Cindy: Michelle kicks your little butt

Women have embraced a gender-specific battle since the beginning of time: Blondes vs. Brunettes.
Maybe it's because I'm a stark brunette, but it seems to me as though blondes depict the submissive, naive persona, while brunettes give off the intellectual, feisty vibe.
Just a thought. No hard feelings, you friendly blondes.
A few days ago, I read Holly Bailey's profile "Understanding Cindy McCain" in Newsweek. I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this.
I expected to read a deep exploration into who Cindy really is and maybe the article would attempt to persuade me to believe she'd make a half-decent First Lady. Perhaps I expected too much, because, honestly- how deep did I really think Mrs. McCain is?
She isn't much deeper than her empty bottle of pills. To my disappointment, I read seven magazine pages of pro-Cindy fluff.
My favorite part was when Mrs. McCain decried "the other politicians' wives in Washington didn't like me because they thought I was a trophy wife." Uhm, sorry to burst your happy, blonde Arizona bubble, but you are.
John met Cindy in a bar. They lied to each other about their age and their superficial love bubble began. He was a Navy Captain ... she is the only daughter of a billionare. He is old ... she is young(er). He was currently married to a supermodel and going through a mid-life crisis ... and she was innocent and impressionable. So they got married. He was never home ... she was stuck raising kids across the country. Sounds like he got a good deal and she got the short end of the stick.
Is this really a woman that should hold such an influential position as First Lady? Is this the family we want to be presented for the whole world to see? Including American children?
The worse is yet to come.
In 1992 she confessed she was addicted to pills. She had been abusing prescription drugs for years after she injured her back 1989. She had actually been stealing pills from her nonprofit organization! Sorry, but that's sick in the head. She was busted for it after an employee from the organization had been fired and spilled the beans.
She claims she quit the day in 1992 when her mother confronted her about concerns.
What am I supposed to say about that story? Am I supposed to give her a warm hug and congratulate her? "Good for you darling, you kicked the habit!"
I am as unenthusiastic and unimpressed about her sob story as I am about President Bush's past as an angry alcoholic.
It's only one person's fault for getting addicted to a drug. It's only one person's fault for STEALING the drugs. And it's only one person's fault for hiding the addiction.
These faults don't make a person look strong- they make a person look weak, irresponsible and immoral.
No one wants their son to look up to Bush, just like no one would want their daughter to look up to Cindy. She has no credibility, no self-respect and therefore won't receive any respect from her fellow Americans.
Cindy was also quoted saying that she's given thought to joining her husband's team, but she won't be. In other words, she's a typical Republican president's wife: useless, smiling and submissive.
She told Bailey (the writer of the cheap, almost useless article) she wouldn't sit in on cabinet meetings, but she is her husband's best adviser and closest confidant. Well something doesn't sound right there. I don't want my president listening to advisers who don't know what they're talking about.
This isn't just a battle between the candidates- it's also a battle for the First Lady seat, which is a powerful chair that deserves to belong to a woman of great intellectual and moral stature.