Cindy McCain caught lying....about Mother Teresa
Cindy McCain has made the claim in the past that she was encouraged by Mother Teresa to bring two children back to the US with her during one of her "medical missions" that she took with her charity American Voluntary Medical Team (yes the same one that she stole prescription drugs from to feed her habit). After this story was questioned her story was changed to "she decided to bring back the two children after a visit to one of Mother Teresa's orphanages". See Versionista for proof of how the story was scrubbed on John McCain's website.
Is there no depths to which these people will sink to get John McCain elected? She goes from getting busted for posting recipes pinched from the internet as her own to lying about the reason that she adopted an orphan.
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Here's my overall question, though,...
why do we care what Cindy McCain has to say about anything in the first place? Back in '92 people made a big stink about Hillary Clinton's comment about not baking cookies like Tammy Wynette and the press had a frenzy. I remember thinking "she's not running for president, and I can get cookies elsewhere anyway". What is this thing that suddenly the people around me have to say what I say and be above reproach, otherwise that makes me less of a candidate than I was yesterday?
Of course I'm saying this in general, not as a McCain supporter, because Obama's wife has been taking a lot of heat for things she's supposedly said also, and, truthfully, I could care less. Unless one of them comes out with something blatantly racist or criminal, they can say whatever they want to. I may have some fun with it, but it won't impact anything I think about either candidate.
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Well..
I also don't agree with attacking the candidate's wives... except this is a pretty egregious lie designed to make Cindy McCain look like she is a true humanitarian or something. This all happened around the time that she was busted for stealing drugs from her charity and the lie was clearly intended to make her look like she was being charitable to adopt an orphan when in reality they probably did it to help her image. I think if something like this came out about the Obamas the press would be all over it and we would never hear the end of it.
You could be correct there,...
after all, we're still hearing about the stupid flag lapel pin.
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No Catfish here you are wrong...
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It does matter very much who the First Lady is, it tells me what kind of man McCain is and why he would pick this specific woman...The fact that she would lie about Mother Teresa is HUGE!! It tells me just how very low this (100 million dollar) woman will stoop to get her ancient,undereducated husband elected.
True..
They will stop at nothing to get elected. Today I hear that McCain admits he doesn't know how many houses they have! How on earth can anyone relate to people like that?
I'm not so sure, Sassys,...
I've known quite a few men who married a woman that was less than desirable in some way, and many women who have done the same, but it didn't change how I thought about those people. I mean, you've talked about your ex-husband in less than glowing language, and I'm betting you wouldn't want anyone wondering what kind of person you were because you were with him at some point, right?
Trust me, if I had to judge some people based on their spouses, I might not have any friends left. lol
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Actually Catfish
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I myself did wonder "what the hell" was I thinking when I finally caught on to the fact that he was "not the one for me"....But some people did wonder and they even asked me...Then again neither my ex nor I are running for President, and if we were we could expect people to look into who we were and why we acted in certain ways etc. When someone puts themselves in the spotlight they should expect people to look. Certain lies are so bloody easy to debunk, and of course when caught it becomes "why are people being so mean?" Instead of "hell I got caught, guess I better fess up".
I would expect, Sassys,...
that people might look into certain things, but sometimes I think people make mountains out of molehills; man, I wish I could have thought of something better than that to say. But McCain says something the rest of us thinks is stupid and suddenly it's a commercial, and vice versa. We suddenly leave topics once again and get into the ugly part of politics, and I tune out and other people tune out so much that they decide not to vote at all. And that's a shame.
And, of course, I'm sure you saw the follow up commercial from McCain's camp, something I'm sure Obama would have liked to keep people from thinking about when it came to his house.
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Jennifer, John McCain was a big part of this lie.
The story went that he met Mother Teresa while he was in that country and that is how it all got started - Mother Teresa asking John and Cindy to take these children to the U.S. for medical attention.
The problem is, Mother Teresa was in South America in 1991, when all this was supposed to happen, nowhere near this orphanage or John and Cindy McCain.
McCain's camp has been busy as little bees reinventing John and Cindy McCain, churning out half-truths, exaggerating nothings into somethings, and rewriting history in order to present these two people as something other than what they really are.
Now, I don't pretend to know what John and Cindy McCain are really like. But if it was necessary to re-invent them, then what kind of people are they, really? Apparently, the real John and Cindy McCain aren't the kind of people that the American public would want in the White House.
I agree with you..
I don't trust John McCain at all. He really seems to have lost his way at some point in his life. I think once upon a time he was an honorable man - his experience in Vietnam proves that. But he seems to have sold his soul to gain power in Washington but don't they all do that at some point?
Actually, the more I learn about John McCain the more
I think that his entire life has been a pose. I think the real John McCain is a grasping, greedy egotist. That's just my opinion but I formulated that opinion on all the things I've read about his past.
I guess I do have to admit that everyone who plays the game of politics does it for the power. I don't like admitting it, I don't like believing it but that doesn't make it any less true. Sheesh! No wonder it's so hard to get people out to vote.