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<title>Media Matters - James Kirchick</title>
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<title>In &#x3C;em&#x3E;Politico&#x3C;/em&#x3E;, &#x3C;em&#x3E;TNR&#x3C;/em&#x3E;&#x27;s Kirchick falsely claimed Clark&#x27;s comments were part of a &#x22;pattern of attacks&#x22; on McCain as &#x22;psychologically unfit for presidential office&#x22;  </title>
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<description>In a &#x3C;em&#x3E;Politico&#x3C;/em&#x3E; op-ed, &#x3C;em&#x3E;The New Republic&#x3C;/em&#x3E;&#x27;s James Kirchick cited Wesley Clark&#x27;s comments about Sen. John McCain on CBS&#x27; &#x3C;em&#x3E;&#x3C;em&#x3E;Face the Nation &#x3C;/em&#x3E;&#x3C;/em&#x3E;as part of a &#x22;pattern of attacks meant to insinuate that McCain&#x27;s Vietnam experience not only shouldn&#x27;t count as meaningful &#x27;experience,&#x27; but rendered him psychologically unfit for presidential office.&#x22; In fact, Clark did not &#x22;attack[]&#x22; McCain&#x27;s Vietnam experience or suggest that it &#x22;rendered him psychologically unfit for presidential office.&#x22; Kirchick also asserted that &#x22;one would be foolish not to at least consider the possibility they [the &#x22;attacks&#x22;] were coordinated by the Obama campaign.&#x22; But Clark has been saying for months that McCain&#x27;s military service alone does not make him qualified to be president, including while he was speaking on behalf of Sen. Hillary Clinton&#x27;s presidential campaign.  </description>
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