I heard today about Cindy McCain's drug addiction problem

[panader0]

I guess she took pain killers for her back, and the strain of the Keating 5 affair, there's alot more at Wikipedia. While I have a lot of empathy for people with problems (Cindy), I have no sympathy for John McWayne. Somewhere down the road, before the election, this will come back to bite him. Sure, jump on Pastor Wright, jump on "bitter", jump on secret "Muslim Manchurian Candidate" BS. People who live in glass houses............

[MADem]

1. She did a sympathetic interview about all that eight years ago on primetime TV.

She wasn't only addicted, she was STEALING DRUGS from other people.

That dog won't hunt, though. She's "atoned" and doesn't play the holier than thou card, at least on PRESCRIPTION drug addictions...

[bluestateguy]

2. I don't think we should make an issue of Cindy McCain's drug addiction problem

We definitely should not raise the issue of Cindy McCain's drug addiction problem. Cindy McCain's drug addiction problem should be a private issue and not an issue to be kicked around by the news media. Any Democrat who makes an issue of Cindy McCain's drug addiction problem should be shunned. With regard to this Cindy McCain drug addiction problem, I would say that it should not be an issue.

[panader0]

3. I agree. It's the other way around that bothers me.

Wasn't there an issue made of Obama's youthful drug use? I just feel that it is hypocritical.

[Fumesucker]

7. But Obama has finessed his way out of his own "youthful drug use"..

By endorsing giving people who do exactly the same things he did police records that will keep them from ever running for president.

Good thing the Christ never instructed His followers to treat others the way they themselves would wish to be treated.

[rurallib]

4. Not the drug addiction - BUT ----

didn't she start up a charity as a front to secure her drugs and then really fuck over the poor guy who ran it? To the point where she made him to be the fall guy for the missing prescriptions? And then thanks to her money she got off scot free? What ever happened to him?

[glowing]

5. addictions come to many people in different forms.. I agree.. this isn't

something to knock someone around on.. and she's not running or making national decisions.. Perhaps, she would speak more to the farce of the War on Drugs and recognize that this is a social issue.. I'm sure she appreciated getting help, rather than being incarcerated for 20yrs.

[emilyg]

11. Agree.

[liberalla]

13. Ignore the drugs and addiction. Look at the crime, and the coverup.

I'm not saying we should raise the drug addiction problem in the campaign.

However, whenever you hear about it, you need to think about the laws that were broken and how the McCain's power and wealth was used to cover up the crime (breaking more laws while doing so). And of course, the little people get hurt, as usual.

When laws are broken, somebody's got to be punished. In the case of Cindy McCain, that somebody is Tom Gosinski

[NJmaverick]

6. It's not the drug problem, it's the stealing from a charity

to get the drugs. That is what really shows the lack of moral fiber.

[mrJJ]

8. Test Them ALL

As Long as Ms Cindy McCain is not an active part of the political or legal process its her own demon to deal with.

I think that Sen McCain, Sen Clinton & Sen Obama should all be mentally & completely physically tested. The US can't afford to have anyone in power who has a hint of a serious medical or mental problem again.

Only a handful of people knew that the sitting Supreme Court's Chief Justice W Rehnquist was off his rocker. His foia info was released after he died. Amazing how the Politicians hid the info from the American public... But then again shows you the caliber of Pols we have.

snip

The FBI's 1986 report on Rehnquist's drug dependence was not released at the time of his confirmation, though some Democratic senators wanted it made public. But it is in Rehnquist's now-public file, and it contains new details about his behavior during his weeklong hospital stay in December 1981. One physician whose name is blocked out told the FBI that Rehnquist expressed "bizarre ideas and outrageous thoughts. He imagined, for example, that there was a CIA plot against him."

The doctor said Rehnquist "had also gone to the lobby in his pajamas in order to try to escape." The doctor said Rehnquist's delirium was consistent with him suddenly stopping his apparent daily dose of 1400 milligrams of the drug --

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1167818524831

[Bluebear]

9. I have every sympathy for her addiction, but not for stealing from charities to obtain the drugs.

[liberalla]

10. The story is not that she's an addict

...and no one should attack her for that.

Ignore the drugs and addiction. Look at the crime, and the coverup.

Just like the problem with McCain and Vicki Iseman was not about sex, it was about ETHICS. (you'd never know that from the media coverage). Cindy's problem was not that she became addicted to drugs, it was the laws she broke to get her drugs, and the people who were silenced and prosecuted to protect McCain's public image.

Opiate For the Mrs.
When laws are broken, somebody's got to be punished. In the case of Cindy McCain, that somebody is Tom Gosinski

By Jeremy Voas and Amy Silverman
Published: September 8, 1994

You're U.S. Senator John McCain, and you've got a big problem.
Your wife, Cindy, was addicted to prescription painkillers. She stole pills from a medical-aid charity she heads and she used the names of unsuspecting employees to get prescriptions.

The public is about to find out about it.
Until now, you've managed to keep it all quiet. When Tom Gosinski, a man your wife fired, sued for wrongful termination and threatened to expose the whole sordid story, you didn't hesitate to call in the big guns.

John Dowd, the attorney who got you out of your Keating Five mess, worked on getting your wife a sweetheart deal with federal prosecutors. He also made Gosinski's lawsuit go away.

He didn't stop there.
To help maintain your reputation and discredit your wife's accuser, Dowd called Maricopa County Attorney Richard Romley and complained that Gosinski was trying to extort money. Romley, your Republican ally, promptly launched an extortion investigation.

But now New Times makes a public records request for documents in the extortion case. It's only a matter of days before the story gets out.

Here's what the senator does.
He calls in another big gun, political strategist Jay Smith, who conceives a rather remarkable plan.

On August 19--just three days before the records are to be made public--Smith parades your wife before a select group of journalist friends. She tells a tale of pain and triumph, and, incredibly, all the reporters agree to sit on the story until August 22. When Cindy McCain says her confession is intended to quell rumors and to inspire other druggies to turn their lives around, the journalists lap it up. They write about her "bravery." The first round of stories is one-sided. There is no mention of Tom Gosinski or Romley's extortion investigation.

But after a week, there is no glossing over huge gaps...

More: http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1994-09-08/news/opiate-for-the-mrs

Ignore the drugs and addiction. Look at the crime, and the coverup.

[jazzjunkysue]

12. It's her eyes: They dart around in press conferences. Shifty eyes.

:scared:

I don't really care about the drugs. She creeps me out on sight.