Posted by Tina
“McCains show off adopted daughter Bridget” The Independent (UK)
Its not that America was unaware of the story of how Mrs McCain, a multi-millionaire head of a beer distributing company, travelled to Bangladesh in 1991 and returned home with two babies scooped up from an orphanage run in Dhaka by the late Mother Theresa. But it had never been told like this. *** Mrs McCain, who for decades has promoted charitable causes in Third World countries with a particular focus on health care for children, was seated in a VIP box, with Bridget – looking slightly bamboozled under the television lights – at her side. How they came to be mother and daughter was narrated from the stage by Wes Gullett, a long-time family friend and former aide to John McCain. *** Mr Gullett knows all about the arrival of Bridget in America, because he and his wife ended up adopting the second baby Mrs McCain bought back with her after that trip in 1991. They named her Nikki. The Senators wife brought them to the US, because they both faced acute health challenges. Nikki had a heart condition and Bridget suffered from a cleft palate so severe she could not be fed.
Strong, independent women roll up their sleeves and accomplish things great and small.
(In contrast, “Stepford Feminist” protest, lobby, complain and indoctrinate.)