No one knows what goes on between two people behind closed doors  except for 
those two people.  I was highly insulted by this e-mail  and asked my brother, 
who is extremely knowledgeable in this area for his  opinion.  He writes:
 
Roberta:

In case you don't have the  time to read the entire article (which is very 
good) here are the  summarized facts you need.

Carol Shepp McCain, a former fashion  model, was gravely injured and 
permanently disabled in an auto wreck on  Christmas Eve 1969, while McC was in a North 
Vietnamese dungeon.  I  don't know if his captors even told him about her 
misfortune.  He  returned home in 1973.  Both tried to make the marriage work, 
but  after more than six years of separation (his carrier time and his  
imprisonment) they had little in common.  Shepp says the marriage  foundered because 
John was nearing 40 and wanted to be 25 again -- she  takes a "these things 
happen" attitude, describes him as a friend, and  says he's a "good guy."  She 
does not blame him for the breakup,  although he takes full responsibility for 
it.  He did not meet Cindy  until 1979, when he and Carol were working out a 
separation  agreement.  They were immediately attracted to each other.  She  
felt she was too young for him.  He felt he was too old for  her.  So they both 
lied about their ages.  In '80 he filed for  an uncontested divorce.  Shepp 
considers him a friend.  She  supported him for the Presidency in 2000 and is 
supporting him again this  year.  Don't expect McC to rebut any of the lies told 
about the  breakup.  All he has ever said publicly about the divorce is:   "It 
was all my fault."  That's the appropriate response for an  officer and a 
gentleman, which he is, always has been, and always will  be.  

I doubt that Perot paid her medical bills.  Why  would he have to?  As the 
wife of a Navy officer she was entitled to  the best free medical treatment 
available, which would have been at  Bethesda for someone injured so seriously.  
There would not have been  any bills.  To quote COL Potter on Mash:  "That's 
horse  hockey."

Please tell your correspondent for me that he's full  of s---and I'm not 
joking this time.  


_http://www.newsweek.com/id/142650/page/1_ 
(http://www.newsweek.com/id/142650/page/1) 




In a message dated 9/15/2008 2:03:03 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
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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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