Ways in which McCain is better than Obama

This post is more intellectually challenging and shorter than one on ways that Obama is better than McCain. I also feel like doing it now before it gets too close to the election to matter. And, Obama has been disappointing lately with the FISA bill and supporting execution of rapists. Also some Democrats are going after McCain for temporarily breaking under severe torture while a POW, an inexcusable tactic that makes me feel contrary.

So:

• The maverick thing - yes it's overplayed and McCain's flipped on a lot of things to get the nomination, but it's also partly real. Where has Obama bucked Democratic Party orthodoxy?
• Ethanol - McCain opposes domestic ethanol subsidies and the 54-cents per gallon tariff on Brazilian cane ethanol. The domestic ethanol is bad while the Brazilian ethanol might be environmentally okay. Obama takes the opposite position on both, and is tied intimately to Big Corn.
• Fighting wasteful military spending - McCain has done this, while I'm not aware of Obama taking on anything yet.

Anything else? This battery thing of McCain's isn't important enough. While I'm not anti-nuclear power, I don't think massive subsidies are a good idea either. I think more free trade is marginally better than protectionism, but that doesn't quite fit the non-partisan criteria I'd like to use here.

Other suggestions are welcome, especially ones that aren't along the lines of "McCain is more conservative than Obama on issue X, and I believe the conservative position is better, so McCain's better."