Barack Obama, in his speech today:

“All too often our politics still seems trapped in these old, threadbare arguments – a fact most evident during our recent debates about the war in Iraq, when those who opposed administration policy were tagged by some as unpatriotic, and a general providing his best counsel on how to move forward in Iraq was accused of betrayal.“

The sentence is obviously a reference to MoveOn.org’s ad. Wow. Brave guy, willing to criticize MoveOn.org after he’s won the Democratic nomination. Team McCain notes that when the Senate voted to denounce the MoveOn.org ad, Obama missed the vote, while making two others that day.

How convenient.

To refresh, this what folks in the McCain camp were saying at the time:

“When I saw the ad, I thought, ‘this is just an excuse to put the words ‘Betray Us’ in the headline.’ No one thinks this guy is a bad guy. I see no upside to that ad. The odd thing is that newspaper ads don’t drive messages. They can support a message, and you may hit some opinion influencers, but if you really wanted to burn a message into people, you would run television ads about him saying he’s a Bush crony. I think MoveOn just wanted to smear him, and to put a ‘cute’ rhyme in the headline. And when they say, ‘cooking the books,’ it seems to me to be coming very close to libel. I’m not a lawyer, and I know it’s difficult to prove libel against a public figure, but it had to come close to being actionable – it literally questioned his patriotism.”