To distract voters from their disaffection with Republican policies, the McCain campaign has focussed shamelessly and brilliantly on personality and pedigree. You want a community organizer (boo!) or the descendant of a long line of warriors? Now even John McCain's children like those of his running mate have been summoned to the cause: daughter Meghan told the Today Show yesterday that only her family could understand war; and wife Cindy trumpeted the family's military tradition in a primetime convention speech last week. Our son, Jack, will graduate from the United States Naval Academ...

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