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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 05:21 PM
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The Christian Science Monitor reports-Cindy McCain Was Caught LYING About Meeting Mother Theresa
Edited on Wed Aug-20-08 05:36 PM by kpete
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.)

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“It’s all about myth-making,” says Darrell West, the director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington. “Politicians love to turn their stories into great epics, and sometimes they have to embellish to smooth out the story line.”

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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.

But a source who was with McCain on that 1991 trip, and who asked that his name not be used because of prior legal dealings with the McCain family, says that Mother Teresa was not at the orphanage when Cindy decided to bring the two girls home.

more at:
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/08/20/watchdogs-make-it-harder-for-politicians-to-stretch-th
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 05:23 PM
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1. Mother Teresa and Cindy's fucking cookie recipes..
what's next?
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 05:51 PM
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10. She was never 'an only child'? nt
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 05:57 PM
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14. Oh dear! Not good to have a congenital
liar as your spouse:(

OT~Aren't you going to Maine?:bounce:
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 05:24 PM
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2. Why do people on the right feel the need to lie about EVERYTHING?
Was this lie even necessary?
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 05:24 PM
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3. They are Habitual Liars, and why do they have so many so eager
to defend their "myth-making"???

They are Liars.
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 05:25 PM
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4. So "merely" adopting a child and getting her cleft palette repaired
isn't impressive enough?
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global1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 05:26 PM
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5. Didn't Somebody Else Have A Faulty Memory - Something About Being Fired Upon As......
they got out of their flying machine? Hmmmmmm.......

Whatever!!!!!
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Whisp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 06:03 PM
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15. hmmm, wonder which you can mistake more easily - flying bullets or
Edited on Wed Aug-20-08 06:06 PM by Whisp
an elderly woman in a babooshka that looks like Mother Teresa.

:rofl:
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 05:27 PM
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6. And Johnny...
Met Jesus in Jerusalem.He was the guy in charge of the nails the day of the Crucifixion.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 05:27 PM
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7. Pillheads lie habitually
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vaberella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 05:29 PM
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8. What is this? Saint-Gate?! How many "gates" is she in? 3-4?
Edited on Wed Aug-20-08 05:29 PM by vaberella
:kick:

K & R
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Newsjock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 05:33 PM
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9. But Cindy was a Prisoner of War!
Wait, no, that's not quite it. Let me get back to you.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 05:51 PM
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11. "Mother Teresa gave me my daughter and a wonderful family cookie recipe." n/t
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 05:52 PM
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12. It will be news when these people DON'T lie.
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islandmkl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 05:55 PM
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13. Mother Theresa: "Dear, take this little girl back to America with you and give her a good home.
I put a nice cookie recipe tucked among her blankets."
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 06:14 PM
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16. They didn't TALK. M. Theresa drew a cross on the girl with her crucifix. Or sandal.
How would Cindy know WTH happened? Check the dates...she was totally fried on codiene the whole time!
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Mabus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 08:01 PM
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17. Is there anything about the McCains that is authentic?
:puke:

K&R
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Just-plain-Kathy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 12:09 AM
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18. The Christian Science Monitor does some great work.
Here's a link to an article about how Bush Sr lied us into his Gulf War.


http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0906/p01s02-wosc.html
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ContinentalOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 12:13 AM
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19. I read about that adoption recently.
The weird thing is that John didn't know. She just brought two girls home without his knowledge! WTF?
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