Hillary loses the plot and her moral compass in desperate bid to win

YOU can have too much of a good thing. All those debates, all those ordinary citizens actively participating in the democratic process: who couldn’t have be energised by the hard fought US Presidential battle? I’m fast becoming disillusioned.

Aren’t you? There’s something creepy about the Obamaniacs. All that jumping up and down chanting “Yes we can” puts you in mind of Hare Krishna followers on glue, no? As for John McCain, it’s the opposite. He’s a real war hero and no Jesus-freak which is something. He even quotes Edmund Burke rather well but isn’t he just a tad dully competent — or do I mean competently dull?

And then there’s Hillary. Gee, she’s hard to love. In Ireland, she and Bill will always have a special place in our affections. Both of them — yes, partly to court the ethnic vote in New York — but mainly because they wanted to make a positive difference, gave chunks of time to help end the Troubles. They didn’t need to: it was a low-level conflict with zero bearing on America’s national security interests.