In-between the news about the bailout or not, the debate or not, I found this piece about Cindy McCain. It’s incredible the amount of charity work she has started and is very involved with. Not just on the boards but actually hands on in the trenches doing the work.
It also mentions how her father made his fortune after Cindy was born. So she wasn’t really brought up rich but grew into it.
Cindy McCain: Polished look to many, but her focus is on others
BY TINA LAM • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • September 21, 2008As a volunteer for charities, she dresses in jeans, T-shirts and hiking boots and travels to the least-glamorous parts of the globe: Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Kosovo, Rwanda and Georgia this year alone.
Cindy McCain is a director of Operation Smile, which offers free surgery to kids in foreign countries with cleft palates and other deformities; a trustee of HALO Trust, which removes land mines, and a board member on leave from CARE, an international charity.
Until it closed in 1995, she led more than 55 missions overseas for American Medical Voluntary Team, a charity she started in 1988.
She led. She was there, stepping over bodies in Rwanda. Not in a corporate office. Not sitting in the boardroom of a Chicago private Hospital, in charge of sending the people without health insurance, the poor and needy people in search of health care to some other hospital. The hospital where the other potential first lady prospered, paid her $300k a year. But she was helping the community! She was helping herself and the corporation she worked for make money. There’s nothing wrong with that, but don’t lie about it and say your doing community work and helping the poor.
Cindy McCain has done all of her work on her own. Traveling the world without a press entourage and getting the job done of helping without the fanfare.
Why don’t you mention that Mrs. McCain was a drug addict? Upwards of 25 Percocets and Vicodins a day! What about her use of illegal prescriptions? You seem to have very conveniently not mentioned this. So typical of you lilly white Republican Conservatives that dispise successful educated African-Americans.
The key word there is “was”. I didn’t mention it because it’s mentioned hundreds of other places, where her charity work is barely mentioned anywhere.
And it’s the educated marxists I despise (which is the correct spelling in case you missed out on some of that free public education).