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From: "rayilynlee" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 6:02 PM
Subject: Stem Cells & McCain's 1st wife


> Written by  Don C. Reed:
>
> STEM CELLS, AND JOHN MCCAIN'S FIRST WIFE
>
> When Bill Clinton fooled around, the Republicans fought with all their 
> strength to impeach him. .
>
> But when John McCain cheated on his crippled wife, the GOP nominated him 
> for President.
>
> Did you know about McCain's first wife?  A former swimsuit model, Carol 
> McCain was tall, willowy, beautiful-until a terrible car accident.
>
> Flung through the windshield of her car, Carol McCain lay on the frozen 
> ground all night. Her pelvis was broken. Both legs and an arm were 
> shattered, she had massive internal injuries- the doctors despaired for 
> her life.
>
> Fortunately for Carol , Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot took over her 
> medical bills: paying for her six months in hospital-- and 23 operations, 
> necessary just to keep her alive. So many bone fragments had to be removed 
> from her body that she lost five inches in height.
>
> Carol McCain was disabled for life.
>
> So when John McCain came home from the war in Viet Nam , how did he stand 
> by the woman he promised to love and cherish till death did them part?
>
> He began cheating on her, systematically and casually, with a variety of 
> women.
>
> Finally the still married McCain chose Carol's replacement, the 
> movie-star-gorgeous Cindy, heiress to a fortune.
>
> He divorced Carol,  married the heiress one month later, and his new 
> father-in-law gave him a job as an  executive at his beer company-and John 
> McCain was rich.
>
> H. Ross Perot had this to say:
>
> "McCain is the classic opportunist. always reaching for attention and 
> glory. When he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over 
> for a poster girl with big money."
> -"The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously left behind", Sharon 
> Churcher, Daily Mail UK , June 8, 2008 .
>
> To this day, Carol remains loyal to McCain, who pays her medical bills.
>
> Now some people feel that McCain, as a former prisoner of war, is not to 
> be criticized. Democrats always acknowledge John McCain's service, unlike 
> the Rove-Republican attack machine and their Swift Boating tactics, 
> continually smearing John Kerry's heroism in the same war.
>
> But to my way of thinking, the fact that John McCain was a prisoner of war 
> does not mean we forget everything else about the man.
>
> John McCain deserves to be judged on his actions, his record, his 
> positions and choices, and how his decisions will affect all our lives.
>
> First, let me state my personal bias: why John McCain's essential 
> abandonment of a disabled person affects me so deeply.
>
> My son Roman Reed is disabled, a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the 
> shoulders down because of a college football accident.
>
> Every day I try to do something to advance the cause of stem cell 
> research, because I know it works.
>
> I have seen it. On March 1, 2002 , I held in my hand a laboratory rat 
> which had been paralyzed, but which walked again, thanks to embryonic stem 
> cells. That was in the Reeve-Irving Research Center , University of 
> California at Irvine .
>
> It has been so frustrating, these past eight years, having an anti-science 
> President in the White House. The policies of George Bush policies are 
> based on ideology and ultra-conservative religion, not the healing science 
> our country so desperately needs.
>
> But John McCain says he is different from Bush, that he supports embryonic 
> stem cell research.
>
> I don't trust him.
>
> Different from Bush? Not a whole lot. McCain co-signed Senator Sam 
> Brownback's bill to put scientists in jail for advanced stem cell 
> research-he also chose Sarah Palin for his Vice President, and she is 
> completely opposed.
>
> With a new GOP platform calling for a complete ban on embryonic stem cell 
> research, we could be worse off than we were under Bush.
>
> McCain says one thing, and does another.
>
> McCain says he supports the disabled-then votes against the Community 
> Choice Act, which would have allowed disabled folks to be cared for in 
> their own homes, instead of having to be institutionalized.
>
> He likes to call himself a "maverick", reminding us that he once dared to 
> opposed President George Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy. However, (and 
> with McCain there is always a however) when it came time to gain his 
> party's nomination, he tossed that courage out the window. Now he wants to 
> make those tax cuts permanent: as the rich get richer, the middle class 
> gets pushed down into the ranks of poverty, and the poor are increasingly 
> on their own.
>
> He promised to run a respectful campaign, saying that he won't talk trash 
> about his rival-he just hires Karl Rove's friends to do it.   And did you 
> see his face when his second in command when his second in command went 
> into her carefully planned speech of character assassination. He was 
> giggling like a schoolgirl when Ms. Lipstick Pitbull trashtalked Obama.
>
> Did you notice how he first said he did not know anything about economics, 
> but suddenly discovers he has all the answers?
>
> He says he believes in freedom, but his second in command wants to censor 
> library books, and fired a librarian who stood up to her.
>
> McCain says he hates war, but pushed hard to get us involved in Iraq from 
> the very beginning. That war cost us our economy. America went from being 
> rich to being in debt. That was started by George Bush, and continued by 
> John McCain, who promises more.
>
> Granted, Iraq is quieter now; if you kill enough people it will definitely 
> calm things down; graveyards are not noisy places.
>
> "Maverick" McCain says he is against government wastefulness and 
> corruption-so where are his speeches on the mountains of money lost, 
> stolen, or mis-spent in Iraq, entire fork-lift pallets of money 
> unaccounted for?
>
> He even abandoned his  enthusiasm for President Bush-in his acceptance 
> speech he never mentioned the name of that man he once so publicly 
> embraced, putting his cheek on the President's chest.
>
> As a former prisoner of war, McCain deserves respect.
>
> But when he mentions his war record, which he does at any possible excuse, 
> we should remember there are other veterans, whose interests he routinely 
> votes against.
>
> Like the soldiers in VA hospitals, who were recently told by the Bush 
> Administration, that they can no longer be helped to register to vote.
>
> The same veterans whose care John McCain so frequently votes against. They 
> also were soldiers. Their heroism also deserves recognition.
>
> Many are disabled, like John McCain's first wife. They must not be 
> abandoned.
>
> America needs a President who will not only look out for everyone, but 
> also try to make things better: to heal the ill and injured.
>
> John McCain is not that man.
>
> Don C. Reed
> Sponsor, Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Act
> Founder and Co-Chair, Californians for Cures
>
> Don Reed is also Vice President of Public Policy for Americans for Cures 
> Foundation; opinions voiced here as an individual may or may not reflect 
> those of the Foundation.
>
> Rayilyn Brown
> Director AZNPF
> Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation
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