Cindy McCain's Mission to Georgia (country)

[sabra]

Source: TIME Magazine

It's not every aspiring First Lady whose comfort zone is a war zone, but such is the case for Cindy McCain, who left Monday on a mission to Georgia to assess the civilian casualties caused by the Russian invasion.

McCain is traveling with the U.N.'s World Food Program, whose work she monitored in Southeast Asia and Africa this spring and summer. McCain planned to meet with Georgian President Mikheil Sakaasvili, and to visit with wounded Georgian soldiers. She would also visit representatives of the HALO Trust, which works to remove landmines and on whose board she serves.

Cindy and John McCain visited Georgia together last year; in an interview with TIME at her Sedona ranch before she left, she emphasized that her years of work on overseas missions was "an important part of what I'm about, what makes me tick."

McCain says she has been trying to get into Georgia since the conflict started, but it took time to arrange the logistics. Her husband, she says, is "very supportive. As soon as he saw what was happening — he and I, we connect on many levels, I mean he knew immediately I've been to Georgia with him, I know the country."

Her aides say that the timing of the trip, during the Democrats' convention in Denver, was never a consideration. But that doesn't mean they're ignoring the subtext: "She's on the phone with the World Food Program, he's on the phone with Sakaashvili," McCain adviser Nicolle Wallace told me. "It's like this great picture of what they'll be like in the White House."

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[grannie4peace]

1. i think she's taking secret messages to cheney & rove

[KittyWampus]

8. maybe she has a house over there too?

[billyoc]

2. Organizing medical supplies, no doubt.

[Teaser]

3. SHE'S LEAVING...

on a midnight plane to Georgia.

[tomg]

19. I hear the movie on the

plane is "No Country for Old Men."

[TwilightGardener]

4. Noooo, nobody will think this is a photo op disguised as "charity work"--

nobody. Certainly not me.

[MarjorieG]

5. Why couldn't he discourage Sak from starting a war? Did he try?

The GOP elephant in the room no one is asking.

[Schema Thing]

6. I just pray that they've caught those snipers who were after Hillary!

They may have been freelancing Ruskis afterall.

[rurallib]

7. Maybe they have a "Miss Buffalo Chip" contest she can enter?

[Hugin]

9. Okay... Now I've seen everything!

What a scam!

Didn't I tell everyone this whole Georgia charade was a political scam.

This pretty well takes the cake as the most blatant 'The Mouse That Roared' BS propaganda war that the world has
ever seen.

Talk about trying to wag-the-dog.

[elehhhhna]

10. "he knew immediately I've been to Georgia with him"

LOL so he's having a "good" brain day, then?

[Island Blue]

11. Why not Iraq? Or Sudan?

Or any other current war zone? Surely there have to be other places that are just "crying out" for a visit from Cindy McCain.

[Kire]

12. good

I hope it does some good.

I really do.

[Ian David]

13. There must be a topless beauty contest there. Or free pills. n/t

[CitizenPatriot]

14. he likes soup and I like soup...

"he and I, we connect on many levels, I mean he knew immediately I've been to Georgia with him, I know the country."

Kinda like...

"We have so much in common. He likes soup and I like soup. I mean, we could talk...or not talk....forever...."

(Best In Show, the fantastically hilarious Jennifer Coolidge explains her trophy wife relationship to 99 year old, wheel-chair bound rich man)

Georgia: Lock up the medicine cabinets! "charity work" is a euphemism for "drug theft" in the McCain family!

[George II]

15. WTF is she doing going to a war zone?

She's not an elected official, she's not even a candidate! How much is this going to cost OUR government for this blatant partisal political stunt? Even if she pays her own expenses, and McDick's spouse a dozen or more Secret Service officers will go too!

How much do you want to bet she comes back with another (unplanned) adopted child that she didn't tell her husband about? Knowing his temper, although he now tells the sappy story of their first adoptee, I'd guess he threw a major fit, calling her all sorts of names when she sprung the first one on her.

If he wasn't so damned impotent (including MENTALLY) maybe he could have had one of his own.

Sorry, nasty of me, I know, but the crap he's been pulling over the weekend with his attack ads against Obama/Biden and in favor of the woman he's been berating for almost 16 years, I just can't take this phony stuff any longer!

[boomerbust]

16. Cindy

When is Cin scheduled to give her speech at the RNC?

[DeeDeeNY]

17. She's going to get some more recipes.

[bluethruandthru]

18. I wonder what the Repukes would be saying

if Michelle Obama was going to Georgia? I can hear the cries of "Who does she think she is??" now!