John McCain got off some of the best lines of the presidential campaign the other night when he mocked Hillary Clinton for trying to spend $1 million on a Woodstock museum.

“Now my friends, I wasn’t there,” the Arizona senator said during Sunday’s Republican debate on Fox News. “I’m sure it was a cultural and pharmaceutical event. I was tied up at the time.”

It was so well done that his performance is now a campaign “ad.”:http://www.johnmccain.com/tvads/ One moment, there’s the crowd at the August 1969 rock festival, the next, a young McCain, a North Vietnamese prisoner of war for 5 1/2 years, lying on a bed.

A hippy museum to the drug steeped Woodstock festival, what could be an easier target? Opponents succeeded in cutting the federal funds from the proposal.

CNN reports that the museum will open next year and here’s my prediction: It will be a tremendous success. Flower-power pilgrims have been visiting the farm in Bethel practically since the festival ended.

And here’s something you might not know. What’s left of the Hoa Lo Prison, the so-called Hanoi Hilton where McCain was held, has been turned into…what else? A museum.

“For sheer gruesome atmosphere alone, this ranks near the top of the must-see list,” according to the Frommer’s.

PHOTO: U.S. Sen. John McCain at Sunday’s Republican presidential debate. (AP Photo/John Raoux)