The McCain camp noticed this comment on MSNBC a moment ago:

HAROLD FORD JR.: I think you touched on it best in your answer. Tim addressed it. Barack is going to have to identify with the American values — his upbringing, his family’s connection on not only to the country, but they’re patriotism. The ultimate sacrifice he made. The fact he grew up in a humble way and made his way to the most prestigious law school in the country and earned his way to be the president, this is the story most americans don’t know about him.

I’m going to presume Harold Ford misspoke, and didn’t mean to suggest that Obama had made “the ultimate sacrifice.” But I would stay away from that area any way you want to slice it. Three years of community organizing on the South Side seems like a noble, but Sisyphian effort — that inn the end got asbestos out of a housing development and a job placement office opened. Even in the most generous light, that simply doesn’t belong in the same breath as John McCain’s military service and years of torture as a POW.