Article from: Agence France-Presse From correspondents in Washington 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...
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