McCain to use convention speech to again remind voters that he was a POW

Surprise. Though it does make you wonder if McCain has any accomplishments post-1972 that he's proud of.

“Now Salter has one last chance to write a great convention speech for his boss. He is headed to his summer cottage in Maine--purchased with his share of the book royalties he splits with McCain (who gives his half to charity)--to focus on a task fellow McCainiacs acknowledge will be critical. ‘It's a big moment,’ says Mark McKinnon. ‘The convention is a big damn deal.’ Salter hints the speech will spotlight McCain's moments of self-sacrifice, as when he refused early release from captivity in Vietnam or challenged his own party over campaign finance reform. The contrast, he says, will be the ‘selfishness’ of ‘self-interested’ political partisans--i.e. Obama--who, he argues, have risked nothing of substance in their lives."

Kind of bitchy.