Imploding Obama Campaign

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Imploding Obama Campaign
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Sat, 09-13-2008 - 10:47am

The arrogance is astounding!  This will defintely backfire on him.


 


Friday, September 12, 2008



Wondering No More   


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," 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.


In a similar vein I guess it's an outrage that the blind governor of New York David Paterson doesn't know how to drive a car. After all, transportation issues are pretty important. How dare he serve as governor while being ignorant of what it's like to navigate New York's highways.


Update: Well, now the story is up on Drudge (You heard it here first!). Re: Mark's point about how the supposedly web-savvy Obama campaign can't handle Google, here's another story confirming he has difficulty using a keyboard. Ironically, it's from one of the most pro-Obama journalists out there, Jacob Weisberg, in an article in Slate in 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."


Now, in response to some angry criticism already coming in: Feh.


Some say, So what if he was handicapped? He could still learn how to send email.


Sure, but why would he? Bill Clinton sent two emails during his entire presidency and often admitted he didn't know squat about the internet.


One reader says "Steven Hawking knows how to use a computer!" Yes, because if he didn't he couldn't do his job or communicate. McCain, like Clinton, didn't have that problem. Here's a more sane version of t he same complaint:



You are ridiculous about this. While of course McCain probably can't type for long periods or in the manner in which many of us do, there are a tremendous amount of people that peck with just their index fingers. He also can surely use a mouse. How much typing do you really have to do to send emails and use the internet. Plus, when he was asked point blank about it he never said he couldn't type. I am sure he can't use a blackberry, but there are tons of people with far worse injuries than McCain that use a computer.


That's absolutely true, I'm sure. But they need to use computers to get through life. McCain doesn't. And the fact that he's not blaming his disability hardly sounds like a serious indictment. If he did blame his disability, many of the same folks yelling at me would be complaining that McCain's whining.


Now, I'd hardly be surprised if McCain could type for short stretches and all that. The point is, that it's perfectly understandable why he wouldn't get in the habit of it.


Oh one last point for now: Lord knows I think the chicken-hawk arguments are stupid. And I don't think the fact that Obama never served in the military should count against him in and of itself. But how stupid is it for the Obama campaign to claim that McCain is unqualified to be president because he can't grasp cyber-security issues based on the fact he has never sent an email when the McCain campaign can just as easily say Obama can't understand first order national security issues because he's never fired a rife, flown a plane, commanded men in battle, or faced an enemy? I mean which prepares someone to be commander in chief better, hitting "send" on AOL or fighting a war?


Update II: On the other hand: I don't know what to make of this interview with the New York Times. He sounds awfully web savvy in it, which makes the Obama ad sound unfair. And if you read it closely, it sounds like he knows how to surf with a mouse, but doesn't do much by way of typing.


http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTliMTNiZjg5ZDEwZWNiZDYwZWFjN2JlNjNjNjkxZmM=

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Registered: 09-06-2008
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 12:36pm

THAT'S your reply? "No, this was faked?"

No wonder the Republicans keep repeating these obviously false tales-o-spin: because apparently, people will believe what they wish to believe.

Sure, there's such a thing as Photoshop. But this was posted on a BlackBerry fan forum on August 2nd....well before the Republican push-back (and Jonah "Liberal Fascism" Goldberg's silly-a$$ "McCain can't type because he was a POW story). Is it possible it was faked? Sure, I suppose so. But why? If it had been posted and produced yesterday? Sure. But August 2nd? I highly doubt it.

And that doesn't even get INTO the other quotes from other sources, by McCain himself AND top campaign spokespeople, putting the lie to this nonsense.

Now in darkness, world stops turning
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging
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Registered: 09-06-2008
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 12:47pm

Uh-huh. And what about the other quotes, from McCain himself ("I don’t e-mail. I’ve never felt the particular need to e-mail.”>, and from top campaign spokespeople (McCain "travels with a laptop")? Are you going to be telling me next that John McCain, according to Tucker Bounds "travels with a laptop," but it's just for show and he never uses it because he can't due to injuries he sustained as a POW? Or will you be telling me that John McCain's flat assertion that he "has never felt the particular need to email" - and NOT "I can't email because of war injuries" - is just an example of John McCain not speaking for the McCain campaign, as has been claimed by them in the past?

Cripes. You're simply wrong; why not just admit it? You seem to have an endless amount of time to "do research" about years-old statements from Barack Obama about an Illinois state bill which never even passed, but you apparently can't be bothered to check out a bald assertion from a wingnut blogger like Goldberg?

Got it.

Now in darkness, world stops turning
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging
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Registered: 07-03-2008
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 12:47pm
That's not McCain, McCain is shorter and pouchier. Combs his hair differently, it's probably a McCain look-alike,LOL they had a woman on the news the other day who had a strikingly similar look, and she really did look like Palin.
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Registered: 08-10-2006
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 12:58pm

Wow! I didn't say it WAS a fake, but it could be. All I asked for is a link to the original source of the photo. Why so angry? Day not going well?

>>No wonder the Republicans keep repeating these obviously false tales-o-spin: because apparently, people will believe what they wish to believe.<< Now that is very true!!! Just look at all the lies, photo shopped pictures, and distortions that the left was so eager to believe about Palin. And many still do believe them.

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Registered: 09-30-2007
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 1:07pm

Honestly even if he never used the internet personally he could at least know HOW to do it.
Considering that even paraplegics can use the internet I find it a bit disingenuous to say that McCain can't send an email due to his injuries as a POW. Technology is a wonderful thing - and there are many ways to compensate for disabilities. IF Senator McCain wanted to use the internet then I am sure he could find a way to do so. He was motivated enough to bring himself back to a level of fitness to re-qualify for a flight test, so IF he wanted to use the internet he would find a way. The fact is he is not motivated to do so. And of course it is a convenient way to bring up the 'I was a POW' thing again.

Sounds like just another pathetic attempt to bask Obama. If McCain could endure being a POW Im sure he can take whatever Obama dishes out- or is he so delicate we should handle him with kid gloves too?

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Registered: 09-09-2008
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 1:11pm
Please spare me.
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Registered: 08-10-2006
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 1:39pm
>>holding a significant degree from at least a semi-respectable college?<< You don't consider graduating from the United States Navel Academy a respectable college?
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Registered: 07-03-2008
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 1:43pm
Sure, if McCain had graduated in the top 10% or even 20% of his class, he graduated in the lowest 10% of his class.
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Registered: 08-20-2008
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 1:46pm
most ppl i know have been using a computer or owned one since at least 1994. i know i was on the internet long before the election for the 2nd run of clinton because i remember discussing it online how much i disliked him and regretted voting for him the 1st time around.
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Registered: 08-10-2006
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 2:08pm
>>Have you ever known anyone that went the The US Navel Academy? Even graduating in the lowest 10% of your class is a pretty great accomplishment.

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