Used BlackBerrys sold for $20 at McCain-Palin blowout, contacts and emails included

engadget.com ^ | 12/12/08 | Laura June

[paudio]

Some operatives at Fox 5 in Washington, D.C. booked over to the McCain-Palin campaign headquarters' yard sale yesterday, and they saw some ultra cheap Blackberrys -- just $20 a pop, probably an inventor's discount -- so they picked up a few, undoubtedly thinking they'd make nice holiday gifts. They were kind of surprised to find that, after giving the 'Berrys some juice, one of them had 50 contacts for "campaign leaders, politicians, lobbyists and journalists" as well as hundreds of emails.

[paudio]

Ugh... this only adds into the perception that McCain & Co were blind when it came to technology...

[Spktyr]

Well, McCain *is* blind to tech. He certainly didn’t use it much during the campaign - or at least, not effectively.

[shadowgovernment]

emails on it huh?? how many to the DNC to get the days
laydown for his charade of a campaign

[Mobile Vulgus]

OOpsie!

LOL

[mkjessup]

How many emails were promising Comrade 0bama that he wouldn’t say anything naughty about William Ayers the terrorist or ‘Reverend’ G*d D@mn America Wright?

McRINO proved himself almost as capable as Bob Dole in ‘96, at least Dole had the integrity to resign his Senate seat, not Johnny Mac, he’s going to be around as long as possible to keep selling out conservatives, whatever is left of the GOP, and sucking up to the ‘Rats.

Thanks Mac, for NOTHING.

[Mojave]

McRINO proved himself almost as capable as Bob Dole in ‘96, at least Dole had the integrity to resign his Senate seat, not Johnny Mac

That's because McRINO never had any intention of defeating Obama.

[Right Wing Assault]

Well, they certainly wouldn’t find any secret strategies on there that would guarantee a Repub win.

[N3WBI3]

No it adds to the perception they were unorganized, and they were...

[advance_copy]

Unless they were emails attacking Sarah Palin, we will not hear anything about them.

[Anita1]

Re: “That’s because McRINO never had any intention of defeating Obama.”

Boy - Did you ever hit that nail on the head!!!

I was wondering why he was running such a bad campaign strategy!

You’re absolutely right about that!

[PapaBear3625]

There are times when I think that the purpose of the Republican party is to provide the illusion that there is opposition to the Democrat platform, while never actually doing anything to roll back Democrat initiatives.

[little jeremiah]

I’ve been figuring for a while that McCain purposely threw the election. No other explanation for how he “ran” his “campaign”.

And now his disgusting outreach or whatever it’s called to 0bama and Dems. He’s fawning all over them about how he’ll work with them, no criticism of 0 allowed, etc. Sickening. But why would he throw it? Other than the one reason proposed above. Why even run if he didn’t really want to win?

Maybe he sees or learned what kind of s*** is about to hit the fan in various departments of existence and decided it was too much for him, he’d rather that WW111, pandemic, terrorist ramp up and total global economic destruction happen without him in the WH?