Posted on 09/12/2008 6:55:09 PM PDT by PhatHead
Okay, so the ad was just b.s. from soup to nuts. He actually has more cyber-cred than Obama.
From Forbes, Via Ace of Spades who is all over this thing:
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.FYI: I'm leaving the keyboard for the night and tomorrow I'm off to a family obligation for the whole day.
Damn..... That’s going to leave a mark!
Mark: for the next time you discuss this rumor on your show.
“OBAMA ‘08 - LIARS AND KNAVES”
Obama’s campaign is in total disarray. Everyone is bailing out except the DUmmies and the Kossacks. He will be lucky to get the generic DEM 43%.
Oh, this is beautiful! Thank you SO MUCH for posting this.
Someone needs to make this known. I HOPE Rush, and Sean make a deal about it. Ike is about to hit hard, so I’m not sure the media will talk about it.
The ad by Obama is dumb regardless of McCain’s injuries.
My husband only has one hand and this is what we do too. He's kind of insulted by this mocking tone of Obama.
McCain is not the kind of guy that you can make fun of, you know?
It’s not like with W’s bad speaking ability, or Quayle’s deer in the headlight look.
McCain is sharp,and a decent honorable man, even if I cannot stand some of his past votes, he is always up front about where he stands.
Obama’s fantiasy dream:
Aide: Its 3 AM. President Obama you have a call on the hot line from Prime Minister Putin...
Obama: Tell Putin to send me an email. I know how to use a computer.
ping
AHAHAHAHA! What a colossal backfire for the Obama camp!
What’s even more hilarious is that the Internet thing is a bone to throw to the young hip crowd with their Blackberries and iPhones. Those people aren’t even going to vote in the numbers the Obama camp expects. Nice job dissing old-age America for the sake of some vaporware votes.
BTW, no offense meant to anyone on here, but I am resisting getting a Blackberry for work because I don’t like the scene of my friends and colleagues answering work email 24/7 and feeding their Internet addiction no matter where they are.
I am required to carry a Blackberry. Blackberry is the devil. It sued to be you sent emails so people could reply when it was convenient and there would be nothing lost in the translation on a voicemail. Now, so many people have the devil BB that they expect answers immediately; but you are in an airport or car or Tampa or Atlanta or DC and it is just going to take a while. I hate it!
(But I have an iPhone for personal use...)
This insulting ad pretty much puts a fork in Obama’s vapid campaign. Insulting a disabled POW war veteran will only incense the AARP crowd and proud veterans and servicemen and servicewomen of this country.
Stoopid is as stoopid does.
Friday, September 12, 2008
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Wondering No More [Jonah Goldberg]
Yep. The day after 9/11, as part of its “get tough” makeover, the Obama campaign is mocking John McCain for not using a computer, without caring why he doesn’t use a computer. From the AP story about the computer illiterate ad:
“Our economy wouldn’t survive without the Internet, and cyber-security continues to represent one our most serious national security threats,” [Obama spokesman Dan] Pfeiffer said. “It’s extraordinary that someone who wants to be our president and our commander in chief doesn’t know how to send an e-mail.”
Well, I guess it depends on what you mean by “extraordinary.” The reason he doesn’t send email is that he can’t use a keyboard because of the relentless beatings he received from the Viet Cong in service to our country. From the Boston Globe (March 4, 2000):
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.
In a similar vein I guess it’s an outrage that the blind governor of New York David Patterson doesn’t know how to drive a car. After all, transportation issues are pretty important. How dare he serve as governor while being ignorant of what it’s like to navigate New York’s highways.
Update: Well, now the story is up on Drudge (You heard it here first!). Re: Mark’s point about how the supposedly web-savvy Obama campaign can’t handle Google, here’s another story confirming he has difficulty using a keyboard. Ironically, it’s from one of the most pro-Obama journalists out there, Jacob Weisberg, in an article in Slate in 2000:
“Six months ago, no one would have pegged McCain as the most cybersavvy of this year’s crop of candidates. At 63, he is the oldest of the bunch and because of his war injuries, he is limited in his ability to wield a keyboard.”
Now, in response to some angry criticism already coming in: Feh.
Some say, So what if he was handicapped? He could still learn how to send email.
Sure, but why would he? Bill Clinton sent two emails during his entire presidency and often admitted he didn’t know squat about the internet.
One reader says “Steven Hawking knows how to use a computer!” Yes, because if he didn’t he couldn’t do his job or communicate. McCain, like Clinton, didn’t have that problem. Here’s a more sane version of t he same complaint:
You are ridiculous about this. While of course McCain probably can’t type for long periods or in the manner in which many of us do, there are a tremendous amount of people that peck with just their index fingers. He also can surely use a mouse. How much typing do you really have to do to send emails and use the internet. Plus, when he was asked point blank about it he never said he couldn’t type. I am sure he can’t use a blackberry, but there are tons of people with far worse injuries than McCain that use a computer.
That’s absolutely true, I’m sure. But they need to use computers to get through life. McCain doesn’t. And the fact that he’s not blaming his disability hardly sounds like a serious indictment. If he did blame his disability, many of the same folks yelling at me would be complaining that McCain’s whining.
Now, I’d hardly be surprised if McCain could type for short stretches and all that. The point is, that it’s perfectly understandable why he wouldn’t get in the habit of it.
Oh one last point for now: Lord knows I think the chicken-hawk arguments are stupid. And I don’t think the fact that Obama never served in the military should count against him in and of itself. But how stupid is it for the Obama campaign to claim that McCain is unqualified to be president because he can’t grasp cyber-security issues based on the fact he has never sent an email when the McCain campaign can just as easily say Obama can’t understand first order national security issues because he’s never fired a rife, flown a plane, commanded men in battle, or faced an enemy? I mean which prepares someone to be commander in chief better, hitting “send” on AOL or fighting a war?
Update II: On the other hand: I don’t know what to make of this interview with the New York Times. He sounds awfully web savvy in it, which makes the Obama ad sound unfair. And if you read it closely, it sounds like he knows how to surf with a mouse, but doesn’t do much by way of typing.
09/12 06:42 PM
Great!! How about Drudge?
Thanks for the earlier ping. Thought you might enjoy this additional comment!
Beat Obambi with a slide rule.
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