Obama, McCain get poetic

Obama, McCain get poetic	5.07.2008
WHITE House hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain marked the US Independence Day holiday yesterday with parades, picnics and odes to patriotism. "Patriotism is deeper than its symbolic expressions, than sentiments about place and kinship that move us to hold our hands over our hearts during the national anthem," Republican presumptive White House nominee Senator McCain wrote in Parade magazine. "It is putting the country first, before party or personal ambition, before anything," he said. Democrat Senator Obama, who watched a traditional parade with his wife and daughters in the western state of Montana, wrote in the same magazine that for him, patriotism was a "gut instinct." "It`s not just the recitations of the pledge of allegiance, the Thanksgiving pageants at school, or the fireworks on the Fourth of July, but how the American ideal wove its way throughout the lessons my family taught me," he said. That ideal includes a "country where we have the unparalleled right to pursue our dreams." "With a mother from Kansas and a father from Kenya, I know that stories like mine can only happen in the United States of America," he said. Senator Obama, who would be the first African-American US president, recalled childhood memories of Indonesia and the expatriate American life. "I lived overseas for a time as a child, and I remember listening to my mother reading me the first lines of the Declaration of Independence and explaining how its ideas applied to every American, black and white and brown alike," he said. Senator McCain, who just returned from a Latin American tour designed to woo critical swing Hispanic voters, appealed to newer Americans, saying that "to love one`s country is to love one`s countrymen." "It is the willing acceptance of Americans, both those whose roots here extend back over generations and those who arrived only yesterday, to try to make a nation in which all people share in the promise and responsibilities of freedom," he said. Share this article Digg this Post to del.icio.us Post to Newsvine Post to Facebook Add to kwoff
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