If only Obama really were a socialist and successfully introduced a national health service, an effective welfare safety net, etc. to the USA. One certainty if the European experience is any guide, is that once they have them the American people won't easily let anyone take them away.

Alan, Valencia, Spain

AGAIN i dont care that its 3% that makes a huge difference if your making 30 billion a year.Its Jobs is what it is. Now more will go over seas even more simply cause there corporate tax rate is half of ours. And yes his idea of spreading the wealth is BAD were not Europe thats why we left.

jeremy Charles, Dallas, USA

Obama's birth certificate has been seen, touched, held, and photographed by FactCheck. Anyone who thinks this is still a conspiracy is crazy. http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html

Ed P, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Birth certificate doesn't mean anything... all a birth certificate does is tell you where the actual real record of your birth was made... that's the official record and is the only one which counts.

paul cooke, gloucester,

Actually, no one has seen an original, certified birth certificate, and State of Hawaii officials who have reviewed the only "copy" he placed on his website have acknowledged that it is not an official document. (Privacy laws make it impossible for ANYONE to see another's birth certificate.)

Bob Evans, Lowestoft, Suffolk, Back home in Blighty

Jeremy Charles:

All this 'socialist' propaganda being spread by McCain is rubbish. Increasing taxes by 3% on income earned over $250k?Big deal! It means they can cut the taxes of 95% of Americans, who NEED a break! Its the same taxation as B.Clinton, its not Marxism!!!

Will, Leicester, England

@ jeremy Charles:

If your business is going to fail because the tax rate on earnings over $250K is 38% instead of 35%, I think you have other problems.

Neil, Perth, Australia

Paul: Do you not want to have actual details on how your potential future President will run the country? Most citizens get to listen to the President for a few minutes at a time and only a few times a year. This is a good thing.

Shane, Kirkland, WA, USA

Why does it take half an hour to say what's needed? It sounds like a big yawn and an opportunity for a huge pratfall. He'd better be good. A greater risk to the Democrat campaign than the McCain camp, I suspect.

Paul Freeman, London, England

What about his citizenshi?! He IS American- where have you been?

Maureen, Egham, UK

Yeah hes a citizen but I rather not be a Germany. Socialism in the US will bring unrest. Spreading the wealth is not what this country is about. Anybody can be rich in the US all it takes is an idea. Now your gonna punish the successful in turn give to the not. Vote McCain sorry Obama goin to far.

jeremy Charles, Dallas, USA

what on earth does that mean, a man with a mother from Kansas and born in Hawaii, the 50th state of America, I think that makes it qute clear!

Alex, Mirandola, Italy

What about the questions over Obama'a citizenship?

Mark, London, UK