… will have to take one step backwards before declaring it hopelessly pro-Obama. David D. Kirkpatrick’s “Writing Memoir, McCain Found Narrative for Life” examined the relationship between McCain’s war experience and the memoir Faith of My Fathers without questioning the war experience. Kirkpatrick points how the past was shaped into a compelling story by shaping it in accordance with literary and celebrity models, but Tim Dickinson’s “Make-Believe Maverick” at RollingStone.com suggests the war record that so far has remained virtually unexamined paints an ugly portrait of McCain – one Kirkpatrick only hints at.