Interestingly enough, my older sister was adopted from Bangladesh and my parents did meet with Mother Theresa to talk about it a couple of years later.
Okay, maybe it’s not that interesting.
This triggered my memory-when Clinton was on the D-Day Beach at Normandy (for the 60th Anniversary of D-day), he was shown (with strategically located tears in his eyes) looking down at a cross (made of pebbles placed on the sand).
Which makes me think that politicians have been running this little act for years! :mad:
If glurge didn’t sell, there wouldn’t be glurge.
Regarding Archive Guy’s post #100 above, here’s theChristian Science Monitor original article that made the McCain website change their Mother Teresa tune. Does seem to be a pattern here.
Mark Nickolas breaks down the morphing of the adoption story in the press. This is the point where I’ve lost all respect for the McCain campaign. I admire the fact that they adopted a child in need. That’s enough really, just tell the story. But, then they lie to get a shinier halo. As the CSM quote says, ya can’t lie/“embellish” like you usta be: the info spreads too fast, and I hope enough of us see the lies before they get deleted. I hope that effect helps to change the tenor of the politiical game.
I suspect that this is one thing McCain will not be able to stop doing; he has too many years of, like all good story tellers, making a good story better. It remains to be seen whether or not the MSM will call him on it enough that it will get through to the relatively lower info voter.
I suspect Biden may have a similar problem. Older extroverts tend to have a fund of stories; it’s possible they don’t even remember the real details of the actual events anymore. Memory is remarkably malleable.
ETA: This is assuming Biden has any relevance to the Democratic campaign beyond being a senior Democratic senator.
Which one, the one that didn’t have sexual relations with Monica, or the one who was dodging sniper fire?