By Ben Armbruster on Oct 9th, 2008 at 5:17 pm

Cindy McCain: Vietnam vets with PTSD were 18-year-olds who didn’t know what they were doing.

During a recent interview with Marie Claire, Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) wife Cindy suggested that her husband has never had PTSD symptoms because “he was trained.” She also added that symptoms such as “cold sweats in the middle of the night” are reserved for the “the 18-year-olds who were drafted”:

Q: You met your husband after his POW days. To what extent is that still with you - or is it a part of history?

McCAIN: My husband will be the first one to tell you that that’s in the past. Certainly it’s a part of who he is, but he doesn’t dwell on it. It’s not part of a daily experience that we experience or anything like that. But it has shaped him. It has made him the leader that he is.

Q: But no cold sweats in the middle of the night?

McCAIN: Oh, no, no, no, no, no. My husband, he’d be the first one to tell you that he was trained to do what he was doing. The guys who had the trouble were the 18-year-olds who were drafted. He was trained, he went to the Naval Academy, he was a trained United States naval officer, and so he knew what he was doing.

If I am correct John McCain's father got him into the naval Academy where he was what 5th from the bottom of the class, not to include that he crashed 3 planes during training along with his womenizing

Correct on all counts, Mike.

Had McCain not been an Admiral's son, he almost certainly would have been bounced out of flying status and probably the Navy after the stunt in Spain where he crashed his plane by flying low enough to hit power lines. After the third crash, he certainly would have been history without the protection of having the CINCPAC as his father.

Been hearing and seeing that all my life it's not what you know it's who you know. Guess its like that saying always was and always will be.

Actually, "Cindy McBarbie" should get on the same page as her Husband. He said in an address to the VFW, "That I too suffer from PTSD"! Since then his Campaign handlers have put the BIG HUSH on that subject.

Also, she stated that 18 Year old RVN Draftees are the ones that suffer from PTSD. I guess she has forgot about the thousands of Afghanistan and Iraqi Veterans that have been diagnosed with PTSD! I guess that they don't count in her book of un-reality.......But now she has pi-ssed off The Veterans For America, a large Iraqi and Afghan veterans group, headed up by Bobby Muller.

Cindy McBarbie should stick to her vast knowledge of, Cheerleading and Charm School and leave the real thinking to the people that have a Brain.