I make no secret of the fact I think McCain would be bad for this nation as President because of his voting record and the fact after he approved of all Bush did in office, he is now pretending he had nothing to do with any of it. Covering up, lying about his record along with Palin's record, that should be enough to alert the voters of what kind of damage he can do should he be elected. Telling blatant lies with a straight face effortlessly is not a good sign of the things he is capable of. To come out after all these years to say that he was fully aware of his wife's drug addiction is not hurtful to him, it is hurtful to his wife. She is not running for office, he is.
While this shows what went on behind what we already knew is valuable to gossip magazines, it serves no purpose to the nation. It will not take care of the veterans or the other problems this nation has. It will not stop the suffering of the poor and middle class. It just hurts someone who was hurting enough to be addicted to prescription drugs and the family.
There are a lot of families across this country doing the suffering with this issue. It would have been great if McCain had become a champion in substance abuse programs and Cindy had become an advocate for others suffering but they made the choice to not do it.
McCain has been a public figure since Vietnam and most of us are fully aware of his story, factual and otherwise. Palin, well she's new to the public's attention and her history needs to be known but Cindy, she's been in the spotlight far too long to drag all this back up now.
Whistleblower breaks 15-year silence to allege McCain hid wife's drug abuse
Nick Juliano
Published: Thursday September 11, 2008
Cindy McCain's addiction to prescription painkillers emerged into public view 14 years ago with a well-orchestrated PR campaign designed to preserve her husband's political future.
Aside from a lengthy contemporary investigation from Phoenix's alternative weekly and occasional mentions since then, the addiction back-story -- including ample questions about what John McCain knew, when he knew it and questions over whether he was complicit in the cover-up -- has gone largely untold. Until now.
Tom Gosinski, a former employee of the medical-aid charity Cindy McCain used as personal supplier of Percocet and Vicodin, is speaking out publicly for the first time.
On Wednesday, Gosinski sat down with RAW STORY and other outlets to tell his story and distribute copies of his personal journal from his time with the American Voluntary Medical Team in the last half of 1992, where he voiced ever more acute concerns and frustrations over McCain's drug use and its impact on her mood and job performance.
"My journal wasn't to trash Cindy or anything," he says. "My journal was kept b/c I came in contact w/ so many people. It was a way of keeping an ongoing biography of all the people I met, so I could refer back to it."
He says he can't buy the official McCain camp line that Cindy's drug abuse was kept from her husband, he saw and heard too much for any of their stories to make sense -- like the time Cindy was allegedly taken to the hospital after an overdose and John rushed in to berate the doctors and nurses there before moving Cindy to their secluded Sedona ranch. Then there were the Hensley family interventions and the fact that Cindy's drug abuse came to be something of an open secret among employees of the charity.
"I have always wondered why John McCain has done nothing to fix the problem," Gosinski wrote on July 27, 1992. "He must either not see that a problem exists or does not choose to do anything about it."
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