Cindy's Parents had to give her Birthday Presents from John because they assumed he didn't do it.

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As her family grew, her parents moved across the street to help out, even ordering birthday gifts to be given in her husband’s name. "I’m sure John hasn’t been able to get anything done, so send something Cindy would enjoy," Marguerite Hensley, Mrs. McCain’s mother, would tell G. Darrell Olson, a local jeweler. "John doesn’t have a lot of money, so find something in the $5,000 area," she added, according to Mr. Olson. (One year, Mr. McCain chose his own gift for his wife: a ring with her children’s birthstones.)

Mr. McCain regretted his absences, but he saw himself as an improvement on his own father and grandfather. "John’s dad had gone to war on Dec. 7" — the day Pearl Harbor was attacked — "and didn’t come home for years at a time," Mr. Gullet said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/us/politics/18cindy.html?_r=2&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

[Jennicut]

1. John is a lousy husband. Cindy, after the election is over...get out.

Seriously, he seems like a total A-hole.

[dkf]

2. Yeah he is an awful husband.

Just think of how much Cindy has in life, yet how much she doesn't have.

It is sad.