The New Yorker nails it.
"Cindy attended Central High, where she was the best-dressed girl in
school, according to her senior yearbook. In 1968, she was named Junior
Rodeo Queen of Arizona. “I could have been a brain surgeon at twelve
and my father would not have been as proud of me,” she told Vogue recently.
Her mother, Marguerite, nicknamed Smitty (after her last name, Smith),
was “a very refined woman,” according to Sharon Harper. “She was polite
and always dressed in such a lovely way. She taught Cindy impeccable
manners.” At the University of Southern California—or the “University
of Spoiled Children,” as her husband is fond of telling reporters—Cindy
pledged the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta, and graduated in 1978, with a
master’s in education. Her father gave her a Porsche as a graduation
present. She crashed it. He replaced the Porsche with a gold Mercedes.
Many
of McCain’s friends noted that after graduation she took a low-paying
job as a special-education teacher at Agua Fria High School, near
Phoenix, rather than a more lucrative position at her father’s company.
McCain, too, frequently refers to his wife’s teaching background. She
worked at Agua Fria for just one year."
***update***
Nutty-ass Matt Stoller has more here.
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