Roberta McCain, John McCain’s mother, dies at 108

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Roberta Wright McCain, the mother of Sen. John McCain who used her feisty spirit to help convince voters during his 2008 presidential campaign, has died. She was 108.

Her other son, Joe, told The Associated Press in 2007 that the family had endless dinner-table discussions about history, politics and legislation led by their mother.

John McCain gets a hug from his mother, Roberta, as he arrives at a polling station on the day of South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary in Charleston, S.C., on Jan. 19, 2008. | Charles Dharapak/AP Photo “She once hit him over the head with a thermos in the back of a car because he was acting up so badly on a road trip,” wrote Meghan McCain.

“Last Christmas, she wanted to drive around France. So she flew to Paris and tried to rent a car,” the senator once joked. “They said she was too old, so she bought one and drove around France.”

 

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Wow! RIP❣️

God Bless her!

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Toodles Good Woman! Your son was amazing ...let him know he was appreciated by us! God's Speed!

God bless the McCain family

RIP....

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