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Cindy recalls her Bangladesh links
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ASIANAGE on 05 September, 2008 05:49:27
 
By Arun Kumar
Washington
Sept. 5: Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s wife Cindy McCain
recalled with pride their South Asian connection as she introduced their seven
children, including a Bangladeshi girl she brought home from an orphanage begun
by Mother Teresa. "I would like to introduce you the seven reasons that John and
I are so happy as a family," she said as she warmed up the Republican convention
crowd at St. Paul, Minnesota on Thursday.
"John and I are so pleased and so happy to have them here with us tonight.
Nothing has made me happier or more fulfilled in my life than being a mother,"
said Cindy McCain, introducing adopted daughter Bridget and the six other
children.
Her father, she said, "taught me life is not just about you, it’s also about
nurturing the next generation, preparing a better world for all of our children
and helping them find the right way up".
"We all come to that knowledge in different ways. For me, the great moment of
clarity was when I became a mother. Something changed in me. I would never see
my obligations the same way again," she added. "It was after that I was walking
through the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh, surrounded by poverty and the
devastation of a cyclone. All around me were the children and the desperate
faces of their mothers." —IANS