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The Attacks Begin: Update: Obama Gaffe Machine Strikes Again

September 12, 2008 at 11:35 pm by Jim Vicevich  
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My first comment on the Obama ad is below … making fun of John McCain because he can’t send an e-mail and use the internet … was dumb because he went after old people … pretty stupid. Now it turns out it’s more stupid than I thought. He’s just an idiot. Why can’t John McCain send an e-mail or surf the net? The Boston Globe asked the same questions 8 years ago:

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 … 

McCain is an inveterate devotee of email. His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. “She’s a whiz on the keyboard, and I’m so laborious,” McCain admits.

First … Hot Air jumped on it early … then Powerline has some nice insight … and finally Glenn Reynolds has a complete roundup.

Tell me one more time why he should be President? I encourage comments on this one please!

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  1. Obama Ad Makes Fun That McCain Can’t E-mail..Will He Follow Up With McCain’s severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes? | Right Voices says:
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  1. Ben says:
    September 13, 2008 at 12:38 am

    The point of the ad is that McCain chooses not to join the 21st century, not that he can’t because of his injuries. If he wanted to, he could use e-mail and computers like every other disabled American who use them in their daily lives. He relishes and laughs off the fact that he’s computer illiterate. How can the USA compete with the global economy if a President doesn’t recognize and use the tools of today. If Stephen Hawking can theorize on the foundations of the universe, McCain can send a friggin’ e-mail. This is such B.S. right wing swift boat smear crap.

  2. Bob_In_TN says:
    September 13, 2008 at 7:55 am

    Once again Obama shows us his “leadership” prowess in running his campaign. It’s starting to look like my college newspaper!

  3. jvicevich says:
    September 13, 2008 at 8:09 am

    Ben … on any level its a terrible gaffe. McCain is more than familiar with the internet. His campaign for President in 2000 was one of the first to utilize the internet. And if you read through the Globe and Forbes articles you will see his Senate colleagues recognize this too. McCain was referring to mechanics and the tech vocabulary that go with it that he never bothered to learn. The Obama camp should have know this. Instead they based it on an equally poor researched article in the Politico from July which was based on an old NY Times article. On multiple levels the ad (and article) is shameful.
    (The links to all of the articles can be found in the Instapundit and Hotair posts)

  4. s1c says:
    September 13, 2008 at 8:29 am

    ben, I suggest you read up on the “swift boat” you might check Just one minute. Here I’ll even help you – Just one minute.

    As for the Ad, Obama has already pulled it from youtube and tv. More egg on the face of the Obama campaign, I wonder who will get thrown under the bus?

  5. Brian Partridge says:
    September 13, 2008 at 9:48 am

    The ad is no more shameful than a number of ads that McCain has run in the past week! It appears that Obama is the one to have the decency to recognize his mistake and reverse his decision.

  6. Bob_In_TN says:
    September 13, 2008 at 4:42 pm

    I had to respond back on this. I’m taking no shots at any one particular side.
    It seems that these Web Ads are directed toward the faithful… Being a McCain supporter, I don’t go out of my way to look at Obama ads. I’m quite sure it’s the same the other way around. I’m not forced to look at them when I’m surfing. They aren’t embedded in any ads I’ve come across on Yahoo or Google (Yet?).
    These ads are, I think, an effort to fire up the base, and if effective OR glaringly inaccurate, they’ll show up on CNN, Fox, or MSNBC with free airtime. The new outlets make news, each side defends its position, and 10 million dollars worth of “front and center” is had by all.
    It is a clever game curiously devoid of actual issues. I wish it would stop! The American people are the only losers here, and we deserve much better.

  7. Brian Partridge says:
    September 13, 2008 at 9:16 pm

    Bob, I agree. Unfortunately, the media will give us what we watch. I doubt they’d continue playing the same song if they weren’t getting decent ratings.

    I guess my recommendation to you is to get everyone to stop watching (listening, reading). Or, enough people to make a point. Then the media would know that it’s not what we want, and they’ll maybe get back to the real content.

  8. Insatiable says:
    September 15, 2008 at 7:36 am

    it’s a republican lie.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/12/yes-mccain-can-use-electr_n_126130.html

    If he can use a blackberry, he can type an email. In fact, he can type an email on his blackberry.