Obama and McCain - the cats

Vying for the title of "Purr-fect President".

Make or break

In spite of its advocacy of the essentially faceless Barack Obama, the Independent makes a sensible point in today's leading article:

The make-or-break moments of this campaign will come in the candidates' debates. If the young Democrat can hold his own with the tested Republican on great matters of war, peace and economic struggle, he can lay to rest charges that he lacks the spine and the experience to sit in the Oval Office. If he does, Mr Obama will win, perhaps by a wide margin. If not then it is quite possible, even in the best year for Democrats in a generation, that he will lose.