It's Not Her. It's That Marriage

摘要

I tried to watch john mccain as he made his victory speech last week, but really, I couldn't take my eyes offhis wife. So thin, so blond, so beautiful in her swept-up hairdo-my husband, slouched on the couch next to me, muttered something along the lines of, "She is not ugly." I had to agree. Also, she played her part beautifully. She knew when to step out of the frame and give the stage over to her husband. "I think the American people truly still want a traditional family in the White House," she told The Arizona Republic last year. Cindy McCain is a grown-up woman who has suffered her share of personal and marital setbacks-including an addiction to prescription painkillers that she hid from her husband-but she knows that what America wants in a First Marriage is something more mythic than real. Like my 4-year-old daughter, deep into the second year of her infatuation with the Disney princesses, people want to believe that "husband" and "prince" are synonyms.