Comments on: What is John McCain hiding?? Googling “childhood photos” – McCain vs. Obama smackdown!

By: Johnny McCain’s Childhood: The Strangest Lie of All « canarypapers

Johnny McCain’s Childhood: The Strangest Lie of All « canarypapers — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:35:21 +0000

[...] is riddled with unanswered questions about the most rudimentary aspects of his elementary years. One such inquiry turned humorous, when one googler attempted to locate childhood photos of McCain and — [...]

By: Ann Enberg

Ann Enberg — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:38:04 +0000

I always figured he probably didn’t have many childhood photos to share. Hell, my own grandmother (born the same year) has only a couple of photos of her when she was a child, and they’re not very good pics either. Taking childhood photos would have probably been easier in Barack’s generation.

Ah well. McCain was fine as heck when he was older, though ;)

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:32:18 +0000

Joe,

Thanks for commenting. What started as a lighthearted post about the scarcity of McCain childhood photos has raised a few interesting questions. I imagine that McCain has had quite a bit of exposure to other cultures and ways of life, given his lengthy political career and military travels. Thx again.

Kevin

By: Joe Erwin

Joe Erwin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:38:38 +0000

I am very impressed by the fact that Obama lived in multicultural Hawaii and in Indonesia. I am also impressed by his descriptions of visiting his Luo kin in Kenya. His descriptions in DREAMS FROM MY FATHER ring very true, and he has clearly expressed some of the ways he was influenced by his early life experiences.

I wondered whether McCain also had experienced exposure to other cultures, and I was aware that he was born on a US base in Panama. I wondered if he lived abroad in other places where he had exposure to other cultures. All I could find was that he lived in various naval base sites in the US and “abroad.” But WHERE abroad? Did he have any real cross cultural exposure? Why is this information not READILY available?

By: Johnny Putt

Johnny Putt — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:41:53 +0000

No: You’ll not find many photos of young John. Back when he was a kid
there was an economic depression followed by WW-ll. Johnny’s dad and
grandad were top dogs in the US Navy and young Johnny was kept away
from regular pukes who did things like take snapshots.

Talk to an old military man sometime. You’ll find that the families
of high ranking officers wear their stars and eagles and are above
most of us. Yup! Poor John was made a Naval Officer the day he left
the womb.