Obama screws up....again.

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MG1968

MG1968

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It's a favorite canard of Obama apologists to point out that McCain doesn't know how to use the internet. So, Obama, being the opportunist he is, puts out a new web ad.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden: The Change We Need | "Still" -- On the air...

The problem here is that the reason McCain doesn't use a computer is because it's painful for him to use a keyboard. He also can't comb his hair or tie his shoes because of the injuries he suffered in North Vietnam.

McCain was also chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee.

McCain's Web Explosion - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine

this article is from February 11, 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. But McCain's job as chairman of the Senate commerce committee forced him to learn about the Internet early on, and young Web entrepreneurs such as Jerry Yang and Jeff Bezos fascinate him. Well before he announced his exploratory committee, McCain had assimilated the notion that the Web could be vital to the kind of insurgent, anti-establishment campaign he wanted to run. In December 1998, he sent his longtime political aide Wes Gullett to Minnesota to study Jesse Ventura's successful gubernatorial campaign, which was the first to use the Web in an effective and innovative way. "Wes went up to Minnesota and talked to Ventura's people," McCain told reporters on the Straight Talk Express yesterday. "That's really where we got the idea."
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December 1998. Get that through your heads, Obama kool aid drinkers. McCain was exploring the use of the internet for campaigning 10 years ago. What was Obama doing 10 years ago?

Oh, and the other hero of the left, and the acknowledged first black President, Bill Clinton isn't known for being internet savvy, and admits it.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/28/clinton.email.reut/index.html

Former Ohio Sen. John Glenn has the distinction of being the first American to orbit the Earth and the only person to receive an e-mail written by Clinton when he was in office.
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McCain doesn't know how to use a computer because he's had no interest (or need before now) in such things. I'm sure it's the same for lots of out of touch Senators. No big deal, but the idea that he can't use a computer b/c it's too painful for him seems a tad silly. Stephen Hawking can use a frickin computer... b/c he knows how to, and because they've been a part of everyday society for 20 years now.

btw, here's a pic of McCain not being able to use his blackberry... because it's too painful.

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It's also silly to claim that McCain doesn't understand the Internet because he doesn't send emails.
 
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I doubt President's use email much anyway, given the sensitive nature of the business they conduct. But hey, whatever lame excuse some people are looking for.
 
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notverycrucial said:
McCain doesn't know how to use a computer because he's had no interest (or need before now) in such things. I'm sure it's the same for lots of out of touch Senators. No big deal, but the idea that he can't use a computer b/c it's too painful for him seems a tad silly. Stephen Hawking can use a frickin computer... b/c he knows how to, and because they've been a part of everyday society for 20 years now.
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that's one of the more idiotic posts I've read recently.
 
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MG1968 said:
The problem here is that the reason McCain doesn't use a computer is because it's painful for him to use a keyboard.
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Aaaagggghhhh!!!

Just tore a ligament trying to post this email - too much pain!
 
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In the spirit of fairness, McCain's Internet naivete isn't as great as some might think, nor is his understanding of it as great as the Obama campaign's.

I think the fact that McCain doesn't use the Internet doesn't mean he's an idiot - it simply illustrates where his head is at on certain issues. If he truly were fascinated by it, he would've used it just like the other 70+% of the US population.
 
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TennNC said:
Aaaagggghhhh!!!

Just tore a ligament trying to post this email - too much pain!
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classy.

now that you've gone down this road, can I now start using Obama's middle name and refer to him as the "Hamas candidate"?
 
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just realized something, TennNC claims to have worked as a member of the press covering the US Senate. Was he so blinded by Joe Biden's intellectual brilliance that he couldn't perceive the other 99?
 
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TennNC said:
In the spirit of fairness, McCain's Internet naivete isn't as great as some might think, nor is his understanding of it as great as the Obama campaign's.

I think the fact that McCain doesn't use the Internet doesn't mean he's an idiot - it simply illustrates where his head is at on certain issues. If he truly were fascinated by it, he would've used it just like the other 70+% of the US population.
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this little tidbit is interesting to me. You're now giving credit to the campaign rather than the man, which is probably right.

Assuming that both campaigns aren't internet savvy is probably naive. The difference being that Obama and his socialism appeals greatly to the heaviest users (college kids or those close in age) so he dominates money raising on that front, $2 at a time.
 
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MG1968 said:
classy.

now that you've gone down this road, can I now start using Obama's middle name and refer to him as the "Hamas candidate"?
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if it's too painful for McCain to type, then he is not fit to be POTUS.
 
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TennNC said:
if it's too painful for McCain to type, then he is not fit to be POTUS.
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why? cuz he can't txt 2 Putin?

maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think I've ever seen a computer keyboard on the Resolute Desk.
 
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MG1968 said:
just realized something, TennNC claims to have worked as a member of the press covering the US Senate. Was he so blinded by Joe Biden's intellectual brilliance that he couldn't perceive the other 99?
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actually, at the time, I was decidedly right of center. I voted for McCain that year in the GOP primary. I then voted for Bush in 2000. I was probably as sympathetic toward Jesse Helms as I was to Biden.

To your point questioning my ability of sight while covering the Senate:

I thought John Kerry was smart but arrogant. I thought Trent Lott was a lot more centrist than his public persona. I thought Robert Byrd and Strom Thurmond (yep - he was around then) and Lauch Faircloth should've retired before I was born - Helms was surprisingly sharp, albeit far right wing. I thought Dianne Feinstein seemed to always take the left side just b/c she felt she had to. I thought Olympia Snowe, Patty Murray, John Chafee (and later Lincoln), John Warner, and Chuck Hagel were refreshingly moderate.

But overall, I thought it was basically a big club of respectful, intelligent, larger-than-life colleagues who would go have drinks together after arguing against each other all day.
 
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MontereyVol said:
Okay, why?
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are we really buying that it's too painful for someone to type? I think that's just bogus.

But, if someone wants to go down that path, I'm saying that if that's the kind of shape he's in, he's not fit to endure the stresses of the most important job in the world, which require a bit more than a few strokes of the keyboard.
 
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ahh, well that certainly explains your sudden gutter-level attack on McCain.
 
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MG1968 said:
ahh, well that certainly explains your sudden gutter-level attack on McCain.
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nope - on numerous times I've stated it's b/c of his flip-flopping on numerous issues to appease the right-wing wackos in the GOP party.
 
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TennNC said:
are we really buying that it's too painful for someone to type? I think that's just bogus.

But, if someone wants to go down that path, I'm saying that if that's the kind of shape he's in, he's not fit to endure the stresses of the most important job in the world, which require a bit more than a few strokes of the keyboard.
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Well, I hate to break it to you, but most of our leadership is as incompetent on computers and keyboards as a monkey writing Shakespeare. Thus I present to you, the vaunted NMCI project brought to you by Ross Perot and loved by your head military commanders.

Besides McCain will have a secretary do that stuff for him.
 
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TennNC said:
nope - on numerous times I've stated it's b/c of his flip-flopping on numerous issues to appease the right-wing wackos in the GOP party.
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As opposed to Obama's throwing 20 year friends under the bus to appease moderate liberals.
 
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