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John McCain's official portrait
John McCain
(born 1936) is the
senior
United States
Senator
from
Arizona
and
presidential nominee
of the
Republican Party
in the
2008 United States presidential election
. During the Vietnam War, he nearly lost his life in the
1967 USS
Forrestal
fire
. In October 1967, he was shot down and held as a
prisoner of war
until 1973, experiencing episodes of
torture
; his war wounds have left him with lifelong physical limitations. Elected to the
U.S. House of Representatives
in 1982, he served two terms, was elected to the
U.S. Senate
in 1986, and was re-elected in 1992, 1998, and 2004. (
more...
)
Barack Obama's official portrait
Barack Obama
(born 1961) is the
junior
United States Senator
from
Illinois
and
presidential nominee
of the
Democratic Party
in the
2008 United States presidential election
. Obama is the
first African American
to be nominated for president by a major political party. Obama graduated from
Columbia University
and
Harvard Law School
, serving as the president of the
Harvard Law Review
. He served three terms in the
Illinois Senate
and taught
constitutional law
at the
University of Chicago Law School
. Obama delivered the
keynote address
at the
2004 Democratic National Convention
and was elected to the Senate in November 2004. (
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