On Jay Leno's show tonight, John McCain personally engaged in the same crass exploitation of his own life story that his campaign has been engaging in for weeks - another rather pathetic attempt to use the fact that he was a POW to suggest that this makes him completely beyond any criticism for anything he's ever done.

"For a million dollars," Jay Leno asked Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., today, "how many houses do you have?"

"Could I just mention to you, Jay, that, at a moment of seriousness. I spent five-and-a-half years in a prison cell," McCain said. "I didn't have a house. I didn't have a kitchen table. I didn't have a table. I didn't have a chair. And I didn't spend those five-and-a-half years because, not because I wanted to get a house when I got out."

Seriously... what the hell does your having been a POW have to do with the fact that you're such a massive economic elitist? Are a few years of heroism supposed to paper over a lifetime of moral cowardice, lack of character, and failure of integrity?

John McCain is running a serious risk that his personal story will become a running joke - and when it happens, he will have only himself to blame.

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