Obama Steps In It Again!
The lastest Obama ad mocks McCain for being computer illiterate.
«1982, John McCain goes to Washington,» an announcer says over chirpy elevator music. «Things have changed in the last 26 years, but McCain hasn't.
«He admits he still doesn't know how to use a computer, can't send an e-mail, still doesn't understand the economy, and favors two hundred billion in new tax cuts for corporations, but almost nothing for the middle class,» it says. It shows video of McCain getting out of a golf cart with former President George H.W. Bush and closes with a photo of him standing with the current President Bush at the White House. «After one president who was out of touch, we just can't afford more of the same.»
However, because of injuries he suffered through the torture and beatings while being held prisoner in Viet Nam, he's unable to use a keyboard. From the Boston Globe through the NRO there is this...
McCain gets emotional at the mention of military families needing food stamps or veterans lacking health care. The outrage comes from inside: McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes. Friends marvel at McCain's encyclopedic knowledge of sports. He's an avid fan - Ted Williams is his hero - but he can't raise his arm above his shoulder to throw a baseball.
I don't expect Obama or his campaign to understand this. I know most of them were too young to be involved in the Viet Nam war protests but are from the same cloth that would have protested the war and «welcomed» our brave service men back with disdain, hate and spit.
The Obama campaign continues to crumble under the pressure. It's a pleasure to watch. Obama probably needs to consider a shake up and get some professional adults working in his campaign. Unfortunately for him, they are all already working for McCain/Palin.
UPDATE: goof houlihan had a significantly more meaningful link and quote about McCain and his internet skills in the comments below.
«In certain ways, McCain was a natural Web candidate. Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee and regarded as the U.S. Senate's savviest technologist, McCain is an inveterate devotee of email. His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. «She's a whiz on the keyboard, and I'm so laborious,» McCain admits. » From a Forbes magazine article
Thanks, goof!
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2 months and 18 days ago
«In certain ways, McCain was a natural Web candidate. Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee and regarded as the U.S. Senate's savviest technologist, McCain is an inveterate devotee of email. His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. «She's a whiz on the keyboard, and I'm so laborious,» McCain admits. » From a Forbes magazine article
Yeah, he can't tie his shoes either. Next, an advertisement approved by Barack Hussein Obama that pictures McCain as «so old he wears shoes with velcro laces».
2 months and 18 days ago
http://www.forbes.com/asap/2000/0529/053_print.html
Obama's message, apparently, is that McCain is old, and has been badly wounded, and therefore is unfit to be president.
2 months and 18 days ago
Could you at least link the blog that you stole this absurd, day old non-story from?
I love that you think you're coming up with this stuff, as if it were your own investigative prowess at work.
I'd like it better if you stuck to the hard news analysis that typically characterizes this site. Don't you have a big update about how attractive you think Sarah Palin is to post?
2 months and 18 days ago
Thanks for the call out, Pogie. It has been added.
By the way, I'm not and never have been an investigator and never pretended to be one. I just post on things I find and sometimes add my comments.
And I find Sarah Palin to be very attractive.
2 months and 18 days ago
Goof,
Thanks for the link and quote. They are much better then the one I used.
2 months and 18 days ago
My pleasure. I'd start a blog, but it seems that Pogie has set the bar so that only those who engage in hard news analysis and investigative reporting are qualified. His pals at «dailykos» with their «it's not her baby it's her daughter's» is a perfect example, apparently, or maybe I just missed his sharply witted criticism of that?
2 months and 18 days ago
Ahem, gentlemen, as enjoyable as you folks find it coming to the defense of a helpless cripple, perhaps you'd best heed the words of John McCain:
There's no telling if he's going to buy a tape from the Video Professor, or just have his son-in-law sit down with him for a few days, but John McCain has decided to learn how to use the internet.
«I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself,» McCain told the New York Times in an interview that appeared Sunday. «I don't expect to be a great communicator, I don't expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need.»
Even so, McCain bluntly admits, «I don't e-mail. I've never felt the particular need to e-mail.»
It's no wonder that 'the defend the poor injured old guy' defense was first spun out by Doughbob Loadpants.
2 months and 18 days ago
McCain sounds modest and self effacing to me. He's not trying lay claim to «poster of the week» is all I can infer from that quote.
Heck, «I'm still learning the internet» myself. Maybe someday I will learn it well enough to figure out how set up and log onto my own blog. Now, if I can only work on my investigative prowess and hard news analysis. I'll be able to qualify.
2 months and 18 days ago
Say, «Wulfgar,» aren't you the smart guy who borrowed money from the payday lenders?
Who're you kidding? You can't even operate a pocket calculator.
2 months and 18 days ago
Really - how about using speech recognition, DOnt tell me that a sentor and a rich guy cant put something in place to allow computer interaction. You do \tthat if you want to make it happen. THERE ARE PLENTY OF DISALE PERSONS WHO USE COMPUTERS AND EMAIL WHO HAVE NO ARMS OR WHO XCAN NOT SEE. hE IS OUT OF TOUCH GET USE TO IT.
2 months and 18 days ago
And some know how to turn off caps, also!
2 months and 18 days ago
And PS: There's no such thing as an F4 Skyhawk. It's the A4 Skyhawk and F4 Phantom, you phony veteran scumbag.
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