Education is one thing.

Beating up on people who buy, sell or drink alcohol legally and responsibly is political suicide.

Then again, her beer is Anheuser-Busch, isn't it?  Nah, it's okay with Milwaukee to attack Anheuser-Busch.

An email from Ireland to all of their brethren in the States...a point to ponder despite your
political affiliation:

'We, in Ireland, can't figure out why you people are even bothering to hold an election in the United
States.

On one side, you had a pants wearing female lawyer, married to another lawyer who can't seem to keep
his pants on, who just lost a long and heated primary against a lawyer, who goes to the wrong church, who
is married to yet another lawyer, who doesn't even like the country her husband wants to run!

Now...On the other side, you have a nice old war hero whose name starts with the appropriate 'Mc'
terminology, married to a good looking younger woman who owns a beer distributorship !!

Now what in God's name are ya lads
thinkin over in the colonies !
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Some prescriptions were for quantities of 400 and 500 pills. Sometimes, Cindy McCain would go to Johnson's home to pick up the prescription. Sometimes, she would send an underling, Johnson said.

Johnson told investigators that he never dispensed any painkillers during overseas missions, and that Cindy McCain carried the drugs in her personal luggage. Gosinski says he knew of no doctors who prescribed them on an overseas mission. Dr. Dennis Everton, however, tells New Times that on his sole AVMT mission--to Kuwait in 1991--he did prescribe pain medication.

It's the involvment of her charity that makes the case different that the typical script forger and stealer.

In 2007, 115 people were convicted and sentenced federally for prescription fraud. In 1995, a year after her conduct became public, it was 48. Not many, but not zero.

18 usc 843(a):
link

a) Unlawful acts: It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally -

....    (3) to acquire or obtain possession of a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception, or subterfuge;

From the sentencing guidelines: the applicable guidline is:

a) §2D2.2. Acquiring a Controlled Substance by Forgery, Fraud, Deception, or Subterfuge; Attempt or Conspiracy

(a) Base Offense Level: 8

From the news at the time (obtained from Lexis): ARIZONA PROBES CHARITY RUN BY SENATOR'S WIFE Salt Lake Tribune (Utah) August 29, 1994, Monday,

The medical director for Cindy McCain's charity is being investigated by a state board that oversees doctors, according to confidential records obtained this past week.

Cindy McCain is the wife of U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

John Max Johnson has admitted to investigators that he wrote prescriptions for painkillers intended for poor people under the names of McCain's employees.

The Arizona Board of Medical Examiners agreed in May to investigate Johnson's conduct after it received a complaint, but it cautioned that the investigation may take nine months to a year.

Meanwhile, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration confirmed that it still is investigating the charity Cindy McCain heads, the American Voluntary Medical Team.

Mark Speicher, executive director of the Medical Examiners Board, refused Friday to confirm or deny that Johnson is being investigated, saying that such investigations are confidential until reviewed by the 12-member board, which meets four times a year.

Johnson, 56, a general surgeon, has worked as a volunteer for McCain's charity, which provides medical care to the poor worldwide.

McCain admitted earlier this week that she was addicted to prescription painkillers from 1989 to 1992 and had stolen some of the painkillers from the charity.

The Board of Medical Examiners agreed to investigate Johnson after learning that he had written prescriptions in the name of a charity employee, Thomas Gosinski, whom he never had treated.

In 1993, Gosinski tipped the DEA that McCain had been abusing prescription painkillers.

McCain's attorney said she has asked the U.S. Attorney's Office to let her enter an 18-month diversion program in lieu of being prosecuted. That decision is pending.

I think otherwise. A spouse is NATURALLY going to advocate their partner's position.  Again, this election is about Barack Obama and John McCain.

Cindy McCain is in the drug distribution business...specifically alcohol distrubution.  No disputing this fact.  I see no shame in it, and I see no shame in the reefer distribution business.