2 posts tagged “wife”

Over the past few days the McCain camp has hit one of my pet peeves.

I remember when I was in high school that whenever two girls got into a physical confrontation someone would always scream “cat-fight” out loud.  There are many negative connotations in the statement “cat-fight” which over the past few days I cannot stop myself from having one person come to mind when I think of the term.  That person is Cindy McCain, the wife of presidential candidate Senator John McCain.

I am not a big fan of Senator Barack Obama’s wife Michelle Obama, but I am noting really voting for her so who cares.  Her little publicity stunt on the view yesterday didn’t help or hurt her in my view it was just stuff and possibly a wasted opportunity to help her husband’s cause.

As far as Cindy McCain I actually find her to just flat out not be likeable, but I have just ignored that fact because however I vote, I am not voting for her either.

The problem I have had is when Mrs. McCain started her public attacks of Mrs. Obama implying that she hates the country etc.  The question I have to ask myself is why am I watching the wives of presidential candidates fight.  In reality it is only Cindy McCain who is picking a fight as a political ploy for her husband. 

The only defense I have heard for this ridiculous display is that “Senator Obama’s People” (I suppose by that they must mean someone who they perceive not to support Senator McCain) attacked his wife first about the absence of her tax returns.

You may remember when Senator Obama was in a heated competition with Senator Hillary Clinton and was pressuring her to release her tax returns.  Both of the Democratic candidates released tax returns that included their spouses.  So rather than just stay out of that fight, Senator McCain’s “people” decided to release his tax returns and leave out his wife, Cindy McCain’s tax returns.  Now we are hearing that Senator McCain’s camp was so angered by the questions and challenges that this raised that they feel it okay to have his wife attack Michelle Obama. 

To be honest, I was not that interested in the tax return issue until I heard that Senator McCain’s wife did not include hers.  I heard the explanation and found it plausible, yet I still had doubts and questions.  In actuality I am still not sure to this day that there is nothing being hidden there.  In my opinion it would have been better not to release anything and say he was refusing to get into the childish games being played by the other party.  The releasing of his tax returns without hers was, in my opinion, a bad political move.

The idea that it raised comments and criticism is not to attack his wife; it is to attack a stupid move on the part of whoever in his camp thought they should do this.

That being said, the “She hit me first” defense not only is childish, but doesn’t hold water. 

Senator John McCain is trying to kill the image he has of having temper tantrums and childish outbursts and then his campaign allows his wife to do one of the most childish acts in the history of public elections.  I would have thought that after the escapades of former president, Bill Clinton and the negative influence he had on Senator Hillary Clinton’s campaign, we would have seen the end of the spouse campaigning by attack.

As anyone who reads my posts regularly knows, I am not a huge fan of either of the candidates from the major parties, but attacking candidate’s families is one of my pet peeves.  Cindy McCain has managed to tip the scales a little toward the Democrats for me with this childishness.  The McCain camp has managed to tip the scales a bit more with their attempts to defend such childishness instead of just apologizing.  I am just befuddled by the fact that they try to imply that the Obama camp was out of line to (in their view) attack Cindy McCain and yet they are using that to defend the reason Cindy McCain attacks (yes I mean it to be plural) Michelle Obama. 

“She hit me first,” only says that you are as childish as the person you are fighting with.  Then when it turns out that that person didn’t really hit you first, you are the only one that is proven to be childish!

There is a story making the rounds right now that claims that a certain Mr. Wright, who was formerly the pastor of the church that presidential hopeful Barack Obama attends, counseled a couple in his church to help with their marriage and then married the wife of this “counseling.”