Who will be blessed? The Republican team of elderly and experienced John McCain and newcomer to Washington politics Sarah Palin, or the Democratic team of the young and inexperienced Barack Obama and the elderly but experienced Joe Biden?

Who of them can tackle such burning issues as the seemingly endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the emerging threats from rogue countries like Iran and North Korea, international terrorism, and of course the crippling financial crisis

Such issues may indeed be disturbing to Americans in politics, business, academe and even the media pundits, but to many, many ordinary citizens they’d rather vote for the candidates whose personalities they like, just like in the Philippines.

Of course, the US voters have watched both the first presidential and vice presidential debates. That one between McCain and Obama was called a "draw" by print media political analysts. But to other more objective political observers, McCain won.

They said McCain demonstrated true leadership when he destroyed Obama’s credibility, knowledge, understanding and grasp of the issues. For instance, on foreign policy, Obama showed he knew nothing about Russia’s Putin, its oil pipelines and how serious the Russian invasion of Georgia was, and the price of failure in Iraq.

Obama’s talk about "change" in Washington politics was shown as nothing but nonsense, a cloud of rhetoric. McCain showed Obama as inexperienced, naïve and just doesn’t understand things!

The public impression was of the two McCain showed he was statesmanlike and tough enough to be the next commander-in-chief, but soft enough to relate to the Americans and other peoples of the world.

That vice presidential debate between Palin and Biden was won by the woman governor of Alaska. Political pundits who watched it, as I did, too, were impressed by her performance. They chorused: "Absolutely brilliant!" "Unbelievable!" Indeed, after hearing her, I got the impression that she’s informed, humorous and brilliant. Indeed, she’s attractive likable and has an up-beat personality. In the debate and media interviews, she’s like the "Muhammad Ali" of politics – floating like a butterfly stinging like a bee.

But millions of ordinary Americans, the working class and women, young and elderly, really don’t care about debates about issues. They’ll vote for the candidates that they personally like, who impressed them, and, much as I hesitate to mention it, on the basis of race.

To be more precise, as I gathered from various polls, majority of Americans believe McCain is a doer, Obama a talker. McCain is a war hero who sacrificed five and a half years of his life for America without accepting privileges from his Vietnamese jailers; Obama didn’t salute the American flag "out of respect" for countries who don’t like America.

Americans see McCain as a man of honor and principle, whose was associated with honorable and respectable people, whereas Obama associated himself with radical left people, including a radical professor who bombed the capitol and said on Sept. 11, 2001 that he didn’t do enough, and even launched his Illinois campaign from that fellow’s home.

Many believe that John McCain would be far the best and trusted leader of the United States in a world crisis.