Posted on 09/05/2008 9:19:11 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
Cindy McCain's half sister is planning on voting for Barack Obama, she tells Usmagazine.com.
"I'm not voting for McCain," Kathleen Hensley Portalski tells Us. "I have a different political standpoint.
"I'm voting for Obama," the Phoenix resident says. "I think his proposals to improve the country are more positive and I'm not a big war believer."
Portalski, 65, and the potential first lady, 54, have the same father: Jim Hensley, the founder of the beer distributor Hensley and Co. that Cindy McCain now chairs.
In an interview with NPR News' All Things Considered last week, Portalski said she felt "like a non-person" after Cindy McCain described herself as an "only child."
Portalski's mother is Hensley's first wife; Cindy McCain's mother, Marguerite Hensley, also had another daughter from her first marriage.
"She's kinda cool, standoffish," Portalski tells Us of her half sister.
Portalski also doesn't expect Cindy McCain to make an effort to reconcile their relationship.
"She never has, and I doubt that she ever will," she tells Us.
Portalski's son Nathan, a 45-year-old aerospace machinist, is also backing Obama.
"I wouldn't vote for John McCain if he was a Democrat," he tells Us. "I would not vote at all before I'd vote for him.
"I question whether Cindy is someone I'd want to see in the White House as first lady," he [Nat] adds.
The half sisters had little contact growing up and have not spoken since Hensley's funeral in 2000. In his will, he left just $10,000 to his older daughter; Cindy inherited her father's multimillion-dollar fortune.
"I was his family, too," she said from her home in Phoenix. "I saw him at Christmas and I spent my birthdays with him."
Now, she said, all she wants is for the McCains to apologize and acknowledge her branch of the family tree. (Since you asked: Yes, they're Democrats.) "He was my father, too. I don't know why even now he cannot be a part of my life."
But there's more: Cindy McCain has another half sister. Before her marriage to Hensley, Johnson had a daughter, Dixie Burd, by a previous relationship. Burd, who is much older than Cindy, could not be reached for comment.
The McCain campaign has been tight-lipped about the expanded family tree: "Mrs. McCain was raised as the only child of Jim and Marguerite Hensley, and there was no familiar relationship with any other sibling," it said in a statement.
[So There! ]
US Magazine again.
This story is a couple weeks old.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
You forgot to ask me IF I CARED!
Another brain-dead woman who wants a communist in the White House. How
stupid can people be?
And it explains it. It has nothing to do with being about war, it’s being left out of the will.
The sound you here is the panicked Left scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Btw, if US magazine keeps this up, they won’t have any readers left to alienate, LOL.
boohoo...
20th time this has been posted .....
Maybe she could shack up with Barak’s half-brother and they could be irrelevant together.
This is what happens when you only get one mention in Daddy’s will and you already own three pot-bellied pigs.
hear, the sound you “hear”, dangit.
And who cares anyway??? I wonder if ol George zerObama would vote for his half-a$$-brother. I would be pissed if I were old George and my rich a$$ senator brother didn’t supplement my $12.00 per year income.
Who cares? She can vote for whomever she pleases.
US is compost.
Oh my lord, if McCain’s half-sister-in-law doesn’t like him, how can we trust him?
I am sure she is probably not the most liked within the clan.
“Portalski, 65, and the potential first lady, 54, have the same father: Jim Hensley, the founder of the beer distributor Hensley and Co. that Cindy McCain now chairs”
This says it all.
US considers it an Exclusive. ;) Don’t argue with US!
Not posted when searched key words..light weight weekend read intent only. Don’t go all serious on me.
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