Did You Know John McCain's Daughter Has A Blog

I did not. Thanks to Rerum Novarum for leading me to it. She is following her dad's campaign at MccainBlogette.com. It is a very clever and nice blog with some fun wit and nice pictures. I really like the family angle to it. It seems very sincere. We shall revisit it.

However I was struck by something. I was looking through her photos and did not realize that Senator John McCain has two sons in the military. I have followed McCain pretty closely and I had no idea One at the Naval Academy (fun story here) and another one that is a young US Marine that served in Iraq!!! as we see in this must read NYT Story that it appears ran a few days ago called Vocal on War, McCain Is Silent on Son’s Service .

We learn that

Mr. McCain, now the presumptive Republican nominee, has staked his candidacy on the promise that American troops can bring stability to Iraq. What he almost never says is that one of them is his own son, who spent seven months patrolling Anbar Province and learned of his father’s New Hampshire victory in January while he was digging a stuck military vehicle out of the mud.

I think that tells a lot about McCain and the boys he raised. Those boys could have been "set" in life really. They did not have to go the military route but this now is the third son of McCain to do so.

Anyway it is a glimpse into McCain I did not know before.