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[[Image:John and Roberta McCain.jpg|thumb|right|220px|John and Roberta McCain]]
'''Roberta Wright McCain''' (Oklahoma? born 7 February 1912- , [[Oklahoma]]) is the mother of Senator [[John McCain]], a the [[Republican]] candidate for president in 2008, whom she has described as ''"a shitter from the very beginning''. "<ref>[http://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 ithe'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, that:
:''"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 95 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.
:[[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?''
:McCain: ''Well, you know, I mean ... in all due respect ... my 95-year-old mother, I think, is very much entitled, and has earned her right to her views. The fact is I am uniting the party. The conservatives are coming along -- in very large numbers.''
Roberta McCain declaredabout 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>
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*[[2008 Presidential Election]]
*[[John McCain 2008 Presidential Campaign]]
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