Oh, About That First Wife

Megan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:40:00 EDT

Long before he was a war hero, or a Congressman or a Senator, John McCain was a naval officer and Carol Shepp McCain's husband. While he was held captive, she was in an accident so devastating that the subsequent surgeries left her 5 inches shorter and barely able to walk, but she refused to allow that information to be relayed to her captive husband in Vietnam. In a strange twist of fate, Ross Perot paid all her medical bills. When he got back, she walked with a limp and wasn't the skinny model-wife he left, but, damn, doesn't she look happy there on the left (in 1973)? That didn't last long. Rumor has it that he started catting around almost immediately and finally met Cindy in 1979, after which he bothered asking Carol for a divorce. He gave her the house and a generous settlement, blah, blah, blah, but, then again, he was marrying an heiress. He moved to Arizona in 1980, ran for office in 1982 and the rest is history. Carol, now 70, now lives in Virginia Beach and agreed to an interview because she wants everyone know that she thinks he's the best choice to be the next President, and doesn't blame him for leaving her "because John McCain didn’t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens...it just does." Yeah, girl, we know. It still sucks and we still think he's a dick. [Daily Mail]

McCain's Buddy And Your Condoms

Megan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:45:00 EDT

This is Oklahoma Senator (and gynecologist) Tom Coburn who was elected to represent the kind people of Oklahoma in the U.S. Senate. His interpretation of that responsibility is, apparently, to keep everyone else from fucking. The New York Post reported this morning about a GAO report on the FDA's interpretation of the law on labeling condoms, which some would like to see change to reflect both what condoms effectively prevent when used properly (pregnancy and the transmission of HIV, gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis) and what they less effectively counter (HPV and herpes). What the Post fails to mention is that the report is in response to Senator Coburn, who has had something up his butt about condom labeling since at least 1999. In Coburn's "never fuck unless you're married and want a kid" mentality, putting scare labels on condoms will keep the people of America and the world from having sex because, as the AIDS rate in the world effectively demonstrates, scaring people about disease transmission keeps them from fucking. (In unrelated notes, he also conducts a sex ed lecture for summer interns every year to keep them from fucking and once said that lesbianism is "so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they’ll only let one girl go to the bathroom." Oh, he supports John McCain.) [NY Post, GAO, Guttmacher Institute, The Advocate, Washington Post, Alternet]

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