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Associated PressBy GLEN JOHNSON
DERRY, N.H. (AP) - Buoyed by polls showing a slight uptick, as well as fundraising he says is improving, Sen. John McCain set out Sunday to win New Hampshire votes with his trademark blunt talk.
The 71-year-old Arizona Republican, who would be the oldest president ever to start in the White House if elected next year, quipped that he should bring his 95-year-old mother on the campaign trail "to display my genes."
Republican presidential hopeful, U.S.Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. takes a question ,during a campaign stop in Derry, N.H., Sunday, Sept. 30, 2007.(AP Photo/Jim Cole)
He blasted the "military thugs" in Myanmar who are attempting to maintain their junta despite protests of Buddhist monks, and said "we should make the Chinese pay a price" for supporting the regime in the nation formerly known as Burma.
And McCain labeled President Vladimir Putin as "the dictator from Russia" as he called for U.S. energy independence to curb oil imports from the former Soviet Union, Venezuela and Iran.
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