A study in character, fortuitously timed to coincide with the Messiah’s Wright headache. He rolled out a 12-minute ad about his time in Hanoi last August, when he was in dire straits and needed to rehabilitate his image after the shamnesty debacle. This one’s a narrative-framer for the general. There’s not an independent in America who won’t be more inclined to vote for him after watching it, needless to say.

Exit question: Given the narrative the Democrats are framing about his candidacy, who’s the real target of this ad? Think hard. Harder…