Uh, don't think the AP was being modest for McCain. They had to down down the first sentence somehow, they couldn't stand the thought of actually blaring "Hey, Barack Obama is out crowing about busing women to political rallies but John McCain actually put his life on the line, paid dearly, and duly received this nation's highest honors!"
It makes me sick hearing Michelle Obama angrily declare Obama "bused women ... so they could fing their voices" Being a leftist troublemaker is hardly presidential timber.
No, but having a background in agitprop is useful for Marxist leftists. Obama's Raison d'être seems to focus on his background in "organizing" Chicago neighborhoods. John McCain was out in the field fighting enemies of our nation, or having his fingernails pulled out in the Hanoi Hilton. Still, come November, it would not surprise me, given the dismal state of the intelligence of the electorate and the mood of the country, to see the voters send Hussein Ulyanov and Ms. Sourpuss to 1600.