.
Standard GOP Operating Procedure.
There certainly is enuff to criticize Shuga Momma McCain about if we even wanted to catch up to the sliming Michelle Obama has dealt with.
Go Cindy go! Keep fighting that losing battle against aging. Big, bleached out hair, too much makeup, and zero style. Very classy.
Man, this country should can come up with some real winners, huh?
Yep, I got that email from Howard Dean too.
Do you think the Right sees a distinction between "Sugar Momma McCain" and "Baby Momma Obama"?
Probably not. Expect Hannity to be all flummoxed over Sugar Momma McCain.
anyone who calls his own wife a c*nt has no right to attack those that attack her
eff mcadulterer
Crazy thing was the GOP attacked Kerry for marrying a rich women. At least they were both unmarried.
The Truth Hurts @ 12:
She is 54 McCain is pushing 72. McCain has a son her age.
Everyone connected with the GOP is so used to lying and never being called on it that they lie about everything! It does not matter what it is a republican would walk 20 miles to telll a lie before they would stand in front of you and tell the truth.
I guess after so many lies and so much deceit they don't know fact from fiction.
Man, its good thing the DNC didn't use the "sugar tits on a plane" headline I asked for.
aimai
hiding under that beer facade is an elitist that was handed everything.....their story isn't compelling/interesting
Paul @ 8:
AGGGHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
lets just say this photo of her is less than flattering.
She comes of as being mean.
If she drove her car would she get a refund too? some people drive cars others, jets. its the 2nd guilded age, get used to it.
C'mon Cindy, quit whining and release those tax records. GOP crybabies.
Hey,
Cindy is cute to this 62-year-old.
Might not agree with her. Wouldn't vote for her husband.
But she's cute.
harley @ 11:
And Babs Bush's beads.
aimai @ 22:
more like "over-ripe banana tits"
As a 54 year old myself, I gotta say, she's lookin rough. A lot rougher than me.
Is that what John McCain would do to the country?
Yikes !
That's the hairiest c**t I've ever laid eyes on.
/Sorry for being rude.
//truly.
///Canadian eh ?
The strategy is: do/say something outrageous; squelch all criticism by accusing the other side of doing exactly what you did; have your propagandists state--over and over and in perfect harmony with one another--how it is the other side that has done/said the outrageous things; then, watch out...before you know it, the entire non-critical-thinking population of the U.S. believes the OTHER side has engaged in the nasties!
As a coda, the fact that your side actually did the slander is lost in the constant barrage of propaganda, and the other side, which did not engage in the slander, gets blamed for it all! Worst case: issues are all neutralized by the 'they all do it' meme.
All around win-win situation for the 'cons.
miss_kitty @ 30:
As a 51 yr old. I'd pass. Way too much clay. And she comes off as being mean.
BigTallMatt @ 10:
Thirded.
Do the GOP not notice that they're mostly the only ones doing the shit they're accusing everyone else of? It's almost as if they deliberately make these accusations to confuse people wi... ahhhhhhh.
VietVet8666 @ 27:
hey... beauty is in the eye of the beholder... that's cool but please keep the yapper shut....cindy
I haven't heard anybody attacking home wrecking beer baroness Cindy, but I can't say much for her taste in men.
Holy shit. I think I saw her in a porn movie once. Well, someone very much like her. "Debbie does Detroit" or something like it.
Please God, do not let "Barbie Doll" redecorate the white house - the people's house. I will try to be good, I will cut down on my fornicatin' and swearin' and gettin' all ginned up. I will smile at little kiddies at never again yell, "Get the fuck off my lawn."
Why didn't the McCain camp attack the WSJ who published the story?
What the hell, she looked much hotter on the campaign trail than in that picture. Then again, she was standing next to John McCain..
Then again even Sen Lindsay Graham looks attractive standing next to him.
yeah, but did anyone call her a 'trollop c*nt'?...I mean, other than her husband.
She is an alien.
Also, First Ladies should look like Jackie Kennedy. Modest but classy. Not doped up like Laura, not laid out like Babs "Jabba the Hut" Bush, and certainly not a Polish dancer. And not something you might think was cute at last call for alcohol.
echo @ 31:
I've seen hairier.
