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Does John McCain question Obama's patriotism? Of course not! McCain told us so himself! Though he has said frequently that Obama would rather lose a war than lose a presidential campaign and that Obama's Iraq policies are driven by "ambition." A contradiction? Not if you're John McCain. We take a look at McCain's Patriotism Two-Step - and the media's general failure to hold him accountable for it - in today's episode of TPMtv.

Saturday will be the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's initial formation over the Bahamas. At Netroots Nation in Austin TPMtv talked to author John Barry, a New Orleans resident who now serves on the Levee Board, about the current situation in New Orleans three years on and the reasons the rest of the country bears some responsibility for New Orleans' vulnerability.

To us, the presidential race reached a turning point last week when John McCain opted for a campaign of denigration employing racial stereotypes, sexualized talking points for surrogates (Obama as "Internet date") and copious ridicule. It's made the curve that much of the media still uses to grade McCain's more obvious shortcomings all the more conspicuous and troubling.

One of John McCain's repeated promises once he won the Republican nomination was that he would wage an honorable and dignified campaign against the Democratic nominee. It seems a significant development therefore that McCain has abandoned this pledge in his constant impugnment of Barack Obama's commitment to the troops and to victory in Iraq.

If you're desperate to be John McCain's vice presidential nominee, you better get on TV and start talking up the Surge as the single most important issue in this year's presidential campaign. And if you're serious about getting picked it wouldn't be a bad idea to say John McCain invented the idea of the surge and maybe even coined the word. In today's episode of TPMtv we check in on some of the wannabes to see just how bad they want it.

In the past week John McCain and his surrogates have done their best to focus the entire McCain-Obama debate on the question of which candidate was right about the troop surge in Iraq. So it was a little surprising to see McCain on the CBS Evening News last night get a basic historical fact about the surge so plainly wrong.

Third-party presidential candidate Bob Barr explains to TPMtv his transformation from Republican bomb thrower to Libertarian bomb thrower and how much more he loves bloggers than John McCain does.

Richard Clarke, former chief counter-terrorism adviser under the Bush administration, wonders just who the national security expert is among the two presidential candidates.

Our question of the day: if a flip flops in the wilderness but no one hears, did it really flop? Or in other words, if a news story like John McCain's recent shift in position on troop levels in Afghanistan doesn't fit in with the dominant narrative of the campaign, will any news organizations pick up on it?