Cindy McCain claimed she met Mother Teresa - She never did

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/95b18512-d5b6-456e-90a2-12028d71df58.htm

Promoting Adoption

In 1993, John McCain and his wife, Cindy, adopted a little girl from Mother Teresa's orphanage in Bangladesh. She has been a blessing to the McCain family and helped make adoption advocacy a personal issue for the Senator.

The McCain family experience is not unique; millions of families have had their lives transformed by the adoption of a child. As president, motivated by his personal experience, John McCain will seek ways to promote adoption as a first option for women struggling with a crisis pregnancy. In the past, he cosponsored legislation to prohibit discrimination against families with adopted children, to provide adoption education, and to permit tax deductions for qualified adoption expenses, as well as to remove barriers to interracial and inter-ethnic adoptions.

http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/08/20/watchdogs-make-it-harder-for-politicians-to-stretch-the-truth/

Cindy McCain's past is the latest to be questioned after errors were found.

By Alexandra Marks | August 20, 2008 edition

The latest embellishments come from the McCain camp. Cindy McCain has repeatedly referred to herself as an “only child.” This week came news that she actually has two half sisters, although apparently she had very little contact with them.

The McCain campaign had also put out the story that Mother Teresa “convinced” Cindy to bring home two orphans from Bangladesh in 1991.

Mrs. McCain, it turns out, never met Mother Teresa on that trip. (Once contacted by the Monitor, the campaign revised the story on its website.) snip

The story about Mother Teresa “convincing” Mrs. McCain to bring home two children from an orphanage in Bangladesh has been retold many times. Initially, the “About Cindy McCain” page on the McCain campaign website read: “Mother Teresa convinced Cindy to take two babies in need of medical attention to the United States. One of those babies is now their adopted daughter, 16-year-old Bridget McCain.”

The media picked up the theme. A story earlier this year on ABC’s “Good Morning America” stated, “With Mother Teresa’s encouragement she brought her fourth child, Bridget, home.” An April 2008 Wall Street Journal profile states that Mother Teresa “implored” Cindy to bring the girls to the United States. Other articles say Cindy did it “at the behest” of Mother Teresa.

[marmar]

1. Lying must come as naturally to Repugs as breathing.....

..... They just can't help themselves!

[Liberal Veteran]

2. Perhaps it was the stolen drugs that made her imagine M. Teresa speaking to her?

[C_U_L8R]

3. That and her Cookie controversy

I guess these McPoseurs really have a problem telling the truth.
It's a sickness.

[notadmblnd]

4. I've been wondering where they keep this adopted 16 yr old daughter

A room in the basement? I've never seen pictures or mention of her. She doesn't travel with them. What is she, a servant?

[NNN0LHI]

6. And is it one or two orphans?

Sometimes I read one. Other times the article says two.

Maybe McCain really does have trouble with numbers?

Don

[Lochloosa]

12. McLame can't remember

[SoCalDem]

8. She does not fit the mold of the perfect republican family (pics)

Bridget..

[notadmblnd]

10. I guess it'sthree strikes and you're out with these people.

She's not thin, attractive or pasty white. I guess my assumption of keeping her locked in the basement was correct?

[TexasObserver]

5. She was high on goof balls, in her defense!

She remembered the time she and Mother Teresa ran through sniper fire to get buttloads of Oxycontin, then Mother Teresa drew a cross in the sand, then they had cucumber sandwiches.

[Overseas]

7. They're a sweet couple. He has Solzhenitsyn's Cross and she has Mother Teresa. //nt

[harun]

9. Someone needs to tell her she isn't in the board room anymore where

you get to lie your ass off and no one will call you on it.

Old habits are hard to break.

[UTUSN]

11. K&R big #5!1 n/t

[ck4829]

13. "But John McCain was a POW!"

This will undoubtedly by the McCain camp's response.

[trthnd4jstc]

14. Well a few years ago, I met a mother named Teresa. N/T

[AzDar]

15. Kick...

(God, the McCains SUCK)


:kick:

[Iggo]

16. She ate Mother teresa...

...and absorbed her soul.

Stupid Frodo should never have given her that damned ring, I tell you.

[IDemo]

17. They were both POWs at the time, too

that's the ticket..