If This is True

September 12th, 2008 by TRex @ 11:58 am| Posted in 2008 Race, Cap'n Mac |

Then it makes me hate John McCain even more.

An excerpt of Tom Gosinski’s journal via Raw Story:

In an Oct. 5, 1992, entry, Gosinski writes about a story that circulated just a few days after Cindy McCain’s parents, Jim and Smitty Hensley, confronted her about her drug abuse.

Last Friday, late in the afternoon, Miss Jeri (Cindy’s aunt) was visiting with Dalton Smith, the Hensley’s Pilot about Jim and Smitty confronting Cindy about her drug problem. During the conversation Dalton mentioned an incident which took place a couple of years ago — Cindy had taken too many pills and had been rushed to a hospital near their home on Oak Creek. John McCain was rushed to the hospital and rather than helping Cindy obtain help he had her dismissed from the hospital and taken to the Cabin. I had assumed the entire family knew of the incident as Kathy Walker had mentioned it to me many months ago but come to find out Jeri and the Hensleys knew nothing of it. Needless to say it was very painful for Miss Jeri to find this out and she was very concerned about what the news of this occurrence would do to Jim and Smitty. Whatever the outcome, I doubt that Jim and Smitty will ever be able to respect John McCain again

So, rather than face the possible blow-back of a second scandal right on the heels of the Keating Five hearings, John McCain checked his wife out of the hospital while she was overdosing and whisked her away to Sedona to hide her from view. Now, sadly, I have had some experience with overdoses and something you absolutely shouldn’t do, particularly when dealing with a patient who is in a toxic state due to opiate overdose, is take them away from a doctor’s supervision, no matter how important protecting your “honor” is. Depending upon how high a dosage has been absorbed into the patient’s system, it can be touch and go for the next 24 hours even after you empty the stomach of its contents and stabilize their vital signs.

John McCain was willing to take chances with his wife’s life in order to preserve his public facade. I think that’s pretty disgusting. It is yet another sorry chapter in McCain’s lifelong pattern of recklessness and it demonstrates a breathtakingly callous disregard for anything other than his own skin. It is precisely this pattern of hot-headed, “me-first” behavior that renders him uniquely unfit for the job of Commander in Chief. When are people going to realize this?