USA Today:

Some of those attending McCain's town-hall-style meeting Wednesday said the Arizona senator's biggest asset is his own life — a military family, a quarter-century in Congress and the five-and-a-half years spent as an oft-tortured prisoner of war in Vietnam.

"Anyone who can withstand what he did in Vietnam can certainly take the pressure of the presidency," said Joan Hendon, 67, a businesswoman from Lake Ariel, Pa.

And Obama? "Fluff."

As Obama continued his travels through the Middle East and Europe, McCain touted his plans for new energy sources, including more domestic oil drilling and nuclear power plants, as well as solar and wind power and battery-operated cars.

McClatchy:

McCain's chief message, though, involved energy. He stood on the stage at the downtown Kirby Center in front of a huge banner that said "Energy Solutions," and explained how energy is directly tied to national security.

"This is an economic issue, it is an environmental issue and it is a national security issue. We are sending $700 billion of American money overseas to pay for this gasoline to countries that don't like us very much. And some of it ends up in the hands of terrorist organizations. That's just a fact."

During the hour-long town meeting, he reiterated his support for suspending the federal 18.4 cents-a-gallon gasoline tax until Labor Day and got applause, but the bigger cheer came from his drilling proposal.

In the perennial Dem recession state of Michigan, in play this year for the GOP, the Detroit News editorializes in favor of drilling. Drilling off California could start within a year, contrary to the Dems' claims. Increasingly even liberal Californians are in favor, as is the US as a whole.