Building a 3.5//3.75 Battle Cleric

[radditsu]

Most of the time to be effective you have to do a TON of buffing to be effective melee. If I were a DM I would have at least one or two scripted suprises for that guy. Because I am a dick.

I have always wanted to play a damage absorber type cleric. I am sure there is an effective build to do buffing that raises armor/saves, and just run in with enough offensive harassment to force a monster to keep its attention on you.