JOHN McCain is 71. His mesage: “Vote John McCain for more energy”.

Our patron, Old Mr Anorak, will have what McCain’s having and has taken to drinking a tincture of petrol and WD40 with his evening enema…

SOAP firm Scrubya donates 75 percent of its proceeds to nonprofit organisations dedicated to “cleaning up the mess” it blames on George Bush.

Time to come John McClean, or scrub up with Soapbama.

CHINA and Asia would vote for Barack Obama, says the Asia Society.

During the Asia Society’s 36th Annual Williamsburg Conference in April in Bali, Indonesia, we asked policy leaders from across Asia which US presidential candidate is most favorably viewed in their part of the world. A large number of respondents said Barack Obama was the most popular, and the Indonesian respondents in particular talked about the significance of Senator Obama’s early childhood in the country.

China believes in democracy?

JOHN McCain tries humour, possibly:

THE Associated Press Reports in “Old guy vs change: McCain, Obama images take shape”, how people responds to hearing the name of the US Presidential agonists.

Ask people to blurt out their first words about the two presidential candidates and one in five say “change” or “outsider” for Barack Obama and “old” for John McCain, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo! News poll released Monday. Those are not only the top responses for each man but the ones used most often since January, when fewer than one in 10 volunteered those descriptions.

The AP doesn’t tell us the other words associated with the men, but Anorak has learnt they may include the words:

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JOHN McCain’s daughter Meghan McCain is now a Republican - she explains why on her blog:

This morning, I went to the State Capitol Executive Building in Phoenix with Mom and re-registered as a Republican.  I did this as a symbol of my commitment to my dad and to represent the faith I have in his ability to be an effective leader for our country and to grow and strengthen the Republican party when he is elected President of the United States.  Happy Father’s Day, Dad!

Sweet. Does he still have his own teeth?

ON John McCain’s new Senate Financial Disclosure Form, voters can wodner about his fiscal policy:

The bulk of the McCains’ obligations stemmed from a pair of American Express credit cards that are held in Cindy McCain’s name. According to the disclosure reports, which present information on debts in a range rather than providing a precise figure, Mrs. McCain owed $100,000 to $250,000 on each card.

Says JTaplin: “I know what American Express charges for interest on a Platinum Card. A fiscally responsible household should probably sell some of the million of Anheuser-Busch stock they own and stop paying that 17% ARP on $500,000 worth of Amex charges.”

Indeed…

ASKING a question of John McCain should be easy. This man in the video finds it tricky.

But rather than him being the story, Anorak cannot get pass the commentator, the closed-voiced woman called Jeanne Moos, whose vocal impression of a surprised Fozzy Bear swallowing snot brings us the noos, sorry, news.

Jeanne works for CNN, which features the long-question as news, and makes it longer by boosting it with Moos’s voiceovers.

McCain’s interrogator should consider applying for a job as a nodding head on a 24-hour news channel…

JOHN McCain is big in Jordan but they want mixed-race Obama in - get this - France: 

The survey also finds a widespread belief that U.S. foreign policy “will change for the better” after the inauguration of a new American president next year. Among people who have been following the election, large majorities in France (68%), Spain (67%) and Germany (64%) say that they believe that U.S. foreign policy will improve after the election. This sentiment is also common in the African countries included in the survey - Nigeria (67%), South Africa (66%) and Tanzania (65%).

Yet this belief is far from universal. In Jordan and Egypt, more people who are following the election say they expect new leadership to change U.S. foreign policy for the worse than say they expect a change for the better. Two-thirds of the Japanese (67%) who are following the election say it will not bring about much change in U.S. foreign policy. That is the plurality opinion in Russia and Turkey as well.

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THE US Presidential campaign has thrown up some memorable songs. This from the McCain Girls - the McCainiac…

More McCain Girls after the jump:

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ON THE JOHN McCain website: “Obama’s Positions Are So Changey.”

Changey?  

Marc Ambinder looks at Obama and McCain:

What a different emotional register from John McCain’s; Obama seems on the verge of tears; the enormous crowd in the Xcel center seems ready to lift Obama on its shoulders…McCain appealed to Clinton supporters based on their resentments, pointing out that the pundits and party elders seemingly anointed Obama; Obama appeals to them based on their hopes, promising that Clinton would play a major role in securing universal health care.

Obama thanked his grandmother above all else; without her, he said, none of this would have been possible. She is white, of course. The explicit message is obvious. The implicit message: this thing, this event, is much more than just a step for racial equality.

OVER on the Daily Kos the  woolly thinking ai that a no vote for Obama is a vote for war. You may recall Tony Blair’s ethical foreign policy and his subsequent wars…

If you’re going to help McCain get elected, you need to take responsibility for your actions. This election is bigger than you. It’s bigger than Barack Obama. It’s bigger than Hillary Clinton. Lives will be saved or lost depending on who is elected in November, and if you’re going to willfully help prolong the war, it’s time to do the honorable thing and enlist.

Click here to locate a U.S. Army recruiter in your area.

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Jonathan Cohn in The Plank: We will learn about McCain’s health

DID John McCain Create an HDTV Monster?

I found myself gasping at McCain’s mug as transmitted in glorious HDTV. Wrinkles, blotches, liver spots, scarry tissue—none of these were hidden by McCain’s makeup. As McCain cracked wise (”What do we want in our next president? Certainly someone who is very, very, very old.”), I found myself thinking, Jeez, he doesn’t look like a guy who’ll turn 72 this August. He looks like a guy who’ll turn 82.

TV killed the Republican star…

JOHN McCain is:

“He’s older than his wife, a little younger than his mama,
He’s old enough to be one and a half Barack Obamas.”

CAN their handwriting teach us about the characters of the US Presidential candidates?

Obama is very much his writing — fluid, graceful. McCain’s is angular and intense; he’s a pit bull. And look at the perfectionism in Hillary’s — straight up, precise. She is persistent and is not going to give up until she absolutely has to,” said Imberman, a court-certified graphologist based in New York.

You are going on a journey…

HERE’S a blog dedicated to all things younger than John McCain, like Spam…

RON Paul for President. Not a chance. But he can still cause trouble:

But what’s been largely overlooked is Paul’s candidacy as a reflection of a powerful lingering dissatisfaction with the Arizona senator among the party’s most conservative conservatives. As anticipated in late March in The Ticket, that situation could be exacerbated by today’s expected announcement from former Republican Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia for the Libertarian Party’s presidential nod, a slot held by Paul in 1988.

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JOHN Mccain says: “They’re going to raise your taxes by thousands of dollars per year — and they have the audacity to hope you don’t mind.” Says Figaro, that’s  antistasis (an-TIS-ta-sis), the repeat that changes meaning. From the Greek, meaning “opposing position.”

Want to undermine your opponent’s ethos? Puncture his favorite uplifting expression — not by arguing against it but by repeating it. The antistasis does  ju jitsu on an expression by flipping its meaning.

That’s what McCain does with Obama’s Audacity of Hope, the audaciously pretentious book title. The straight-talkin’ Republican turns audacious hope into something shifty and underhanded and raise- your- taxes- in- secretiveness.

Shooting from the lip…

JAMES Elroy, the great American crime writer, gives his views on the Race For The White House:

“HILLARY looks like a bull dyke in a pantsuit, but at least she seems serious. McCain looks like Mr. Magoo.

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