After wall-to-wall media drooling over twice-failed Presidential candidate John Edwards’ endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama, presumptive Republican nominee John McCain is “reflecting” on four years of his Presidency this morning in Columbus, Ohio.

The McCain campaign is rolling out the full court press for this one, complete with splashy web ad, cleverly dubbed “2013″.

Many of the headlines are already picking up on McCain’s comments related to Iraq, in which he predicts “most” of the American military presence in Iraq will return home, and take a far lesser role in that country.

By January 2013, America has welcomed home most of the servicemen and women who have sacrificed terribly so that America might be secure in her freedom. The Iraq War has been won. Iraq is a functioning democracy, although still suffering from the lingering effects of decades of tyranny and centuries of sectarian tension. Violence still occurs, but it is spasmodic and much reduced. Civil war has been prevented; militias disbanded; the Iraqi Security Force is professional and competent; al Qaeda in Iraq has been defeated; and the Government of Iraq is capable of imposing its authority in every province of Iraq and defending the integrity of its borders. The United States maintains a military presence there, but a much smaller one, and it does not play a direct combat role.

McCain took aim at one of his favorite targets, partisanship in Washington, for a key section of the speech:

For too long, now, Washington has been consumed by a hyper-partisanship that treats every serious challenge facing us as an opportunity to trade insults; disparage each other’s motives; and fight about the next election. For all the problems we face, if you ask Americans what frustrates them most about Washington, they will tell you they don’t think we’re capable of serving the public interest before our personal and partisan ambitions; that we fight for ourselves and not for them. Americans are sick of it, and they have every right to be. They are sick of the politics of selfishness, stalemate and delay.

Of all the ideas floated by McCain today, one of the most interesting was in the practices McCain hopes to employ. McCain seems intent on showing not only the policy differences with the current administration, but also the style differences that will change the way the Presidency “feels” to most Americans.

I will hold weekly press conferences. I will regularly brief the American people on the progress our policies have made and the setbacks we have encountered. When we make errors, I will confess them readily, and explain what we intend to do to correct them. I will ask Congress to grant me the privilege of coming before both houses to take questions, and address criticism, much the same as the Prime Minister of Great Britain appears regularly before the House of Commons.

McCain is gearing up for a summer of speeches, outlining his vision for the nation’s next four years. The grand finale speech of the summer will be his Sept. 4th address to the Republican National Convention upon acceptance of the GOP nomination for President.