Posted on Friday, 12th September 2008 by Patrick Dorwin
Barack Obama has begun running an ad that insinuates that John McCain is to ignorant to send email on a computer… Perhaps the Obama campaign should have found out the real reason John McCain hasn’t been returning their email… Back in 2000, the Boston Globe reported:
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.
And Slate reported:
“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.”
And while hardly a computer junkie… like most of us, he does know how to use a computer, even if he doesn’t use email.
Nice move Obama, knocking a war hero for injuries he received defending your sorry butt.
Jonah Goldberg has much more.
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September 12th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
The Obmatrons are snarking that if Stephen Hawking can use a computer, so can John McCain.
They ignore the fact that for Hawking, it was learn to use a computer or be unable to communicate or do much of anything independently. The investment in adaptive equipment and the time spent in Occupational Therapy to learn to use them made sense for Hawking.
But for McCain, who had other options for communicating, getting information, and so forth, it evidently wasn’t worth the effort and time to go through Occupational Therapy and get adaptive equipment.
But I guess the Obamatrons want to require EVERYBODY with a disability to choose the same adaptive technology and training Obama approves.
September 12th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Patrick, I read Jonah Goldberg’s piece, and what stikes me again and again recently, is that Borat Obama’s message seems to be aimed those who are already in the fold. The class warfare axiom that Obama has sought to build/create and exploit cannot possibly relate to this lame tactic. I personally believe in a very very short synopsis is that…Borat Obama, peaked early, very early, and has garnered all of the 40 watters, the dim bulbs that were on the market. The middle ground that makes the difference, has been captivated by Palin, her natural/normal American female, competant effervesence, and her ability to relate to those who heretofore were not convinced by McCain, but weren’t suckered by Borat Obama.
There are millions of Americans, many of them our Mom’s and Dad’s in their 60’s and 70’s that still get their news from Gibson, Williams and Kouric. They are captive audiences of lib propaganda. But they are not America-lasters. And they dont’ do GOOGLE. They see understand the con being perpetrated.
Obama’s campaign is scuffling.
September 13th, 2008 at 11:04 am
The POTUS doesn’t have to know how to use e-mail. Staffers monitor the official public e-mail address (do you really want the POTUS spending his office hours reading e-mail from children and moonbats?). On a business level, there’s a good case for avoiding its use by the POTUS: private and internal e-mail are required to be backed up and archived according the Presidential Archives Act (Clinton bypassed the archives for awhile) for FOIA requests and other inquiries, although sensitive stuff can be time-delayed. The latest Amendments to that Act set such stringent rules that even casual e-mails to immediate family are considered official documents the public has a right to read. Anything the POTUS doesn’t want on the front page of the NY Times should not be typed out.
Can Obama land a fighter on an aircraft carrier? Can we at least watch him try?
September 13th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Somehow I doubt that the American voter would really want a president who sat doodling at a keyboard all day.
Of course, one does not expect the POTUS to even anwser his own telephone, let alone answer his own e-mail.
What this is really about is polishing Obama’s image as “young and hip” (as opposed to his old-fogy opponent).
September 13th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Christina,I love the word Obamatron.
Here’s its’ definition according to the urban dictionary:
A blind follower of Barack O’bama because of his charismatic style of speaking, without actually paying attention to the issues.
An Obamatron will go on over and over, like a robot, about O’bama healing the nation with his charismatic ability regardless of what legislative issues he stands for.
September 13th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Forbes.com also ran this in 2000
h/t: Ace of Spades
September 13th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
You’d think the Obama Campaign with it army of advisors and “experienced,” “middle of the road” people (to use Plaisted’s words) would be able to go to http://www.google.com and type in “mccain email” — and see that about the 10th link down is the Forbes article Patrick quotes above. And that 10th link is AFTER all of this came out!
The arrogance of that campaign is striking. What’s quite funny (borrowing from Dad29) is how, while Obama spent the spring and summer patting himself on the back and awaiting the coronation, McCain was positioning himself inside the OODA Loop. He’s locked in there now, and it’s going to take either a huge gaffe by McCain/Palin or extraordinary efforts by Obama to get back to a good position.
All the flip-flopping on issues isn’t helping either.
September 13th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
h/t: An ‘Ol Broad’s Ramblings
September 13th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
This might be a sign that Osama bin … Osama Obama … Obamamama (actual reference by Ted “The Swimmer” Kennedy, the Senator from Chappaquiddick, after one of his three Chivas Regal lunches) has never been involved in a real campaign against a real Republican.
September 13th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
For Peter
September 13th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Yes Peter, but John McCain and Sarah Palin have never come up against a Community Organizer who trancsends time, space, dimension and race.
Did you know that Jesus was a Community Organizer in Chicago too?
September 13th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
If Obama was this great “community organizer,” how come Chicago still looks like $#!+?
September 14th, 2008 at 11:35 am
That’s not the Chicago Borat Obama knew.
September 15th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
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