McCain's Mother Criticizes Mormons
John McCain's 95-year old mother may have gotten him into some trouble on Friday. During an interview on MSNBC, Roberta McCain dismissed any of Mitt Romney's accomplishments in managing the Salt Lake City Olympics — saying that the scandals were all the fault of Mormon corruption.
"As far as the Salt Lake City thing, he's a Mormon and the Mormons of Salt Lake City had caused that scandal," the elder McCain said. "And to clean that up, again, it's not a subject."
The candidate quickly moved to undo any damage in an interview with the Associated Press. "What she meant was the Olympics were screwed up by the people in Salt Lake when Romney came in and fixed the problems there," he said. "But I know my 95-year-old mother is certainly in favor of Mormons."
Comments (7)
CalD wrote on November 11, 2007 1:20 PM:Awe, Ma! LOL!
Ferruge wrote on November 11, 2007 2:47 PM:Sure John. Oh, and on a related subject, are you peeing on us, or is it raining?
Eric wrote on November 11, 2007 3:30 PM:I don't understand what bad management has to do with religion.
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Results Posted Every Tuesday Evening. Anonymous wrote on November 12, 2007 11:33 AM:
Aw, c'mon, she's everybody's mom.
My mom died at 93 and she'd give any candidate "a piece of her mind" in a heartbeat -- and she'd be right most of the time, but politically incorrect, mas oui.
I'm still wondering what advantage McCain feels he gets when he trots out his 93 year old mother with him on the campaign. Is she supposed to make him look young and "with it" or something? Who is this supposed to appeal to? Are we surprised that a 93 year old woman makes biggoted and paranoid statements?
Maybe St. McCain trots her out to make statements that wingnuts all believe but can't say for fear of losing the General, and then McCain can then wink to his base and say he certainly doesn't beleive this stuff.
Henry wrote on November 13, 2007 3:47 PM:Frankly, I would have left my mom out to dry on this one.
I saw Biden on Sunday and he invoked the words of his 90 year old mother several times.
