why is McCain's daughter Bridget never on stage with him?

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You can call me all the names you want, I dont have a problem discussing what I belive about this issue.

Why is he uncomfortable? Maybe because he is afraid of the perception many of his more conservative voters will have when they see his daughter.... Maybe its because of what was done to him last time, 8 years ago. I dont blame him for being uncomfortable and for not addressing the issue directly when asked.

There you go again. Did you even read the fucking article. SIX of his SEVEN kids have stayed out of this. Yet you continue to pretend that he is uncomfortable because of his "non-white" daughter.

"I think he'd prefer the family kind of stayed private," said Doug McCain, who at 48 is John McCain's oldest child, one of his four sons, and a pilot for American Airlines. "I just think he is a big believer in individuals doing their own thing."


"Although his youngest sons are in the military - Jack, 21, attends the US Naval Academy and Jimmy, 19, is a Marine stationed in Iraq - John McCain is loath to invoke their names when he defends his foreign policy positions, even once when Jimmy was sitting in the audience before deployment.

On a recent stop in South Carolina, as a mother who lost her son in Iraq began to suggest that John McCain understood her plight because of Jimmy, the senator gently motioned for her to stop."

DO YOU GET IT NOW JAROD..... OR ARE YOU GOING TO CONTINUE TO PRETEND IT IS BECAUSE OF HIS "NON-WHITE DAUGHTER"

 

[evince]

Dont you guys get it?

McCain has kept his kids out of the spot light ever since the republicans who ran against him attacked his family with the push poll Darla is talkign about.

The whole reason his kids are not present anywhere(his web sight , on the campaign) is because of the way Republicans will attack anything just like they did Chelsea. Sad thing is McCain himself was talking about how ugly she was until just a couple of years ago.

 

[Damocles]

He kept his kids out of the spotlight then too. Before the idiotic push poll. It was why they thought it would be effective. The cause and effect you attempt to describe doesn't exist.

 

[Jarod]

"Originally Posted by Jarod
Again to point out precieved racism is not racist. I brought it up now, because as I was in bed watching McCain's speech after he won Florida, I was wondering if he was willing to "show" his non-white daughter before a Republican audience this close to SuperTuesday. I was wondering if McCain thought Republicans had come that far alone in the past 8 years. Alas, two of his kids were with him, not the non-white one. So then I decided to look into it further and saw that her photo was nowhere in his campaign. I know what I belive about why, and when I notice something interesting to me, politically I tend to post it here to see what others believe. "

You "know what you believe about why" despite a very simple google search by Desh showing an article that TELLS you why. Despite a very simple google search by myself that shows you why most of his kids are staying out of the spotlight.

Yet you "know what you believe about why"... you believe it is because of the color of her skin. Despite all evidence to the contrary. You are going to continue playing this.... "I know its cause them Reps is a racist bunch" bullshit.

That is race baiting you moron.

I hope to God that someday your daughter reads this and tells you what an ignorant fool you were.

I dont belive he fears racist conspiracies from his own daughter, I belive he fears racist conspiracies from his fellow Republicans. If he does not fear that he should, considering what happened to him 8 years ago.

I guess you take as gospel 100% of what polititians tell you when asked softball questions that can be answered very generally.

You would have to be incredable nieve to belive that a professional polititian who was zinged by this issue 8 years ago, I belive lost the nomination due to it, would not be conserned about that issue and take steps to prevent it.

 

[Damocles]

I guess you take as gospel 100% of what polititians tell you when asked softball questions that can be answered very generally.

You would have to be incredable nieve to belive that a professional polititian who was zinged by this issue 8 years ago, I belive lost the nomination due to it, would not be conserned about that issue and take steps to prevent it.

And he kept them from the spotlight in 2000 because of what?

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

I guess you take as gospel 100% of what polititians tell you when asked softball questions that can be answered very generally.

You would have to be incredable nieve to belive that a professional polititian who was zinged by this issue 8 years ago, I belive lost the nomination due to it, would not be conserned about that issue and take steps to prevent it.

I would indeed take the words of his kids who said the same fucking thing. I would indeed take McCains words and the words of his children over some race baiting hack on an internet site.

 

[Jarod]

YOU ARE MAKING AN ISSUE OF THE COLOR OF HER SKIN.