P.D. @ 6:
hey now, your talking about the people with the high moral values! You shouldn't mention that McWorse left his loving first wife for the rich-bitch 2nd wife.
hell, can anyone name 10 republicans who don't have multiple wives? I think Randi calls them "Serial Spouses"
Frank Dufek @ 42:
Don't let Lou Dobbs find out!
Is it just me, or does Cindy look like someone melted a Barbie face over a lizard?
Paul @ 8:
your new glasses will be ready friday
Every time the incompetent and inept right-wing Media tells a lie about Michelle Obama, just remember the truth about Cindy "The Lude" McCain.
BennyP @ 3:
Just started reading the comments and had to throw out a LOL
Maybe John McCain should stop attacking Cindy McCain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Euu_DMhsXQo&e
Gary @ 40:
interesting comparing sexual attraction when the pairs out of the threesome are standing next to each other.
Then again McRage prob doesnt beat LG hard enough that he has to plaster makeup over herself as heavy as Sindy.
Maybe somebody should ask Mac (in public with witnesses and cameras around) if he still beats his wife.
You cant convince me that somebody who calls his wife a c*nt and a trollop in public, isnt a wife beater.
Republican 'family values' makes me laugh and lose my lunch.
She's trying to steal air time, she's full of herself. At one point she didn't want to share her tax return then the next some times later she decides to. Now this lame attempt, why doesn't she just go back to stealing recipes or something.
there's nothing there worth talking about and i don't mean that offensively........i just don't think she is interesting one bit
Tomorrow I predict that six callers will call C-Span complaining about the DNC attacking Cindy McCain. Not because they're plants but because the RNC will send them an e-mail saying so and they believe whatever their rethug masters tell them.
mudshark @ 33:
Cindy's had her faced pulled so tight that every time she crosses her legs, her mouth pops open!
h/t Joan Rivers (:>
Diana @ 32:
BAM!
You got it. Gods I've been saying this for YEARS!!
aibatt @ 54:
stealing recipes over here so they dont have to steal recipes from over there.
makes perfect sense in a Lumpy Rash sort of way.
You just know she has never touched a spoon or a mixing bowl in her life, not to mention a HTML editor, so which loyal staffer stole the recipes for her ?
i wish the repug's would just get it over with and reboot. mccain ain't gonna make it. i just don't see this guy going the distance.
ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 59:
cooks and liars
sixhundredsixtysix @ 58:
you've got it my good man.....rove perfected this strategy. that's what they're doing and they will continue to do this.. why? it works.......i still believe a very good youtube debate would be a good beat down of mccain for people who need the visuals to be convinced
here's the confusing they're trying to cause regarding social security....perfect for people that hear what they want to hear and/or hear three out of ten words
http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/42122-tpmtv-mccain-s-social-security-bambo...
McCain can attack Cindy without our help.
Perhaps they want to prepare the soil for THEIR attacks on Michelle, which they feel they need to make the Obamas look "un-American". From what I've read of the RNC strategy, this is important to them. If they can claim that Cindy has been attacked, then they can do so "back", with impunity. It has nothing to do with the truth, which is that the press has been VERY restrained on the Cindy issues, as we know.
ellen @ 65:
they provide the rope and we hang ourselves
What the hell is McCain upset about? It's him who called his wife a c--t in public.
She should sue the Plastic surgeon who messed up her face lift.
I sense Turd Blossom's total desperation again and smell the shit in his pants from fear.
Why is it that all the stupid, bleach blondes are always Resluts?
The "E" mail sounds like something the narrow minded Republicians would do. Decent people would not even resort to such low level name calling, only the sad Retarded Republicians.
ignoring the Republican sleaze and lies will lose the election.
Being nice is a sign of weakness.
She has the look of someone you would expect to see running a brothel. She just plain looks cheap. Money can't buy everything.
pete @ 47:
HA!
LOL.
I can see her standing behind her husband as he gives his concession speech, her lizard tongue flicking in and out.
Just sitting here wondering . . . .
