Thursday September 4, 2008, 2:32 pm

I noticed during this convention that Mrs. Bush has also upscaled her threads. She looked like Cindy McCains little mother.
$300000 ... now that's just way conservative, considering in one month she spent $500,000 getting up to the minute for hubbies primary win.

Thursday September 4, 2008, 2:35 pm

I hate to mention this but it is a burning question Ive had since noticing these dresses that not even Princess Diana would be caught in, the question I need to know is:
What about the underwear? Are their panties, bra's and nylon stockings all custom made to those precious upscale angular bones and fat pads?

I really want to know about the underwear.

out of curiousity, only.

Thursday September 4, 2008, 5:12 pm
Everything is relative. A friend of mine was once criticizing some celebrity for spending so much on clothes, jewelry, etc. when that money could have gone to charity to help the needy. I pointed out to my friend that she had just bought a purse which cost $130.00. I said that not only did she not need another purse but, if she had to buy one, she didn't need to spend $130.00 and could have given that money to charity. She said that spending $130.00 was very different from spending tens of thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of dollars - and I reminded her that $130 would support an entire family for many months in quite a few places in the world. It could have been used to buy medicine in a third-world country which would have saved the lives of several children. So by buying that purse instead of giving the money to charity she condemned children to death. Of course, she couldn't admit the truth of that statement. We all spend money on non-necessities when that money could be sent to charity to help the needy. The dollar amount is immaterial. I have no problem with Cindy McCain owning expensive jewelry and designer clothes - she has a right to spend her money on things that make her happy.

Friday September 5, 2008, 4:39 pm
OMG!!!!!!!!!!! Repugs like to call Obama an elitist. This takes the cake.
Mrs Bush spend several thousand on her dress to!

Friday September 5, 2008, 6:24 pm
Hey, Cindy McCain looked hot up on that stage at the Republican National Convention. Sure did. That $300,000 designer outfit would've fit right in at the Super Bowl, too. And, hey, I'm sure the bright-yellow color would've looked cheeky at the Olympics. Yep, John McCain's got himself a fox in that Cindy. Must be nice to be - what? - 72 and have that to come home to. As Keith Jackson of ABC Sports might say about here, "Whoa, Nelly!"

But they say every story has its other side, and that's what this is about.

John McCain's first wife Carol, shown above, doesn't own a $300,000 anything. She's barely making it, is what we're told. Shy and respectful, she doesn't come out and attack her first love, the man she supported while he was locked-up in that North Vietnam prison hellhole, the woman who was there for him when he got off that airplane to again walk the ground of the United States. No, life has been tough on Carol. A few months back, The Daily Mail of London published a story about the First Mrs. John McCain. Some of it follows in these italicized paragraphs:

McCain likes to illustrate his moral fibre by referring to his five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. And to demonstrate his commitment to family values, the former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children. The first Mrs. McCain is casting a ghostly shadow over the Senator’s presidential campaign. She is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain’s three eldest children.

And yet, had events turned out differently, it would be she, rather than Cindy, who would be vying to be First Lady. She is McCain’s first wife, Carol, who was a famous beauty and a successful swimwear model when they married in 1965. She was the woman McCain dreamed of during his long incarceration and torture in Vietnam’s infamous "Hanoi Hilton" prison and the woman who faithfully stayed at home looking after the children and waiting anxiously for news.

But when McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969. Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries. When Carol was discharged from hospital after six months of life-saving surgery, the prognosis was bleak. In order to save her legs, surgeons had been forced to cut away huge sections of shattered bone, taking with it her tall, willowy figure. She was confined to a wheelchair and was forced to use a catheter.

Through sheer hard work, Carol learned to walk again. But when John McCain came home from Vietnam, she had gained a lot of weight and bore little resemblance to her old self. Today, she stands at just 5 ft. 4 in. and still walks awkwardly, with a pronounced limp. Her body is held together by screws and metal plates and, at 70, her face is worn by wrinkles that speak of decades of silent suffering. For nearly 30 years, Carol has maintained a dignified silence about the accident, McCain and their divorce. But last week at the bungalow where she now lives at Virginia Beach, a faded seaside resort 200 miles south of Washington, she told a reporters how McCain divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later.

Carol said she would be following his campaign for the White House. She said she still loves him and that so do the kids they had together. She said she may even vote for him.

What she wouldn't say is exactly how much it all hurts, for she thinks she knows why he left her. She won't say it, but one gets the quick idea that she thinks John likely thought he needed a "whole" woman at his side in Washingston, D.C. - where he wanted to serve his country.

McCain has been using a slogan that says "Country First," only the thought behind that message apparently has nothing to do with wives...

Friday September 5, 2008, 6:36 pm
Blue B, many people get divorced for many reasons. To imply that McCain divorced his first wife due to her physical problems isn't fair unless you happen to have personal knowledge of their situation. Obviously you don't. I don't. Only the two people concerned do. She may indeed be a pathetic figure. But that doesn't necessarily make her the good wife betrayed by a bad husband and it doesn't necessarily make McCain the bad husband. In any event, his marital problems have nothing to do with his ability to govern this country. FDR was a serial adulterer. So was JFK. Reagan was divorced. There were quite a few others.