Roger,

I find it amazing that the worlds foremost democracy, preparing to elect a leader, subjects the candidates to such an embarrassing beauty competition.Any number of professional speakers and debaters could have probably run rings round both Bush and Kerry,but you are electing a president not a timeshare salesman.

Orational ability is not perhaps the most desirable attribute in a leader after all Hitler was a powerful orator and an utterly despicable human being.

I really hope that the American electorate is not gulled by style over substance, were are all at a crossroads in human affairs that we have not visited since the 1930s,including the Cuban missile crisis.