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."
There you go, Lefties. Doesn't it make you feel good to attack a man with his physical challenges?
Sadly, I know that down deep any attack on McCain makes you feel good.
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Isn't that the entire point of Liberals and their arguments?
ReplyDeleteThake a physical trait that they can't help and attack them on it?
It's a lot easier than say... attacking them on their ideas or facts- but that actually requires some research, not teenie name calling.
That's about it. They have no shame. None. Nada. Zip.
ReplyDeleteAnd I love the way the McCain camp has let the ad run all day and then the trap is sprung...
Here, you can find a picture of McCain using his Blackberry, which the last time I checked, requires some dexterity in order to use.
ReplyDeleteQ: What websites if any do you look at regularly?
Mr. McCain: Brooke and Mark show me Drudge, obviously, everybody watches, for better or for worse, Drudge. Sometimes I look at Politico. Sometimes RealPolitics, sometimes.
(Mrs. McCain and Ms. Buchanan both interject: “Meagan’s blog!”)
Mr. McCain: Excuse me, Meagan’s blog. And we also look at the blogs from Michael and from you that may not be in the newspaper, that are just part of your blog.
Q: But do you go on line for yourself?
Mr. McCain: They go on for me. I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. 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 – including going to my daughter’s blog first, before anything else.
Q: Do you use a blackberry or email?
Mr. McCain: No
Mark Salter: He uses a BlackBerry, just ours.
The McCain campaign charged that it’s untrue.
“John McCain travels with a laptop,” said McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds. “This is a senseless tactic from Obama’s campaign because they’re struggling with the realization that the American people understand he is not equipped to deliver change because his record has no bipartisanship or significant legislative accomplishment in it.”
That was the McCain campaign, today. Is there anyone dumber than right wing bloggers?
DA, make all the excuses you want, but they don't work.
ReplyDeleteUsing a computer to pick up websites is quite different than typing on a keybaord.
Using a Blackberry is quite different than typing on a key board.
Now go look at the picture. Notice how he has the phone tucked in, How his elbow is scrunched up and how he leans for support.
Now, go away. You bore me with your venomn. Come back and I will delete your nasty bull.
Using a computer to pick up websites is quite different than typing on a keybaord.
ReplyDeleteHe doesn't have to use a keyboard, there are speech programs that can convert spoken words to written language.
If Steven Hawkings, who makes McCain look like Charles Atlas, can use a computer, there's no reason McCain can't do so as well.
Notice how he has the phone tucked in, How his elbow is scrunched up and how he leans for support.
Tucked in? He's holding it up to his ear.
His elbow isn't scrunched, and he's leaning on one leg, a position that lots of non-disabled folks use from time to time.
This is the guy who would go on hikes through the Grand Canyon up until very recently, so I think his legs are probably up to snuff.
You bore me with your venomn. Come back and I will delete your nasty bull.
Let me demonstrate what nasty bull looks like, so you can tell the difference later on:
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Delegates to the Republican National Convention found a new way to take a jab at Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's Vietnam service record: by sporting adhesive bandages with small purple hearts on them.
Morton Blackwell, a prominent Virginia delegate, has been handing out the heart-covered bandages to delegates, who've worn them on their chins, cheeks, the backs of their hands and other places.
I'm so indignant about this type of attack on a veteran who suffered severe war injuries. Pfeiffer and The Dark Avenger only hurt their own side with those insensitive and malicious comments.
ReplyDeleteIt increases my admiration for Senator McCain's courage, not only in Vietnam, but in the physical challenges of his daily life.
How much time does the USA President should spend at the computer? I hope he will discuss things with a few brilliant minds in person. Google has its limitations, after all. And emails are never totally private. I could say a lot more...
The Democrats must be really short of ammunitions to use this meaningless argument.
I'm so indignant about this type of attack on a veteran who suffered severe war injuries
ReplyDeleteThanks for agreeing with me about the little "joke" the Republicans did at their 2004 convention about Kerry, who didn't have severe war injuries, but won the Purple Heart for those he did suffer.
Dark Avenger: Is it your rule of life to repeat what you didn't like in others? Don't answer me. I've been reading your comments. I know your type.You'll turn everything around to suit your purpose. I won't quote here what I know about Kerry. I have no time to waste with your kind of people.
ReplyDeleteNo.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, if you check the link I provided about McCain, there is a new photo that shows him quite at easy using both a cell phone and a Blackberry.
This is what his campaign manager said in June of this year:
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.
And, as I noted before, if you can use a Blackberry, you can use a computer.
I know your type.You'll turn everything around to suit your purpose.
Yes, PPJ has been a bad influence, but that's in the past.
Claudia - When your god is a community organizer it's what you do.
ReplyDeleteDA - I repeat. Using a cellphone or blackberry or a mouse us much different than trying to type on a keyboard, answer many emails.
Not please go back and play at KOS or Talkleft...
A Blackberry has a keyboard, albiet smaller than that found on a computer.
ReplyDeletesigh...
ReplyDeleteAs you know, a Blackberry, Cellphone are much different than a computer.
Especially in the positioning of the ARMS.
It is McCains ARMS and SHOULDERS that present a problem, NOT HIS FINGERS.
Now. Go bed. Any furthere comment will be deleted.
His injuries didn't keep him from qualifying to fly planes after
ReplyDeletehe got back from Vietnam, BTW.
You could look it up.
sigh.....
ReplyDeleteFlying a jet aircraft is done with a stick between your legs and your feet on the rudders.... entirely different than typing on a computer keyboard...
Again...the issue isn't that he can't do it, but that it causes discomfort.. something that you wouldn't want to do and couldn't do for any period of time...
Now, slither off to work and see if you can figure out something useful.... like how to stop the market's free fall...
Oh, I know! Announce that as a total energy independence package we will immediately start drilling for oil any place within the US and on our contiental shelf.
You mean there aren't any buttons to push or switches to turn on and off on the control panel of a jet fighter?
ReplyDeleteAs I said earlier,(and which you ignored, since it makes your anger and rage over the ad moot) McCain could use software designed for during verbal output into printed or displayed material, see Dragon Speech NaturallySpeaking 9, it doesn't require manual dexterity in order to work its' wonders.
Now, slither off to work and see if you can figure out something useful.... like how to stop the market's free fall...
Like you do something useful here as Alibi Ike for Sidney?
Anyway, the market fall no doubt what will put Obama in the WH, just like the recession did for Clinton in 1992............
TTFN