How Christain is this one? Cindy McCain's Half Sister 'Angry' She's Hidden
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All Things Considered, August 18, 2008 · Last Tuesday, NPR broadcast
a story about Cindy McCain's business and charity work. In it, Ted
Robbins described McCain as the only child of Jim Hensley, a wealthy
Arizona businessman. The next morning, NPR received an e-mail from
Nicholas Portalski of Phoenix, who heard the story with his mother.
"We were listening to the piece about Cindy McCain on NPR, All Things
Considered, and it just struck us very hard," Portalski said.
His mother, Kathleen Hensley Portalski, is also Hensley's daughter.
The Portalski family is accustomed to hearing Cindy McCain described
as Hensley's only child.
She's been described that way by news organizations from The New
Yorker and The New York Times to Newsweek and ABC.
McCain herself routinely uses the phrase "only child," as she did on
CNN last month. "I grew up with my dad," she said then. "I'm an only
child. My father was a cowboy, and he really loved me very much, but I
think he wanted a son occasionally."
McCain's father was also a businessman — and twice a father.
"I'm upset," Kathleen Portalski says. "I'm angry. It makes me feel
like a nonperson, kind of."
Who Is Kathleen Hensley Portalski?
Documents show Kathleen Anne Hensley was born to Jim and Mary Jeanne
Hensley on Feb. 23, 1943. They had been married for six years when
Kathleen was born.
Jim Hensley was a bombardier on a B-17, flying over Europe during
World War II.
He was injured and sent to a facility in West Virginia to recuperate.
During that time, while still married to Mary Jeanne, Hensley met
another woman — Marguerite Smith. Jim divorced Mary Jeanne and married
Marguerite in 1945.
Cindy Lou Hensley was born nine years later, in 1954.
She may have grown up as an only child, but so did her half sister,
Kathleen, who was raised by a single parent.
Portalski says she did see her father and her half sister from time to
time.
"I saw him a few times a year," she says. "I saw him at Christmas and
birthdays, and he provided money for school clothes, and he called
occasionally."
Jim Hensley also provided credit cards and college tuition for his
grandchildren, as well as $10,000 gifts to Kathleen and her husband,
Stanley Portalski. That lasted a decade, they say. By then, Jim
Hensley had built Hensley and Co. into one of the largest beer
distributorships in the country. He was worth tens, if not hundreds,
of millions of dollars.
Sole Inheritor To Hensley's Estate
When Hensley died in 2000, his will named not only Portalski but also
a daughter of his wife Marguerite from her earlier marriage. So, Cindy
McCain may be the only product of Jim and Marguerite's marriage, but
she is not the only child of either.
She was, however, the sole inheritor of his considerable estate.
Kathleen Portalski was left $10,000, and her children were left
nothing. It's a fact Nicholas Portalski says his sister discovered the
hard way.
"What she found in town — on the day of or the day before or the day
after his funeral — was that the credit card didn't work anymore,"
Nick says.
The Portalskis live in a modest home in central Phoenix. Kathleen is
retired, as is her husband. Nicholas Portalski is a firefighter and
emergency medical technician looking for work.
They say it would have been nice if they were left some of the Hensley
fortune.
They also say they are Democrats, but Nicholas Portalski says he had
another reason for coming forward.
"The fact that we don't exist," he says. "The fact that we've never
been recognized, and then Cindy has to put such a fine point on it by
saying something that's not true. Recently, again and again. It's just
very, very hurtful."
Kathleen Portalski says she'd like an acknowledgment and an apology.
NPR asked the McCain campaign — specifically, Cindy McCain — to
comment or respond. Neither replied.
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The McCains have zero credibility.
Is McCain Now Copying Solzhenitsyn?
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/politicalinsider/2008/08/is-mccain-now-copying-solzheni.html
...Last week, a speech by Sen. John McCain had phrases that were
likely lifted directly from Wikipedia.
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/politicalinsider/2008/08/did-mccain-plagarize-his-speec.html
...Now it seems McCain may have lifted another story last night at
megachurch pastor Rick Warren's Faith Forum. According to a very
persuasive Daily Kos diary, the anecdote McCain told about a North
Vietnamese prison guard making a cross in the dirt as a sign of
solidarity -- or as he said, "just two Christians worshiping together"
-- is very similar to a story about Alexander Solzhenitsyn and his
times in the Soviet Gulags.
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http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1994-09-08/news/opiate-for-the-mrs/
McCain caught breaking the basic rules of Christianity and enabled by
kool-aide drinking fake christians
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.royalty/browse_frm/thread/dd4003d2b65747b9/d181496cf0b12a6b#d181496cf0b12a6b
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> ...Last week, a speech by Sen. John McCain had phrases that were
> ...Now it seems McCain may have lifted another story last night at
> megachurch pastor Rick Warren's Faith Forum. According to a very
> persuasive Daily Kos diary, the anecdote McCain told about a North
> Vietnamese prison guard making a cross in the dirt as a sign of
> solidarity -- or as he said, "just two Christians worshiping together"
> -- is very similar to a story about Alexander Solzhenitsyn and his
> times in the Soviet Gulags.
> []
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> McCain caught breaking the basic rules of Christianity and enabled by