An ad portraying McCain as old and out of touch by not being able to use email probably ranks up there with as the dumbest ad.
Do the Obama people who made this ad realize the reason John McCain doesn't send e-mails or use a computer is because it aggravates his injuries he suffered while he was beaten and tortured as a POW in Vietnam?
How stupid are they to claim that John McCain is not qualified to be President because he can't send email due to a disability as a result of service to our country.
The Obama campaign has run the age issue out there before, and it has not worked, they appear desperate to revert back to a failed strategy.
Do you wonder if they believe in this ad so much that they are running it in a state like Florida?
"A government big enough to give you everything you want,
is big enough to take away everything you have"
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First of all, according to the definition of torture used by Bush and his neocons, McCain wasn't tortured. Second, if his injuries are so bad he can't even type, how is he going to get through the day-to-day work load as President. Third, have you heard McCain mutter even once that he doesn't send email because he cannot type due to injuries? Answer - No. This is just another dumb excuse made up by people who are too dumb to see that a liar running for office will be a liar when in office.
Good Lord.
So far I don't believe the neocons have made anyone live in a box for 2 years.
I love how anon believes physical disability disqualifies one for Presidential office. I'd love to hear more about this theory.
This attack on McCain is like a bomb going off in The Obama's face.
I'm shocked!
I am Shocked and amazed that there is mudslinging from both sides during our Presidential Elections!
Can you imagine such a thing occurring just after both major political have had their conventions?
When the facts are reviewed both sides do not meet the grade in terms of accuracy.
If we accept hyperbole with auto commercials, why not accept hyperbole in political commercials, too?
The answer is that we have accepted hyperbole in past political commercials during our elections.
There is more to come, not less.
good lord, iv, do you bother researching anything that you post? have a look here. if you can't be bothered to click, let me give you some of the highlights. in response to the ad, mccain's campaign appealed not to mccain's war injuries, but defended mccain's technological savvy:
"'John McCain travels with a laptop,' said McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds".
mccain has been repeatedly seen using computers and blackberries and cell phones. and he even threw out the first pitch in game 7 of the 2001 world series!
Hey genius, you need to read more.
It is all over the internet and even responded to by his campaign manager as something McCain does not like to talk about.
And following all of your folks bent logic, than Paterson should not run for Governor again? Are you willing to say that?
IV - You are nothing but a shill for your party. We're not idiots. If McCain can bang his wife, he can use a computer. Actually, if he only had use of his eyeballs he could use a computer. The guy is an out of touch bald-faced liar, and no spinning on your part is going to change that.
TourPro get your facts straight - McCain did not live in a box for two years. He was in a fairly standard jail cell in Hanoi.
well iv, here's some more reading for you. so says mccain campaign manager rick davis, in a june 30 interview on msnbc:
"He actually is, he always is grabbing people's Blackberrys on the bus. In fact, no reporter's Blackberry is safe from his prying eyes. He loves to tool around on the internet, he especially loves the videos that get produced that usually poke fun at him. I think that's his most entertaining part of the internet."
since everyone on this blog knows how truthful mccain and his campaign staffers are, after hearing that, i have a hard time understanding how using a keyboard could be so uncomfortable for mccain.
moreover, iv, did you honestly write "it's all over the internet" to defend what you wrote? are you making a joke? a few weeks ago it was "all over the internet" that trig palin is actually bristol's son, and sarah faked her pregnancy to cover it up -- but that didn't exactly pan out, did it? similarly, just because a story bounces around the right-wing blogosphere and gets some righties worked up into a tizzy doesn't make it true.
i should also add that, in my opinion, mccain's degree of technological savvy is totally irrelevant to his ability to do the job of president. and i agree with dd and think that this is not the best route of attack for the obama campaign to pursue. but it's simply wrong to say that obama's ad in any way makes little of the injuries mccain suffered while serving our country.
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i'd be happy to have a look, but i think the link is broken!
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Yeah, I read that Jake Tapper piece and McCain admits that he can type. Ever hear of voice typing? Hell, my Vista operating system does that. It's not so much that McCain doesn't email...it's that he doesn't know HOW to email. That is just sad.
thanks for the link, iv. i'm a proud obama supporter, but even after trying to take the partisan glasses off, the story sounds fishy to me. on the one hand, you've cited a reporter's blog post, which relies on an unnamed person or people in the mccain campaign who purportedly didn't want the topic broached in the first place.
on the other hand, we have a wealth of public evidence that mccain is able to, and does, use computers, cell phones, and blackberries. if doing so is uncomfortable for him, why does his campaign tell us that he elfishly steals unattended blackberries to surf the web? more seriously, if doing so is uncomfortable for him, why doesn't his campaign just say so outright? mccain repeatedly tried to defend his gaffe about the number of houses he owns by, incredibly, appealing to his former pow status. his campaign plainly has no compunction about playing the pow card. so, on a matter they've decided to address, and one in which mccain's pow history would actually be relevant, why wouldn't they just appeal to that? i make no claims to any abilities as a campaign strategist, but i think that such a response would devastate obama.
despite all that, sure, maybe the mccain campaign really did tell tapper the truth. maybe we should believe the words coming from a campaign whose recent conduct has left it utterly bereft of any credibility, and maybe there's some complicated explanation that resolves all the apparent contradictions. i see no choice but to remain skeptical. and, unless we see some much stronger evidence, i reiterate that obama's campaign has done nothing wrong.
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