YOU CHOSE TO POINT OUT THAT HIS "NON-WHITE" DAUGHTER WASN'T PRESENT

YOU NEGLECTED TO POINT OUT THAT MOST OF HIS SEVEN KIDS HAVE NOT BEEN ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL.... YOU FOCUSED ON HIS "NON-WHITE DAUGHTER"

That is racist. When you single someone out based on their skin pigmentation.... it is racist.

I am not making an issue out of the color of her skin, I am pointing out that I belive McCain is handeling the "children issue" differently than conventional campaigns because of the color of her skin, because he is afraid of how it will be precieved by many primary Republican voters.

 

[Jarod]

He kept his kids out of the spotlight then too. Before the idiotic push poll. It was why they thought it would be effective. The cause and effect you attempt to describe doesn't exist.

Sure those attacks could have been anticipated by anyone who understood the Bush/Rove/Atwater style of campaigning.

 

[Damocles]

Sure those attacks could have been anticipated by anyone who understood the Bush/Rove/Atwater style of campaigning.

Or it could be because he wanted to keep their lives as their own as much as possible. But heck we should take your word for it because your opinion of his motives must be right...

 

[Jarod]

I am not making an issue out of the color of her skin, I am pointing out that I belive McCain is handeling the "children issue" differently than conventional campaigns because of the color of her skin, because he is afraid of how it will be precieved by many primary Republican voters.

It is related to her skin color and how Republican primary voters in South Carolina and other places would react to it. I am not afraid to talk about that!

 

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I am not making an issue out of the color of her skin, I am pointing out that I belive McCain is handeling the "children issue" differently than conventional campaigns because of the color of her skin, because he is afraid of how it will be precieved by many primary Republican voters.

You are most certainly making an issue out of the color of her skin. Or were the "non-white daughter" comments not yours? Oh wait, they were yours.

Nothing about his kids has changed. This isn't some new strategy he is using. He has continually let them choose to either participate or not. THEIR CHOICE. Bridget CHOSE to stay in school.... a point you refuse to recognize.

None of his other kids are campaigning with him either. Another point you continue to ignore. To you... he is hiding his kids because the evil boogeymen out there might say something racist about them.

Aren't you sick yet from all the spinning you have done?

 

[Jarod]

Or it could be because he wanted to keep their lives as their own as much as possible. But heck we should take your word for it because your opinion of his motives must be right...

No you could be correct, I dont belive so, but you could be. But the point is that there is nuthing wrong or evil about me expressing my reasonable opinion on the subject.

 

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It is related to her skin color and how Republican primary voters in South Carolina and other places would react to it. I am not afraid to talk about that!

More like how a bunch of democratic hacks would react to her. I never quite realized just how imbedded your racism is Jarod. I hope your daughter is able to rise above your limitations. I hope when she is older, racist bastards like you are a thing of the past. Maybe your daughter will one day be able to change your racist behavior.

 

[Jarod]

You are most certainly making an issue out of the color of her skin. Or were the "non-white daughter" comments not yours? Oh wait, they were yours.

Nothing about his kids has changed. This isn't some new strategy he is using. He has continually let them choose to either participate or not. THEIR CHOICE. Bridget CHOSE to stay in school.... a point you refuse to recognize.

None of his other kids are campaigning with him either. Another point you continue to ignore. To you... he is hiding his kids because the evil boogeymen out there might say something racist about them.

Aren't you sick yet from all the spinning you have done?

It is related to her skin color and how Republican primary voters in South Carolina and other places would react to it. I am not afraid to talk about that!

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

No you could be correct, I dont belive so, but you could be. But the point is that there is nuthing wrong or evil about me expressing my reasonable opinion on the subject.

There is nothing reasonable about your opinion. Your opinion clearly goes against the facts. That is called stupidity Jarod. It most certainly is not reasonable.

 

[Jarod]

More like how a bunch of democratic hacks would react to her. I never quite realized just how imbedded your racism is Jarod. I hope your daughter is able to rise above your limitations. I hope when she is older, racist bastards like you are a thing of the past. Maybe your daughter will one day be able to change your racist behavior.

Maybe it is reverse racism, I had not thought about that, but I like McCain better because he adopted a non-white daughter. It makes me feel that he is more open minded than many people I know.

 

[Cypress]

Looks like Jarod was right.

McCain campaign manager and McCain’s wife document the racially-based smear on his daughter, and its apparent that at least in part because of that, they chose to keep Bridget McCain out of the campaign and away from the prying eyes of republican racists.

