But looking closer, Cindy, the former rodeo barrel-racer, the private pilot, race-car-driver, humanitarian mission worker and mother of four, is easily his match in the maverick department.
In 2004, at 50, she suffered a stroke and wasn’t supposed to recover completely. Instead, she rehabbed herself back to walking and talking normally and back to her work with children.
Who is Cindy McCain? Like most women, she’s more than meets the eye: businesswoman, foundation director, wife, mother. But time and again, one word, appears in her story, “children.” Even during her husband’s presidential campaign, she’s in Vietnam and Cambodia with Operation Smile, which performs cleft palate surgeries on children, like the one her own precious Bridgette had 16 years ago.
She’s been asked, given her aversion to the spotlight, does she even want to be first lady? Absolutely. If she can use her position to help children.
In Vogue this month, the millionaire wife of Sen. John McCain lets her hair down, literally, while reclining barefoot, in comfortable jeans, on a deck chair.
The 53-year-old mother of four has developed a taste for the track since 2004, the year she suffered a stroke.
In defensive-driving courses at Bondurant, Cindy rammed the cars of mock bad guys and took out roadblocks.
"She was steady as a rock," says Mike McGovern, the school's chief instructor. Cindy was a "gung-ho student"
—the first to volunteer to try out the skid car, which trains drivers to recover from spin outs.
For Cindy McCain, the Fun Is in the Fast Lane - Washington Whispers (usnews.com)
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