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[[Image:John and Roberta McCain.jpg|thumb|right|220px|John and Roberta McCain]]

[[Image:John and Roberta McCain.jpg|thumb|right|220px|John and Roberta McCain]]

'''Roberta Wright McCain''' (born 7 February 1912, [[Oklahoma]]) is the mother of Senator [[John McCain]], the [[Republican]] candidate for president in 2008, whom she has described as ''"a sh*tter from the very beginning''."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQsckD9trn4&eurl=http://evangelicalsformccain.org/meetthesenator.htm ''John McCain: Courageous Service'']. Interview with Roberta McCain. Accessed 5 March 2008</ref>   

'''Roberta Wright McCain''' (February 7, 1912 – October 12, 2020) was the mother of Senator [[John McCain]], the [[Republican]] candidate for president in 2008, whom she has described as ''"a sh*tter from the very beginning''."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQsckD9trn4&eurl=http://evangelicalsformccain.org/meetthesenator.htm ''John McCain: Courageous Service'']. Interview with Roberta McCain. Accessed 5 March 2008</ref>   

In early 2008, despite John McCain having just won the [[New Hampshire]] and [[South Carolina]] primaries, Roberta McCain declared that she did not think her son ''"has any"'' support by the Republican base. [[CNN]] senior political analyst Gloria Borger observed that ''"now we know where McCain gets all the straight talk from. We think he's his mother."''<ref>[http://mediamatters.org/items/200801280010 CNN's Borger on McCain's mother]</ref>

In early 2008, despite John McCain having just won the [[New Hampshire]] and [[South Carolina]] primaries, Roberta McCain declared that she did not think her son ''"had any"'' support by the Republican base. [[CNN]] senior political analyst Gloria Borger observed that ''"now we know where McCain gets all the straight talk from. We think he's his mother."''<ref>[http://mediamatters.org/items/200801280010 CNN's Borger on McCain's mother]</ref>

She is shy around publicity and her son John largely omitted her from his best-selling book. She told [[Time Magazine]] in 2000, when [[John McCain]] first ran for president:

She is shy around publicity and her son John largely omitted her from his best-selling book. She told [[Time Magazine]] in 2000, when [[John McCain]] first ran for president:

:''"I am so shy and so nervous that I couldn't tell you anything. I can't think on my feet.  I would have a heart attack or jump out this five-story window. I'm worried that whatever I would tell you would be true."''

:''"I am so shy and so nervous that I couldn't tell you anything. I can't think on my feet.  I would have a heart attack or jump out this five-story window. I'm worried that whatever I would tell you would be true."''

She was 88 years old then; as of 2008 she is 96 years old. She has been presented to the media by [[John McCain]] as a way of defusing questions about his age of 72, which would make him the oldest person to be elected president for the first time.

She was 88 years old then; as of 2008 she was 96 years old. McCain has been presented to the media by [[John McCain]] as a way of defusing questions about his age of 72, which would make him the oldest person to be elected president for the first time.

In 2008, as it became apparent that [[John McCain]] would be the [[Republican]] nominee.

In 2008, it became apparent that [[John McCain]] would be the [[Republican]] nominee.

:[[Katie Couric]]: ''They'll support you even if, as your 95 year old mom, Roberta, said, they have to hold their nose while they're doing it?''

:[[Katie Couric]]: ''They'll support you even if, as your 95 year old mom, Roberta, said, they have to hold their nose while they're doing it?''

Roberta McCain declared about her son John:

Roberta McCain declared about her son John:

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''He's backed Bush in everything except Rumsfeld. Have you heard other senators and congressmen backing Bush over eight years? Find me it--give me a name.  I've not seen any public recognition of the work that he's done for the Republican party.'' <ref>[http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=19238920&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=623508&rfi=6 McCain's Mom Pops Off] The Bulletin. Philadelphia’s Family Newspaper.</ref>

''He's backed Bush in everything except Rumsfeld. Have you heard other senators and congressmen backing Bush over eight years? Find me it--give me a name.  I've not seen any public recognition of the work that he's done for the Republican party.'' <ref>[http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=19238920&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=623508&rfi=6 McCain's Mom Pops Off] The Bulletin. Philadelphia’s Family Newspaper.</ref>

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Roberta McCain's husband, Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., died in 1981.

Roberta McCain's husband, Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., died in 1981.

== References ==

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== See also ==

==See also==

*[[2008 Presidential Election]]

*[[2008 Presidential Election]]

*[[John McCain 2008 Presidential Campaign]]

*[[John McCain 2008 Presidential Campaign]]

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