I'll swap you an Ayers for a Keating 5!

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And I'll throw in a used Carol McCain!

Speaking of trade-ins.... why have this:



When you can have this:



Good-lookin' AND stinking rich, to boot! How the hell do you THINK he got those 10 house and 13 cars? By his Senate salary? :rofl:


So, if McCain would like to give America a "history" lesson on the acquaintances of his opponent, certainly McCain's history WILL be dredged out into the sunlight... and please, DUers, do your best to educate anyone touting McCain's "honor" and "moral fiber", and give them a history lesson!


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html

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 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children.

But there is another Mrs McCain who casts 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 5ft4in 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.

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1. He is such a fucking bastard....

and his first wife was pretty before the accident. I had never looked her up before.

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/images/I15487-2000Jan22

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2. not to mention his alleged affair with lobbysit Vicki Iseman...

Va... va... va... VOOM.