Roberta McCain

2009-05-20T03:27:04Z

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[[Image:John and Roberta McCain.jpg|thumb|right|220px|John and Roberta McCain]]
'''Roberta Wright McCain''' (b. 7 February 1912, [[Oklahoma]]) is the mother of Senator [[John McCain]], 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 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:

:''"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.

In 2008, as it became apparent that [[John McCain]] would be the [[Republican]] nominee, his mother Roberta declared that [[conservatives]] would have to ''"hold their ass"'' while they vote for him. John was asked about this in an interview on the [[CBS]] Evening News:<ref>[http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/04/eveningnews/main3789119.shtml One-On-One With John McCain]</ref>

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

== References ==
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== See also ==
*[[2008 Presidential Election]]
*[[John McCain 2008 Presidential Campaign]]
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Cindy McCain

2009-05-20T03:23:11Z

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[[Image:Cindy McCain.jpg|thumb|]] '''Cindy Hensley McCain''' (born May 20, 1954) is the chair of Hensley & Co. which is one of the largest Anheuser-Busch beer distributors in the United States, owning 68% of the company. She founded the American Voluntary Medical Team which organized trips by medical personnel to disaster-struck or war-torn third-world areas. Cindy McCain is best known as the spouse of [[Arizona]] Senator and 2008 Presidential candidate [[John McCain]]. She first met McCain in April 1979 at a military reception in [[Hawaii]]. John McCain was serving as the [[U.S. Navy]] liaison officer to the [[United States Senate]]. They married May 17, 1980 at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in [[Phoenix]]. They signed a prenuptial agreement and today keep their finances apart and file separate income tax returns. In 1989, she had suffered an addiction to opioid painkillers, which she initially took to alleviate pain following two spinal surgeries for ruptured discs. She took drug treatment and ended her addiction in 1992. When Cindy McCain was at Mother Teresa's orphanage in 1991 at Dhaka, Bangladesh, she met two infant girls, brought them home with her for medical treatment, and decided to adopt one of the girls named Bridget.

During the [[United States presidential election, 2000]], Cindy McCain was chosen to serve as chair of the Arizona delegation for the Republican National Convention. In 2001, she became active in Operation Smile, a not-for-profit medical service, by joining ts board of directors, and traveling with them to [[Morocco]], [[Vietnam]], and [[India]]. Cindy McCain also sits on the board of directors for [[CARE]] and HALO Trust. She suffered a stoke in April 2004. Although she mostly recovered, she still suffers from some long-term memory loss and difficulties in thinking as a result. In February 2008, Cindy McCain criticized [[Michelle Obama]], wife of Democratic presidential candidate [[Barack Obama]], for saying, "and let me tell you something: For the first time in my adult lifetime I am really proud of my country." McCain replied: "I am proud of my country. I don't know about you — if you heard those words earlier — I am very proud of my country."

== External links ==
*[http://www.johnmccain.com/about/Cindy.htm Cindy McCain's biography at John McCain.com]
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