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July 22 articles by the Associated Press, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and two separate articles in The New York Times, reported that during a July 21 campaign event, Sen. John McCain, in the words of the AP, "disparaged [Sen. Barack] obama as 'someone who has no military experience whatsoever.' " But none of those print outlets noted that McCain has previously said he does not "accept the notion" that military experience is necessary to be an effective commander in chief. In an interview on the November 19, 2001, edition of National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation, host Neal Conan said to McCain, "[T]here's concern that leaders of the country, people in Congress -- fewer and fewer of those have served in the military." McCain replied: McCAIN: Well, that's true, but I don't accept the notion that you have to have served in order to be an adequate or, in some cases, historically speaking, an outstanding commander in chief. Abraham Lincoln had a brief experience with a mil
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