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August 5, 2008

Discuss Tuesday's commentary and letters

Webb made the right call
George W. Grayson
Grayson teaches at the College of William & Mary and served 27 years as a Democrat in the Virginia House of Delegates.
James Webb recently stated that under "no circumstance will I be a candidate for vice president." This Shermanesque vow disappointed Democratic bloggers, for whom the Old Dominion's junior senator was their paladin. They agreed with Princeton professor Gerald Pomper that Webb would offset many of the blatant shortcomings of Sen. Barack Obama; notably, his inexperience in foreign and military affairs.
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McCain has the right stuff
Ern Reynolds
Reynolds is publisher of the Web site ModerateGOP.com and a resident of Roanoke.
We were treated to such an amusing argument by Long Island, New York, columnist Les Payne in the July 30 Roanoke Times commentary "Is John McCain qualified?" Payne thinks not. He suggests that McCain's finishing fifth from the bottom in his Naval Academy class is damning.
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