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2012 Players Guide
Tag Archives: John McCain
McCain’s First Marriage
Q: Did John McCain cheat on his first wife? A: He courted his current wife, Cindy, for months before divorcing Carol Shepp in 1980. He recently called the breakup of his first marriage "my greatest moral failure." But Shepp has been quoted as saying "we are still friends."
Reed Reality
Summary An Obama ad in Georgia ties McCain to former Christian Coalition executive Ralph Reed and the Abramoff lobbying scandal. It doesn’t give a full picture. The ad says that Reed "is now raising money for McCain’s campaign." But McCain has said, "I neither seek nor want his support." It …
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McCain’s Anecdote
Q: Did McCain lift his cross-in-the-sand anecdote from Solzhenitsyn’s "Gulag Archipelago"? A: There’s no such story in "Archipelago." There is a somewhat similar story attributed to Solzhenitsyn, which we’ve traced back to Rev. Billy Graham by way of former Richard Nixon aide Charles Colson. But that’s not proof that McCain’s …
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