"We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." What a paragraph! This sparse, 52-word opening of our Constitution did not merely launch a fledgling nation--but a bold experiment in democratic idealism.
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Cindy McCain is heiress to a Phoenix-based beer-distributing company, making her worth about $100 million. Last month she was embarrassed into divesting herself of more than $2 million in mutual funds which hold stock in companies doing business with the genocidal leaders of Sudan. Through her giant Budweiser distributorship, Cindy McCain has also given her hubby fat breaks on air travel. The New York Times compared what the McCain campaign paid for using Cindy's private planes with the market rate for the trips taken and concluded that she was "subsidizing her husband's campaign" to the tune of perhaps a half million dollars.
MRS. MCCAIN HELPS OUT
Cindy McCain is heiress to a Phoenix-based beer-distributing company, making her worth about $100 million. Last month she was embarrassed into divesting herself of more than $2 million in mutual funds which hold stock in companies doing business with the genocidal leaders of Sudan. Through her giant Budweiser distributorship, Cindy McCain has also given her hubby fat breaks on air travel. The New York Times compared what the McCain campaign paid for using Cindy's private planes with the market rate for the trips taken and concluded that she was "subsidizing her husband's campaign" to the tune of perhaps a half million dollars.