Every time I see McSame with his woman standing next to him, I don't see any kind of loving relationship between the two. She comes across as a disciplinarian, even a dominatrix. She looks at him as if to warn him not to say anything that may cost her the priveledge of living in the White House.
Could this also be a throwback to McCain having been a POW, when prisoners become dependent and obedient to their captors? In fact a relationship develops between them according to their status? Could she be representative of one of his Vietnamese captors? Is that what McSame needed after returning home?
Soooo let's see if I have this right..... noting that mccain is a deadbeat that doesn't pay his campaign debt for the use of his wifes plane is an attack on his wife? Dang! No wonder he's called mcinsane.
mudshark @ 24:
ARRGGGGHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
damn, that's still scary.
Off Topic/ You know times are tough when even the worlds oldest profession is having "hard " times.
mudshark @ 77:
Come September in Minneapolis, business will be booming.
ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 78:
which reminds me of a little ditty...
Did the DNC call cindy a c**t?
Puppets will do as puppets do...
from Spitting Image circa sometime in the lates 80s 'Never Met a Nice South African'
concerning the Republican (Bushco) style South African apartheid regime and their behaviour.
ysbaddaden @ 80:
No, it was her wife-abusing husband that called her a c*nt and a trollop in front of four or more people.
Obamamite @ 61:
LOL, I was going to say better homes of crooks and liars
The repigs should sit on it and spin!
Jo @ 43:
pete @ 47:
EJG @ 73:
The Truth Hurts @ 12:
Loonie @ 35:
So, uh... you guys do realize that this sexist and borderline misogynist shit is exactly what we accused the GOP of doing to Clinton and what we are now accusing them of doing to Michelle Obama? Granted, they *are* doing it, but participating in it sure as hell doesn't put you on the high road. I thought that for the most part that we've been pretty civil, and more importantly, we've been on topic. We point out the pointless lapel-pin, hand-over-the-heart crap, the right-wing desepration, the baseless attacks, the racism, the sexism of all of it, then we turn around and say "OH MY GOD, CINDY MCCAIN IS A WHORESLUT!"
You've gotten off your high horse, shot it, and shoved it in the mud. Congratulations, you're now playing on their level.
God, thats the worst picture of C-Mac that I've ever seen. Well, when you're on you're last leg, you gotta make stuff up.
WHOA! That hair! Didn't she perform her song Charity (It's All For Me) at the Grand Ole Opry in, like, 1973?
Didn't I hear that Karl Rove is advising McCain now? That would explain the outrageous claim that the DNC is attacking her.
Andy K Jong Il @ 87:
You sure you're not thinkin of Dolly Parton?
hasta amigo.
Chris @ 85:
Hey, even McCain was overheard telling it like it is. These are observations. Does she really think mainstream women want a husband stealing trash heap representing our country? At least Lora Bush looks and acts like a lady even though she is an idiot for supporting the war criminal, but she is a lady. Cindy McCain is NOT. I sure as hell wouldn't want a senile old man with a tramp for a wife in the white house representing me. Call her on it now. Remind the women of this country what kind of woman she is, and what kind of a man he is to leave his wife after she raised his kids and faithfully waited for him. Any lady would have told him to go away because he was a married man. She is not a lady and she DOES look like someone who runs a brothel. MAYBE that is why she won't release her taxes lol.
What hideous hair!
Mrs. McDruggie is going to get OLD and UGLY fast.
Hellooooo big hair!
BennyP @ 3:
There is something artificial about her. Is it that she's a very tense person? Has she had too much work on her face? The blond, blond, blond hair? What is it?
As someone who came from a family of strong women, I admire a man who chooses a strong woman. Cindy McCain reminds me of the female character in the movie who is in the jungle wearing a filmy cocktail dress and 3" spiked heels and can't run when the monster comes.
dadams @ 9:
She STEALS more than that ... she steals DRUGS!
""She was blonde and beautiful. A rich man's daughter who became a politically powerful man's wife. She had it all, including an insidious addiction to drugs that sapped the beauty from her life like a spider on a butterfly."
What McEachern and the others didn't know was that, far from being a simple, honest admission designed to clear her conscience and help other addicts, Cindy McCain's storytelling had been orchestrated by Jay Smith, then John McCain's Washington campaign media advisor. And it was intended to divert attention from a different story, a story that was getting quite messy."
