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McCain and his untruths!!

By Robby from Louisiana who loves the Middle Name Hussein and Believe in Barack Obama - Jul 11th, 2008 at 12:15 pm EDT

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Here is several paragraphs about John McCain and his first marriage. This makes me so uneasy about McCain because he is truely comming across as a liar in a big way. At this point I am beginning to question even his POW status. Seem like McCain has a lot of fabricated and down right lie

The nature and timing of his divorce from Carol Shepp alienated key friends -- and his version doesn't always match that in court documents.By Richard A. Serrano and Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
July 11, 2008 Outside her Bel-Air home, Nancy Reagan stood arm in arm with John McCain and offered a significant -- but less than exuberant -- endorsement.

"Ronnie and I always waited until everything was decided, and then we endorsed," the Republican matriarch said in March. "Well, obviously this is the nominee of the party." They were the only words she would speak during the five-minute photo op.

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In a written statement, she described McCain as "a good friend for over 30 years." But that friendship was strained in the late 1970s by McCain's decision to divorce his first wife, Carol, who was particularly close to the Reagans, and within weeks marry Cindy Hensley, the young heiress to a lucrative Arizona beer distributorship.

The Reagans rushed to help Carol, finding her a new home in Southern California with the family of Reagan aide Edwin Meese III and a series of political and White House jobs to ease her through that difficult time.

McCain, who is about to become the GOP nominee, has made several statements about how he divorced Carol and married Hensley that conflict with the public record.

In his 2002 memoir, "Worth the Fighting For," McCain wrote that he had separated from Carol before he began dating Hensley.

"I spent as much time with Cindy in Washington and Arizona as our jobs would allow," McCain wrote. "I was separated from Carol, but our divorce would not become final until February of 1980."

An examination of court documents tells a different story. McCain did not sue his wife for divorce until Feb. 19, 1980, and he wrote in his court petition that he and his wife had "cohabited" until Jan. 7 of that year -- or for the first nine months of his relationship with Hensley.

Although McCain suggested in his autobiography that months passed between his divorce and remarriage, the divorce was granted April 2, 1980, and he wed Hensley in a private ceremony five weeks later. McCain obtained an Arizona marriage license on March 6, 1980, while still legally married to his first wifes he is involved in. You be the judge!!!

P.S.) As a married woman with 4 grown children, this story about John McCain makes me so uneasy. I think many women need to read more of this article, and understand the behavior of John McCain and the treatment of women. There is a pattern here and it ain't pretty.

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