Embarrassing:

A Tuesday fundraiser headlined by President Bush for U.S. Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign is being moved out of the Phoenix Convention Center.

Sources familiar with the situation said the Bush-McCain event was not selling enough tickets to fill the Convention Center space, and that there were concerns about more anti-war protesters showing up outside the venue than attending the fundraiser inside.

Another source said there were concerns about the media covering the event.

If more protesters than supporters show up for a fundraising event in McCain’s own state, then he can’t be in all that great shape.

Meanwhile, Obama shows up in mostly-white Oregon, far from his home base in Illinois, and draws stunningly huge crowds that overflow a large public park. In a city only one-third as large as McCain’s Phoenix.

Meanwhile, the levy is beginning to break on Cindy McCain’s tax returns. At first, she steadfastly refused to release anything, claiming privacy was at stake. Sorry, Mrs. McCain, but when you’re vying to be the first lady, when your money is supporting your husband’s campaign, and has probably been involved in launching and sustaining his career over the last 26 years, then you don’t get to call “privacy.”

Maybe that was beginning to dawn on her, as she released the summary of her 2006 returns–not the last seven years, only part of last year’s. Completely refusing to release anything, though brassy, was still at least consistent, if not defensible. But claiming privacy and then releasing some returns, that’s not even consistent.

Cindy McCain’s finances, being directly tied in with her husband’s presidential bid, are completely relevant to this campaign and have to be released, just like everyone else’s. Now that the information is leaking through a crack, I expect it’ll all have to come out eventually.

And don’t think that the timing is a coincidence: it is not by chance that this news was released at the same time McCain released his medical records. It’s the Friday before a three-day holiday weekend, the ultimate mid-year take-out-the-trash day, to avoid getting focused on in the media.

And with Hillary creating a huge uproar with the RFK comments, the McCains caught a huge break in terms of media attention–couldn’t have timed it better had they tried.

But that’s not all the McCain news this week. Yes, there’s the pastor hypocrisy, but I already covered that, and then there are the large lobbyist/campaign staff firings, but we all know that McCain’s campaign is rife with lobbyists–the half-dozen or so that left this week are just a fraction of the whole number of D.C. lobbyists that permeate his campaign.

No, more interesting was this remark by McCain after Obvama criticized McCain for his failure to support the new GI Bill:

I will not accept from Senator Obama, who did not feel it was his responsibility to serve our country in uniform, any lectures on my regard for those who did.

Blue Texan at FireDogLake has :

So I guess that means Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Roy Blunt, Jeb Bush, Karl Rove, Rudy Guiliani — not to mention Mitt Romney, Charlie Crist, Bobby Jindal, Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson — and of course Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Sean Hannity, Jonah Goldberg, Bill Kristol, Laura Ingraham, Glenn Reynolds and pretty much every other right wing blowhard and elected Republican henceforth needs to STFU when it comes to military affairs, right?

Because it does seem that McCain is saying that if you did not serve in the military like he did, then you have no right to criticize McCain on military issues. As if having served makes you automatically, 100% right and not having served makes you automatically, 100% wrong.

Finally, someone dug up video of McCain in 2000 saying he expected to be too old to run in 2008.