Cindy McCain travels to war-torn Georgia

Is she looking for a house? Sounds like another meaningless photo op.

So McCain's foreign policy will be run by Cindy? This walks a fine line between innocuous trip and the ultimate in guerrilla diplomacy.

http://www.political-buzz.com/

If she is I know Tony Rezko won't be buying it.
Cindy's record of humanitarian aid speaks for itself. She's going there to help people in need. The only thing "meaningless" here is the tasteless comments from people like PD.

And Michelle has done what?

I wonder if Cindy is going to arrive under a hail of sniper fire like Hillary and Chelsea did many years back.

:)

She is neck and neck with Obama when it comes to foreign policy experience.

Jeff, I can not believe you think she traveled to Georgia for humanitarian reasons. True philanthropist don't advertise what they are doing. If she wanted to help the people of Georgia she would have donated the million dollar cost of her trip. You and I are paying for the secret service personnel that traveled with her.

It's clear she has more depth and personality than Michelle My Bell does.

Little rich girl going overseas, probably like trips her daddy paid for when she was a spoiled kid. Gimme a break. These rich kid Republicans make me sick.

I don't need your opinion on it, PD. The woman has 30 years of traveling the globe to help the needy and hardest hit by war on her resume. You don't. Her opinion is more informed than hers. Here's the part you forgot to read: "McCain has spent her life visiting places ruined by war in order to provide humanitarian assistance."

I wonder how much Randy Scheuneman got paid for setting that up? McCain will do anything for his aides who are paid agents of foreign governments won't he?

So the heiress spends a tiny fraction of her unearned fortune helping charities (when she's not stealing drugs from them). Who cares? She's never had to earn anything in her life. She's had everything handed to her. Now she hops in front of a camera to spread around less than she puts on a single credit card in a month and I'm supposed to be impressed by her generosity? Not hardly. It's shameless self promotion, not charity.

"CINDY MCCAIN SPEAKS"

MY SWEET GEORGIA, SWEET GEORGIANS, I BRING TO YOU "DICK" DICK CHENEY! AND HE BRING IT TO YOU! MORE TRICKS THAN A "PUDDY CAT" SUCKATASH, STAGE LEFT, STAGE RIGHT! NOW YOU SEE HIM THEN YOU DON'T!
MY SWEET GEORGIA, MY AVERAGE FRIENDS, AVERAGE RUSSIANS!
I BRING TO YOU "DICK"
DICK CHENEY! MORE TRICKS THAN A "PUDDY CAT"
MORE TRICKS THAN A "LOBBYIST"
MORE TRICKS THAN ABRA KADABRA HOLLY GEE WIZ SMOKE!
I BRING TO YOU "DICK"
AKA DARTH VADER OF NORTH AMERICA! "ASSIMILATER" OF ALL WALKS, ALL KINDS, ALL HUMAN BEINGS! HIS "WILL" IS MY "WILL" HIS "WILL" IS JOHN'S "WILL"
SMARTER THAN A TREE! DICK, DICK CHENEY!
NO TROOPS, JUST DICK!
NO TROOPS, JUST DICK!
I'M SORRY JOHN IS ON VACATION, AND THIS IS MY OIL PORTFOLIO NOT HIS!
NO TROOPS, JUST DICK!

'sptnt her life doing charity work"???? HER LIFE??? are you kidding////and what has Michelle Obama been doing?? making a living/raising her children..

Cindy McCain stole drugs from her own charity. Why didn't she go to jail like anyone else who had committed such a crime would have?

Cindy McCain is really a highly admirable lady with her extensive efforts on behalf of children worldwide.
What a great and attractive first lady she is going to make.

So the heiress spends a tiny fraction of her unearned fortune helping charities . . . Who cares?
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Posted by: Nickel | August 25, 2008 6:25 PM
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I'm sure the people who directly benefit from her charitable work care quite a bit. What's more, I would wager they are grateful. Don't forget: The "heiress" could keep all her money and not spend it on anyone other than herself or her friends and family members. It is, therefore, quite admirable that she spends her time in charitable work and contributes to charitable organizations. Only a snarky cynic like you could find fault in this behavior.

