He's actually trying to pigeon hole McCain as someone who was captured and kept prisoner, as a victim. that's why it sounds so odd. i'm a hillary supporter, i watched a lot of his garbage all winter and spring, i know what he's doing. and it's ugly.
He'll take a persons strength and use it against him. just like he did to the Clinton's when he smeared them as racist cuz he needed the black vote. And he's desperate right now so he's going to try bring mccain down from a war *hero* to a POW. trust me. his campaign already tried to smear mccain as not caring about the holocaust when he needed the pro-isreal vote, and now that there is a conflict btwn Russia and Georgia he needs to cut down mccain on military experience.
And if you remember the book 1984, he's trying to change perception, he's substituting "war hero" which is what the public actually thinks of JM as, and he's trying to change it into POW. His entire campaign is straight out of 1984 and marketing books.
I'm filing this one under "doublethink" and "reality control"