HANOI, Vietnam — Cindy McCain, wife of presumed GOP nominee John McCain, harshly criticized Myanmar’s military junta Thursday while vowing to make improving human rights there a priority if she becomes the next first lady.
“It’s just a terrible group of people that rule the country, and the frightening part is that their own people are dying of disease and starvation and everything else and it doesn’t matter,” Cindy McCain said during a trip to Vietnam, where she works with a charity that helps children born with facial deformities.
Separately, she said the stir she caused when she took exception to Michelle Obama’s comment in February that for the first time in her adult life Obama was proud of the United States was unplanned and not a political ploy. Asked about her response, she told CNN, “I’m an emotional woman when it comes to service to our country. I’ve watched many people’s children leave and go serve. This is something that is the fiber of the McCain family. . . . I think she’s a fine woman, a good mother, and we’re both in an interesting line of work right now.”