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/18/drugs/
As commondreams states:
http://www.commondreams.org/views/021400-102.htm
"Let's examine Mrs. McCain's position in these terms. She was the privileged wife of a prominent family and spouse of an important politician, a person who had her own position of prestige and power. Should she not be held at least as accountable for her actions as an uneducated inner-city drug user? After all, she could enter drug treatment at any time she chose, unlike many drug users who find themselves in prison.
Moreover, Mrs. McCain was violating a position of trust by stealing from a charitable organization, using its money and medical expertise to fuel her drug use. Is this not morally more reprehensible than simply purchasing drugs illegally?
Finally, Mrs. McCain was the mother of four children at the time she admits to using drugs--between 1989 and 1992. Her children were born in 1984, 1986, 1988 and 1991. In other words, Cindy McCain was using drugs while raising small children, one of whom she adopted while she was an addict. In most states, family services will remove children from a woman who is known to be an active drug addict, and she would certainly not be allowed to adopt a child while addicted."
She's not only an addict - she's is a convicted DRUG FELON!
If she gets her face lifted one more time, she'll be sportin' a Van Dyke.
Um, nothing personal folks, but it's a little hard to justify being angered at the lack of respect afforded Michelle Obama by Fox News - for referring to her as 'Barack's Baby Momma' - when you treat Cindy McCain with similar disrespect by referring to her as McCain's 'Sugar Momma.' It might sound funny and cute to you (as did I'm sure Fox's phrase sound to their folks) - but it's not funny at all. It's just rude. Grow up.
FYI - There are actually real terms you can call these candidate's wives: like "John McCain's wife" and "the wife of Barack Obama" or "Michelle Obama" and "Cindy McCain."
bill doh @ 34:
I agree to the nth degree. Cindy McCain to me is nothing but a pill-head who is too botoxed for her own good.
Cincy the druggie should keep her mouth zipped. She has a lot more skeletons in her closet than Michelle Obama.
I meant Cindy LOL
Carol @ 97:
No, that's John McCain's soul.
Chris @ 85:
Not quite. The folks commenting here are not media people like Hannity, O'Reilly, Rush, or any one of a dozen or more others who have been making cheap, slanderous comments about Obama and his wife for months. Not to mention the daily slanders of Hillary Clinton aired without letup on all media from the day she declared her candidacy.
Misogynistic? Maybe. But this imperious woman, her refusal to disclose her tax returns (as Teresa Kerry did, after persistent demands from the GOP), her adulterous relationship with her husband before he divorced his former wife, his undisclosed use of her private jet and vast wealth for political purposes in violation of the election laws, her documented prescription drug theft (from a charity, no less), are all fair game.
As for catty comments about the woman, well, it's the internet - not tea with the freaking Queen. This site is not the DNC. Who made you the politeness police?
ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 82:
Lol, McCain't is toast.
It's rude of me to say so, but Cindy looks like a decaying, soiled & stained Barbie Doll, all the way up to the glittering platinum hair.
Bubba @ 102:
I'm not sure why McStain would mind if other people insulted his c*nt, sorry wife. He doesn't care about her except for her huge reserves of cash and free flights on her private jets. Johnny is too busy sucking GW to bother with a woman.
Do NOT trust this woman!
Cindy McCain and Lynne Cheney could easily pass for sisters.
Cindy McCain's a Jew with fake blonde hair. I hope Michelle sends her back to Tel Aviv.
isn't this standard operating procedure?
push out a hundred of these false complaints and one will eventually stick as a rallying cry.
For crying out loud, that was an article from the WSJ, not some piece of gossip off a left wing blog. But of course taking cheap shots at Michele Obama is fair game, and even altering clips of her videos to alter the meaning of her statements or make them sound worse is considered legitimate. I'm sorry, but for some reason, Cindy Lou creeps me out. I can't quite put my finger on it, but she does. I don't trust her. Did she actually get treatment for that drug habit, or like Bush, give it up on her own with a little help from the Lord? And why would any woman tolerate her husband calling her a trollip and a c**t?? If McCain call her that in public we can only imagine what he says in private?
