Trips to Vietnam Are a McCain Family Affair
Credit: McCainblogette.com
In a symbolic move that highlights her international experiences and passion for childrens charities, Cindy McCain this week travels to Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia to renew her ties to programs like Operation Smile. Now that she's the wife of the presumptive GOP presidential candidate, her visit should help draw more press to her international charity work.
Officials tell Whispers that she will be in Vietnam on Thursday to tour the General Hospital of Khanh Hoa Province and watch the Operation Smile screenings of children, where surgery candidates are chosen. Operation Smile provides funding and support for surgery to correct facial deformities in children. On Friday, she will be in Thailand for a briefing on the United Nations World Food Program, which she also helps with. They will be telling her about their operations in Myanmar.
McCain officials said she also had a stop planned in Cambodia. Officials said that McCain had been concerned that she would not be able to make her regular visits to Asia to support the charities but was encouraged by the campaign to stick with her plans. Some press will be with her.
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Another Puff Piece for McCain in "Whispers"
The reason Cindy McCain can globetrot as a philanthopist is because she and her father have made enornous amounts of money marketing beer in America for half a century. It's curious that we could see someone selling a highly addictive product here, together with all the social ills it visits on society---especially upon children of drunken parents---and then puff, puff, puff her international charity work without mentioning her source for the money. Your "news" magazine here is not giving you the real "news" about John and Cindy. Why not?
Genuine care for children
Despite the jaded comments from the previous reader I consider Cindy McCain's work in SE Asia to be genuine and from the heart. I have been to Vietnam 10 times and just getting there and back to New York is 24 time zones of travel. You have to give a part of your life for that... and in this case it is measured in days and weeks when you add it all up. Besides her genuine personal effort, I hope that you - Mr. Jaded - get to see the genuine smile on the face of even one of the many children she has helped.
Children! Gifts from Heaven!
How can anyone suspect Ms. McCain? She is a true patriot!!
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