At the risk of sounding like a broken record (not to mention angering Jim Geraghty) I continue to believe McCain is banging the war hero drum too loudly.

i don't think he's running on the "War hero" angle. Him being shot down was just part of his life story.

What he is running on is CHARACTER, experience, and LEADERSHIP.

"What have you done lately?",

Well, thats pretty much McCain's problem. What has he done lately? Support for the surge helps him, but the surge was really just damage control on a horribly botched operation, and his stroll thru Baghdad thing probably goes a long ways to counterbalancing it. Throw in Lieberman whispering in his ear and it is not that hard for Obama to get a push on Iraq.

What else has he done? Peddle influence to lobbyists. Nothing unusual there, but his insistence that he is squeaky clean will come back to haunt him...

But I also think Obama's campaign needs to handle this part of the McCain biography with care. It doesn't do Obama any good to try to pretend like McCain's experiences in the military are nothing more than honorable service. Makes me think McCain keeps playing this card in the hopes that Obama's surrogates will attack this line.

If he is going to stress biography and experience right now I think McCain would do better to start contrasting his experience in the senate-leadership roles, legislation passed, etc with Obama's. This is one area where McCain's argument is germane and way outdoes Obama's.

Man I'm glad I can walk to the polling place 'cause I'm going to need a couple of margaritas to vote for this guy. (Hope I don't vote for Buchanan by mistake).