Here’s John McCain yesterday:

Slowly but surely, Republican presidential candidate John McCain is putting some distance between himself and unpopular President Bush.

This week it was the ill-timed “Mission Accomplished” banner that the White House hung behind Bush five years ago when Bush declared major combat operations over in Iraq.

“I thought it was wrong at the time,” McCain said in Cleveland Thursday.

Hmmm … here’s John McCain just a short month after that Mission Accomplished Day:

Well, that was easy.