The Delight that is Cindy McCain

If Senator McCain seems hesitant to attack Senator Obama for personal issues, such as Jeremiah Wright and his angry-black man preaching, it may be because he's hiding some of his own skeletons in his proverbial closet. One very prominent skeleton in McCain's life is his very well dressed wifey, Cindy McCain.

When it comes to Cindy, a smearer, like myself I suppose, just doesn't know where to begin. Being an old fashioned kind of girl, I like to take it from the top. One, two, three, four...

• Cindy Lou Hensley was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1954, the same year John Sidney McCain III entered the Naval Academy. Her father, James Hensley, was one of the wealthiest men in Arizona when he died in 2000, having made his fortune as a liquor distributor and founder of Hensley and Co, the third largest distributor of Anheuser-Busch. Prior to his successes, however, Jim Hensley had a habit of breaking the law, and was in trouble with the authorities for fraudulent business behavior on more than once occasion, including a six-month Federal sentence in 1948. Nonetheless, his affluence afforded Cindy an elite lifestyle, and she went on to receive such honors as "Junior Rodeo Queen of Arizona" in 1968 and "Best Dressed" in high school her senior year

• She met John McCain in 1979 while he was still married to his first wife of fourteen years, Carol. By April 1980, John had divorced Carol and he and Cindy were married in a lavish wedding May of that year.

• This was neither the first affair John had had nor the first marriage he had broken up, as Carol was married too when she and John had first met, back when Cindy was 3.

• In 1988 Cindy created her own charity NGO called The American Voluntary Medical Team , which organized trips to disaster-struck or war-torn areas of the third world. It also provided her with easy access to a plethora of opiates to help support her twenty-pill a day addiction.

  Cindy was a serious narcotics addict who created a charity for sick children (American Voluntary Medical Team or AVMT), then used it to get fraudulent prescriptions for Vicodin and Percocet. And a whistleblower from her staff says that John McCain and his senate staffers helped Cindy smuggle her ill-gotten narcotics through customs. Tom Gosinski was fired from AVMT after expressing concerns about her addiction and habit of writing prescriptions in other people's names to get drugs. He says that John McCain himself got her a diplomatic passport, which prevents customs officials from searching her bags... McCain claims he didn't know Cindy was an addict when he got her a diplomatic passport, but that's hard to believe since she had a stretch in rehab back in 1991. Cindy McCain faced 20 years in prison for obtaining "a controlled substance by misrepresenting, fraud, forgery, deception or subterfuge." With a wealthy father, high-priced lawyer and Senator husband, she got the lightest possible punishment -- charges were dropped in return for her entering rehab. Any regular, much less poor person who had written fraudulent prescriptions, stolen narcotics from a charity and smuggled them around the world would have received several years in prison. Her doctor, for one, lost his license and never practiced again.

• That Charles Keating scandal, well Cindy had a hand in that too. In 1986, Cindy and her father James Hensley, invested over $450 thousand in one of Keating's shopping centers, a year before McCain intervened on his behalf with the regulator. The following is a quote from Cindy herself in regards to this investment.

  Sometime in 1986, I was told by Mr. Delgado, who was Executive Vice President of my father-in-law's company, that they were going to invest in a shopping center and that the investment -- the project -- was being put together by a subsidiary of American Continental ... He later told me that they -- that that had happened. And I had no interest in it and just noted in passing that this investment took place.

As you can see, Cindy Mac is the gift that just keeps on giving. I can't wait for her next move!