Clark Not Backing Down

clipped from rawstory.com Republican presidential candidate John McCain seems to finally have found a winning issue. It's not the economy, or the war, or his plan to sell coastlines to oil companies; no, the McCain campaign has spent most of the last 48 hours gnashing its teeth over some inartfully phrased criticism. McCain's rolled out a slew of surrogates to take to the phone lines and unleash varying degrees of "how dare he" on Gen. Wesley Clark, a supporter of Democratic candidate Barack Obama. Clark is not backing down from his observation, first aired Sunday morning, that McCain's honorable service as a Vietnam veteran and POW does not automatically mean he has the right judgment to be commander in chief. Appearing on liberal radio host Ed Schultz's show Tuesday, Clark stuck to his guns, and he accused McCain and the GOP apparatus of drumming up a false controversy.

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"The only orchestration was by Republicans," Clark said, referring to unsubstantiated accusations that his criticism was encouraged by Obama, who has repeatedly distanced himself from Clark's remark.

"I think that since John McCain's hired the Swift Boat team to protect his military record," Clark continued, "they just decided they would launch a preemptive strike."

McCain has recruited Swift Boater Bud Day to serve on his "Truth Squad." The hypocrisy of that is massive...