Looks like McCain's lobbyist delivers again. McCain continues his pretend presidency and sends his pretend first lady off on a mission.
I realize she's done charitable work in the past. But this seems very inappropriate for a candidate's spouse. Going to Florida would be one thing but going to Georgia is totally different.
If Michelle Obama did something like this she'd be ridiculed for overstepping, for interfering - she'd be reminded that she isn't the first lady yet. They'd say she's just as presumptuous as her husband. The unsaid criticism would be "she doesn't know her place."
From Time
McCain is traveling with the U.N.'s World Food Programme, whose work she monitored in Southeast Asia and Africa this spring and summer. McCain plans to meet with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and to visit wounded Georgian soldiers. She would also visit representatives of the HALO Trust, which works to remove land mines and on whose board she serves.
Cindy and John McCain visited Georgia together last year; in an interview with TIME at her Sedona, Ariz., ranch before she left, she emphasized that her years of work on overseas missions was an "important part of what I'm about, what makes me tick."
Her aides say that the timing of the trip, during the Democratic National Convention in Denver, was never a consideration. But that doesn't mean they're ignoring the subtext. "She's on the phone with the World Food Programme; he's on the phone with Saakashvili," McCain adviser Nicolle Wallace told me. "It was a great picture of what they'll be like in the White House."