In Vogue: Cindy McCain, Michelle Obama Photos
A feature and photo essay about Cindy McCain, wife of GOP presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, is featured in Vogue magazine’s June issue.
The 54-year-old beauty - a former rodeo queen and current chair of Hensley & Co. - is known for being demure, meticulously, even a bit uptight.
This photo - Cindy McCain wearing jeans, barefoot, perched in a deck chair on a San Diego patio - seeks to shatter these preconceptions…
In Vogue: Cindy McCain relaxes in the magazine’s June issue.
It’s an interesting contrast to Vogue’s recent photo shoot of the other possible next First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, 44.
The Vogue photos shot by Annie Leibovitz (a.k.a. Miley Cyrus’ enabler) paint a fascinating portrait of Democratic Sen. Barack Obama’s wife…
In Vogue: Michelle Obama, as photographed by Annie Leibovitz.
Formal, classic, preppy Michelle Obama pictures like this one conjure up images of Jackie Kennedy - not a surprise, as many in the media compare Barack Obama to Jackie’s young, charismatic late husband.
The Cindy McCain photos, meanwhile, seem to be an attempt to downplay her Stepford Wife qualities and show us her accessible, laid-back, outdoorsy side.
Just how successful are the Cindy McCain and Michelle Obama Vogue photos at altering the perceptions you have? Do you view them more favorably?
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June 18th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Get the heck out. Is it in every pale WW’s contract that she must be referred to as a “beauty?” Ms. McCain may (or not) be beautiful inside but on the outside, she looks tired, worn, leathered and sad.
July 8th, 2008 at 7:37 am
Are you kidding me? Which do you think Tarzan would choose as his mate?
August 27th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
What straight iron does michelle use on her hair
September 5th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Cindy is beautiful, Michelle is not……..straight up!
September 13th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Indeed I look at Michele and agree, you cannot put lipstick on a pig.
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Cindy looks like an old woman trying to hang on. It breaks my heart. Michelle has a horrible hairdo in this pic
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:51 pm
ms.mcCain has a lovely figure but the face of a drag queen
October 9th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Cindy definitely needs some spa time to unsquinch that face. . . see her spa on http://spaaroundtheworld.wordpress.com
November 6th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
The white woman looks boring stepford wifeish
Where as the First Lady The Presidents Wife Michelle Obama
looks beautiful with v little effort
Beauty is a diverse concept gone are the days when the only way someone can find u pretty is to be a Blond slim white woman yawn. Michelle is not only beautiful shes intelligent funny cool and sucesful in her own right.
plus I love her look classic yet contemporary timeless chic. Most of these comments r so last millenium
November 6th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
and plus Michelle Obama had become a fashion icon even before her husband became the 44th President
November 7th, 2008 at 2:04 am
Both pictures are great. That’s a nice shot of Cindy in her jeans, but the photo of Michelle by Annie Leibovitz is stunning. First Lady-elect Obama is absolutely exquisite!
January 18th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Cindy McCain is a lovely woman inside and out. Why would you make such wretched comments about this lovely and charitible woman. She’s well into her fifties, and is still stunning. Michelle is not a pretty woman, no matter how hard the media tries to convince us that she is “stunning” “Jackie Kennedy-like” “exquisite,” she is not. We have eyes. This isn’t a personal attack on Mrs. Obama’s character.
February 11th, 2009 at 12:40 am
Lets give some grades here (for calibration purposes): Cindy 6 out of 10, Jackie Onasis 10, Laura Bush 7, Michelle Obama 1 or zero (what i call UGLY).
February 18th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Cindy is quite pretty, Michelle is quite UGLY!
I am appalled that VOGUE refused to publish Laura Bush for example (not a big fan of Bush), I am stopping my subscription to Vogue tomorrow
February 20th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Hmmmmmf, this woman is ugly and nasty. I would not accept a date with her, even a blind date, even if you pay me 1000 dollars, when i saw the VOGUE issue it was pretty gross, i immediately overturned the mag to not offend anyone else passing by….
February 25th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Michelle Obama is gorgeous in every sense of the word.
February 26th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
What an ugly first lady. She looks a bit like an angry gorilla. Obama has the big ears. What an embarassment for America
I almost stopped watching the news just to avoid hurting my eyes
February 27th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Awww, come on !! U know Cindy McCain isn’t sleepin with John, She has a “John” on the side !! Michelle Obama has got it goin on !!
Her inauguration dress was bad..but to me she’s a “Fashionista Supreme !!
March 21st, 2009 at 11:15 pm
MO is not a Fashion Icon. Where the hell do you get that from? She is just plain BUFUGLY!!!!!!
April 4th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Michelle Obama is ugly no matter what way you BLIND people want to look at it. As a 28 year old male I can tell you no amount of alcohol could make me wind up with that in my bed EVER! Easily looks like a gremlin in the face and her anti whit racism she spews makes her even worse.
April 5th, 2009 at 6:28 am
Enough with this Michelle Obama stuff. She is so butt fucking ugly. I don’t know what this big politically correct drama is about. The media is just too scared to say that because she is black. But as Ken above no amount of alcohol would lead to that ending up in my bed. For a minute look at her face people… GOD. Enough already. I was no fan of George Bush but Laura Bush was a fox.
October 24th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
you guys commenting must all be gorgeous super models, I mean you don’t sound bitter at all sitting in front of a computer whining how ugly either women are…
November 8th, 2009 at 3:31 am
Sam, the media is embarassedly paralized because she is black and if they say anything like she is ugly (which she is) then they look racist, how funny to see the media sink in their own s***t
November 29th, 2009 at 12:33 am
First Lady Michelle Obama is not very attractive. Her ape like figure and facial features
are Cro-Magnon. I think the Pres. married her because she has the same complexion has his father.