Boy, did John McCain ever lose an *opportunity* last night during his victory Speech after his South Carolina win. As all the various dignitaries gathered on the podium, his 96 year old Mother, Roberta McCain, (born 7 February 1912 in Muskogee, Oklahoma) stepped nimbly up onto the stage.I really wanted him to turn around at the end of his speech and call her forward....and recognize this wonderful woman and Elder.
But, alas he left her "standing in the wings".
What a great asset this woman is to his campaign and his life.
Check out this video of her on NBC: Click here: MSNBC Video featured on Meet The Press! Yes, indeed.....What a Pistol!
What is the most important thing your Mom taught you?
Some addition information I just found: from Click here: John McCain ....... " His mother, a wealthy oil heiress, has been described as "the Auntie Mame of Navy wives". The family still chuckles about the day she went on an errand to buy a new dress, and came home with a new Mercedes instead."
The daughter of a Los Angeles oilman, she signed on for Navy life at an early age. After two unsuccessful attempts at eloping--"The car broke down the first time, and I got cold feet the other"--the debutante succeeded in stealing away to Tijuana to marry a young Navy ensign who had been barred from her house for the previous year. Just 19, she brought her college textbooks on her honeymoon. The San Francisco Examiner ran a headline at the time that read SOCIETY COED ELOPES WITH NAVY OFFICER: ROBERTA WRIGHT DEFIES FAMILY. For his part, her husband Jack McCain was punished for being absent without leave.
And The Beat Goes On.......
2 comments:
Hi Marion,
Dropped in from Time Goes By. Welcome to blogland. In answer to your question I will say the most important thing my Mom taught me is that a woman can be strong and brave without even realizing it. Watching her I knew I could be strong and brave too.
About brave, I don't think brave means you have to do something heroic. Being brave is when you are scared to do something but do it anyway. That can be anything from speaking up to Bungee Jumping.
Taco John may well describe John M as you say- I did not get the connection @ first either.
I saw most of the Roberta show on MSNBC and was entranced by this wonderful woman. She made several remarks that I have heard my contemporary mother make several tomes about being a career service wife. The most memorable was when asked about her husband's family influence, she answered "he was never home"...........B
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