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September 15, 2008
OMG: Meghan McCain is in LA!
For a while we couldn't pay them to visit Los Angeles and now we can't get rid of them. Fresh off a visit by her father, Sen. John McCain, Meghan McCain will be showing off her newest ode to literature tomorrow when she reads, signs and talks about her recently penned children's book "My Dad, John McCain" at two exalted outposts of Republicanism: The Americana at Brand and then at USC.
The first stop will be in Glendale's Barnes & Noble at the Americana. Sure, you say, the Americana is just a mall; why must you find politics under every rock? Fair point, except that Americana developer Rick Caruso has given handsomely to the Republican party this election cycle and USC is, well, bathed in the stench of elephant dung.
Mme. McCain's bookstore event will begin at 11 a.m. while the evening portion of the tour de lit will be held on the campus of USC in Taper Hall, Room 101 at 7 p.m. She is slated to address the school's Republican club and answer some questions. Hopefully some of those will be about her blog: McCain Blogette, a deliciously pedantic collection of diary posts from the campaign trail and photos with such riveting captions as: "The 'On the Air' sign is lit!" during an NPR interview when, yes, the "On the Air" sign was on. Sigh.
But I suppose that is to expected from a 24-year-old who wrote in the children's book: "There are a few things you need to know about my dad, and one of them is that if he is elected, he would make a great president."
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she's what we'd like to call a typical hipster, happily unemployed, trust-fund baby right?
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Wow! BFD!
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How come we never see the OTHER McCain daughter? You know the large-ish dark one with the funky lip?
Bridget McCain anyone?
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I didn't even realize that they had an adopted daughter until recently. How fucked up is the world...don't answer that.
on the advice of mother teresa, cindy mccain brings home an orphan girl from bangladesh. I mean a good thing to do, a thing that might endear that family to most...even though, it's kind of hard to say no to mother teresa, ain't it? You would think that they would be happy to show this off....but keeping the 16 year old not so wasp, average brown girl under wraps. What exactly are they afraid of? That the racists who would never vote for a black man would suddenly turn on them if they saw more of Bridget? Is it just a beauty contest move? I googled to see if I could find a formal family portrait of everyone and couldn't. What's that all about. Maybe it's hidden ont he Mccain site...not gonna investigate that.
It's baffling, but then we live in truly baffling times.
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erratum:
ah I did find the casual family photo of all the kids from a few years back. I dunno, perhaps they will be trotting out all the kids more as the election fast approaches. I am still a little puzzled why they haven't played up the adopted kids more. They certainly play up whatsherface's Alaskan family and all of that hoohah.
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one last thought, then again. If I were in high school would I really want to be out campaigning. Perhaps she's just super shy.
when I first saw the picture of the older sister, I thought it was Elizabeth Hasselbeck...go figure.
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Getting ready to share her wisdom all over town, no doubt. Lucky L.A.!
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hey did you guys hear that mccain was a POW? i had no idea!
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someone else said it best...
noun verb POW.
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To The Man Bat and Sotto Voce Nyx:
Bridget McCain, was on the cover of People Magazine last week (along with all of the McCains). The Link is below:
I don't subscribe to People, but I do shop for groceries and People magazine is in every grocery store I've been to.
Sometimes you just have to get off of the Internet and out into the world I guess.
I won't comment on Meghan McCain since I don't know anything about her. She will be on Larry King tonight so I'll wait to see what -- if anything substantive -- she has to say.
https://subs.timeinc.net/PE/pe_1q08refreshpink.jhtml?experience_id=194537&source_id=5&tcmid=pe_toutnwsltr0408_nb&_requestid=167818
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i suspect they dont want to put bridget on the spotlight again cuz in 2000 primary, karl rove had a push poll question that asked "if mccain had an out of wedlock black daughter would you still vote for him?". i think it was during the SC primary (NYT wrote it).
but hey, now the same republican party is doing the same push poll in florida and michigan. hows that for a reform ticket?
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well done, sithandra.
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USC is, well, bathed in the stench of elephant dung.
this couldn't be more true. well put. i am a proud trojan, attended for undergrad and grad school, but my big gripe with my alma mater: i didn't like the stench...
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LMAO @ elephant dung...