Made Man: How Cindy Hensley invented John McCain

[L. Coyote]

Made Man: How Cindy Hensley invented John McCain
Noam Scheiber - August 20, 2008 - http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=0fd7470d-a41f-4d9e-9328-fd079b476a0a


On Saturday, May 17, 1980, Cindy Lou Hensley married Navy Captain John McCain at the First United Methodist Church on Central Avenue in Phoenix, not far from the bride's childhood home. After the ceremony, the wedding entourage headed nearly three miles east to the Arizona Biltmore resort, a sprawling gray oasis designed by a Frank Lloyd Wright protégé in the 1920s. Guests fêted the couple in the resort's Aztec Room, an elegant, twelve-sided banquet hall with a vaulted, gold-leaf ceiling. The 25-year-old bride seemed impervious to the desert heat. She had flawless skin and wore a long-sleeved gown with a veil that extended to the floor.

The only crack in the day's elegant veneer came from the groom. A photograph of the couple, taken against the backdrop of First United's distinctive silver cross and stained-glass wall, shows him stuffed awkwardly into a black tuxedo, which rides high up front and hangs low in the rear. His nearly white hair slopes haphazardly off to the side, and his skin is splotchy and red.

A celebrated aviator and POW, McCain was then the Navy's chief lobbyist to the U.S. Senate. Two of his groomsmen were friends he'd acquired on the job--the young Maine Senator Bill Cohen and Senator Gary Hart of Colorado. It was the type of rarefied company that would normally have turned heads at a provincial wedding. But, over the course of the day, it gradually dawned on Cohen that the bride's family was the main attraction. Cindy's father, Jim, was one of the most successful businessmen in the state ...............

[beac]

1. It's always been easy to see what McMansion saw in Cindy ($$$ + young/pretty + connections)

but for the life of me, I can't see what she saw in him.

Maybe he reminded her of her father-- i.e. an lecherous bastard who would be happy to leave his first wife and family behind?

:shrug:

[ColbertWatcher]

2. No, no, no! This is not Macbeth.

Fucking McCain is a grown man (he was a POW!) he is in full control of his own damn life.

Don't blame the wife he beats up.

[L. Coyote]

3. Now It’s The Post Covering Up John McCain’s Mob Connections

Now It’s The Post Covering Up John McCain’s Mob Connections
Michael Collins Piper - http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/mccain_s_mob_connections_146.html


...... McCain’s father-in-law was the top lieutenant for Kemper Marley, the Lansky syndicate’s chief Arizona operative who acted, in turn, as the front man for the Bronfman family—key players in the Lansky syndicate.

During Prohibition, the Canadian-based Bronfmans supplied—and thus controlled—the “spigot” of liquor ....

After Prohibition, Lansky-Bronfman associates such as Marley got control of a substantial portion of liquor (and beer) distribution across the country. Marley’s longtime public relations man, Al Lizanitz, revealed that it was the Bronfmans who set Marley up in the alcohol business.

In 1948, 52 of Marley’s employees (including Jim Hensley, the manager of Marley’s company) were prosecuted for federal liquor violations. Hensley got a six month suspended sentence and his brother Eugene went to prison for a year.

In 1953 Hensley and (this time) Marley were prosecuted by federal prosecutors for falsifying liquor records, but young attorney William Rehnquist acted as their “mouthpiece” (as mob attorneys are known) and the two got off scot-free. Rehnquist later became chief justice of the Supreme Court and presided over the “fix” that made George W. Bush president in a rightly disputed election. ................

[JDPriestly]

4. And McCain likes to gamble, I've heard (although it's not getting a lot of

attention now).

(Please note that I am wearing a tinfoil hat at the moment, and I will be the first to admit it, but some of the strangest imaginings turn out to be true. Who would ever have thought that McCain would not be able to say how many houses he owns?)

I have also wondered about whether there is an Indian Gaming/Mafia connection. Just wondered. Don't have concrete evidence. McCain sponsored the Indian gaming bill. Then there is the Ralph Reed/Abramoff tie. Indian gaming would be the perfect place to launder money, make payoffs off the record, etc., seems to me.

And I note that another gambler, William Bennett, was the guy who decided that McCain should not be penalized for his role in the Keating Five scandal. The Mafia used to have quite a presence in Arizona. I don't know what the situation is now.

The underlying question is why in the world the elite of the Republican Party, the big money of the party, would back McCain. They must have a lot to gain by putting him in the White House. The mob connection would explain it. I don't know of anything else that could. It's just a mystery to me, so a theory that sounds crazy at first hearing could well turn out to be true.

We are finishing 8 years of mob rule in D.C. Our country just won't survive another 4.

[gateley]

6. The Mob connections weren't McCain's, they were his father-in-law's.

And by the time McCain married into the family, Hensley had become legitimate.

[JDPriestly]

5. Wow! I just remember something from the distant past.

Years ago, in Arizona, while registering voters, I met the wife of a well known Mafia family member. And there is something about Cindy McCain that reminds me of that woman -- sort of a stoic martyrdom. Cindy looks like she is in pain all the time. She shows as little emotion as a woman can. She is the suffering wife. Hmmm! It's sort of a deja vu moment for me.

The Mafia wife I met wanted me to help her get her husband out of prison. Why in the world she would have thought I could do anything for her, I cannot imagine. I was just a kid at the time. I knew no one.

Somewhere years before I had read in a Life magazine that Mafia members had to hide their wealth and that that would have inconspicuous things like built in vacuum cleaners, so, the whole time this crazy Mafia woman was talking to me, I was looking high and low to see whether there was a built in vacuum cleaner. I had never seen one (still haven't) and really wanted to know what they look like. It is kind of a crazy story, but it is true. So, you know that after all these years, I remember what the Mafia wife was like. Cindy could be her soul sister.

[Blue Belle]

8. It could be stoic martyrdom...

but it could be all the botox too. She looks younger now than when McCain ran in 2000.

[gateley]

7. That was a very interesting read, L. Coyote - thanks for posting it! nt

[L. Coyote]

9. McCain flips flop to get elected.

Foreclosed Home a Piece of McCain History
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/22/04658/1491/160/572405

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