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This, my friends, is perfectly priceless.

John McCain has rolled out one of the original Swift Boat liars to defend McCain’s military record (against General Wesley Clark’s imaginary attack):

Today the McCain campaign held a conference call unveiling a new “truth squad” Web site designed to defend McCain from attacks on his military record.

This was in response to Wes Clark’s claim yesterday that McCain lacks the necessary experience to be President, which wasn’t an attack on McCain’s military record at all.

Be that as it may, on the call, the McCain camp rolled out a leading surrogate named Bud Day — who was described merely as a fellow POW of McCain — who blasted such attacks. “John was slandered and reviled in the 2000 campaign in a way that denigrated his service enormously…it was absolutely important to face this issue right off the bat.”

But guess what — it turns out that this very same Bud Day was featured in the Swift Boat Vets ads attacking John Kerry in 2004!

To make matters even better, recall that McCain himself condemned the Swift Boat Vets. Yet now the McCain campaign is cheerfully enlisting someone who did what McCain claimed to decry — attacks on Kerry’s credentials — and using him to defend McCain against the same sort of attacks.

So here’s today’s pop quiz question: If Bud Day is a certified liar, and John McCain condemned Bud Day’s despicable role in the Swift Boat ads, and John McCain now brings out Bud Day to certify John McCain’s military record, then who’s the more despicable of the two?