Sitting in a waiting room the other day, I read the Newsweek article on Cindy McCain.

One part jumped out at me—when she talked about keeping some privacy from the media.

Her comments reminded me a little bit of Hillary Clinton talking about a zone of privacy and her determination to keep reporters away from her daughter while the Clintons were in the White House.

I don’t mean that the women are similar, just that both have had to face reporters determined to catalogue every aspect of their lives.

Here are a few paragraphs from the article in the June 30 edition:

“Recently, Cindy has set out to show the country that she is no vacant “Stepford wife.” She has started doing more press interviews and can be surprisingly candid about her personal life and her feelings. Still, she clearly finds the confessional mode of American politics distasteful, and does not feel the need to overshare. “It’s more about … feeling comfortable … and not feeling compelled to do things that I wouldn’t normally do,” she says

“John McCain has made a virtue—and a career—of his unwillingness to go along, an independent streak his wife shares. If he doesn’t want to be reined in by convention, neither does she. After nearly 30 years together but apart, she has her own sense of mission, one that does not necessarily require a husband in the White House.”