Can you imagine the media melee if it were Michelle instead of Cindy?

[me b zola]

Cindy McCain is getting a pass from the media for her drug addiction and conviction of stealing from her charity. Can you imagine how the media would have 24 hour coverage if it were Michelle Obama and not Cindy? Do you really think that they would give Michelle the same pass?

Cindy McCain's family business (to which she is an extremely wealthy heiress) sold out to a foreign company. In all of the coverage of the sale of Anheiser Busch(sp), the media doesn't mention Cindy's connection to this deal. Do you really think that the media wouldn't be all over Michelle if it had been her family that sold a multi-billion dollar business to a foreign company?

Now, you can have the opinion that neither story should be used to publicly put Cindy under scrutiny, but if you believe that the media would give the same pass to Michelle--then I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.

[anonymous171]

1. Imagine if Michelle had said this:

"In Arizona The Only Way To Get Around The State Is By Small Private Plane"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/14/cindy-mccain-in-arizona-t_n_112695.html

[uponit7771]

6. wow

[Enrique]

8. holy crap

so I guess everyone just stays put, not being able to afford the only way to get around.

[Robeson]

2. Why shouldn't Cindy be put under scrutiny? Our candidates wives have always...

...been put under scrutiny.

[babylonsister]

3. McCains to Profit on Anheuser, InBev Deal

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/07/14/mccains-to-profit-on-anheuser-inbev-deal/

McCains to Profit on Anheuser, InBev Deal

T. W. Farnam reports on the presidential race.


McCain, the heiress to the third-largest Anheuser distributor, owns at a minimum $1 million in the American company, according to John McCain’s Senate financial disclosure forms, which don’t offer any more information for large assets held by his spouse. Under the deal, she and other stockholders will get a cash payout for the stock, which is owned through her company, Hensley and Co.

Anheuser’s stock price opened at $67.55 today, almost a 50% gain over the near $47 price in February when the possibility of a deal was made public. Cashing out could leave the McCains with hefty capital gains, which would be taxed at a rate of 15% under the Bush tax cuts that John McCain opposed and now supports. (Barack Obama has proposed raising the capital gains tax.)

Hensley and Co., founded by Cindy McCain’s father, has an exclusive distribution deal for Budweiser and other products in the Phoenix area. The merger is unlikely to affect that arrangement, and the company already sells InBev brands, including Stella Artois and Beck’s, through an existing agreement with Anheuser.

While many distributors around the country are ending exclusive deals, Hensley has so-far remained in a strong pairing with Anheuser, though it would likely do just fine picking up other brands under a non-exclusive relationship, said Joe Thompson, president of the Independent Beverage Group, a market-analysis firm.

“I don’t think any substantial effect anytime in the near term, meaning the next 6 to 18 months,” Thompson said. “I think beyond that all distributors will be affected, just depending on whether this helps sales or not. Suspicions are it’s not going to help a lot.”

UPDATE: Mrs. McCain’s company owns between $2.5 million to $5 million in Anheuser stock, meaning it will earn $800,000 to $1.6 million premium on the pre-deal stock price. Although Senate personal financial disclosure forms only say that Mrs. McCain’s firm owns at least $1 million, a Democratic Party aide points out that it also reports $50,000-$100,000 in dividends in 2007. With $1.25 dividend per share last year, that means the McCains own between 40,000 and 80,000 shares.

[simmonsj811]

4. kick to the greatest page

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[TexasObserver]

5. Adultery, Drug Addiction, Theft from a Charity, Forgeries, Keating Five

Cindy McCain is getting a free pass.

[AllentownJake]

7. Yes but at least she has undying love and pride for America

:sarcasm:

[me b zola]

9. And that is another for the list

The fact that John McCain himself said that he didn't love America until he was being tortured, yet the media bent over back-wards to twist Michelle's words into something sinister.