Article: McCain and Obama: a stark matchup.(USA)(John McCain, Barack Obama)

Byline: Linda Feldmann Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Washington -- The contrasts could not be more stark: an African-American Democrat versus a white Republican. The latter old enough to be the father of the former. One with no military experience, the other with a long Navy career punctuated by a harrowing period of captivity in a Hanoi prison camp. One with a soaring rhetorical style that can light up a sports arena, the other more comfortable in the back-and-forth banter of a town-hall meeting.

Then there are the policy differences between the two presumptive major-party nominees for president. John McCain (R) is one of the Senate's ...

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