Shame on you, Cindy McCain!

Speaking in Pennsylvania today, Cindy McCain made a statement that made my head explode.  She said:

I’m proud of my sons, but let me tell you, the day that Senator Obama decided to cast a vote to not fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body, let me tell you. I would suggest that Senator Obama change shoes with me for just one day, and see what it means, and see what it means to have a loved one serving in the armed forces, and more importantly, serving in harms way. 

I suggest [Obama] take a day and go watch our fine young men and women deploy, get on those buses and leave with a smile and a charge.

Are you sure you want to go there, Cindy?

The vote you were talking about has been well publicized.  Senator Obama voted against a bill that contained no time line for leaving Iraq and gave a blank war check to the current administration.  Cindy, you know damn well what that vote meant.  What's even more outrageous is that your own husband voted against a troop funding bill as well!

That's right, Cindy.  Your husband voted against a bill that contained a time line for withdrawal from Iraq.  Senator McCain said he couldn't support the time line, so he voted against the troop funding bill.  To take a line from Senator Biden, let me repeat that:

Senator McCain voted against funding our troops.

What's more, this came up in the first presidential debate.  Were you not paying attention?

Cindy, your husband has a nice long history of voting against funding for our troops and veterans.

Brandon Friedman compiled a wonderful list with citations to the Congressional Record and interviews with John McCain, complete with video, for your viewing pleasure.  It includes things such as:

• Voting against veterans;
• Lack of support for the troops;
• Cheerleading for war with Iraq - while Afghanistan was unfinished;
• Staunch defense of the invasion of Iraq; and
• A dangerous lack of foreign policy knowledge;

Are you feeling uncomfortable yet, Cindy? 

The Disabled American Veterans give your husband, Senator McCain, the man you claim supports the troops and veterans, only a 20% rating.  Senator Obama gets an 80% rating.  The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America just released their 2008 Congressional ratings and gave John McCain a D.  Barack Obama got a B.  Now I know John McCain is used to getting D's, I mean he had to have gotten quite a few to have graduated at nearly the bottom of his Naval Academy class.  But D's aren't acceptable when it comes to men and women who give their lives serving in our military.

So, Cindy, until your husband stands up and does the right thing for our troops and veterans, sit down and shut the hell up.

Sincerely,
One pissed off military family member

Comments

[Queen of Spain]

Cindy also tried to call the Obama campaign the dirtiest in American history.

She's clearly living in some strange, elitist world the rest of us are not.

I'm at a loss for words at how out of touch they are. Seriously.

That One '08 baby.

[JeanAnnVK]

That's unbelievable...wait, no it's not...when you can't win on issues, you slander character...what a surprise...how un-maveric-like...

[Gunfighter]

I get really angry when people say that voting to de-fund the war or curtailing spending in Iraq is a vote to "de-fund the troops" as if cutting off funding for the war will directly effect any individual soldier. It won't.

Not funding defense appropriations doesn't have a single bloody thing to do with feeding or arming our fighting forces in the field.

As if a spending bill isn't "funding" her son... oh please! Perhaps Mrs
McCain ought to go back to stealing to feed her chemical habits and leave political statements to others.

As a veteran, and as the son, nephew, son-in-law, and brother of other long serving veterans, who have served their country in the second world war, the Korean war, the cold war, middle eastern and central American hotspots, and the first Gulf War, I have to say: ENOUGH!

Enough with the faux love for "the troops" Those same troops come from the families that have been getting the economic shaft from the McCains of the world since the first army was ever formally raised.

[Kristin]

I used to kinda appreciate John McCain -- campaign finance, torture stance, etc. Thought that he wasn't just completely bat crazy like so many other members of his party.

Now, I'm beginning to believe that there is a special lying/slimy/scumbag/ section of hell that he and Cindy will be sitting in for quite sometime.

[sandy]

Cindy McCain wants to trade places with Barack Obama for a day? Superb! It would do her good to spend a day in the shoes of an American black man.

I'm all for greater insight and empathy, but I think Mrs. McCain might not like it so much.

[Halimah]

I wonder what the skillfully coiffed beer-heiress would look like working for minimum wage asking, "Do you want fries with that?". Those are shoes I'd love to see her slip on and walk a few miles in as well.

[jaelithe]

And let us not forget that John McCain also refused to support Senator Jim Webb's GI Bill: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9966.html

[Linda]

Love your new MOMocrats slogan! :-) (P.S. to John McCain: That's 'SENATOR That One' to you!!)

[mom101]

Aw, didn't you get the memo? Yesterday was opposite day! That totally explains it all. I hear that beneath the podium, she was wearing her underwear on the outside of her dress too.

[sad]

It would seem to me that if I were Cindy McCain, the dirtiest campaign would HAVE to be the one that was against her husband in 2000, where the Bush create/spread/incite the notion that Bridget McCain was McCain's illegitimate child. Maybe she has forgotten, although if someone slandered my daughter, it would be in the forefront of my mind daily. But then again, her husband has people on his campaign that helped run Bush's.

She does not look like a well or happy woman.