Across the pond

According to a story in The Guardian the usual assumptions about age do not apply to the McCain family. They speed up as they get older. McCain, 71, says his mother, Roberta, was stopped speeding in Arizona at 112 mph. And they also gain in determination. Roberta was denied a rental car in Paris four years ago on the grounds that she was too old.

So she bought one and continued her holiday in France. Then she shipped it back stateside and drove it three thousand miles coast to coast just to show them Frenchies.

Barack Obama, 17,  is going to have to use all his formidable brain to think of an answer to that one.