Thursday, March 20, 2008
McCain caught in another lie.
This one is of no great import by itself, it is simply part of an overarching pattern of deceit.
Of all the claims in support of John McCain's bid for the White House, perhaps none is quite as grand as this. As he arrived in London today, the publishers of his new book insisted the Republican senator's family was descended from the Scottish king, Robert the Bruce.Something like this is usually called a pleasant little fiction, every family has one. But when the teller of this PLF has a long history of fraud and falsehood, it is just another brick in the wall.
For a veteran war hero staking his presidential campaign on military credentials, an ancestral link to a warrior who overcame the English to reclaim Scottish independence in 1314 has obvious appeal. But according to experts, the story may be no more than that.
Asked by the Guardian to investigate McCain's past, genealogists and medieval historians described the link to Robert the Bruce as "wonderful fiction" and "baloney".
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