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One reason people think the media is biased.
We had to hear for weeks on end about Obama not wearing a flag pin.
But do we hear this story ?
Which is a much better insight into the morals of McCain than forgetting
to put on a flag pin could ever be.
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Chapter IV: Arizona, the early years
By Bill Muller
The Arizona Republic
June 05, 1999 12:12:00
In 1979, John McCain came face to face with his future.
He was in Hawaii, attending a military reception. While there, he met a young, blond, former cheerleader named Cindy Hensley.
It was an incredible stroke of luck for McCain.
How fortunate could one man be? Here was McCain, who had his eye on Congress, meeting a young, attractive beer heiress from Arizona, which was adding a congressional district in 1982.
McCain recalls that both he and Cindy fudged their ages at first. McCain made himself a little younger and Cindy made herself a little older. They found out their real ages when the local paper published them. McCain was 43, Cindy 25.
''So our marriage,'' McCain cracks, ''is really based on a tissue of lies.''
While they were dating, McCain called Cindy from Beijing, where he was traveling with a contingent from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee while she was in the hospital recuperating from minor knee surgery. She thanked him for the lovely flowers in her room, sent from ''John.''
What McCain didn't tell Cindy was that he hadn't sent the flowers. They were from another John, who lived in Tucson.
''I never thanked him,'' Cindy notes with a grin.
After a whirlwind courtship, John asked Cindy to marry him. But there were some details to clear out of the way.
McCain needed a divorce from his wife of 14 years, Carol, who had been badly injured in a car accident while McCain languished in Hanoi.
The marriage had been strained by his years of absence, along with McCain's admitted affairs after returning from Vietnam.
In February 1980, less than a year after he met Cindy, McCain petitioned a Florida court to dissolve his marriage to Carol, calling the union ''irretrievably broken.'' Bud Day, a lawyer and fellow POW, handled the case.
''I thought things were going fairly well, and then it just came apart,'' Day recalls. ''That happened to quite a few. . . . I don't fault (Carol), and I don't really fault John, either.''
In the divorce settlement, McCain was generous with Carol, the mother of their daughter Sydney and two other children, whom McCain had adopted. Among other things, McCain gave Carol the rights to houses in Florida and Virginia, and agreed to pay her medical bills for life.
Except for signing the property settlement, Carol did not participate in the divorce. A court summons and other paperwork sent to her during the proceeding went unanswered.
In April, the judge entered a default judgment and declared the marriage dissolved. A month later, McCain married Cindy in Phoenix, and they moved there.
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