They're very alert to Cindy McCain. Her past has been a little too colorful to fully expose. On the other hand, she lets his campaign use her to make dirty comments about Barak and Michelle.
Cindy McCain is the creepiest-looking potential First Lady I have ever seen! I don't think I could look at that horror-movie face for four years. Fortunately, I don't think I'll have to.
The picture accompanying this article says it all. Yuck!
Gee, Cindy likes her a 'pearl necklace'....
I'm 52 and Cindy is a dog as far as I'm concerned. Anyone that thinks she is attractive needs to turn off the tv, take down their Phillis Diller posters, and go for a walk at the mall. I'm sure you can find many women much more atractive to look at there....
Even if his charge were true, it would be hard to attack her in more vile terms than he did himself when he publicly called her a trollop and a c**t.
This guy just doesn't get it. Every attempt he makes to slime others fails because he's already got his own history working aginast him. He never figures it out. He ought to give it up and attempt to find some small, remaining kernal of integrity within himself and proceed from those grounds. But, he is so thoroughly compromised, that that is probably impossible for him.
BTW, I'm not the Paul @ 8. That guy is clearly an imposter.
It's not "attacking" her to say she should release her tax records, considering a public official is using her money for the sake of his campaign.
Attacking someone is pulling the demonstrably false notion that someone "hates America" directly out of your ass in an ad hominem attack like the Republicans have been repeatedly doing to Michelle Obama.
Actually, the Republicans are going after Michelle Obama because they perceive her to have a shorter fuse than Barack. All they need is to incite one meltdown, and they'll use this to promote the "Obamas are scary people" meme. Remember what happened to Harold Ford when he got pissed off about that racist "Call me, Harold" ad in the Tennessee Senate race of 06? He slipped in the polls and never recovered.
Everyone needs to stay cool, not give the Repub bastards any ammunition . . .
Typical Repub b.s.
Trying to claim that asking a candidate's wife to disclose her tax returns is some type of smear..... poor victimized Cindy. Bo freakin' hoo
But it's not such a dumb tactic.... they know once the general public starts hearing about the REAL Cindy, they're in deep trouble. Especially if they compare Cindy to Michelle.... it's bad, bad news for McCain.
Both candidates might actually stay on the high road as far as wives go BUT the pundits won't & the bloggers won't so this WILL be an issue in the media no matter what the candidates say. No wonder the Repubs are so scared.
For 54... she looks terrible.
The DNC sent out an email relating the established facts that Cindy McCain is an adultress, a drug addict, and a thief?
Oh... it was just the private plane thing, I see. And Wet Start Johnny still got his tailfeathers singed?
Cindy's an botoxed yenta. Does anyone know if she has she ever had interracial sex? She kinda looks she has a large minora stuck up her polyp filled ass.
McC*nt
pete @ 47:
For the win!
sam @ 96:
Um, no. Anonymous comments on a blog != the official chyron of a cable news network.
cindy looks like she should be caging drinks and rolling sailors on a harbor's dankest dive.
Marge Simpson called
She wants her necklace back.
sam @ 96:
There is a substantial difference between the connotations of "baby mamma" and "sugar momma." The former is a racial term used to describe a woman who has had a child with a black man and is now separated from him. The latter term is applicable to all races and doesn't carry half of the negativity that the former does.
Gross.
McWar's wife looks like the Bride of Frankenstein.
sam @ 96:
Have to ask, do you even know what the term baby mama even means?
Watch Cindy McCain herself tell how she and John McCain both lied about their ages and didn't find out the truth until they were already married!! Really!! Check out this shocking YouTube video. No one is reporting on this, but it is going to be very incriminating when it comes out.
Can you imagine finding out on your wedding day that your husband or wife lied about his or her real age, and thinking it’s funny because you had lied about your age too?! What kind of people are these? And if they would be so dishonest with eah other in their most personal, intimate relationship, how can we imagine they will be honest with us?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv7LUT1ezm0
CINDY MCCAIN LOOKS LIKE A VEGAS SHOW GIRL FROM THE 60'S
KIND OF LIKE A GANGSTER'S MOLL.
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