[Politics? And not baseball, wrestling or my family? Shocking, I know]
Now, First Lady's aren't always 100% awesome and I understand this. I actually like Laura Bush
(way better than Mrs. Bush) and while I don't submit to the whole Family Guy: "Laura Bush killed a man~!" thing, I still think out of the two Bushes, Laura was probably pretty smart growing up and now she's more than obviously the smarter one in her relationship. However? Cindy McBarbieCain? Scares the living shit out of me. Both as a person and aesthetically as a living breathing (?) Stepford Wife. When she was on
The View (because remember, while I and most people with any logical brains can't stand watching an entire episode of
The View without wanting to commit some form of homicide, a large portion of the voting public does. So, of course, I watched most of it) she said something about "our horrible enemies in the Russians."
Yes, they are horrible. But, the only reason she was saying this was because it was in the middle of the Russia / Georgia conflict. There is no need for a future First Lady to say anything like that when Russia (not Georgia) is one of America's biggest allies
with oil. If more people had been watching it except for the Polish girl who is anal about all things Russia, there would've been a huge political blowup because you don't say that sort of shit, no matter how true it might be.
Cindy McCain's Attack On Obama's Record Offends Military Spouses
http://tinyurl.com/4dcod3At a rally in Bethlehem, Pa. last week, Cindy McCain spoke about having two sons serving on active duty: "I'm proud of my sons, but let me tell you, the day that Senator Obama cast a vote not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body. I would suggest that Senator Obama change shoes with me for just one day, and see what it means."
Never mind how many drinks are needed to erase the mental image of Barack Obama wearing Cindy McCain's stiletto heels. The fact is -- many military spouses support Obama-Biden, and they were deeply offended by Mrs. McCain's outburst.
Let's fact-check her remark, shall we?
Cindy McCain was referring to a single 2007 Senate vote: Obama voted for a war-spending bill that included language calling for withdrawing troops from Iraq; but later he voted against a version of the same bill because it no longer included the withdrawal language. "We must fund our troops, but we owe them something more," Obama said at the time. "We owe them a clear, prudent plan to relieve them of the burden of policing someone else's civil war."
In other words, Sen. Obama wanted to fund the troops, he just didn't support the flawed military strategy this particular bill would enable. (Previously, Obama had voted YES on at least 10 other war funding bills. For a lengthy list of John McCain's NO votes on military funding, click here.)
"It ruffles our feathers when someone claims that Barack Obama doesn't support the troops, because the Obamas have gone out of their way to understand the military, its families, and its veterans," Stephanie Himel-Nelson, deputy director of outreach for Blue Star Families for Obama, told OffTheBus. "In fact, Michelle Obama has adopted military families as one of her causes."
Would Cindy McCain "Change Shoes" With These Military Wives?
"When millionaires such as Cindy McCain act as if they understand our lives, and the lives of everyday military families and veterans, we get upset," said Himel-Nelson.
( read on (also, the link has all the fact checkers for you to see. Sadly, I can't get that to work on my Semagic )