John McCain: Less spending, less jobs, more wars.

Anyone else listening when he speaks?

Los, Miami, USA FL

Gemma,
Compared to many of the UK politicians, who are much smoother in their deceit, McCFain is a saint.
A temper is not necessarily a bad thing and one should applaud McCain's honesty and integrity; and he was right about post Iraq war tactics.
Bearing in mind the global implications it is a worry for all of us if another intellectually challenged liar gets into the White House to join the unending succession of deceitful British PM's.
Emma, you should be as concerned ar cleaning out your own stables.

P.S. Immanuel, Ron Paul is irrelevent.

abritincanada, Calgary,

Mr Romney says he's had a real job and then he says he was a venture capitalist? Well? Which is it to be? Was he a VC or did he have a real job?

Running a hedge fund, or being a Venture Capitalist hardly seems anything anyone ought speak too loudly - after all they are in no small degree responsible for the present state of affairs.

This may be simple minded of me to suggest. But it is not out of the ordinary to predict a swing in ideological bias

Glenn schaefer, holbrook, usa

Ronnie - It doesn't matter how moderate McCain comes across, it's still the same moneymen and corporations pulling the strings in the Republican party. He'll keep the defence budget stupidly high, carry on borrowing obscene amounts of money.. Basically the same road that Bush ahs been on.

The Democrats aren't much better, but they are less under the control of oil/energy concerns. This means they're more likely to take concrete action on the environment, amongst other issues.

Owen, London, UK

To Gemma and JA: I agree with your comments. It is certain that John McCain, if he makes it for the White House, will be a very American president.
And according to tradition he should inaugurate his presidency by bombing some distant country, preferably with an unpronounceable name and inadequate plumbing. They all did it, Republicans or Democrats, didn't they?
Even the good Mr Obama said something about striking the northwestern provinces of Pakistan without asking ex-general Musharraf his views on the matter. The good Mrs Clinton approved the Iraq war. So why wouldn't and shouldn't candidate McCain, given his past and his ambitions, sing to the same tune in a presidential campaign?
It still remains that it is always better to have an intelligent and capable man as the US President, even if he's not going to work for the best interests of Old Europe first.
Besides, that one will never tell us that he has a direct hotline to the Almighty, which I find rather reassuring.

RONNIE, PARIS, FRANCE

This man is such a liability. If you have seen any of his foulmouthed and violent outbursts or heard his "jokes" about bombing other countries you will wonder as I do why on earth Americans would want such a volatile character as their Head of State.

Bearing in mind the global implications this is a worry for ALL of us.

Come to your senses America, preferably before next Tuesday.

Gemma, Leighton Bzzard, UK

Yet another article that does not mention Ron Paul - this article is about the Presidential Candidates so you think it might be pertinent!?!

Why does the mainstream media blank the Man? I would like to talk the the author of this article.

Very Disappointing!

Immanuel, London, England

Most Europeans still think McCain's someone who's at least on the same planet as them. I'm so glad he's in the lead, but is 'Old Europe' ready for his positions on Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan? That'll put Old Europe on the spot. After three presidential elections which disappoint Old Europeans, they'll have to recognise they're anti-American, not anti-Bush.

JA, London,

Go John McCain! I don't know if i really like any of the candidates that much, but definitely seems the best of the bunch.

Tim, New York, USA

Very well. This is good news. It comes perhaps a little late but with luck we may have eight years of a great American president.

It should have happened in 2000, had not the Almighty, in His infinite wisdom and highly mysterious ways, not decided that first it was necessary to appoint George Bush to the White House.
Which was made possible by sending to earth one of His most efficient angels, in the shape of Carl Rove. Now, Carl is back in Paradise (let us pray he stays there) and John McCain can be president and draw sensible strategies.

Those who would like to know why John McCain would have been and will be a better president than any member of the Bush family can read "The nightingale's song", an account which none of the arrogant spin doctors who make a living orbiting political stars (whatever their position in the ideological spectrum) could have written.

RONNIE, PARIS, FRANCE