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Dana Milbank's piece from this morning pretty much says it all:

ABOARD THE STRAIGHT

TALK EXPRESS, Jan. 7

Political reporters are apparently pretty easy. Pour em a cup of coffee and let them sit near you, and they're like putty in your hand.

But this is just the bestest, most exquisitely perfect part of the whole article:

Instead, he's looking ahead, criticizing the "naive" foreign policy views of Obama and describing himself as a "steady hand on the tiller" in unstable times.

As if to reinforce the point, an aide hands McCain a BlackBerry so he can read a report about a near-confrontation in the Straits of Hormuz between U.S. and Iranian ships. Without pausing, McCain, who once sang the words "Bomb Iran" to the tune "Barbara Ann," dictates a measured statement about "the nature of the Iranian regime."

Time's Carney interrupts. "Shouldn't we just bomb them?"

"First," McCain replies, "we ought to broadcast that Beach Boys song."

That Jay Carney -- always the nuanced thinker.