John McCain’s 2000 Campaign manager, on the South Carolina smear

Having run Senator John McCain's campaign for president, I can recount a textbook example of a smear made against McCain in South Carolina during the 2000 presidential primary.

It didn't take much research to turn up a seemingly innocuous fact about the McCains: John and his wife, Cindy, have an adopted daughter named Bridget. Cindy found Bridget at Mother Theresa's orphanage in Bangladesh, brought her to the United States for medical treatment, and the family ultimately adopted her. Bridget has dark skin.

Anonymous opponents used "push polling" to suggest that McCain's Bangladeshi born daughter was his own, illegitimate black child. In push polling, a voter gets a call, ostensibly from a polling company, asking which candidate the voter supports. In this case, if the "pollster" determined that the person was a McCain supporter, he made statements designed to create doubt about the senator.

Thus, the "pollsters" asked McCain supporters if they would be more or less likely to vote for McCain if they knew he had fathered an illegitimate child who was black. In the conservative, race-conscious South, that's not a minor charge. We had no idea who made the phone calls, who paid for them, or how many calls were made. Effective and anonymous: the perfect smear campaign

Richard H. Davis is president of the Reform Institute and a partner in Davis Manafort, a political consulting firm. He was a fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics in 2002. He was campaign manager for John McCain in 2000

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ed...03/21/the_anatomy_of_a_smear_campaign/?page=2

Cindy McCain: Bush Spread Rumors That John Fathered Black Child Out of Wedlock

Bridget, now 15, found out about the incident only a year ago when she Googled herself, according to Nightline. Cindy said Bridget was confused by the discovery.

“[She] was hurt by the fact that she thinks people don’t like her because she’s black,” Cindy recalled. “She asked me why the president of the United States doesn’t like her and I said honey that’s not what happened, you know this was about people that were mean spirited and wrong, they did wrong things you know, it’s hard, it’s been hard I’ll say.”

Despite the attacks on his daughter, John McCain has apparently forgiven President Bush, as he has publicly courted his support since then. Still, Bridget is not campaigning with the family this year, although her sister Meghan has taken on a high-profile role with the campaign, writing a blog from various events.
http://bigheaddc.com/2007/10/31/cin...hat-john-fathered-black-child-out-of-wedlock/

 

[Jarod]

There is nothing reasonable about your opinion. Your opinion clearly goes against the facts. That is called stupidity Jarod. It most certainly is not reasonable.

If you take McCain's words as facts.

The facts other than words are:

1) John McCain was running for president in 2004.
2) He was a ligitatitmate contender against GWB going into the SOuth Carolina Primary
3) Someone did a push poll exploiting his daughters skin color just before the voting.
4) John McCain lost South Carolina by a larger margen than expected.
5) Coming out of South Carolina McCain was not considered a legitatmate contender for the Republican nomination.
6) McCain is a professional polititian and knows how to operate campaigns.

 

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If you take McCain's words as facts.

The facts other than words are:

1) John McCain was running for president in 2004.
2) He was a ligitatitmate contender against GWB going into the SOuth Carolina Primary
3) Someone did a push poll exploiting his daughters skin color just before the voting.
4) John McCain lost South Carolina by a larger margen than expected.
5) Coming out of South Carolina McCain was not considered a legitatmate contender for the Republican nomination.
6) McCain is a professional polititian and knows how to operate campaigns.

But the FACT that you continue to ignore.... HE did not have ANY of his kids on the campaign TRAIL that did not choose to be there. Not in 2000 (which I assume is what you meant) and not today. HE LETS HIS KIDS LIVE THEIR OWN LIVES AND MAKE THEIR OWN CHOICES. To continue to act as though this is a political decision by John is idiotic. If he really was using his knowledge on how to operate campaings and is "hiding kids that might hurt his campaign".... why wouldn't he also be "touting the kids that would help it"???

How many of you knew he had two kids in the military right now?

How many of you knew that one of this "warmongers" kids is in Iraq? Hell, I pay attention to him and I did not know that one.

He keeps his kids out of it, unless they choose to participate (as Meghan has done) ALL of them have the choice.

 

[evince]

The young woman and the story of her joining their family would help him with democrats and you people all know that is true.

McCain himself was attacking Chelsea as of just a couple of years ago.

If he is so honorable he wanted to protect his kids from evil attacks on them then WTF is he doing attacking someone elses kid?