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"Drew A Cross In The Sand" References You Might Appreciate
Riehl World View — Tom Maguire basically owns Andrew Sullivan in this post - it's actually rather embarassing for St. Andrew. Uh huh. Because the sign of the cross is a pretty well-kept secret, so how could prison guards invoke it twice in one century? FWIW, the story appears in McCain's 1999 "Faith Of My Fathers", although I have no idea whether McCain told it earlier. Lexis mavens? I opted for another track to see just how common the whole "drew a cross in the sand" deal might be. The results were surprising. From tales of Christian-targeted ...

How Well Did McCain Do Yesterday?
The Corner on National Review Online — [image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] [image] Sunday, August 17, 2008 [image] How Well Did McCain Do Yesterday? [ Mark Hemingway ] He did so well that the only way that the Obama campaign and the netroots can spin his performance is to accuse him of cheating and making up his life story . 08/17 11:34 PM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2008. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | ...

How Well Did McCain Do Yesterday?
The Corner on National Review Online — [image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] [image] Sunday, August 17, 2008 [image] How Well Did McCain Do Yesterday? [ Mark Hemingway ] He did so well that the only way that the Obama campaign and the netroots can spin his performance is to accuse him of cheating and making up his life story . 08/17 11:34 PM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2008. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | ...

Crosses and Abortion Bills
QandO — ... prisoners. As he waited, head down, he felt a presence. Slowly he looked up and saw a skinny old prisoner squat down beside him. The man said nothing. Instead, he used a stick to trace in the dirt the sign of the Cross. The man then got back up and returned to his work. As Solzhenitsyn stared at the Cross drawn in the dirt his entire perspective changed.I have one simple question: when was the first time that McCain told this story? Tom Maguire digs into that last question a bit: FWIW, the story appears in ...

I Love The Smell Of Wingnut Whining In The Morning
Firedoglake — ... (See especially the fatuous garbage being peddled at Newsbusters, as well as Red State.) And we all know what that means. Hey, that's not in the playbook! And gee, aren't those liberals just so meaaaaan for implying that Honorable John McCain, the Man With More Honor Than Anyone Evah!!!, might have lifted his "cross in the sand" tale from other sources. See especially American Spectator and Confederate Yankee, as well as Tom Maguire, who whines that liberals are now Swift Boating poor John McCain. Leave John McCain ...

Crosses in the sand
Michelle Malkin — ... , which, if the nutroots are to be believed, were all examples of fakery or plagiarism, too… *** Tom Maguire weighs in. Posted in: ...

Don't Look Now But Your Insanity Is Showing
Ace of Spades HQ — Don't Look Now But Your Insanity Is Showing Is there a full moon or something? It seems like the Left has chosen today to go especially crazy. First, there's the whole cross in the sand story which hit critical mass sometime last night. The short version is that McCain has, on many occasions, told the story about how on Christmas Eve, one of his Vietnamese captors silently drew a cross on the ground as some kind of sign of Christian solidarity. The Left has decided that McCain made the story up to appeal to Christians. Or something. Tom Maguire at the link takes the Lefty ...