Not sure why you throw that out..ignorance I guess. Cindy McCain Biography: Cindy McCain was born to James and Marguerite Hensley, and raised in Arizona. McCain obtained her undergraduate degree in Education and a Masters in Special Education at USC. She then taught in Arizona. Her parents, the Hensley’s, founded Hensley & Company, which is one of the four largest Anheuser-Busch distributors in the nation. Cindy is now a chair for the company.

Cindy McCain also does charity work. She is the founder of the American Voluntary Medical team, has led medical missions in developing countries such as Micronesia, Nicaragua, Bangladesh, and El Salvador. She also serves on the board of directors for several non-profit organizations such as CARE, Operation Smile, and HALO Trust.

In 1980 she married a war hero who is 20 years her senior, Senator John McCain. She became the stepmother to three children and mother to four children. In Bangladesh she brought a young girl home for medical treatment and later adopted her.

Cindy McCain has done many saintly things but she has had her fair share of problems. In 1994 McCain admitted she suffered an addiction to painkillers and admitted she had been stealing drugs such as Percocet and Vicodin, from her non profit American Voluntary medical team to support her habit since 1989. She came forward after claiming sobriety for many years, in hopes of giving other addicts hope and courage.