We all know about John McCain's marital infidelity on his first wife. We all know that McCain's first wife, Carol Shepp, stood faithfully by McCain for 5 1/2 years while he was in a POW camp, and during that period of time she was tragically disfigured in an auto accident. We all also know that when McCain returned, he played the field and had numerous affairs before finally settling on a former rodeo beauty queen. Unfortunately most Americans don't know about McCain's callous abandonment of his first wife. However, what I didn't know was that he not only cheated on her, but he then he had the gall to allow his mother to sue her for personal belongings.
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That's right, according to this AP report, John McCain's mother sued his ex-wife for personal belongings . This man has some gall to allow his mother to sue his ex-wife, whom he so callously abandoned after she stood by his side for five 1/2 long years. If McCain had any moral character, he would have urged his mother not file a suit, and if necessary he would have reimbursed his mother for any missing personal belongings.
When asked about this McCain's campaign spokesman, Tucker Bounds said:
Of course, by all accounts the divorce was completely amicable. After John and Carol McCain's divorce, there was apparently some confusion about belongings that were Roberta McCain's but we understand the court papers were unintentionally filed, and the matter never went further in the legal system. It went nowhere, and was of no consequence.
However, the problem with this explanation is that McCain's lawyer disputes this contention. Barbara P. Beach states that
You can be sure that I talked to and got the permission of any client who is listed as a plaintiff . . .It would be a serious violation to file an unauthorized lawsuit, and I haven't been disbarred yet.
This story is huge because it provides new information, and it gives us an opportunity to finally push McCain's affair, which most Americans don't even know about, into the corporate media. We have to get this story out, and expose this horrible man for the hypocrit that he is.
Call, write, and email as many of the corporate media blowhards as you can. There's a small chance that if they hear from enough of us, they will feel compelled to cover the story. We can't continue to play nice and expect to win this election. I don't want Barack Obama to suffer the same fate as Jimmy Carter (in 1980), Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Al Gore, and John Kerry because he played nice and refused to go on the offensive. Bill Clinton won precisely because he went on the offensive and didn't mind getting his hands a little bit dirty. Politics is a contact sport, and it's high time that we as Democrats go after these bastards! So call, write, email, and demand that they cover this story!!!
UPDATE: I have updated this story to conform with the facts. I apologize. I admit I read the story in a hurry and misconstrued some facts. But nevertheless, the theme of this diary remains. We have to expose McCain to the American public as the asshole that he truly is.