I thought that I had heard something somewhere that the photo was in fact a snip it that happened to look like he was being dis respectful, but I actually, shit my pants, agree with, choke, the wizard guy about it.
Not to mention that he has probably lead the pledge in the senate, and if this was a habbit, surely we would have some c-span footage of it.
That being said, I see what you are saying as far as the GOP using that WITH what Mikel Osama said and using it to question his patriotism, but I don't think that is a smart thing to do.

McCain can just challenge him on the integrity of the issues alone and destroy him because he is right and Osama is wrong period.

That's not saying that it won't be "swift boated", but that is not something that is directly in control of McCain, I don't think the GOP should try to go down that road though, they should leave those political tactics up to the demofarts. They are more comfortable with doing things like that, especially because they don't have anything of substance to talk about and they don't want to maybe have to answer a question!
1.Rhetoric 2.rhetoric 3.attack 4.rhetoric 5.attack 6.attack 7.rhetoric and oh yeah 8.attack.
(First 10 plays in the democratic playbook, I know there are only 8 but if you argue then you are a facist nazi, so just go along with it it's easier!)