The McCain and Obama campaigns are mirror opposites. Mr. McCain offers little biography, while Mr. Obama is nothing but. ~Karl Rove

This is ludicrous, and it surprises me a little that even someone as dishonest as Karl Rove would try to pass off this most blatant of lies.  McCain offers little biography?  The candidate who went on a self-styled Biography Tour offers little biography?  Then there was the small matter of his first national ad: it was so substance-free and obsessed with McCain’s time in Vietnam that the name of the ad was McCain’s serial number!  Even his campaign’s motto, “Country First,” is a continual reminder of how he wants to present his wartime service as his definitive qualification for office.  It’s true that Obama’s candidacy is founded on his biography, but so is McCain’s, and what is strange about this claim is implication that McCain has reached this point in the election on the basis of his firm grounding in policy expertise.  I’m not sure the already blissfully message-free McCain campaign can become even more centered on McCain’s biography than it already is.  

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