Remember, McCain Has Never Used His POW Status As Part Of His Candiacy

This is quite remarkable.



So McCain's surrogates and his BBQ buddies in the media spent all last week claiming that he's never used his POW status as a rationale for his candidacy, yet in the first 10 seconds of this ad, McCain contrasts himself from the dirty (black) hippies by exalting his being shot down over Vietnam and refusing an early release.

You can set aside the value of this service; I find it honorable but irrelevant to the task of the Presidency, which involves judgment on key issues like wanting wars to end and jobs to return to America. But this is in direct contrast to all that blather from last week. McCain is running on his bio in such a way that makes John Kerry look like he never mentioned Vietnam once.

Not that he has anything else to run on, but this is really jarring. Will the media notice? Signs point to absolutely not.