Meghan McCain's new book introduces Dad to the kids

Our colleague Seema Mehta, traveling with the John McCain campaign, reports that in the midst of a slow week on the trail, the traveling press got a slight diversion with a sneak peak of Meghan McCain's children’s book, "My Dad, John McCain." The illustrated book, aimed at readers ages 5 to 10, will sell for $16.99 and is scheduled to hit stores Sept. 2 -- coinciding with her father accepting the Republican presidential nomination. Of course, regular Ticket readers already knew about the book.

"There are a few things you need to know about my dad, and one of them is that he would make a great president," writes McCain, who also blogs about her father’s campaign. "But to know what makes him great, you have to hear his story first."

The book chronicles the McCain family's military history, her father's school days, when he played football and got poor grades, his time in the Naval Academy and how he was shot down over a lake during the Vietnam War and taken prisoner.

The prisoners of war were treated poorly, Ms. McCain writes, and her father once found a chicken foot in his lunch. The book also recounts how he declined to take advantage of his father's position as a U.S. admiral, and refused an offer by the Viet Cong to release him -- a story McCain also routinely tells on the stump.

After recounting her father's (second) marriage to her mother, his Congressional career, the failed 2000 primary campaign and the near-implosion of his current campaign in 2007, the book ends with McCain accepting the GOP nomination at the convention in St. Paul, Minn.

One has to assume she's hoping to write a sequel: "My Dad, The White House Years."

-- Scott Martelle

Comments

[rita s]

Does Meghan write about the slime that her Daddy is throwing against the first African-American candidate for President?

Is she proud that he's dragged his campaign into the gutter with bold-faced lies and disgusting smears?

Does she warn those kids that they'll be fighting in one of her Daddy's wars if he becomes President? Or that they won't be able to go to college or buy a home when they grow up because of the economic depression we'll be in?

[Rachel]

Ha! When John McCain left for Vietnam in 1967 he left his wife and three small children behind. His daughter was only an infant. He arrived home 5 1/2 years later. This was the family and these were the children that were not even NOTED in the book!!!!!!!!!!! McCain left his first wife for Meghan's mother Cindy- and those children were not born until many years later. I find the fact that she could write this book and leave his other children out so disgusting. She should be ashamed of herself. I can't believe McCain even let this happen.

[dave]

so the asian cuisine might not be his thing. but it is not a reason to elect someone president because he once was served a chicken foot he refused to eat - obviously he did not go hungry, while many others did, or were wounded, maimed, and worse.
and when the legitimate candidate for president for the republican party who loves and honors the constitution and integrity, RON PAUL will accept the nomination, what will they do with all those silly books?
a book worthwhile to read and think about, so there will even be a worthwhile future to read books to children, is RON PAUL's interesting introduction to his ideas, 'the revolution: a manifesto.'

[anonymous]

To all my fellow parents out there, read your children "The Butter Battle Book" by Dr. Seuss instead. I sure did.

[Jennifer Ryan]

Meghan Mccain should get a grip. She is a spoiled brat who lives off her parents.

[Denise]

Why do people on these posts find any opportunity possible to make such rude comments about the McCains? Whether or not you agree with his politics, there is no denying that he has served this great Country well. As an FYI, the McCains have contributed a lot to America and to various international causes. Their two sons have served in the military. Cindy McCain has actively been involved with various charities for years (The Halo Foundation and Operation Smile are examples of two- there are more).
To Rita: The McCain campaign is not sliming Senator Obama. To what bold face lies are you referring? The only "negative campaigning" that Senator McCain has engaged in is by questioning Senator Obama's experience and status as a celebrity. Senator Obama continues to try to tie McCain to Bush. This is called politics. Face it- they are BOTH POLITICIANS.