All you numskulls berating Cindy McCain here, let me see you match Michelle Obama's accomplishments with that which Cindy has done for humanity. Oh, that's right Michelle is a MOTHER F, (oops slip of the finger, kind of like Obam did to Hillary) Lawyer (we all know what crooks Lawyers are) andoh yeah I guess she can bake cookies. Oh I forgot she hates whiteys.

Anyone who thinks this is a coincidence needs to pay a little more attention.

This trip will have all the import and effect of Joe Lieberman's trip last week.

No need to trash the ladies; they aren't in a contest.

via and aurie lambert, go cindy and the others -- What has Michelle done??

Well, let's keep in mind that Michelle Obama has never had the kind of money that Cindy McCain got from her daddy, so has actually had to work for a living. But, like Barack, she chose to leave her position with an international law firm to serve in public service positions, as well as developing the University of Chicago's community service center. She also founded the group Public Allies Chicago, which gave leadership training to teens to help them attain public service careers. Let's not forget that while she was doing all this, she was also raising her daughters. Michelle Obama's story is more like the average American's. She came from nothing, worked hard, and made something of herself. She has never had anything handed to her.

"Cindy McCain stole drugs from her own charity. Why didn't she go to jail like anyone else who had committed such a crime would have?"
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Posted by: Jabari Woods | August 25, 2008 6:40 PM
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You raise a very important point. Barack Obama admitted using cocaine in his youth. I am unaware of any State where cocaine possession isn't a felony. So, why didn't he get arrested, go to jail or prison, and have a felony rap sheet?
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It just might dawn on you that some people just don't get in trouble when maybe they ought to. That works for Cindy McCain and Barack Obama.

JohnW- I bet that you don't have the admiration for the years that Michele Obama worked for non-profits directly helping the poor and needy that you do for Cindy McCain's charitable giving. No, I would be willing to bet you don't. Michelle wasn't rich so her contributions simply don't matter to elitist Republicans. Nope, the wealthy are to be admired when they give from their excess but a middle class peerson who spends years of her life working full time for the less fortunate isn't worthy of compliment or mention. The over 3 years Michelle spent working full time at Public Allies creating youth leadership programs for youth of all economic backgrounds, and preparing them for a career in public service, sure can't hold a candle to some heiress giving a tiny percentage of her vast wealth which she uses to get publicity for her and her husband.

http://www.publicallies.org/site/c.liKUL3PNLvF/b.3960231/

Hey John W, where's your praise for Micheel Obama's dedication to helping the less fortunate? You know, like the years she spent working full time for at Public Allies? Oh that's right, she's not a hugely wealthy heiress so it doesn't count right? Little people like Michelle aren;'t bearly as noble as a spolied rich woman like Princess Cindy the Charitable. We owe gratitude to the rich when the deign to notice the little people and throw them a few crumbs. Those who actually devote their working lives to help the less privledged are to be ignored.

Nickel, detail the non-profits. All I know about Michelle Obama's relations with the poor is how she started a program at her hospital to deny them care. http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1122691,CST-NWS-hosp23.article

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Posted by: Nickel | August 26, 2008 7:44 AM
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Posted by: Nickel | August 26, 2008 11:15 AM
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I am sure Michelle Obama has done praiseworthy work as you have suggested. I have never suggested that the contrary was true.
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But that's a red herring. The question was whether it was proper to attack Cindy McCain in the manner you did, and not whether Michelle Obama has done praiseworthy work. I am unaware of any reason to suggest that I have denigrated Mrs. Obama by defending Mrs. McCain. Nor do I know of any principle that legitimizes an attack on Mrs. McCain - like yours - as a proper method of bringing Mrs. Obama's good works to light. They are two separate issues. Both women can be praised for their work without contradiction.

This war in Russia and Georgia is not between the US. Simply the US is lookiing for an oppertunity to place troops near there biggest enemy.

My personal opinion Obama will be like no president we have had. he willl focus more on whats happening in his own countries and not in other countries half way around the world.

Not declaring war cause they have had made 4 nuclear bombs when i did a speech on nuclear weapons the recenlty recoded amount of nuclear weapons the US has is 77,000 enough to blow the worl up 5 times.

And USSR only has 4000???
America would win.
no doubt.

But let the russians make the first move not us.