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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe thing no one is saying about McCain.
To be honest, I was not a huge fan of him. I did applaud him for giving the middle finger to Trump, even in death, by not inviting him to his funeral.
However, no one seems to mention that his first wife was injured in a car accident, and due to this and other factors, McCain left her and several children.
This seems to make him less of a person, to me anyway.
rzemanfl
(29,540 posts)Squinch
(50,774 posts)she has said they were friends after the divorce. So, no.
https://www.factcheck.org/2008/09/mccains-first-marriage/
And PS, you signed up to make an OP about this? Hmmmm....
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Vinca
(50,170 posts)dalton99a
(81,068 posts)Kaleva
(36,146 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)His first wife said he was a 40 year old who wanted to be 25 and acted accordingly.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,705 posts)I certainly don't countenance infidelity but I can understand it in this instance.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)For a variety of reasons.
world wide wally
(21,719 posts)I don't think he cast them out of the kind of hatred that Trump shows every day
MattP
(3,304 posts)JI7
(89,180 posts)he had 3 kids from that marriage and 2 of them were kids she already had who he adopted.
his kids from both marriages get along with each other and with Cindy.
he did not abandon any of the kids.
and he was one of the few republicans who didn't preach of personal morals while condemning others.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)no excuses for the enormous changes, separation, and stresses they'd both undergone. He was a good ex-husband to his two stepchildren and son, and he and his ex-wife maintained a friendly relationship. That last says a lot to me, despicable behaviors being so dreadfully common.
What reservations I have about him, and they're huge, are all about his political choices. I don't feel the details of his personal life choices are mine to judge, but it's very different when it comes to the big part he played throughout the massive betrayals of the Republican Party and its decline into extreme corruption. There were honorable conservatives in congress who refused to go along and were purged as a result. But not him.
Ring of truth. It's only when our nation became increasingly, and ultimately gravely, endangered that I became truly proud of and grateful to the Democratic Party's role in our democracy. Before that, for over 40 years, I'd prided myself on really being "independent," seeing that as more admirable, and just saw registering Democrat as a pragmatic move to maximize the power of my vote through collective action.