Probably the most impressive difference between Barack Obama's campaign and those of past Democratic nominees is that he refuses to accept the opposition's framing.

So today when the RNC launched a small ad buy campaign claiming he was opposed to troop funding, instead of adopting a defensive posture ("he is too for the troops"), the Obama campaign effectively said "bullshit."

There are honest differences between Senator Obama’s position on Iraq and Senator McCain’s, but there’s no question that both support our troops. Under the RNC’s definition, John McCain would have also chosen politics over our military when he urged George Bush to veto funding for the troops, and we know that’s not the case.

This is the sort of distasteful and misleading attack from the Rove playbook that the American people are tired of, that does nothing to give our troops the equipment they need, and distracts from the honest debate we should be having about how we can keep the country secure.