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McCain Camp's Defense Against Sturgis Beauty Pageant Critics: He Was A POW!

By Eric Kleefeld - August 15, 2008, 2:16PM

The McCain campaign has offered a novel defense against critics who hit him for offering up his wife Cindy as a contestant at a topless biker beauty pageant: He was a POW!

This whole mess started when Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, who is heading up an independent group of pro-Obama pastors -- and, by the way, officiated at Jenna Bush's wedding -- criticized McCain's remarks at the Sturgis rally: "My personal opinion, and based on my opinion of the Christian faith, that's not the type of expression a presidential candidate or anyone following the Christian faith ought to make."

The Wall St. Journal reports that McCain spokesman Brian Rogers fired back by saying that Americans "know that John McCain's faith and character were tested and forged in ways few can fathom."

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I believe we now have a "POW card" which McCain plays daily.

As someone in the TPM thread said:

A noun: Check
A verb: Check
A POW reference: Check

That campaign is running with machine like efficiency.