(CNN) -- Every move scrutinized, every word analyzed: life in the electoral spotlight where a clothes selection can be as much a defining moment as policies espoused. Cindy McCain entered John McCain's life after his return from the Vietnam War. This is life - not for the presumptive presidential nominees Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain - but for their respective wives. Michelle Obama has already been in the firing line - accused of being angry, negative and "unpatriotic" with growing concerns she will be the target of ever more intensive attacks by conservatives as the election battle heats up.Life in the spotlight for the wives of the candidates may play a number of waysMichelle Obama has been portrayed as angry, negative and unpatrioticHeiress Cindy McCain is the Republican's second wifeMcCain left his first wife, Carol Shepp, after returning from Vietnam
He was 42 and _ was 24 when she became the woman with whom he would make a new life. _ doesn't often talk to the media but she doesn't think her accident or injuries ended her marriage.