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Do you mean Carol the divorcee whom he married and adopted her two kids? The kids who are still close to him? The one he was away from for six years. That tends to be a bit tough on a marriage, anyone's marriage. Especially when you are getting beat up every day in a prison camp hellhole.

Divorce rates for active duty have more than doubled since the start of the Iraq war. Is there something fundimentally wrong with our guys there? McCain met Cindy six years after he came back. The marriage was already broken.

I thought the tax return story was very interesting. Turns out that they have kept their taxes separate from the outset--she's worth 100M, he's just a senator.

Considering that she was in her twenties, and McCain in his forties when they met, that was a smart move on her part in a time where pre-nups were uncommon. I guess she saw what happened to Carol and decided her money was great glue to hold a marriage together.

Or maybe it was McCain's sugar daddy-in-law who had the smarts and set up the arrangement.

I remember when McCain got all snarky about Romney's wealth--Romney who had earned his fortune, instead of marrying it like McCain and Kerry. I didn't know at that time just how rich Cindy is.