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Depressing. A journalist gives a personal impression of a presidential nominee's wife's speech, and shares her opinion of her demeanor, dress, grace and relevancy to the job ahead. Of course there will be scores of others, mostly republicans, registering their disgust in every way imaginable. Now, impressionable me, I think she was exquisite, but then I'm an Obama fan.
But I must say, I haven't even seen Mrs. McCain's big night yet, and my opinion's already tainted. Some LW above called her uber plastic (right-on) and someone else mentioned her husband's jest about her breasts (uh, dude!) but here's what I think we're supposed to be looking for: I am looking at a bigger picture when I look at our 'package deals'; I'm trying not to be swayed by the obvious and trying to look at who will make a better 1st lady in terms of service to our country, and history of service already rendered since adulthood. And, dress and demeanor and hair extensions aside, we vote first for the candidate and the candidate's running mate, and then, how the 1st lady's performance and 'record' (or lack of)will most likely affect us? And their histories, I'm afraid, do speak volumes about their characters. Am I wrong? If we're just talking 1st ladies, here, what does Cindy McCain got going for her so far? At age 24 she (and her parents) become quite taken with the very married (but obviously puttin' out the vibes) 44 year old McCain. We skirt around the dates, but it's easy to see they began to 'see each other' while McCain was still married, but go easy on him because he lost 5 years of his youth, after all, in a prison camp, and it's expected that he would go sniffing around a sweet little thing soon-to-be heiress....maybe capture some of his lost youth. Not enough? How about the day the DEA put her in cuffs and took her away after a long investigation for stealing illicit drugs from the hospital on whose board she served? (O.k., a glitch...)
Let's make much of the two precious orphans she (saw in the window, sorry) rescued and brought home, impromptu, to John. He meets her at the airport and it's a total surprise. By his own account, at the airport to pick her up, it goes something like this: "Who are these babies, Cindy?" And she does the "aren't they precious? I couldn't leave them! They're ours, now!" thing, which, I'm sorry, sounds like she just found some cute strays and just had to have 'em. Ask Angelina...what's a few more when you're inestimably rich and have nannies galore?
Okay. Sounds snarky of me, I know. But if we're just simply comparing apples to apples here in the 1st lady aisle, which one would you want in the big house? And remember how Mom always said you could tell a man by how he treated his mom? Does it bother only me that our war hero dumps his wife (she who waited patiently, lovingly, achingly at home all of those years for her man...)for a over-peroxided Barbie Doll who has outspokenly said she has no interest whatsoever in being in D.C. any longer than necessary and will undoubtedly stay in Arizona doing her thing?
