The Democrat’s campaign fires back after McCain criticizes Obama Saturday:

“It’s pathetic that John McCain would take a statement Barack Obama has been making for a year about his faith in the American people and distort it to attack his patriotism….” Read full statement.

Earlier Saturday: McCain seizes on Obama’s comment that his Iowa caucuses victory “vindicated” his faith in the American people.

“My country has never had to prove anything to me, my friends. I have always had faith in it and I have been humbled and honored to serve it.”