Cindy and Michelle on the same stage (with the other candidates wives) talking about their lives, at the California Women’s Conference 2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08DogD8tNJA

Family has always been fair game. Cindy McCain really had better get used to it. She will be criticized for her hair (perhaps deservedly so — yeah, yeah, I slapped my hand for that one); her clothing, her spending, her habits………everything. Even local politicians know this. Our son-in-law is considering running for office. There is no finer person and his background is impeccable. However, he’s married to our daughter, an outspoken physician who is pro-life. They both know that whether she stays in the background or not, she’s fair game. Certainly they discussed this before he opted to run.

This presendential race is not about what spouses say or how they dress or how they look. There is far too much to focus on. We need to concentrate on the business at hand. I am soooo sick of hearing about how cold Mrs. McCain is or how Un-American Mrs. Obama is; let’s get REAL and concentrate on the issues at hand!

You people kill me. Does it make you all feel superior? Have you never NOT been proud of your country? How about Richard Nixon? Did he make you proud? Or the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City — did that make you proud? Or Kitty Genovese? Or Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, Rodney King, Abner Louijma — did what happen to them make you proud? Wasn’t it in the U.S. that women could not vote, that rape was the woman’s fault, that lynching was an accepted pasttime? How about McCain saying he didn’t think much about his country until he was a POW — why did it take torture and deprivation to make him see the value in his country? Think folks! Don’t let whoever it is out there distract you from the real issues: choice vs no choice; war vs no war; and a clean planet vs no planet at all.