He's got another daughter, Bridget, whom NO ONE ever mentions or talks about. She's never shown with them, never campaigns w/ them, where is she? Why don't they even mention her??? She's not even mentioned as missing from the family pic on People mag...

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Funny you should mention this. I went to Meghan McCain's blog site just this weekend and asked that very same question. It couldn't be that McCain is hiding her, could it? Gosh, why would he do that?

A lot of McCain's children are missing from that picture.

Meet Bridget McCain, the 16-year-old Bangladesh adopted daughter of Senator John McCain and his wife, Cindy McCain.

Bridget McCain Biography
Bridget was adopted by Presidential hopeful John McCain and his wife Cindy McCain in 1993 when Bridget was 10 weeks old. Cindy was visiting a Bangladesh orphanage with Mother Teresa and other medical personnel when Cindy met Bridget. Mother Teresa convinced Cindy to take Bridget back with her to the U.S. to receive medical care. When Cindy returned to the U.S. with Bridget in tow, she told John, “Say hello to your new little daughter.”

Bridget is the youngest of the McCain siblings. She currently attends a private school in Phoenix. She plays basketball and volleyball, and like most teenagers, loves to hang out with friends.

“School is awesome because of my friends,” Bridget McCain said. “It’s important for kids to be respectful to each other and help one another to make school better for everyone.”


I think this shows a side of Cindy McCain that a lot of people don't see. The media seems to show her as coldhearted -- I think this shows what a caring person she really is.

Well, it doesn't seem quite fair to thrust Palin's pregnant TEENAGE daughter into the spotlight whilst keeping the same spotlight off your own kid.

ETA: mom2 - school JUST started back again. She's had all summer to campaign w/ her family.

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Only one minor child from either family is missing from that picture. Bridget's not an adult, why isn't she with her family?

OMG, I see that mom2 is repeating the newly added lie of Mother Theresa being the one to convince Cindy to take Bridge. Such a lie, newly added to the biography to make Cindy look like such a fabulous person.

After reading the crap that went on in the 2000 election. Maybe the McCain's were trying to protect her from the narrowmindness that is still around.

Oh, I agree. And since that crap all came from McCain's own party, I can only think that he's now pandering to that kind of ugly narrowmindedness in order to get that vote for himself. There are chunks of the population that will never vote for a black man -- what are the odds they're going to vote for a white man with a dark-skinned child?

Protect her? Or protect themselves?

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Please link to show this 'lie' you're speaking of.

I do think that Bridget has been on the campaign trail. Just not that much.

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/...BGb02/610x.jpg

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/...c123e/610x.jpg

Great photos, forrestlayne. Thanks for putting THIS issue to rest.

OK, guys -- time to find something else to dig up!!

Look it up yourself. You wouldn't believe it if I posted that the sun rose in the east. And, frankly, I don't care whether you believe it or not. The "Mother Theresa pressed Bridget onto Cindy" story is a lie.

Oh, but the "Cindy was a druggie who stole from her own charity"? -- yeah, that story's true.

Oh, that's real funny. You're always asking for 'links, please' but you yourself can't even find one that you actually believe! So classic.

How odd, that she would be on the trail in the winter -- during school -- but not in the summer when school's out.

How odd that she wouldn't be included in a family photo.

Or maybe not odd at all.

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Typical of you to lie about what I just said.

What exactly was I trying to "dig" up? I asked a legitimate question. She's never spoken about, never brought out (oops, one time as forrest showed). If he wins, she'll be in the spotlight. I would think he'd be getting her used to it now.

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Gee, did anyone ever consider that maybe she herself doesn't WANT to be in the spotlight??? Sheesssh, nothing better to ponder???

You know, that's it!!! I'm not voting for McCain because he doesn't even have one of his children in the picture.


OOOOOOOOOHHHHHH MMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYYYYYY GGGGGAAAWWWWWWWWDDDDDDDDDD!!!

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I found dozens that refute the claim. Google "Cindy McCain and Mother Teresa" Christian Science Monitor has quite a good article.

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You are right ...it appear's like she made-up her own mind. It is a nice kid type interview.

Election 2008: Bridget McCain at Home | Scholastic.com

"She said she missed a lot of school "and didn’t get to hang out with my friends." But this campaign has been different for her because she stays at home with her soon to be sister-in-law, Tess, who is studying to be a chef, while her parents and older sister, Meghan, travel together campaigning. Bridget said she enjoys supporting her Dad, but is thankful she gets to stay in Phoenix going to high school with her friends and attending study hall. Her favorite subject is history."

Oh please. Stop acting as though you wouldn't be questioning this same thing if it were Obama. Stop the BS please.

Her father is running for the most important job in the world. We have a right to ask questions about his family.

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That's a nice interview. Thank you.

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No, I would not. I just recently found out he had a DD from Bangledesh. If you asked me a week ago how many kids he had, I would have had no clue. I still have no clue. I only know about the DD that is black because they made a big to do about it on the news. I don't care about their kids. As long as they aren't crack heads somewhere, I do not care.

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Whatever. I'm not in the mood to go back through your posts and point out the similar posts. I hope the air is nice up there on that pedestal.

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"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? " ~Epicurus

Here's the scoop on Mother Teresa:
As an advocate for children's health care needs, Cindy founded and ran the American Voluntary Medical Team (AVMT) from 1988 to 1995. AVMT provided emergency medical and surgical care to impoverished children throughout the world. Cindy led 55 medical missions to third world and war-torn countries during AVMT's seven years of existence. On one of those missions to Mother Teresa's orphanage, Cindy was convinced 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.
I have read that on the trip she met Bridget she did not meet Mother Theresa then. However she was at her orphanage and that is where she found Bridget.
Who cares if Bridget isn't in pictures? It's not like John McCain is a junior senator with hardly any experience and we dont' know much about him..........

