Comments on: Sugar Momma Cindy: Is John McCain A “Kept Man?”

By: bobh

bobh — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:45:45 +0000

A kept man who abandoned his loyal, disfigured first wife for the heiress who could keep him.

By: truth

truth — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:34:05 +0000

Jane, reading your post inspired me to do something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. I researched the 8 homes owned by the McCains & wrote a long post about it, with pictures: http://mainstusa.blogspot.com/.....d-why.html

By: katymine

katymine — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:42:54 +0000

Just heard two interesting points on 1480 KPHX….
1. McBush owns 8 homes or it might be that he has 8 homes to live in …. don’t we all?
2. Big Oil just donated $1.5 million to McBush in the last month…. MORE than both HRC & Obama combined.

By: pmorlan

pmorlan — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:39:22 +0000

I wouldn’t put it past McCain to funnel all sick people into Medicaid so that his buds in the insurance industry can then only insure healthy people. Insurance companies love to pick and choose who they want which is why they have pre-existing conditions in the first place. But if what McCain says is true then everyone should just stay out of insurance plans until they get sick and then go to Medicaid to be insured. Let’s cut out the middleman. LOL

By: FormerFed

FormerFed — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:15:40 +0000

Not to be picky, but I think you underestimate the impact of dividends. My last statement showed Anheuser Busch paying 2.8%. Say Cindy has $20M in Anheuser Busch – that equates to $560,000. (PS – my holdings are very tiny)

By: solai

solai — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:00:57 +0000

If he benefits from her money (and he most certainly does) than the source of her income should be available to the public.

I wonder what would have happened if Hillary had excluded Bill’s income.

And one more thing…is it routine for the very wealthy not to file jointly? Have they always done this or did it begin when he knew he would run for the presidency?

By: solai

solai — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:55:50 +0000

I didn’t agree that Kerry’s wife needed to release her returns-so I don’t have a different standard for goops.

I have the same standard for both, too. But I think they should be released. How do we know that she isn’t benefitting from her husband’s votes if we don’t know where her money is invested? And I’d like to know how much she makes with exclusive distribution rights to the Phoenix Stadium.

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:50:58 +0000

Precisely. Like other happily married couples, even between retreads and trophy wives, the McSames are a single economic unit, no matter the individual interests each might pursue. A competent pre-nuptial agreement, if one exists, could only modify that so much.

As with shouts to disclose the Clintons’, the Kerrys’, the Edwards’ returns, whether filed jointly or not, whether there were children “to protect” or not, disclosure of at least a part of Mrs. McCain’s returns is essential.

We probably don’t need to see details of various trusts that might protect her or any children from McSame’s spendthrift ways, but there are lots of ways she might spend money to benefit St. John, and lots of ways her $100 million wealth might benefit from his and his lobbyists’ proposed tax and other policies.

By: rwcole

rwcole — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:48:07 +0000

Yeah, dividends would show up- but they represent a small fraction of the capital gains generated by the stock- at least in a good year.

By: LS

LS — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:48:01 +0000

McCain does have a pre-nup with Cindy.