Descendents = Ancestors, again

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:15 PM -0400 9/4/08, Bonnie Taylor-Blake wrote:
>  >From John McCain's speech to the Republican National Convention tonight:
>
>"We believe everyone has something to contribute and deserves the
>opportunity to reach their God-given potential from the boy whose
>descendents arrived on the Mayflower to the Latina daughter of migrant
>workers. We're all God's children and we're all Americans."
>
>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/04/mccain.transcript/

Maybe he really did mean the boy whose descendents arrived on the
Mayflower.  He is pretty old, you know.

LH

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