ALBUQUERQUE — The two leading candidates for president made Memorial Day pilgrimages to the closely divided state of New Mexico.
Republican John McCain used the backdrop of the veterans memorial in Albuquerque to once again make clear his determination to achieve victory in the Iraq war. Democrat Barack Obama went to Las Cruces, in the south, and praised the “spirit” of America’s diverse fighting corps, which he called the source of the military’s true strength.
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton, meanwhile, ended a three-day campaign swing across Puerto Rico, where she is favored to win a primary Sunday, by visiting a couple in Bayamon and talking about their 21-year-old son awaiting redeployment to Iraq.
She pledged that once she is president, she will end the war so “you will not have to worry about him going back to Iraq.”
