Cindy McCain is a good example of what Kim Vo from Shear Genius would call blonderexic. That platinum straw dye job is horrible and makes her look like a Stepford Wife. I’m not sure why she does that to her hair. I don’t get it when I see people whose hair looks so overprocessed and fake. Give it a rest.
From what I’ve read elsewhere she did actually go in with the other volunteers on more than one occasion and help with the mine-clearing. Of course, if you’re determined to hate her regardless of what she does, nothing I can say will change your mind.
And, now that you mention “shallow,” I find it interesting that most of those posting in this thread are criticizing her for her appearance.
When someone you don’t know “creeps you out,” it’s probably going to be about their appearance. An earlier thread along the lines of “Cindy McCain is the worst person in the world” or some such didn’t so much as touch upon her appearance, IIRC.
Whatever that means. I don’t beleive for a second that she’s ever physically picked up any mines – no potentially live ones anyway.
I didn’t say I hated her. I’m indifferent to her. She does not strike me as someone who would be interesting to talk to,
Her appearance is voluntary. Her pathetic attempts to look youthful make her look vain and shallow. She lacks grace or dignity. I guess that’s not surprising in a trophy wife, though.
She started out as a very pretty woman and if she’s Botoxed or Photoshopped her way to how she looks today I don’t care. Even if her landmine forays were more photo-ops than for-realsies I don’t much care. It draws attention to the problem, got Princess Di canonized, and is what First Ladies do. Let her have her fun playing at the role while she can, cuz you KNOW it ain’t happening after November 4th.
However, I’m hope my wife and I don’t look that old when we’re her age. Except we’re older. Further support for my contention that “Blondes Don’t Keep.”
Mrs. McCain doesn’t creep me out really (although I have been known to joke that she kinda looks like either Sam the Eagle or Brenda Warner), but unfortunately she represents (indirectly) a couple of things that drive me batshit:
- I know some marriages fail, but I think its wrong for a person to take up with somebody else who is still married. This is only my opinion, and I’m mature enough to know that values are relative. Its really none of my business, and I certainly wouldn’t attempt to enforce this personal value of mine through legislation.
That said, my bullshit meter goes off whenever I hear Sen. McCain go on about the “sanctity of marriage”. I’ll leave it for others to decide if Mrs. McCain fits their definition of “homewrecker”, but I think Sen. McCain ought not to wave the “marriage” flag around in too big a fashion.
- As a recovering alcoholic, I can sympathize with Mrs. McCain’s struggles with addiction. Though I never stole money or did anything illegal while in active addiction like she did, I did do many things that I am ashamed of. I am glad for her that she seems to have this aspect of her life under management, just as I’m glad for anybody who wins their daily battle with the beast.
That said, if I had been discovered to be an embezzler back in the day, I’m pretty certain that my penance to society would include substantially more than restitution and probation. I won’t say the justice system is unfair, but it sure as hell is unbalanced.
And, if it were Michelle Obama who had a history of addiction and theft in her past, I’m sure that every day I would hear some low-rent, dingbat butthole like Sean Hannity going on about how the potential next First Lady would be selling state secrets to buy pills and Grand Marnier.
Preach it!
I think she’s just plain gross. Definitely a lot of city miles on this model.
I’ve been hot for Grace Coolidge ever since I visited Plymouth Notch, Vermont, last year and saw her full-length portrait.
You gotta know Cal wasn’t giving her what she craved.
My eyes! She looks like the Crypt Keeper in that shot.
It’s her HAIR that creeps you out about that shot? Check out the skin–she looks like the offspring of Lillian Hellman and W.H. Auden, the two most wrinkled faces I ever saw.
I’m about her age, and I’ve never had the least cosmetic work done (plainly to anyone who’s ever seen me), but if my skin looks anything close to that level of agedness, please someone shoot me now!
Good lord, so am I – a fact I’d somehow managed not to process. shudder
How come you never see her sucking his mouth on stage?
I’m glad someone finally said Cryptkeeper. Because up until then I felt bad for thinking it.
It’s especially weird when you add it to her penchant for showing her cleavage.
She’s a couple years older than me, but she’s wearing a hairstyle normally seen on someone in their 20s or 30s, and it’s not “First Lady Hair”…not that I dig the White House Helmet Head look or anything. There’s got to be a middle ground. She needs to lose the “trophy wife” look.
She doesn’t look bad at all. The over processed hair and the strangly taut yet still wrinkled skin does detract a little and adds at least ten years to her, yet she still looks quite attractive. Let’s see how Michele holds up in the next ten years.*
*I’m thinking quite will, since black don’t crack. Oh look, Michelle’s only 14 days older than I am. Boy have I let myself go down the shitter!
Generally I do not agree with the OP. However, after taking a look at that Newsweek picture I had to reconsider. She looks fine most of the time, but she is seriously scary in that picture.
Fight my ignorance and be more descriptive of “tight”.
Y’alls upset by the wrinkles, hope you have early exit details worked out.
I can categorically say their daughter does not freak me out. 
When its pulled back so tightly that it looks downright uncomfortable. Nicole Kidman was the Queen of Tight Hair for a while, but lately she seems to be relaxing it. It sort of gives the impression that the woman is going for a “fake” facelift.
I think Nicole Kidman is absolutely gorgeous, and has really pretty hair. When she puts it back like that, it makes me think she was going to just run out to the store for a gallon of milk (instead of doing a red carpet thing).