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Standing face-to-face, one-on-one, in town hall debates would be just the place to start, writes QUENTIN FOTTRELL

WHO BETTER to introduce dirty tricks into the American presidential race than those political desperados: the Republicans. They currently have an ad of Barack Obama with images of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, and another comparing him to Charlton Heston's Moses in their "Audacity Watch", to supposedly portray Obama as "the biggest celebrity in the world". But John McCain is actually targeting the worst red state, blue collar stereotype, presenting the first black candidate with two white blonde women - one an accidental porn star, the other a Lolita pop starlet - and mocking him as a biracial, self-styled Messiah.