Memory problems run in McCain family
Dad can’t remember how many houses he has, daughter can’t remember how many children he has.
The picture book is aimed at those too young to vote, but may rub off on their parents, or on the career of Miss McCain, who has just graduated and has been writing a popular blog from the campaign trail.
It chronicles her father’s life, including getting poor marks at the US Naval Academy and being shot down as a naval pilot over Vietnam, but contains a noticeable omission. Miss McCain leaves out the fact that her father was married before he went to war, and that he left his first wife Carol Shepp for Cindy Hemsley, her mother.
“After he got home, my dad met and married my mom, Cindy,” she writes.
Miss McCain mentions her two younger brothers and her adopted Bangladeshi sister, but not the two sons her father adopted in his first marriage or Sydney, the daughter he had with his first wife.
August 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
You’re a devout Catholic, you and Jenna Jamison. What’s that line about picking the speck out of your neighbor’s eye?