Slog - Comments on GOP Family Values http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/gop_family_values Cindy McCain's half-sister—one of Cindy's two half-siblings—was a little surprised when Cindy described herself as "an only child." Maybe that's why she's voting for Obama? Portalski, 65, and the potential first lady, 54, have the same father: Jim Hensley, the founder of the beer distributor Hensley and Co. that Cindy McCain now chairs. In an interview with NPR News' All Things Considered last week, Portalski said she felt "like a non-person" after Cindy McCain described herself as an "only child." Portalski's mother is Hensley's first wife; Cindy McCain's mother, Marguerite Hensley, also had another daughter from her first marriage.... Portalski's... Copyright 2008 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:55:07 -0800 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:33:43 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by elenchos I'm still trying to sort out who Palin's youngest daughter's mother is. Her sister is her real mom? Or her grandmother is her mother? Fuck it. And now this only child Cindy, but with half sisters? Were they disinherited? Whatever.

It's like fucking hillbillies across the aisle.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/gop_family_values#c1117393 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/gop_family_values#c1117393 2008 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:12:19 -0800 Comment by Non She's the only child getting the inheritance, she meant

]]> Non http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/gop_family_values#c1117399 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/gop_family_values#c1117399 2008 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:18:31 -0800 Comment by him lol @ Non

]]> him http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/gop_family_values#c1117411 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/gop_family_values#c1117411 2008 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:48:56 -0800 Comment by max solomon minutae.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/gop_family_values#c1117427 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/gop_family_values#c1117427 2008 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:03:46 -0800 Comment by Irena minutiae, you mean. But I like this story, because I hate the Republicans SO MUCH right now.

]]> Irena http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/gop_family_values#c1117433 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/gop_family_values#c1117433 2008 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:14:39 -0800 Comment by CommonKnowledge Does she really mean that Cindy is also her daughter - you know like in the movie Chinatown? Just wonderin'

]]> CommonKnowledge http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/gop_family_values#c1117456 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/gop_family_values#c1117456 2008 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:46:30 -0800 Comment by rob So if Jim Hensley (Cindy's father) was not Marguerite Hensley's first husband, which I believe is the case, and Marguerite Hensley's unnamed first husband was the father of the not-Portalski-not-Cindy third sib, whoever she is, then Portalski and not-Portalski-not-Cindy are not blood relations at all, because Portalski and not-Portalski-not-Cindy have neither a mother nor a father in common, but Cindy is the half-sib of each and is therefore the only hybrid holding this fucked-up family together, though she denies it.

That about right?

]]> rob http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/gop_family_values#c1117517 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/gop_family_values#c1117517 2008 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:32:00 -0800 Comment by rob @7: Relationships are as described, in my own inimitable TGIF/beer-addled way. For more lucid descriptions with actual names, see:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082000253.html

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93708729

]]> rob http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/gop_family_values#c1117577 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/gop_family_values#c1117577 2008 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:31:28 -0800 Comment by David Wright I do appreciate how Irena @ 5 is at least honest about her selective outrage.

]]> David Wright http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/gop_family_values#c1117593 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/gop_family_values#c1117593 2008 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:33:43 -0800