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County and Virginia vote in X ^ Democratic and Republican party primaries toward a historic November election.
As the 2008 presidential lineup now shapes up, for the first time in 80 years there will be no candidate on the ballot who has served before as the nation’s President or Vice President.
It is going to be a Presidential election of extraordinary importance. As birthplace of more American presidents (eight) than any other state in the union, Virginians take a very special pride in this quadrennial national leadership process.
There are times in our history so very perilous that they cry out for a steady and experienced national leader, someone so trusted that we may feel absolutely confident to place the fate of the country in that person’s hands to bring both national parties together for the common American cause, at home and abroad.
This is one of those times.
Among all the candidates of both parties, only Democratic Senator Barack Obama and Republican Senator John McCain have demonstrated broad understanding of the issues and shown the vision to meet very large challenges ahead. McCain, though, has a rare brand of national experience together with a courage and soul visibly forged by those years he spent, after his plane was shot down, as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and later by more than two decades boldly fighting for needed change on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Plainly put he is far greater than just another ambitious politician.
In this election campaign, during which most candidates have fashioned and then re-fashioned their ‘core’ beliefs to fit the political winds, Senator McCain shows a person of unswerving straight con
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