Another Jimmy Gimme

The always politically astute Jimmy Carter is doing his best to promote John McCain's heroic military service, expressing his shock over McCain's performance at the Saddleback forum a couple of weeks ago.

Carter said that whether he was asked about religion, domestic or foreign affairs, every answer came back to McCain's 5½ years as a POW.

You'd think that the party running a 47 year old who has no accomplishments on his resume that would indicate preparation for the presidency would want to keep quiet about McCain's inspiring life story.

"John McCain was able to weave in his experience in a Vietnam prison camp, no matter what the question was," Carter said. "It's much better than talking about how he's changed his total character between being a senator, a kind of a maverick … and his acquiescence in the last few months with every kind of lobbyist pressure that the right-wing Republicans have presented."

Is McCain highlighting the great personal tragedy of spending 5 years as a POW illegitimate? Is it different from Biden launching his candidacy by politicizing his own personal tragedies?