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Barack Obama told graduates of Wesleyan University to consider public service "because our individual salvation depends on collective salvation."
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The Nomination Goes to Bob Barr
DENVER -- The Libertarian Party picked former Republican congressman Bob Barr as its presidential candidate on Sunday after six rounds of balloting.
Barr defeated research scientist Mary Ruwart, who was the party's presidential nominee in 1983 and vice presidential candidate in 1992, by a vote of 324 to 276 on the final ballot. He endorsed Wayne Allyn Root, who was eliminated in the fifth round, to be his running mate.
Barr left the Republican Party in 2006 over what he called bloated spending and civil liberties intrusions by the Bush administration.
Among the candidates Barr defeated were former senator Mike Gravel, who recently dropped out of the Democratic presidential race. Gravel said afterward that the defeat ended his political career.
-- Associated Press
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