McSame's "Cross in the Dirt" Story

I think that Andrew Sullivan captures the essence of this controversey perfectly:

But the compromises McCain has made in his pursuit of power strike me as central to this election.

And here:

This is not about impugning McCain's heroism. His decision to forgo early release in Vietnam - despite being subjected to "enhanced interrogation" - makes him a far, far better man than I and most of us will ever be. It is about how Christianism corrupts a campaign. And how even a man like McCain is susceptible to these pressures.

If you haven't been following, this concerns McCain's story of a POW Guard apparently showing some religious solidarity with McCain over Christmas in 1969 and the myriad of circumstantial evidence, which fairly strongly suggest that this is either an outright fabrication, or a serious embellishment -- one pointed out years ago by the folks on the far right at the National Review.