Roberta McCain Chimes In On Britney-Paris Ad

Sen. John McCain may be "proud" of the Paris Hilton/Britney Spears ad released this week, but his feisty 96-year-old mother apparently disagrees.

Roberta McCain was a featured guest at a McCain campaign event on Thursday afternoon at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington DC. The Huffington Post obtained some audio of an exchange after the event where Mrs. McCain is asked about the Paris Hilton ad.

"Oh, well, I didn't see it -- I think it's kinda stupid," she says. "I'm just too old-hat for it. In fact, the other two, I didn't even know who they were. I knew who Paris Hilton was, but then there were other two young girls..." (Someone informed Mrs. McCain that there were only two women in the ad, and that the other was Britney Spears.)

Within a few moments, Roberta was back on message. An acquaintance noted the statement from Rick Davis that was "going to be in the headlines tomorrow," criticizing Obama "for injecting racism into the campaign."

"Oh, he definitely did," Roberta responded.

Audio here.

Comments

[yoli647]

They look like brother and sister and she is just a couple of years older, and she is the one who has the sharp mind!

[londonrainbow]

so true, she smarter.

[booker52]

Mom had it right the first time, the ad is stupid.

[TNT2008]

Maybe memory problems run in the family!

0 2008

[MiddleRoadLiberal]

Roberta McCain is just slightly more relevant to this day and age than her son. She would make a perfect running mate.

McCain/McCain '08!

[londonrainbow]

LOL LOL LOL LOL

[StillAmused]

One's skin truly crawls...

[Witchitalineman]

Come on you guys. I would love to have my mom still alive and sitting next to me. I can't stand McCain but his mom is delightful.

[Bluejay00234]

He looks as old as her, like her husband.

[patriotic008]

she looks like shes closer to him in age than his own wife good grief

[norkas]

here is a very nice add for Obama to run seeing that Mc Cain says he has a good sense of humor that is all me meant. Have Mc Cain with many of his miss quotes and at the end portray him bush and cheny as the 3 stooges. Yes take there heads and replace them with these three. Each time Mc Cain makes a miss quote have Larry slap him and keep repeating till the end of the commercial. I think that is funny ans so will his mother and Mc Cain they have a great sense of humor.At the end you can say thenk you from the 3 stooges vote for John this is ONLY the beginning.

[ThirdSection]

That's because plastic doesn't age as fast as human skin.

[SD61]

I thought this guy McCain was AGAINST stem cell research! How else can he explain being OLDER than his mother?

[dogwalker]

That one is coming to work with me on monday....thanks

[mary82]

SD61- Would you please stop, I can't even finish eating for laughing so hard. Thanks to all you guys posts for giving me a much needed good laughter.

[zendem1]

There's been an error..That photo was taken at Mardi Gras..the one on the right is Rudy Giulliani.

[mairs]

OMG! It DOES look like Rudy!

[robiform]

I THOUGHT that the photo looked familiar!! It's Rudy when he did the drag sketch on "Saturday Night Live"!!

Most perceptive of you to notice!!

[Tags]

Roberta McCain knows that the country that elected Ronald Reagan doesn't have a problem voting for celebrities.

[zendem1]

How nice...Bush let him borrow his mother, SeaHag.

[mergina]

She's got a better memory than he has, as I am sure he cannot remember the ad 10 minutes after it is seen.

[ejay579]

It is obvious that McCane is precocious in that he exhibits his mother's attributes at such a young age.

[DaOne]

Johnny lets his mum fight for him.

[lexnekst]

And even his own mom says the ads are too old fashioned for her!!!


LMAO!

[lmab]

Rosemary's Baby comes to mind. What is she......about 135 years old? Do these people live forever?

[vshdst]

I'd be more impressed if his father were alive. I think his father died at age 71 or 72.

[mommamia526]

His father gave up. Mac's mother would not let him get in a word edgewise. He got tired of being told: *shut up*! and decided to obey.