Cindy McCain Confounds Us Again

Lots of interesting stuff to unpack here. First of all, what's this shit about "In Arizona the only way to get around the state is by small private plane"? Sorry Cindy, I've been to Arizona. There are lots of roads and highways connecting all the towns there. Arizona is not Alaska, where you really do need a private plane to get some places.

And if Arizona is so hard to traverse without a plane, whose fault is that? Hmm, it couldn't be the senior Senator from Arizona who has been in office for 22 years and hasn't delivered enough transportation funding to his state, could it? The Senator who is opposed to the type of high speed rail that could make intrastate travel much faster?

Second, I found it interesting that Cindy McCain (who also races drift cars -- god it must be fun to be rich) got her pilot's license in 1986 or so. Because about five years later, her husband still didn't think much of female pilots:

Soon after the Gulf War in 1991, a group of military women pressed Congress to allow female pilots to fly combat missions. But a Vietnam War hero in the Senate, John McCain, pushed back hard.

"The purpose of the military is first to defend this nation's vital security interests throughout the globe and only second to ensure equality," the Arizona Republican argued on the Senate floor, framing the issue in a way that infuriated feminists.

McCain lost that legislative battle, and women pilots started moving into combat roles in the mid-1990s. In the last five years in Iraq, women have flown hundreds of combat missions.

I'm sure Cindy McCain is a good pilot. After all, she's still alive. But what does it say about her husband that he didn't want women to fly in the military, even though his own wife was a pilot? And what does it say about Cindy McCain that she never spoke up against her husband's position?

"Good enough for me, but not good enough for thee." This family reeks of elitism. No wonder John McCain and Phil Gramm have no clue what kind of pain real Americans are going through right now.