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McCains Lied About Cindy McCain Meeting Mother Teresa
Aug 20, 2008 | 5:56 PM
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Just when one begins to think there is nothing left in politics that has the ability to shock, something does.

The Christian Science Monitor is reporting that Cindy McCain has been lying about repeatedly about meeting Mother Teresa and how she convinced her to bring home two Bangladeshi babies. The McCains have told this story for years:

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.)...

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.

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.


She also lied about being an "only child":

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.


John McCain used the Mother Teresa story most recently in the Saddleback forum.

What  odd things to lie about.

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AMOM read my blog
Aug 21, 2008 | 8:23 AM

How can you be sure that the Christian Science Monitor is not lying??????

How many times have any of you known someone who always knows more about you, than you know about yourself??????
WebsterGroves read my blog view my photos
Aug 21, 2008 | 12:36 PM

Because the McCain campaign acknowledged it and changed their website accordingly. I don't really understand your second sentence. I think most of us would remember whether or not we actually spoke to Mother Teresa, especially when that conversation involved "convincing Cindy" to take home two Bangladeshi babies.

I can assure you that if the CSM were lying, the McCain camp would have slapped them with a lawsuit. There is also a witness who was along with Cindy on the trip and reports put Mother Teresa in an entirely different country during the time frame Cindy McCain is talking about.

It's shameless that the McCain's have used the Mother Teresa lie continuously to embellish their reputations. It was wonderful that the McCain's adopted a baby - why lie about the circumstances?

I find it puzzling that you defend this behavior. Not a very good lesson for our children, is it?
snowman99 read my blog
Aug 21, 2008 | 1:28 PM

Mccains are a bunch of republican liars. If they lie about that what else are they untruthful about? This country has gone down the crapper the last 8 years, who the hell wants more of this? Monkeys.
snowman99 read my blog
Aug 21, 2008 | 1:29 PM

Mccains are a bunch of republican liars. If they lie about that what else are they untruthful about? This country has gone down the crapper the last 8 years, who the hell wants more of this? Monkeys.
Biker2Max read my blog
Aug 22, 2008 | 7:40 AM

They all lie its a matter of getting caught in their lying.
SeniorCitizen view my photos
Aug 22, 2008 | 8:49 AM

If McCain talked non-stop from now until Nov - he could not possibly lie as much as BO has during the past 4 months. Look at what he said when he was running against Hillary and how he had flipped flopped and now look what he has said while running agains McCain, again he has flipped flopped. BO is a woodda, shouldda, couldda, and has accomplished nothing but higher taxes, higher gas, and no support at all for Southern Illinois.
WebsterGroves read my blog view my photos
Aug 22, 2008 | 4:21 PM

Name the "lies" Senior Citizen. And, seriously, you cannot seriously bring up flip-flopping and not recognize that the list of flip-flopping for McCain is long, can you (drilling, tax cuts, etc)? Your post is without substance and doesn't address what's in the post. Maybe you could do a blog about what you think Obama has "lied" about.
jusatyro read my blog
Aug 22, 2008 | 6:42 PM

What a sweet lie. I usually use Jesus as the source of my good deeds ,and if he was here in person I`ll be the first to say I met him, dream about him,and you should drop everything and go meet him.. Lets talk about lies ,is it a lie when Mother Teresa wrote in her Diary of her lost of faith and then in public talked of wonders of God, Or Jesus on the cross asking why his Father forsaken him and lets not for get Peter or John ..

Please find a lie that hurts people not a lie that gives you hope...
SeniorCitizen view my photos
Aug 23, 2008 | 8:23 AM

Webster you are NOT a new blogger - you had to have seen and read all of the lies that BO that has done and you know jimbobbob has a list that is a mile long pertaining to the book that BO wrote FULL OF LIES - now for the lies that I believe he told to go along with the book BO wrote, he lied about knowledge of Reizo, the slum lord; taking the troops out of Iraq NOW; not running for president because he did not feel he had enough experience; he did not know his preacher was a racist when he only listened to him for 20 years; he will not raise taxes for middle class and now he will; the abortion vote he took is just too much for me to stomach; there will be no oil drilling in the US and now he is all for it; how wonderful he has been for Illinois which is one of the biggest lies he has told - he has taxed us to death and we go to MO to get our gas, tobacco, and since he does not know the METRO is NOT only St. Louis - I also feel he is not too smart. If you are responsible for Southern Illinois then you would know we are NOT St. Louis. I can continue this all day but if you have not read any thing written negative about BO you will not start now. NOW I would like for you to explain to me ONE (1) thing that the Dems have accomplished since they have the majority of the seats. I would also like to know what 'CHANGE' BO is going to make. I have not heard one thing yet - and when he was on that debate with McCain he never said one thing firm - as one news commentator said - it was like he was wrestling in mud.
WebsterGroves read my blog view my photos
Aug 28, 2008 | 4:02 PM

Sr citizen - no, I've seen right-wing accusations backed up by ZERO facts: big difference. Move on along, since you're not interested in honest debate, only regurgitating right-wing talking points.

I notice you address nothing in this post; you only respond with vague hysterical finger-pointing. Typical.
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