Yes! All you have to do is read the bashing on here about Sarah's daughter....

You are a very bitter person.....

Let's see,....... According to King Obama, families are off limits.........I think we know plenty about McCains family since he's been in politices LIKE FOREVER.........

Weren't you the one whining about name calling a while back?

Ohh....it's kind of a pot-kettle thing now, isn't it?

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NO ONE and I do mean NO ONE! has bashed Gov. Palin's daughter! You are delusional!

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I think just the fact that it is being talked about may be construed as "bashing" by some people. Imagine being a young girl, and now everyone on the internet is talking about your pregnancy.

I'm just guessing on this, tho, but I do see where it can be considered bashing. JMO

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You are right, it's more bashing of the mom at this point.

Was that her they showed on the TV last night?

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Oh, look. This will squash the naysayers on the board about this child. She appeared at the convention last night!!


Bridget McCain, who was taken to America from a Bangladeshi orphanage by Mr McCain's wife Cindy in 1991, was introduced to delegates in Minneapolis in her first appearance of the presidential campaign.

Wes Gullett, a former aide to Mr McCain, told the audience that Mrs McCain had spotted Bridget and another child among 160 abandoned babies at a centre run by the late Mother Teresa in Dhaka.

Bridget had suffered a cleft palate so severe that she could not be fed, while the other had a serious heart condition.

Fearing both would die without medical attention, Mrs McCain demanded that she be allowed to take the children back to the US, and applied for visas. She argued furiously with Bangladeshi officials until they were signed. "I don't know where I got the nerve," Mrs McCain said later.

The first Mr McCain knew of Bridget, Mr Gullett told the convention, was when he met his wife at the airport in Arizona. He asked: "Where is she going?" to which she replied: "To our house."

He said: "I remember John's face. That day he was not the tough war hero senator. He was like every other new father, full of love and emotion."

I've know about McCains adopted daughter for years. I guess some people just aren't in the loop! lol

I've known about her for years too. Many learned of her during the 2000 campaign when there was a whispering campaign launched against Mr. McCain by Bush supporters in the south claiming she was Mr. McCain's illegitimate child. How quickly trash talk against your family seems to have been forgotten/forgiven by the honorable Senator McCain.

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The Republicans have been putting lipstick on a pig for 8 years. Is a pitbull wearing lipstick an attempt to keep us from noticing the pig?

And that is relevant to McCains campaign now?

Darn right! Don't know about you but if someone insinuated what Bush and his supporters did about my family there would never be a picture like this.


McCain has either no regard for his family or his political aspirations trump their feelings.

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The Republicans have been putting lipstick on a pig for 8 years. Is a pitbull wearing lipstick an attempt to keep us from noticing the pig?

I'll take answer (B), Alex.

Sort of like Biden saying that Obama wasn't experienced enough to be president back when they were both campaigning for president? And after what Biden said, Obama still asked him to be his veep!

If you think Senator Biden's remark about Senator Obama during a campaign is "sort of" like saying one of your children is the result of an adulturous affair, I'm thinking your sense of loyalty and love for family is either way off or totally lacking.

I learn something new about the family values party every day.

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The Republicans have been putting lipstick on a pig for 8 years. Is a pitbull wearing lipstick an attempt to keep us from noticing the pig?

Perhaps she thinks it's ironic.

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All political remarks come from the same barrel basically. I'm sure if we dug hard enough we'd find even more horrible things all the candidates have said about each other. Yet when in public, they all act like they're the greatest of friends. It's sickening really.

And this has nothing to do with my family values.

Are you referring to where Sen. McCain's hand is?

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Who cares? Are we voting for her, NO. Why does she need to be out there for all of us to see and talk about?

Good grief no.

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The Republicans have been putting lipstick on a pig for 8 years. Is a pitbull wearing lipstick an attempt to keep us from noticing the pig?

ITA that political remarks between candidates come from the same barrel. A sanctioned whispering campaign about a candidate's child is an entirely different matter.

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The Republicans have been putting lipstick on a pig for 8 years. Is a pitbull wearing lipstick an attempt to keep us from noticing the pig?

Nice web site that the picture came from. Here's a few more "nuggets" from that sight:

"Amidst a flood of baseless but fun rumors that her youngest kid is actually her daughter’s, and Palin faked her pregnancy.........."

and how about this one: "And in other rumory news, Palin may have ties to definitely was a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a political group pushing for Alaska’s secession from the United States."

It speaks VOLUMES.

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I googled images Bush hugging McCain and got that image. If your last sentence is directed at me in a derogatory manner, may I remind you that you were the one who asked about where McCain's hand was, something no one else had noticed or perhaps leapt to, dare I say, a questionable conclusion about.

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The Republicans have been putting lipstick on a pig for 8 years. Is a pitbull wearing lipstick an attempt to keep us from noticing the pig?

Funny, I googled the SAME thing and found a link with a different version of that photo.

McCain-Bush Hug | Would You Like Fries With That?

Didn't find THAT exact photo....not on the first two pages anyway.

My only "conclusion" that I leapt to was that Sen. McCain can't raise his arms due to his injuries while a POW. What "conclusion" were YOU leaping to??

So, which photo is the real one???? Hmmmmm......

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Here are the results of my search:

bush hugging mccain - Google Image Search

As you can see the one I posted is the first one on the page.

I didn't leap to any conclusion other then the one I posted in the OP.

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The Republicans have been putting lipstick on a pig for 8 years. Is a pitbull wearing lipstick an attempt to keep us from noticing the pig?