Tuesday's comment from the papers in...

Today in Times Comment

• David Aaronovitch: It's Horrid Ken v Chaotic Boris
• Libby Purves: You're poor. We'll patronise you
• Clive Coleman: Kick out our contempt laws
• Chris Ayres: The year of the Paris Hilton tax
• Mick Hume: Nuclear power: grasp the nettle
• Bronwen Maddox: Slow but steady is no bad thing for Pakistan
• Ann Treneman: Time to face the music in a House at fever pitch
• Peter Riddell: EU just another little skirmish in long war of attrition

And from the rest of the papers...

• Rachel Sylvester: (The Telegraph) - Roundhead Gordon Brown's New Puritans
• Andrew O'Hagan: (The Telegraph) - Some 'gifts' one is better off without
• Anthony Reynard: (The Telegraph) - Labour cannot teach these lessons to parents
• Polly Toynbee: (The Guardian) - This minister for fatcats is stuck in a Blairite time warp
• George Monbiot: (The Guardian) - Making GPs more accessible is just a disguised concession to big business
• Oliver Kamm: (The Guardian) - Ordinary rendition - abduction is a justifiable tactic of the war on terror
• Dominic Lawson: (The Independent) - Of course a deaf couple want a deaf child
• Steve Richards: (The Independent) - Clegg could be an engaging and effective leader. But how much does that matter?
• Mary Bousted: (The Independent) - Failure could be the best thing for children
• Quentin Letts: (The Daily Mail) - Half a billion spondoolicks ... how easily politicians spend our cash
• Gideon Rachman: (The Financial Times) - The real problem with Power

And from around the world...

• Bob Herbert: (The New York Times) - Sharing the pain
• E.J.Dionne Jr.: (The Washington Post) - Liberals' McCain problem
• Richard Cohen: (The Washington Post) - How the Democrats could lose
• Bret Stephens: (The Wall Street Journal) - A President, not a symbol
• Henry A. Kissinger: (International Herald Tribune) - To embrace or not to embrace
• Karim Sadjadpour: (The Daily Star) - Iran's elections: a glass half full or half empty?

Comments

[Candadai Tirumalai]

E.J. Dionne Jr. on McCain: It has been said that Republican candidates veer to the Right and Democrats to the Left during the contest for the party nomiantion, and both candidates move to the center in campaigning for the general election. This election is rendered complex by the fact that Sentor McCain has never been an orthodox Republican and has always appealed to independents, and Senator Obama has stressed bridging the differences between people of different political persuasions. A crucial divide is over Iraq: McCain, encouraged by the effects of the surge, wants American forces to complete the job, whereas both Hillary and Barack want to pull back, though not all at once. I can think of only a few liberals who, offered the choice between McCain and either Hillary or Barack, would vote for the first. They might come from the ranks of those for whom national security is a vital consideration, a subject on which McCain has been more aggressive than the other two, even broaching possible military action in Iran.